Vranch House Limited

Registered charity 1002700 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DEVON AND EXETER SPASTICS SOCIETY, VRANCH HOUSE SCHOOL, VRANCH HOUSE SCHOOL & CENTRE

Providing education at Vranch House School in Exeter for children aged from 2 to 19 who have physical disabilities. Providing children with physical difficulties, including profound disability, with clinical services throughout Devon. The range is from 0 to 19 years.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£3.7m
Latest spending
£3.3m
Registered
1991
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £3,769,194, resulting in a net surplus of £427,934 for the year. Unrestricted reserves stood at £8,841,649, providing a strong financial position as the charity continues to rely on statutory service agreements.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £120,001 - £130,000 — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median £70k)
“Band between £120,001 and £130,000 1”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: a full year’s running costs (held: £8.8m)
“Whilst the Charity aims to keep a reserve in place to maintain a full year’s running costs” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Note 24
“During the year the charity purchased services totalling £180 from a company for which one of the Trustees is a director.” — page 33
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Simpkins Edwards Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Vranch House School & Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£3.8m
Total spending
£3.3m
Cost of raising funds
£20k
Reserves (reported)
£8.8m
Employees
106

Reported reserves equal ~31.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£3.7m£3.3m
31/03/2024£3.6m£2.9m
31/03/2023£3.3m£2.6m
31/03/2022£3.0m£2.3m
31/03/2021£2.5m£2.2m

Common questions

Is Vranch House Limited financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income increased to £3,769,194, resulting in a net surplus of £427,934 for the year. Unrestricted reserves stood at £8,841,649, providing a strong financial position as the charity continues to rely on statutory service agreements. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Simpkins Edwards Audit LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of Vranch House Limited earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £120,001 - £130,000 band.

Who funds Vranch House Limited?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Vranch House Limited as a grant recipient include EXETER CHIEFS FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
EXETER CHIEFS FOUNDATIONFY2023£389k
EXETER CHIEFS FOUNDATIONFY2022£7k
EXETER CHIEFS FOUNDATIONFY2025£3k
EXETER CHIEFS FOUNDATIONFY2024£2k

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The School House Wraparound Childcare.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
Vranch House Limited£3.7m£120,001 - £130,000—unclear—no doubt
The School House Wraparound Childcare FY2025£105k—0unclear—no doubt
Home-Start Exeter, East and Mid Devon FY2025£232k—0above—no doubt
THE GRANGE CENTRE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FY2025£6.5mmore than £60,0002above—no doubt
THE BATH HOUSE CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY CENTRE FY2025£821k—0above—no doubt
OLD VICARAGE SCHOOL TRUST FY2025£4.0m——unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.