AVENUES EAST

Registered charity 1061241 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEARNING THROUGH LEISURE, OPTUA, OPTUA (EAST ANGLIA), RETHINK DISABILITY

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £729k, resulting in accumulated funds showing a deficit of £1,106k. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds are negative £1,278k, meaning there are no free reserves, although the Group maintains a reserve policy target of £1.5m.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; 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).

• Mandalay: Requires improvement (24/01/2024) · CQC record
• Avenues East - Services: Good (01/05/2020) · CQC record
• Avenues East - West Midlands: Good (22/11/2018) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• ALISTAIR BROWN · trustee of 4 other charities
• JOANNE LAND · trustee of 3 other charities
• Lauren Stoner-Shepherd · trustee of 1 other charity
• Luis Hui · trustee of 5 other charities
• NICOLA FORD · trustee of 1 other charity
• TERENCE RICH · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Norfolk · Shropshire · Suffolk

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).