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Progress Educational Trust

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1139856LondonHealth and saving lives
Income£180k2025-03-31
Spending£300ksame year
Spent / received99%5-year average
Size in its cause71st pctHealth and saving lives
Registered2011Charitable company
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Progress Educational Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07405980). It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Progress Educational Trust reported income of £180k and spending of £300k, spending 167% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £240k to £180k (-25%), an average of -6.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income dropped by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Progress Educational Trust sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Surf Life Saving Association of Wales (£180k), Erewash Indoor Bowls Centre (£180k) and Stratford-Upon-Avon and District Samaritans (£180k).

Income and spending

£0£75k£150k£225k£300k2021 Income: £239,6502021 Spending: £210,93920212022 Income: £278,1952022 Spending: £206,36920222023 Income: £270,9692023 Spending: £258,10620232024 Income: £290,4092024 Spending: £274,55820242025 Income: £180,1062025 Spending: £300,2042025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

PET organises public events, works on law and policy, runs educational initiatives, issues print publications, and runs its flagship online publication BioNews - a free weekly email digest of news and comment with a readership of 18,000. The charity's activities in the fields of genetics, assisted conception and embryo/stem cell research are targeted simultaneously at lay and specialist audiences.

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