Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 8

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 16

QUEST FOR LEARNING

WE HELP CHILDREN EXPERIENCING DIFFICULTIES WITH EARLY LITERACY AND NUMERACY TO IMPROVE THEIR SKILLS AND BECOME CONFIDENT AND ENTHUSIASTIC LEARNERS AT HOME AND SCHOOL. WE TEACH CHILDREN INDIVIDUALLY AND IN GROUPS ON TAILOR-MADE COURSES. WE MODEL OUR APPROACH AND SHARE IDEAS AND RESOURCES WITH THEIR PARENTS/CARERS. WE TRAIN TEACHERS AND TEACHING ASSISTANTS TO DELIVER BASIC SKILLS SUPPORT.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Established: 19 years

www.questforlearning.org.uk

info@questforlearning.org.uk

01235257600

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/07/23		£326	£314	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/07/22	*	£354	£287	£67	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/07/21		£268	£238	£31	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/07/20		£126	£137	£-11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/07/19		£104	£148	£-44	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/07/18?		£175	£179	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£164	£156	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£179	£172	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£220	£196	£24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£168	£163	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£146	£134	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£146	£129	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£147	£97	£50	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£95	£117	£-21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£119	£136	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£115	£102	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£113	£94	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£97	£101	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training

How it operates

Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Oxfordshire Community Foundation	£89,908
Masonic Trust	£15,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£10,000
The Foyle Foundation	£8,000
The Fore	£5,000
The Grocers' Charity	£4,331

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Maths Catch Up Support
£10,557	12/04/2022	To address educational disadvantage in the community which has been exacerbated by Covid-19 by supporting Didcot children struggling with mental maths the opportunity to catch up on lost learning and ....more To address educational disadvantage in the community which has been exacerbated by Covid-19 by supporting Didcot children struggling with mental maths the opportunity to catch up on lost learning and grow in confidence and self-esteem through their participation in our “NumSkills” programme. Without good English and maths skills, children are unable to access other parts of the curriculum and quickly fall behind in class. Literacy and numeracy are fundamental to children’s ability to engage with the rest of their education at primary school and beyond, and low levels of these key skills are strongly correlated with poor employment prospects, criminal behaviour, and poverty in later life. We know that support for learning is an important part of children’s success in school and the parents of many of the young people we work with do not have the confidence or skills they need to help their children. Our programme will support home learning and we will also run family maths drop-in sessions in each school for parents and siblings of the children on the programme to help them build their skills in this area.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Building Infrastructure – Systems and capacity upgrade to support rapid charity growth and develop financial self-reliance.
£70,107	22/10/2021	Grant to Quest for Learning
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Literacy catch up programme for disadvantaged primary school children
£9,244	23/07/2021 10	Grant to Quest for Learning
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000	26/05/2021	Unrestricted core funding for small charities
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - Quest for Learning
£4,331	04/02/2021	Towards the full project costs of 1-2-1 and small group literacy and numeracy programmes for children, and their parents to create a positive home learning environment.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£8,000	30/09/2020	towards core costs for 2020/21
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	03/07/2020	Educational Support for Disadvantaged Children
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Quest for Learning
£5,000	08/06/2020 36	Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Quest for Learning, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Didcot Numskills Challenge
£8,746	26/11/2018 10	The aim is to address poor levels of mental maths and financial literacy in the Didcot area. We want to do that in three ways: 1) Placing qualified Quest for Learning numeracy tutors in 3 of the most ....more The aim is to address poor levels of mental maths and financial literacy in the Didcot area. We want to do that in three ways: 1) Placing qualified Quest for Learning numeracy tutors in 3 of the most needy schools to support 16 children in each and carry out family outreach. 2) Training 30 staff from the 9 Didcot primary schools and 6 neighbouring village schools to be able to use Numskills and Numskills Money throughout their classrooms and corridors. 3) Holding a Family Outreach Day to invite families to come to play the games and get to grips with mental maths. This would be held on a Saturday in a community centre on the new Great Western Park estate. We would liaise with the Didcot Schools Partnerships, the nearby Aureus School (where we are based) as well as Home Link workers.
National Lottery Community Fund - The East Oxford Children and Parents Learning Project
£285,906	11/02/2010 60	Reading Quest in Oxford will help children who struggle at school because they cannot read. Concerned parents and teachers who lead the initiative are aware of the links between educational failure ....more Reading Quest in Oxford will help children who struggle at school because they cannot read. Concerned parents and teachers who lead the initiative are aware of the links between educational failure and anti-social behaviour and social exclusion. Reading Quest provides one-to-one literacy tuition to children in disadvantaged communities throughout Oxfordshire.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the Family Literacy Project in Barton
£9,000	30/07/2008	Towards the Family Literacy Project in Barton, a troubled and deprived area of Oxford.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards employing a tutor
£8,000	01/02/2006	Towards employing a tutor to help BME children's reading

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 38-63

BEN BRICE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Lawyer

KEVIN SENIOR Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: CHRIST'S HOSPITAL OF ABINGDON,

KIMBERLEY ROSE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Human Resources Professional

NED WELLS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Marketing Consultant

ROGER COPLESTON (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Accountant

SHEENAGH BROADBENT Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Headteacher

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/12/2004, number: 1107219
Registered at Companies House on 29/10/2004, number: 05273829

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR22: 34 days late, AR06: 65 days late, AR05: 269 days late,

Main office

Quest for Learning
Thameside Primary School
Cotman Close
ABINGDON
Oxfordshire
OX14 5NL

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL AND ACHIEVEMENT OF CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 16 EXPERIENCING BASIC DIFFICULTIES WITH LITERACY AND NUMERACY BY THE PROVISION OF AN EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICE DELIVERED WITHIN SCHOOLS AND SUPPORTING LEARNING IN THE HOME; AND BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING PROGRAMMES FOR SCHOOL TEACHING AND SUPPORT STAFF, TRAINEE TEACHERS AND CORPORATE VOLUNTEERS INVOLVED IN IMPROVING THE LITERACY AND NUMERACY SKILLS OF PUPILS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

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