Association for Character Education Ltd

Analysis

Association for Character Education Ltd is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Birmingham. It was registered in April 2018, 8 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 09978106). It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending January 2025, Association for Character Education Ltd reported income of £125k and spending of £126k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from January 2021 to January 2025, income fell from £149k to £125k (-16%), an average of -4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to January 2022, when income dropped by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Association for Character Education Ltd sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Welford Pre-School (£125k), Alresford Pre-School (£125k) and The Jvenn Foundation (£125k).

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.