GROWING SPACE

Registered charity 1071540 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GROWING SPACE LIMITED

Growing Space provides rehabilitation, sheltered training and work experience within the community for adults with or recovering from mental health problems. We offer two vocational training routes in horticulture and woodwork and also enable access to a work based learning programme, which includes IT training and personally tailored training in agreed key skill areas and confidence building.

Objects

THE PROVISION OF SERVICES TO RELIEVE SICKNESS BY THE PROVISION OF THERAPEUTIC TRAINING AND WORK EXPERIENCE FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED, OR ARE SUFFERING MENTAL ILLNESS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE NEWPORT

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds increased to £1,045,000 from £982,000 in the prior year. The Trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by L C Evans. Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

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
• 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BEVERLEY ANNE HUMPHREYSchair
• LINDSAY CHARLES EVANS
• PETER LEA · trustee of 1 other charity
• SANDY BLAIR · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Blaenau Gwent · Caerphilly · Monmouthshire · Newport City · Torfaen

Income and spending

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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 GROWING WELL LIMITED.

• GROWING WELL LIMITED income £1.5m
• SPACE income £987k
• WE ARE GROW income £489k
• COMMUNIGROW income £257k
• LEARNING SPACE income £1.2m
• COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTRES income £3.6m

Side by side with its peers

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