RUSKIN MILL LAND TRUST

Registered charity 1053705 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FREEMAN COLLEGE, GLASSHOUSE COLLEGE, RUSKIN MILL COLLEGE, RUSKIN MILL FURTHER EDUCATION CENTRE, RUSKIN MILL FURTHER EDUCATION COURSE, THE RUSKIN MILL EDUCATIONAL TRUST

The leasing of the charity?s property estate for charitable use in accordance with the charity's Objects and the research into educational methods for the training and education of young people with learning difficulties, behavioural problems or special educational needs.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of £1,570,601 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total funds increasing to £22,718,651. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £22,612,553 and maintains a policy to ensure adequate liquid assets exist to meet liabilities as they fall due. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bronsens Accountants Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03192673

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.

• NAVES, Roos — director, appointed 03/12/2025not on trustee list
• CLEMENTS, Ian Keith — director, appointed 07/05/2025not on trustee list
• EMOUS, Chaim Mattias — director, appointed 01/09/2024not on trustee list
• GEIDER, Stefan Alois, Dr — director, appointed 20/04/2018not on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Angus Wilson — director, appointed 26/01/2018not on trustee list
• LLOYD-DAVIES, Robert Justin — director, appointed 26/01/2018not on trustee list
• BROWN, Alison Margaret Braithwaite, Professor — director, appointed 16/10/2003not on trustee list
• WHITBREAD, Antonia — secretary, appointed 02/08/2018

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

50 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (47 freehold); recorded price paid £11.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Ruskin Mill Educational Trust Limited — Deregistered, 3 registered locations, last inspected 15/06/2011.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~46.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (45% 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: 12.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/05/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RUSKIN MILL LAND TRUST LIMITED

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Darlington · Dudley · Gloucestershire · North Yorkshire · Pembrokeshire · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 BELMONT-BIRKLANDS SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED.

• BELMONT-BIRKLANDS SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £2.1m
• R S CHARITABLE TRUST income £227k
• DURLSTON COURT SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £4.1m
• CARDIFF FURTHER EDUCATION TRUST FUND income £205k
• RUSKIN MILL TRUST LIMITED income £74.4m
• THE J S AND E C RYMER CHARITABLE TRUST income £149k

Side by side with its peers

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