BRATHAY TRUST

Registered charity 1021586 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q22000405 · Wikipedia · also known as BRATHAY, BRATHAY DEVELOPMENT TRAINING, BRATHAY HALL TRUST

Everyone has the capacity to do extraordinary things that can inspire & benefit others. Brathay's mission is to improve the life chances of children, young people & families by inspiring them to engage positively in their communities. Our achievements are supported by knowledge in our research hub & revenue from our people and organisation development consultancy & our enterprising fundraising.

Objects

(A) TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A CENTRE OR CENTRES IN ANY PART OF GREAT BRITAIN FOR THE EDUCATION INCLUDING THE PHYSICAL TRAINING AND MORAL INTELLECTUAL AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS OF BOTH SEXES FROM WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM. (B) TO INSTITUTE AND PROSECUTE, WHETHER AT THE SAID CENTRES OR ELSEWHERE, INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH INTO QUESTIONS AFFECTING THE EDUCATION OF SUCH PERSONS. (C) TO INSTRUCT THE STAFF OF SUCH CENTRES AND OTHER PERSONS TO QUALIFY THEM TO PROMOTE THE AFORESAID PURPOSES. (D) TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF AN EDUCATIONAL NATURE WHICH CAN CONVENIENTLY BE PROMOTED IN COMBINATION WITH ALL OR ANY OF THE PURPOSES AFORESAID.

Area of benefit: GREAT BRITAIN

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

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £155k for the year ended 31 March 2025, an improvement from the prior year's deficit. The trustees confirm that the organization has sufficient reserves and liquidity to continue as a going concern, with total net assets of £1,568k.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lamont Pridmore. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,000 - £69,999 (FY2024) to £90,000 - £99,999 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (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
• 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)

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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Brathay Trust marks 80 years with free family celebration greatbritishlife.co.uk · 12/09/2026
• Cumbria-based Herdy and Brathay Trust team up to make fundraising notebook nwemail.co.uk · 15/05/2026
• Cumbria-based Herdy and Brathay Trust team up to make fundraising notebook newsandstar.co.uk · 15/05/2026
• University of Cumbria and Brathay Trust co-host groundbreaking event celebrating women in leadership news.cumbria.ac.uk · 29/10/2025
• Case Study: The Brathay Trust lancaster.ac.uk · 09/06/2023
• Brathay Trust becomes latest Cornerstone Employer cumbriacrack.com · 05/04/2021
• University collaborates with Brathay Trust and Theatre by the Lake on 'inspiring and transformative' Changing Culture Programme for future leaders news.cumbria.ac.uk · 29/09/2020
• Santander staff help build a wheelchair-friendly ropes course at Brathay Trust cumbriacrack.com · 25/09/2019

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: BRATHAY SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 01258384
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02814206

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Brathay Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• BRACEWELL, Richard Alastair — director, appointed 10/10/2025on trustee list
• DENNIS, Rachael Christenson — director, appointed 20/08/2025on trustee list
• RANDLES, Julie Michaela — director, appointed 26/04/2024on trustee list
• AITCHISON, Nigel Ian — director, appointed 26/04/2024on trustee list
• MACDUFF, Jennifer Mary — director, appointed 26/04/2024on trustee list
• ROBERTS, David John — director, appointed 23/02/2024on trustee list
• SMITH, Lucie — director, appointed 20/01/2023on trustee list
• LOCKHART, Beth Suzanne — director, appointed 06/09/2022on trustee list
• WATSON, Andrew Stuart — director, appointed 04/05/2021on trustee list
• HODGSON-JONES, Sarah — director, appointed 04/10/2019on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Paul — director, appointed 11/12/2017on trustee list
• JENNINGS, Teresa Jane — secretary, appointed 16/07/2026

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (65% 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: 7.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/03/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/02/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Stuart Watson
• Beth Suzanne Lockhart
• David John Roberts
• Jennifer Mary MacDuff
• Julie Michaela Randles
• Lucie Smith
• Nigel Ian Aitchison
• PAUL JOHNSON
• Rachael Christenson Dennis
• Richard Alastair Bracewell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Hodgson-Jones

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Cumbria

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 BHATTAI TRUST (UK).

• BHATTAI TRUST (UK) income £16k
• BRIGHTER FUTURE INITIATIVE income £30k
• THE LAURIE BREWIS TRUST income £736k
• WHOOPSADAISY BRIGHTON income £250k
• BREAKTHROUGH - TRANSFORMATION TRUST income £3.7m
• THE BROTHERS TRUST income £597k

Side by side with its peers

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