AIM Qualifications and Assessment Group

Analysis

AIM Qualifications and Assessment Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Derby. It was registered in April 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05038056). It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending August 2025, AIM Qualifications and Assessment Group reported income of £4.2m and spending of £5.0m, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £2.9m to £4.2m (+44%), an average of +9.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 113%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, AIM Qualifications and Assessment Group sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cransley School Limited (£4.2m), Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust (£4.2m) and The Students' Union at Bu Ltd (£4.2m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 98% and investments 1.7%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.3%. Reserves of £6.1m would cover about 15 months of spending at that rate. It employed 55 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.