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AIM Qualifications and Assessment Group

Aim Awards, North East Midlands Open College Network (nemocn), Ocn East Midlands Region

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1103300
Status
Registered
Registered
April 20, 2004
Legal form
Charitable company
Area of benefit
In Or Around The East Midlands And Elsewhere.

Address

Address
AIM Qualifications and Assessment Group
3 Pride Point Drive
Pride Park
DERBY
DE24 8BX

Activities

The objects of the charity are to provide an accessible and flexible accreditation service which helps to widen access to education and training for all learners, particularly those who have benefited least in the past from available provision.

Objects: The Objects of the Charity are the advancement of the education of the public in one or more of the following ways:(a) by promoting lifelong learning, increasing social inclusion through educational advancement and widening participation in education and training, particularly by those persons who have previously been excluded from or had limited access to educational opportunities;(b) by improving the quality and flexibility of education provision for the public benefit;(c) by improving access to learning opportunities and facilitating progression to further learning, employment and higher education particularly through the award of credits and credit-based qualifications;(d) by operating as an Access Validating Agency for the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education or the appropriate agency acting on behalf of the Department for Education or its successor;(e) by operating as an Ofqual-approved awarding organisation and complying with all or any regulatory requirements considered by the Trustees to be necessary or desirable for the development, delivery and assessment of national qualifications;(f) by operating as a Qualifications Wales-approved awarding organisation and complying with all or any regulatory requirements considered by the Trustees to be necessary or desirable for the development, delivery and assessment of national qualifications;(g) by operating as a CCEA-approved awarding organisation and complying with all or any regulatory requirements considered by the Trustees to be necessary or desirable for the development, delivery and assessment of national qualifications;(h) by operating as an End Point Assessment Organisation and complying with all regulatory requirements considered by the Trustees to be necessary for the development, delivery and assessment of end-point assessments(i) by operating with full commitment to the distinctive mission of Access to Higher Education by widening participation and recognising the achievements of young people and adults through high quality, responsive and flexible accreditation;(j) by encouraging and assisting organisations to provide a wider range of accredited and quality assured learning opportunities;(k) by operating as a proactive, innovative and responsive organisation with respect to curriculum development;(l) by supporting public policy agendas for raising educational standards, improving levels of achievement, widening participation and promoting new opportunities for community involvement;(m) by providing a personalised quality assured service to users that is cost efficient and takes account of competition from other awarding organisations;(n) by providing a network with expertise and intelligence of the external environment within which the Charity operates in order to provide staff development, information, guidance and networking to stakeholder organisations in all sectors; and(o) by operating a high quality, efficient organisation with a commitment to continuous improvement offering all aspects of the service within a quality assured and transparent framework.

Classification

How
Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information
What
Education/training
Who
The General Public/mankind

Areas of operation

Country
Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Dubai, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine
Region
Throughout England And Wales

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Assets Employees
Aug. 31, 2025 £4,210,701 £4,954,216 £5,394,111 55
Aug. 31, 2024 £4,559,519 £5,273,227 £6,092,397 70
Aug. 31, 2023 £4,705,163 £4,739,000 £6,691,774 69
Aug. 31, 2022 £6,185,191 £2,965,100 £6,721,754 46
July 31, 2021 £2,910,285 £2,513,760 £3,501,663 46

Trustees

Name Appointed
Liza-Jo Gee (Chair) April 7, 2016
Charlotte Barratt Dec. 4, 2019
Donna Dawon Sept. 7, 2022
Jacqueline Hodges June 6, 2024
Kanwaljeet Penglin June 6, 2024
Leslie Jean Atkin March 1, 2017
Owen Everton Burke Sept. 7, 2022
Pauline Christiane Riley
Stephanie Ajayi Sept. 7, 2022
Suzanne Henson Sept. 7, 2022