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Description
Promote adult and general education by stimulating and responding to the demand for liberal education, providing for the needs of working class adults and of those who are socially, economically or educationally disadvantaged, providing educational programmes in the community and in the workplace, furthering the advancement of education for all and promoting the effectiveness of similar charities.
Also known as
- Wea
- WEA - Oxford Community Branch
- WEA Lothian Association
- WEA Reach Out Project
- Workers' Educational Association
- Worker's Educational Association
- Workers Education Association (North East)
- The Workers Education Association (WEA)
- Workers Educational Association
- Workers Educational Association North East Region
- Workers' Education Association (West Midlands Region)
- Workers' Educational Association
- Workers' Educational Association (Highland)
- Workers' Educational Association (WEA)
- Workers' Educational Association Yorkshire and Humber Region
...and 5 other names
CCEW Charity number
Company number
Registered
Postcode
EC2A 4XW
Website
Domain
wea.org.uk
Latest income
£27,475,000 (on )
This organisation record is based on data from Registered charities in England and Wales published by Charity Commission for England and Wales.
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This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 5 active records and 1 inactive record, from 5 data sources.
What is an organisation identifier?
An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.
Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.
Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.
Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.
GB-CHC gives the scheme for this identifier (Charity Commission), while 1112775 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.
Workers' Educational Association (this record)
Workers' Educational Association (inactive)
This organisation has been classified using different categories:
International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)
ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.
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Higher education not elsewhere classfied
B29
UK Charity Activity Tags
These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.
Visit charityclassification.org.uk for more information on the project. If you have any feedback on the classification system or how it has been applied there is a form on the project homepage.
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Associations
AS -
Charity and VCS support
CV -
Education
ED -
Social welfare
SW» Individual povertySW105
Theme (CCEW)
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Education/training
102 -
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
103 -
Disability
104 -
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
105 -
Economic/community Development/employment
113 -
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
115
Beneficiaries (CCEW)
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Children/young People
201 -
Elderly/old People
202 -
People With Disabilities
203 -
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
204 -
The General Public/mankind
207
Activities (CCEW)
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Makes Grants To Individuals
301 -
Makes Grants To Organisations
302 -
Provides Human Resources
304 -
Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
305 -
Provides Services
306 -
Provides Advocacy/advice/information
307 -
Other Charitable Activities
310
Scale of operation
- National
| Year ending | Income (£) | Spending (£) |
|---|---|---|
| 2006-01-20 |
Registered as a charity |
|
| 2006-07-31 | 0 | |
| 2007-07-31 | 29,213,586 | 28,961,869 |
| 2008-07-31 | 31,605,005 | 29,987,498 |
| 2009-07-31 | 30,000,950 | 29,842,447 |
| 2010-07-31 | 32,211,193 | 31,615,724 |
| 2011-07-31 | 30,086,878 | 30,019,983 |
| 2012-07-31 | 28,654,000 | 28,306,000 |
| 2013-07-31 | 28,047,000 | 28,550,000 |
| 2014-07-31 | 29,210,000 | 29,026,000 |
| 2015-07-31 | 30,737,000 | 29,596,000 |
| 2016-07-31 | 26,658,000 | 26,754,000 |
| 2017-07-31 | 27,350,000 | 28,322,000 |
| 2018-07-31 | 27,393,000 | 27,538,000 |
| 2019-07-31 | 27,430,000 | 27,257,000 |
| 2020-07-31 | 28,842,056 | 27,880,744 |
| 2021-07-31 | 30,309,000 | 25,455,000 |
| 2022-07-31 | 28,487,000 | 27,660,000 |
| 2023-07-31 | 27,475,000 | 26,121,000 |
Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Employees | 859 | 966 |
| Employees paid more than £60,000 | 11 | 16 |
| Volunteers | 1,260 | 1,932 |
| Trustees | 15 |
Data on employees is only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
Statement of financial activities for year ended .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2023 £m |
2022
£m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Incoming resources | ||
