PLACE2BE

Registered charity 1040756 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PLACE TO TRAIN, PLACE2LEARN, PLACE2TALK, THE PLACE TO BE, THE PLACE2BE · also registered in Scotland as SC038649 (OSCR)

Providing therapeutic and emotional support to children in schools

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income grew to £28.9m while total expenditure reduced to £27.8m, resulting in a net increase to reserves of £0.7m. The charity holds free/unrestricted reserves of £8.8m, which the Trustees view as satisfactory against their policy target of three months' core operating expenditure. The Trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources available 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 Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02876150

What the charity says about itself

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Place2Be (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Postcode Lottery players — “We want to say a big thank you to our unrestricted funders including: Postcode Lottery players , The Mohn Westlake Foundation and the Pears …” (source page)
• The Mohn Westlake Foundation — “We want to say a big thank you to our unrestricted funders including: Postcode Lottery players , The Mohn Westlake Foundation and the Pears …” (source page)
• The Pears Foundation — “We want to say a big thank you to our unrestricted funders including: Postcode Lottery players , The Mohn Westlake Foundation and the Pears …” (source page)

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.

• WHITE, Debra Jayne — director, appointed 15/09/2025on trustee list
• JORDAN, Marc Lowis Aron — director, appointed 16/09/2024on trustee list
• BARWELL, Matthew Robert — director, appointed 11/03/2024on trustee list
• WEAVER, David Oliver — director, appointed 11/03/2024on trustee list
• KHAN, Osama Shafique Minhaz, Professor — director, appointed 28/09/2022on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Tim — director, appointed 28/09/2022not on trustee list
• DOUGLAS, Richard Philip — director, appointed 08/06/2022on trustee list
• AHMAD, Aamir — director, appointed 22/07/2020on trustee list
• MURPHY, Margaret — director, appointed 07/10/2019on trustee list
• BEGBIE, Alexander Hugh Mccormack — director, appointed 17/09/2018not on trustee list
• MACKENZIE-SMITH, Simon — director, appointed 12/06/2017on trustee list
• GREETHAM, Elizabeth Mary — director, appointed 20/06/2016on trustee list
• SCOTT, Stephen, Professor — director, appointed 20/06/2016on trustee list
• HILL, Sian Elizabeth — director, appointed 08/07/2014on trustee list
• LEVY, Adrian Joseph Morris — director, appointed 12/03/2013on trustee list
• LECOINTE, Elpha Mary — director, appointed 25/01/2011on trustee list
• HEROD, Nicholas Julian — secretary, appointed 24/02/2020

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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (51% 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: 5.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Mackenzie-Smithchair
• ADRIAN JOSEPH LEVY
• Aamir Ahmad
• Alexander Begbie CBE
• David Oliver Weaver
• Debra Jayne White
• ELPHA MARY LECOINTE
• Elizabeth Greetham
• Marc Lowis Aron Jordan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Margaret Murphy
• Matthew Robert Barwell
• Professor Osama Khan
• Professor STEPHEN SCOTT · trustee of 3 other charities
• Richard Douglas · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sian Hill
• Timothy Robinson

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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 OUR HIDDEN TREASURE.

• OUR HIDDEN TREASURE income £111k
• The Places Foundation income £996k
• HUMAN PRACTICE FOUNDATION UK income £184k
• WITH LOVE ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE income £149k
• CHARMINSTER PRE-SCHOOL income £189k
• STAND BY ME income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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