THE EDMUND TRUST

Registered charity 1030968 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAMBRIDGE MENCAP, CAMBRIDGESHIRE MENCAP SOCIETY, EDMUND HOUSE GROUP OF HOMES, THE SWALLOWS TEA ROOM

THE PRINCIPAL AIM OF THE CHARITY IS TO IMPROVE, SUPPORT AND PROVIDE INFORMATION AND SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, WHO LIVE IN CAMBRIDGE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus with total income of £11.1 million and total expenditure of £10.7 million for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, free reserves are negative £41,499, as the majority of unrestricted funds are tied up in tangible fixed assets, though total unrestricted funds stand at £4.2 million. The trustees expect to repair reserves in the coming year as the new building becomes fully operational.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Peters Elworthy & Moore. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).

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

In the news

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

• Respite site opened in Milton by The Edmund Trust cambridgeindependent.co.uk · 28/11/2024

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02872186

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Edmund Trust (Eddie's) (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Naomi Tomkys OBE — Chair (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.

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.

• SANTOCCHINI, Marianna — director, appointed 18/10/2023on trustee list
• KRON, Ellen Elisabeth — director, appointed 29/04/2020on trustee list
• MASON, Howard — director, appointed 29/04/2020on trustee list
• TOMKYS, Naomi Rachel, Obe — director, appointed 29/04/2020not on trustee list
• BRAGG, John Raymond — director, appointed 29/01/2020on trustee list
• MANNERS, Claire Jane — secretary, appointed 03/04/2018

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £1.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Edmund Trust — Registered, 10 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 23/03/2021.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (3.8%) (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).

• Pauline Burnet House: Good (06/03/2019) · CQC record
• Rosewood: Good (13/07/2018) · CQC record
• 1 High Street: Good (30/07/2019) · CQC record
• Edmund House: Good (02/04/2020) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Naomi Tomkys OBEchair
• Elisabeth Kron
• Howard Mason · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Raymond Bragg
• Marianna Santocchini
• Nicholas Tiley

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST EDMUNDS TRUST.

• ST EDMUNDS TRUST income £107k
• CAMBRIDGE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £200k
• THE CHURCH SCHOOLS OF CAMBRIDGE (THE OLD SCHOOLS) income £378k
• UNITED CHARITIES OF CAMBRIDGE income £387k
• ERMINE EDUCATION TRUST income £3.1m
• HF TRUST LIMITED income £85.0m

Side by side with its peers

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