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.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE COUNTY OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY (HEREIN CALLED "THE TRUSTEES") MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; (B) TO PROMOTE GOOD CITIZENSHIP FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITH THE COMMITMENT TO PROMOTE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS WHO ENCOUNTER DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF FACTORS SUCH AS RACE AND GENDER, PARTICULARLY (THOUGH NOT EXCLUSIVELY) AMONG CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND YOUNG FAMILIES IN THE COUNTY OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; (C) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO PARTICULARLY (THOUGH NOT EXCLUSIVELY) AMONG CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND YOUNG FAMILIES IN THE COUNTY OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; (D) TO PROVIDE HELP, ADVICE AND POSITIVE SUPPORT TO THOSE FACING DIFFICULTIES WITH WELFARE BENEFITS, ACCOMMODATION, AND THE GAINING AND MAINTAINING OF EMPLOYMENT AND SIMILAR MATTERS TO THOSE IN ECONOMIC OR OTHER NEED OR HARDSHIP IN THE SAID COUNTY AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES AMY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; ( E) TO PROMOTE AND FULFIL SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY IN THE SAID COUNTY AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

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

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Transforming Negative Transitions Programme steps forward. cobseo.org.uk · 11/09/2023

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03556721
• Trading subsidiary: CARA COFFEE LIMITED Companies House 11901327 · Financial health read from its filings

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 — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy Smithchair
• 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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUTH IN ROMSEY.

• YOUTH IN ROMSEY income £205k
• ROMNEY MARSH COMMUNITY CHURCH income £120k
• ROMSEY METHODIST CHURCH income £144k
• ROMSEY OPPORTUNITY GROUP FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS income £36k
• PRIORITY YOUTH PROJECT income £367k
• THE RAMSEY FOUNDATION income £49k

Side by side with its peers

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