FE England - find the missing millions!

17 March 2021

This tool uses 2019-20 funding data and projects how much extra money your college should have received this year with a 4.7% increase on their 16-19 base rate funding.

Changes in student numbers will affect the final outcome but it is a reasonable starting point for asking questions of your management about your pay rise this year. We deserve an explanation!

Institution	Funding boost
Abingdon and Witney College	£384,283
Activate Learning	£1,885,810
ADA National College for Digital Skills	£37,841
Askham Bryan College	£606,099
Barking and Dagenham College	£710,678
Barnet and Southgate College	£700,949
Barnsley College	£1,048,814
Basingstoke College of Technology	£258,036
Bath College	£402,726
Bedford College	£1,233,696
Berkshire College of Agriculture	£387,712
Birmingham Metropolitan College	£1,072,532
Bishop Auckland College	£142,723
Bishop Burton College	£471,646
Blackburn College	£631,336
Blackpool and the Fylde College	£519,428
Bolton College	£504,769
Boston College	£350,631
Bradford College	£729,807
Bridgwater College	£756,446
Brockenhurst College	£487,146
Brooklands Technical College	£305,116
Burnley College	£519,204
Burton and South Derbyshire College	£369,494
Bury College	£807,395
Calderdale College	£366,258
Cambridge Regional College	£645,370
Capel Manor College	£311,043
Central Bedfordshire College	£362,531
Chelmsford College	£442,609
Cheshire College South and West	£817,205
Chesterfield College	£540,725
Chichester College	£1,320,502
City College Plymouth	£510,270
City College, Norwich	£957,402
City of Bristol College	£624,477
City of Sunderland College	£1,141,653
City of Wolverhampton College	£421,710
Colchester Institute	£789,667
Cornwall College	£800,818
Coventry College	£625,995
Craven College	£259,068
Croydon College	£598,199
Darlington College	£291,215
Derby College	£1,080,898
Derwentside College	£104,760
DN Colleges Group	£884,454
Dudley College of Technology	£985,030
Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College	£430,516
East Coast College	£569,916
East Durham College	£350,463
East Kent College	£1,210,164
East Surrey College	£600,243
Eastleigh College	£267,755
Exeter College	£1,113,637
Fareham College	£317,188
Farnborough College of Technology	£362,034
Furness College	£289,932
Gateshead College	£522,484
Gloucestershire College	£500,588
Grantham College	£147,181
Greater Brighton Metropolitan College	£697,494
Hadlow College	£282,492
Halesowen College	£888,683
Harlow College	£564,698
Hartlepool College of Further Education	£267,215
Havant & South Downs College	£993,078
HCUC	£1,424,049
Heart of Worcestershire College	£535,490
Hereford College of Arts	£86,171
Hereward College of Further Education	£65,009
Hertford Regional College	£417,749
Highbury College, Portsmouth	£297,281
Hopwood Hall College	£640,068
Hugh Baird College	£495,074
Hull College	£409,056
Isle of Wight College	£332,615
Kendal College	£231,403
Kingston Maurward College	£173,457
Kirklees College	£759,741
Lakes College West Cumbria	£202,383
Lambeth College	£315,153
Lancaster and Morecambe College	£228,878
Leeds City College	£1,543,215
Leeds College of Building	£221,591
Leicester College	£795,807
Lincoln College	£535,147
London South East Colleges	£907,164
Loughborough College	£696,109
LTE Group T/A The Manchester College	£1,107,556
Macclesfield College	£222,858
Middlesbrough College	£836,857
Mid-Kent College of Higher and Further Education	£770,470
Milton Keynes College	£624,338
Morley College Limited	£892
Moulton College	£394,932
Myerscough College	£450,165
NCG	£2,576,489
Nelson and Colne College	£504,426
New City College	£2,279,769
New College, Durham	£559,753
New College, Swindon	£588,940
Newbury College	£129,608
Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group	£1,058,065
Newham College of Further Education	£509,039
North East Surrey College of Technology (Nescot)	£359,426
North Hertfordshire College	£405,323
North Kent College	£653,294
North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College	£652,963
Northampton College	£709,402
Nottingham College	£1,345,409
Oaklands College	£804,134
Petroc	£502,794
Plumpton College	£305,012
Preston College	£315,635
Reaseheath College	£554,892
Richmond and Hillcroft Adult and Community College	£3,881
Richmond Upon Thames College	£354,984
Riverside College Halton	£689,320
RNN Group	£667,022
Runshaw College	£972,867
Salford City College	£909,149
Sandwell College	£1,164,806
Seevic College	£694,477
Selby College	£233,244
Shipley College	£192,635
Solihull College	£1,029,515
South and City College Birmingham	£1,127,214
South Devon College	£458,114
South Essex College of Further and Higher Education	£1,105,018
South Gloucestershire and Stroud College	£759,057
South Staffordshire College	£531,028
South Thames Colleges Group	£1,300,059
Southampton City College	£250,157
Southport College	£356,344
Sparsholt College Hampshire	£640,259
St Helens College	£555,949
Stanmore College	£316,219
Stoke On Trent College	£369,674
Strode College	£273,337
Suffolk New College	£491,582
Swindon College	£244,221
Tameside College	£549,374
Telford College	£441,167
The Bournemouth and Poole College	£606,582
The City of Liverpool College	£692,815
The College of West Anglia	£600,643
The Oldham College	£476,175
The Sheffield College	£1,078,800
The Windsor Forest Colleges Group	£621,525
The WKCIC Group	£2,324,719
Trafford College Group	£723,264
Truro and Penwith College	£1,002,268
Tyne Coast College	£494,298
United Colleges Group	£1,005,313
Wakefield College	£654,222
Walsall College	£891,441
Waltham Forest College	£361,306
Warrington and Vale Royal College	£351,558
Warwickshire College	£882,642
West Herts College	£1,332,418
West Kent and Ashford College	£409,654
West Nottinghamshire College	£624,367
West Suffolk College	£616,949
West Thames College	£432,591
Weston College	£677,239
Weymouth College	£257,895
Wigan and Leigh College	£661,923
Wiltshire College	£710,680
Wirral Metropolitan College	£463,847
Working Men's College Corporation	£7,709
Yeovil College	£276,225
York College	£695,458
Buckinghamshire College Group	£556,154
Hartpury College of Further Education	£438,692
Herefordshire, Ludlow and North Shropshire College	£539,144
Brooksby Melton College	£269,236
Cleveland College of Art and Design	£103,932
East Riding College	£248,435
Easton and Otley College	£448,086
Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education	£614,692
Kensington and Chelsea College	£84,788
National College for the Creative and Cultural Industries	£3,723
New College Stamford	£401,333
Peterborough Regional College	£624,583
Stephenson College	£119,008
Stockton Riverside College	£462,887
Sussex Coast College Hastings	£1,015,512
The City Literary Institute	£1,983

