Religious Education Council of England and Wales

Analysis

Religious Education Council of England and Wales is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Nottingham. It was registered in October 2006, 20 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 05907308). It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Religious Education Council of England and Wales reported income of £156k and spending of £138k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £212k to £156k (-26%), an average of -7.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income dropped by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Religious Education Council of England and Wales sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Happy Faces Pre-School Limited (£156k), The Charitable and Educational Trust of the Company of Scientific Instrument Makers (£156k) and British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (£156k).