CHAILEY HERITAGE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1075837 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5067786 · Wikipedia · also known as CHAILEY HERITAGE SCHOOL

Chailey Heritage Foundation, based in Sussex, provides education and care services for children and young people with complex disabilities and health needs. The Charity has a special school, residential and community services for both children and young adults, as well as a range of day services for young adults.

Objects

The objects of the Charity (the "Objects") are, for the public benefit, the education and care of people who have physical disabilities and other complex health needs, particularly but not exclusively children and young persons (the "Beneficiaries") including (without limitation) the conduct and maintenance of a special school (the "School") within the meaning of the Education Acts; the provision of day services to Beneficiaries; the provision of a transition service for Beneficiaries; and the provision of support to the families and carers of Beneficiaries.

Area of benefit: IN OR NEAR CHAILEY, EAST SUSSEX.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lewes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income surplus of £484k for the seven-month period ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £11.8m and total expenditure of £11.2m. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £4.3m, which the trustees confirm are within their stated target range of £4m to £5m, indicating adequate resources to continue in operational existence.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2025) to "within" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; 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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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).

• Hats on for a good cause! Chailey Heritage Foundation invites Sussex to join Woolly Hat Wednesday 2026 sussexexpress.co.uk · 03/11/2026
• Chailey Heritage Foundation opens innovative new learning space to bring children across the community together sussexexpress.co.uk · 09/06/2026
• Help raise vital funds for Chailey Heritage Foundation ashdownradio.com · 27/08/2025
• Youngsters with complex disabilities raise money at Chailey Heritage Foundation triathlon sussexexpress.co.uk · 15/04/2025
• Masons present cheque to Chailey Heritage Foundation sussexexpress.co.uk · 23/09/2024
• Chailey Heritage Foundation honoured by former High Sheriff of East Sussex’s second visit sussexexpress.co.uk · 08/06/2023
• Chailey Heritage Foundation to hold careers event ashdownradio.com · 17/04/2023
• Chailey Heritage Foundation near Haywards Heath calls for others to join amazing charity challenge sussexexpress.co.uk · 28/02/2023

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03769775

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chailey Heritage Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Richard Green — Headteacher (source)
• Emma Dewe — Deputy Headteacher (source)
• Oner Ozdamar — Assistant Headteacher (source)
• Paula Marten — Assistant Headteacher (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• St George's Day Club — “We'd like to say a huge thank you to St George's Day Club for funding a brand-new MOTOmed for our gym at The Activity Place.” (source page)
• Fuego Lounge — “Fuego Lounge community raises more than £6,400 for Chailey Heritage FoundationChailey Heritage Foundation is celebrating the incredible supp…” (source page)

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.

• PATEL, Kaushika Nareschchandra — director, appointed 14/07/2026on trustee list
• GARRETT, Helen Joan — director, appointed 14/07/2026on trustee list
• SONI, Ashok, Professor — director, appointed 05/02/2026on trustee list
• HART, Christina — director, appointed 30/10/2025on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Joanne — director, appointed 15/10/2025on trustee list
• BLANCHARD, Neil — director, appointed 15/10/2025on trustee list
• BROWN, Chris James — director, appointed 15/10/2025on trustee list
• OTA, Jonathan Benjamin — director, appointed 15/10/2025on trustee list
• PROWER, Deirdre — director, appointed 15/10/2025on trustee list
• GARLAND, Denise — director, appointed 16/11/2020on trustee list
• CHILCOTT, Darren — director, appointed 17/12/2019on trustee list
• BENNETT, Neil Edward Francis — director, appointed 10/12/2018on trustee list
• GROVER, Alison Charlotte — director, appointed 10/12/2018on trustee list
• CLARK, Jennifer Mary — director, appointed 14/07/2016on trustee list
• CREAMER, Mark Francis — director, appointed 28/03/2002on trustee list
• DUFF, Fiona Jane — secretary, appointed 10/05/2006

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

CQC provider record: Chailey Heritage Foundation — Registered, 3 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 09/03/2020.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (8,088 followers) · instagram (2,144 followers) · linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (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).

• Futures: Good (26/05/2026) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/04/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARK FRANCIS CREAMERchair
• Alison Grover
• Chris Brown
• Christina Hart
• Darren Chilcott
• Deirdre Prower · trustee of 1 other charity
• Denise Garland
• Helen Joan Garrett
• Jennifer Mary Clark
• Joanne Taylor
• Jonathan Ota
• Kaushika Nareshchandra Patel
• Neil Blanchard
• Neil Edward Francis Bennett
• Professor Ashok Soni

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHAIGELEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.

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Side by side with its peers

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