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POLESWORTH GROUP HOMES LIMITED

Registered charity 1003230 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as POLESWORTH HOSTELS AND GROUP HOMES ASSOCIATION

Provision of accommodation and support for adults with learning disabilities. This includes registered care homes, domiciliary support and programmes of daytime activities.

Causes: Disability · Accommodation/housing · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£4.3m
Latest spending
£4.1m
Registered
1991
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity made a surplus for the year and has a satisfactory financial position with no funds in deficit. Reserves at 31 March 2025 are above the trustees' stated policy target by £375,991, although £357,644 of these reserves are designated for future investment in property and assets. The trustees note genuine concern regarding increasing pressure on operational costs and local authority funding, but remain confident in their ability to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £60,001 - £70,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)
“The number of employees whose annual remuneration was more than £60,000 is as follows: 2025 Number £60,000 - £70,000 2” — page 65
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Employees paid over £60,000: 2
“The number of employees whose annual remuneration was more than £60,000 is as follows: 2025 Number £60,000 - £70,000 2” — page 65
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: net book value of tangible fixed assets plus half the past year’s expenditure (held: £2.4m)
“the trustees agreed that it is appropriate to maintain a general reserve equivalent to the net book value of tangible fixed assets plus half the past year’s expenditure.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Burgis & Bullock. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

16 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (13 freehold); recorded price paid £1.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Polesworth Group Homes Limited — Registered, 10 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 24/11/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Total income
£4.3m
Total spending
£4.1m
Reserves (reported)
£5.4m
Employees
129

Reported reserves equal ~15.9 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 (92% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£4.3m£4.1m
31/03/2024£4.0m£3.8m
31/03/2023£3.7m£3.6m
31/03/2022£3.6m£3.5m
31/03/2021£3.7m£3.5m

Common questions

Is POLESWORTH GROUP HOMES LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Charity made a surplus for the year and has a satisfactory financial position with no funds in deficit. Reserves at 31 March 2025 are above the trustees' stated policy target by £375,991, although £357,644 of these reserves are designated for future investment in property and assets. The trustees note genuine concern regarding increasing pressure on operational costs and local authority funding, but remain confident in their ability to continue operations. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Burgis & Bullock.

What does the highest-paid employee of POLESWORTH GROUP HOMES LIMITED earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £60,001 - £70,000 band, and 2 employees earned over £60,000.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE FORBES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION2£105k
THE WILL CHARITABLE TRUST2£60k
THE BURRY CHARITABLE TRUST1—
THE ALBERT GUBAY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£374k
THE O'SULLIVAN FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST1£103k
THE ALICE ELLEN COOPER-DEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£44k
THE JORON CHARITABLE TRUST1£40k
THE GRAND LODGE OF MARK MASTER MASONS' FUND OF BENEVOLENCE1£37k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE STABLE FAMILY HOME TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
POLESWORTH GROUP HOMES LIMITED£4.3m£60,001 - £70,0002above—no doubt
THE STABLE FAMILY HOME TRUST FY2025£4.0m£80,001 - £90,0001below—no doubt
STROUD & DISTRICT HOMES FOUNDATION LIMITED FY2025£2.6m—0unclear—no doubt
Learning Disability Network London Limited FY2025£22.7m——unclear—no doubt
PEOPLE IN ACTION FY2025£11.4m——unclear—no doubt
FAMILY CARE TRUST FY2025£4.2m—0unclear—no doubt

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