We deserve an explanation!

After years of joint campaigning with the Association of Colleges (AoC) we won £400 million of increased government funding for FE, £224 million of which arrived in August 2020 in base rate funding that colleges could spend as they wished - staff pay was always supposed to be top of the list.

Last year the AoC told unions that the money would arrive this year for a more substantial pay offer. FE members deserve an explanation of why the AoC have once again made a derisory recommendation of just 1% when the money has arrived in the sector as they said it would.

Trust needs to be restored and the only way that can happen is if your college management open the books and provide complete transparency. We need to see not just the accounts from last year but the current management accounts and projected budgets going forward.

Trust will only be restored with total transparency. The figure from this tool gives you a starting point to open a discussion with your management about pay in your college and where this year's additional funding has gone if not on pay.

Branches briefed on unpacking and reading college accounts

As we emerge from the shadow of the pandemic, questions still need to be asked about where the £400 million of extra funding has been spent?

We know half of that money could have been spent on staff pay but wasn't. The Association of Colleges have once again made a pay recommendation of just 1%. The same recommendation they have made year after year with no recognition of the extra funding won for the sector by our joint campaigning and lobbying.

UCU engaged expert independent financial analyst Frances Coppola to brief branch officers before they challenge college management on their accounts and find out where the missing millions have gone. You can watch back the webinar below. The presentation slides used during the webinar are available here [1mb]. See also the letter from UCU to college CEOs and principals asking them to provide branches with full disclosure of college finances [246kb].

Last updated: 23 October 2023

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