THE PACE CENTRE LTD

Registered charity 1011133 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of a comprehensive and integrated service for children and young people with motor disorders. An education for life where a trans-disciplinary staff team of therapists, teachers, and conductors work together to meet the complex needs of the children. Training and support to families to help them encourage children learning at home.Specialist training courses.

Objects

The objects of the Charity are, for the public benefit, for the relief of dysfunction in children and young persons (“the Beneficiaries”) with motor disorders and related neurological impairments by the provision of education and therapies and in particular but without limitation by any or all of the following:a) The education and care of people who have motor disorders and related neurological impairments, particularly but not exclusively the Beneficiaries, including the conduct and maintenance of a special school (“the School”) within the meaning of the Education Acts and of a transition service for the Beneficiaries.b) The promotion of therapy, care and counselling to the Beneficiaries and their families.c) The improvement of public knowledge, understanding and awareness of the life and needs of the Beneficiaries and their families and in particular but without limitation by training and the promotion of research and the publication of the useful results of such research.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £1,196,099 were held at the end of the year, which the trustees confirm is £491,099 greater than the updated reserves policy target of £705,000. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £1,652 for the year, with total funds increasing slightly to £3,069,218. The trustees confirmed the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Inspection and regulatory ratings

Matched to this charity by name; verify provider identity on the regulator’s site.

• Ofsted — The Pace Centre: Outstanding (NULL) · Ofsted

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The PACE Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Caroline Bennett — Chief Executive (source)
• Kurt Austin-Archer — Director of Therapy Services (source)
• Richard Smith — Headteacher (source)

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• CL Medilaw — ““CL Medilaw proudly supports Pace. We both aim to equip children with the tools they need to become as independent as possible for the futur…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (82% 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: 5.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Oxford Coxall
• Colin John Hayfield
• Daniel Lawson
• Emily Ingrams
• Karen Louise Bradley
• Karen Wood
• Kay Syms
• Simon Adams

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MOVEMENT CENTRE FOR TARGETED TRAINING.

• THE MOVEMENT CENTRE FOR TARGETED TRAINING income £395k
• THE FAMILY CENTRE (DEAF CHILDREN) income £140k
• THE MINSTER CENTRE income £2.0m
• PEACE EDUCATION MISSION income £34k
• THE PEACEFUL PLACE LTD income £748k
• TOGS CENTRE income £124k

Side by side with its peers

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