ROMSEY MILL TRUST

Registered charity 1069905 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ASPIRE, ROMSEY MILL, SOCIAL INCLUSION PROGRAMME, THE MILL, TRANSITIONS PROGRAMME, UNDER FIVES PROGRAMME · also registered in Scotland as SC037482 (OSCR)

Romsey Mill's activities, enabling vulnerable and disadvantaged young people children and families to thrive, include intensive 1-to-1 support, early-years care & education, Children's Centre services, parenting courses, work in schools, detached youth work, interest-based group work (e.g. sport,arts,music), training and alternative education, IAG sessions, trips & outdoor residential experiences.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £680,534, which the trustees note is below their stated policy target of three to six months of expenditure. The filing indicates that the year-end financial position was below forecast and that the charity anticipates using up to £150,000 of unrestricted reserves to meet a shortfall between income and expenditure in the coming year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Prentis & Co LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03556721
• Trading subsidiary: CARA COFFEE LIMITED Companies House 11901327

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Romsey Mill (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Neil Perry — Chief Executive Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• WILLERTON, Louise — director, appointed 03/07/2026on trustee list
• FYTCHE, Ian Michael — director, appointed 03/07/2026on trustee list
• KAMWENDO, Doreen — director, appointed 03/07/2026on trustee list
• SMITH, Timothy Patrick — director, appointed 25/09/2024on trustee list
• FYTCHE, Hannah — director, appointed 25/09/2024on trustee list
• PEARSON, Kim Peter — director, appointed 11/03/2015on trustee list
• BARRY, Alistair Edward Campbell — director, appointed 01/03/2007on trustee list
• PERRY, Neil — secretary, appointed 04/09/2006

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (73% 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: 16.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy Smithchair
• ALISTAIR BARRY
• Doreen Kamwendo
• Hannah Fytche
• Ian Fytche · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kim Pearson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Louise Willerton

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RUSKIN MILL TRUST LIMITED.

• RUSKIN MILL TRUST LIMITED income £74.4m
• ROMSEY YOUNG CARERS income £147k
• THE TOWN MILL TRUST LYME REGIS income £244k
• ABBEY UNITED REFORMED CHURCH ROMSEY CHARITY income £117k
• ROMSEY CANCER SUPPORT CENTRE income £409k
• ROMA SUPPORT GROUP income £574k

Side by side with its peers

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