THE PROSPECTS TRUST

Registered charity 1048584 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Prospects Trust is all about the people who come through the gates, and our gates are always open. We provide meaningful work experience sessions on an 18 acre organically certified farm near Reach, Cambridge for adults with learning difficulties, physical disabilities and mental ill health.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE VULNERABLE AND WHO MAY BE AT RISK OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION BECAUSE OF THEIR AGE, PHYSICAL OR LEARNING DISABILITIES OR MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH THE PROVISION OF TRAINING AND WORK OPPORTUNITIES IN AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND RELATED SUBJECTS IN THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP SO THAT SUCH PERSONS CAN DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES AND GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Cambridgeshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating surplus of £109,120 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £979,123 and expenditure of £862,241. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted general reserves stood at £551,435, significantly exceeding the stated policy target of £270,000. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to continue operations, noting no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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.

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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Smithies
• Andrew Nigel Feather · trustee of 1 other charity
• JANE KERSHAW
• Margaret Kerry
• NAOMI FRANCES ROWE
• Peter Fretwell
• Rachel Marguerite Coquard
• Rosalie Tribe
• Susan Oldfield

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PROSPECTS FOUNDATION.

• THE PROSPECTS FOUNDATION income £358k
• THE GRASSROOTS TRUST income £486k
• THE SHARPHAM TRUST income £2.2m
• THE TALENT FOUNDRY TRUST income £2.0m
• PROSPECT HOSPICE LIMITED income £8.7m
• REAL FARMING TRUST income £930k

Side by side with its peers

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