THE CHILDREN'S ADVENTURE FARM TRUST LTD

Registered charity 1003675 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ADVENTURE FARM TRUST, THE CHILDREN'S ADVENTURE FARM TRUST, THE CHILDRENS ADVENTURE FARM

The charity offers holidays, activity days and respite facilities for disadvantaged children, who may have life limiting conditions, chronic sickness, disabilities or come from extremely impoverished backgrounds.

Objects

(1) THE PROVISION OF HOLIDAYS AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR CHILDREN PRIMARILY FROM THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND, INCLUDING COUNTIES ON THE BOUNDARIES (YORKSHIRE, DERBYSHIRE, SHROPSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, AND NORTH WALES), WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES - EITHER BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, SOCIAL, PHYSICAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, SO THAT THEY MAY DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPABILITIES AND GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED. (2) WHERE THE TRUSTEES CONSIDER APPROPRIATE, AND WITHOUT DETRIMENT TO THE PRIMARY OBJECT IN 1 ABOVE, PROVISION OF SUPPORT TO, AND CO-OPERATION WITH, OTHER CHARITIES BASED IN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND WHOSE OBJECTS ARE TO HELP CHILDREN, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPABILITIES AND GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Area of benefit: THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND, YORKSHIRE, DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE AND NORTH WALES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £779 for the year, with total incoming resources of £1,188,487 and expenditure of £1,189,266. Net assets stood at £1,768,862, with unrestricted funds of £1,452,329, which the trustees consider to be above their stated policy target of six months of anticipated expenditure. The auditor issued an unqualified opinion, confirming the accounts give a true and fair view and are prepared on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

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

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Children's Adventure Farm Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~14.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (53% 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: 40.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Allan Coverdale
• Catherine Elizabeth Sandland
• Kerry Ann Spink · trustee of 1 other charity
• Noela Ann Fitton
• Peter Andrew Collier
• Peter John Gowing
• Rachel Brooks
• Roland Gordon Potts
• Stephanie Jane Barcroft

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GARSTON ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND.

• GARSTON ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND income £269k
• TASTE FOR ADVENTURE income £198k
• LANGLEYBURY CHILDREN'S FARM income £84k
• LONGMEAD COMMUNITY FARM LIMITED income £77k
• YOUTH ADVENTURE TRUST income £1.2m
• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m

Side by side with its peers

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