Landmarks Specialist College

Registered charity 1047557 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LANDMARKS

Landmarks is an Independent Specialist College for people with a range of learning difficulties and disabilities. The College offers a broad curriculum that prepares people for adulthood. Learning Pathways are created which help learners achieve employment, become more independent or improve their social and functional communication skills to enable greater control over life decisions.

Objects

To advance education, training and care to all persons and in particular to those with learning, physical and other disabilities, in a caring and sheltered environment including:a. Enhancing and improving those persons’ levels and ranges of life skills b. Promoting those persons’ self-esteem, confidence and sense of well-being c Enabling those persons’ access to the labour market place

Area of benefit: DERBYSHIRE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREA

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 · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North East Derbyshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net income surplus of £685,258 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £2,591,964. The trustees report that free reserves are held at a level ensuring financial security, noting they have over three months of reserves in the bank at year end. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by SMH Group Audit. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2021 (received 20/10/2022, 112 days after the 30/06/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Landmarks Specialist College (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £1.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Francis Battistechair
• Christina Pickup
• Dr Alison Elizabeth Scott
• Fiona Featherstone
• Mark John Hilton · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Nottingham City · Nottinghamshire · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LANDMARK ARTS CENTRE.

• LANDMARK ARTS CENTRE income £851k
• FAIRFIELD FARM TRUST income £6.2m
• Learning Disability Network London Limited income £22.7m
• BEDFORDSHIRE OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES LTD income £599k
• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m
• LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS income £688k

Side by side with its peers

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