SCOTTS PROJECT TRUST

Registered charity 1051947 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCOTTS PROJECT LIMITED

Scotts Project Trust provides services for adults with a learning disability, including~a residential care home; ~Day Services providing training for those in the Trust's residential homes and others in the local community; and~ a supported living service providing high quality housing and support for those choosing to live more independently in the community.

Objects

TO ESTABLISH A HOME OR HOMES TO PROVIDE EITHER TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR RESIDENCES FOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS AND TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND EDUCATION OF SUCH PERSONS AND THEIR MEDICAL AND NURSING NEEDS.

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 · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tonbridge and Malling, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves stood at £1,323,370, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of holding seven months' operating expenses. The charity reported a net income increase to £255,375 and confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its 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 Lindeyer Francis Ferguson Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03143819 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Scotts Project Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• RITCHIE, Keith Archibald — director, appointed 12/05/2023on trustee list
• SLATTERY, Liam — director, appointed 24/06/2022on trustee list
• PAVEY, Michael William — director, appointed 25/09/2020on trustee list
• BIBB, Peter Anthony Curtis — director, appointed 12/05/2020on trustee list
• MILES, Martin William — director, appointed 28/02/2018on trustee list
• MCMENAMIN, Derek Neil — director, appointed 16/01/2015on trustee list
• BOURNE, Susan Joyce — director, appointed 27/09/2014not on trustee list
• HOPPE, Thomas Duncan — director, appointed 13/03/2010not on trustee list
• WARD, Edward Nicholas — director, appointed 19/11/2005on trustee list

Official officers record.

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 £187k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Scotts Project Trust — Registered, 2 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 25/02/2020.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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).

• St Peters Row Delarue Close: Good (08/04/2020) · CQC record
• The Oaks and Willows: Good (07/01/2020) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• TOM HOPPEchair
• Derek Neil McMenamin
• KEITH ARCHIBALD RITCHIE
• Liam Slattery
• MARTIN WILLIAM MILES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael William Pavey
• NICHOLAS WARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Anthony Curtis Bibb
• Sue Bourne

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SPARKS PROJECT CIO.

• SPARKS PROJECT CIO income £205k
• MINSTEAD TRUST income £8.7m
• SOCIAL CARE HOUSING TRUST income £831k
• THE STABLE FAMILY HOME TRUST income £4.0m
• POLESWORTH GROUP HOMES LIMITED income £4.3m
• COQUET TRUST income £10.0m

Side by side with its peers

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