| Donations and other voluntary income | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Legacies | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Endowments | - | - |
| Donations and legacies | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Income from charitable activities | 25.5 | 27.6 |
| Income from other trading activities | - | - |
| Income from investments | 1.3 | 0.0 |
| Other income | 0.4 | 0.9 |
| Total | 27.5 | 28.5 |
| Expenditure | ||
| Investment management | - | - |
| Other spending on raising funds | - | - |
| Spending on raising funds | - | - |
| Grants to institutions | 1.8 | 1.9 |
| Other charitable activities | 23.2 | 25.1 |
| Charitable activities | 25.0 | 27.0 |
| Other spending | 1.1 | 0.7 |
| Total | 26.1 | 27.7 |
| Net income / (expenditure) | 1.4 | 0.8 |
Balance sheet at .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2023 £m |
2022
£m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Fixed assets | ||
| Tangible and intangible assets | 5.3 | 4.5 |
| Investment assets | - | - |
| 5.3 | 4.5 | |
| Current assets | ||
| Current investment assets | 6.7 | 2.6 |
| Cash | 5.9 | 7.7 |
| Other current assets | 2.0 | 2.1 |
| 14.7 | 12.3 | |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due within one year | (4.7) | (2.4) |
| Net current assets | 10.0 | 9.9 |
| Total assets less current liabilities | 15.3 | 14.4 |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due after one year | (0.4) | (0.4) |
| Net assets | 14.9 | 14.0 |
| Funds | ||
| Endowment funds | - | - |
| Restricted funds | 1.9 | 0.6 |
| Unrestricted funds | 13.0 | 13.4 |
| 14.9 | 14.0 | |
| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Contracts with government | ||
| Income from government contracts | 4,497,904 | 3,624,000 |
| Government contracts as % of total income | 16.4% | 12.7% |
| Number of government contracts | 48 | 44 |
| Government grants | ||
| Income from government grants | 18,253,331 | 20,260,000 |
| Government grants as % of total income | 66.4% | 71.1% |
| Number of government grants | 29 | 49 |
Received 99 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.
View this organisation's grants on GrantNav.
| Date | Funder | Amount awarded | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
National Lottery Grants for Heritage: £10,000 to £250,000 |
£63,165 | Grant to Workers' Educational Association | ||
|
Greater London Authority
Skills for Londoners Community Outreach Programme |
£108,000
2.7540983606557377 months |
The WEA
Jan 2023 to Apr 2023 |
||
|
Department for Education
FE Additional Capital Allocation |
£281,457 | FE Additional Capital Allocation | ||
|
The National Lottery Community Fund
Medium Grants Scotland: Improving Lives |
£150,000
1 year |
WEA Reach Out Project
May 2022 to Apr 2024 |
||
|
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
National Lottery Grants for Heritage: £10,000 to £250,000 |
£97,500 | Grant to Workers' Educational Association Yorkshire and Humber Region | ||
|
Greater London Authority
Adult Education Budget |
£50,000
1 year |
National Skills Fund
Jan 2021 to Jul 2022 |
||
|
Foundation Scotland
Response Recovery and Resilience (CLOSED) |
£2,875
2 months |
Grant to WorkersEducational Association
Mar 2020 to May 2020 |
||
|
Greater London Authority
Adult Education Budget |
£1,316,043
1 year |
Adult Education Budget Grant
Jan 2021 to Jul 2022 |
||
|
Glasgow City Council
City Wide - Fairer Communities |
£110,250 | WEA Scotland Adult Literacies and ESOL Service | ||
|
Sport England
Families Fund |
£339,582
2 years |
Families get active
Sep 2018 to Aug 2021 |
Data source
Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.
- Barrow Cadbury Trust (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Cabinet Office (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Comic Relief (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Foundation Scotland (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Greater London Authority (3 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Glasgow City Council (3 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch (6 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund (19 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Northern Rock Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Oxford City Council (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Sport England (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The National Lottery Community Fund (52 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Women's Fund for Scotland (4 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
National Lottery grants data comes from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport who publish the National Lottery grants database.
This data is used under the Open Government Licence. Grants that are also published under 360Giving have been removed to ensure there is not duplication.
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