Lingfield Beacon Trust

Registered charity 1022313 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MONICA CANTWELL TRUST, THE CAVENDISH HOUSE TRUST

A charity supporting people in East Surrey, with particular focus on Lingfield, who affected by learning disabilities, physical disabilities, mental health issues, or substance misuse, by supporting their general wellbeing, independence, social inclusion and quality of life by providing grants to organisations that support these needs.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING AND IN PARTICULAR THE RELIEF OF THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED

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: Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £864,068 against a policy target of six months' expenditure. The trustees report a net income of £9,971 for the year and confirm adequate resources to continue as a going concern, despite plans to close the residential care home.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: not a going concern (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02734498

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.

• BENNETT, Rory James — director, appointed 18/05/2026on trustee list
• MEAKINGS, Carolyn — director, appointed 04/03/2019on trustee list
• MEAKINGS, Gavin Andrew — director, appointed 04/03/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £460k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Cavendish House Trust — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 17/08/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Virginia Kay Fentonchair
• Carolyn Meakings
• Gavin Meakings
• Rory Bennett

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

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 CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED.

• THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
• CAREDUCATION TRUST LTD income £133k
• STROUD & DISTRICT HOMES FOUNDATION LIMITED income £2.6m
• THE CHASELEY TRUST income £6.6m
• RUTLAND HOUSE COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED income £1.5m
• PEACEHAVEN HOUSE income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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