REACH LEARNING DISABILITY
Registered charity 1076318 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTHWELL CARE PROJECT
The charity supports people with learning disabilities to achieve a good life in their community by providing care support, day service and accommodation services.
Objects
TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES (INCLUDING THOSE WITHOUT A FORMAL DIAGNOSIS, THOSE WITH AUTISM, BRAIN DAMAGE AND/OR WHOSE SENSORY AND COMMUNICATION IMPAIRMENTS PRESENT A SIMILAR BARRIER TO QUALITY OF LIFE AS LIVING WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY) AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS WITHIN A 50 MILES RADIUS OF SOUTHWELL, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE."
Area of benefit: SOUTHWELL NORTH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts
Registered contact address: Newark and Sherwood, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported an unrestricted surplus of £16,496 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a forecast deficit. Total income increased by 10% to £3.95 million, while expenditure on charitable activities rose by 14% to £3.68 million. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £1,065,348, which the trustees consider adequate against their policy target of three months' operating expenditure.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £1.1m)
“It is the Charity’s policy to maintain unrestricted free reserves at a level which provides funds both to cover three months’ operating expenditure of the charity” — page 12
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Reach Learning Disability Care CIC
“The wholly owned trading subsidiary Reach Learning Disability Care CIC is incorporated in the United Kingdom” — page 64
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Beeley Hawley & Co Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
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
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds 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
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.
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025
- Volunteers: 339
- Government income: £115,297 — contracts £99,890 (1), grants £15,407 (1); 3% of the £3,945,523 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)
- Has a trading subsidiary
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024
- Volunteers: 130
- Government income: £116,241 — contracts £100,834 (1), grants £15,407 (1); 3% of the £3,571,880 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (£60,001–£70,000: 1; £70,001–£80,000: 1)
- Has a trading subsidiary
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023
- Volunteers: 104
- Government income: £151,319 — contracts £135,912 (1), grants £15,407 (1); 5% of the £3,338,815 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£70,001–£80,000: 1)
- Has a trading subsidiary
Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Reach Learning Disability (matched by registered charity number).
Funders the charity credits
Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).
- The National Lottery Community Fund — “The National Lottery Community Fund for our All Part of Change project” (source page)
- The Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation — “The Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation for supporting our Support for Carers work through our Homing in on the Future project.” (source page)
- Nottinghamshire County Council — “Nottinghamshire County Council's Local Communities Fund supporting our Future Forwards project.” (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.
- WHALL, Richard David — director, appointed 12/05/2025on trustee list
- PEACOCK, John Brendan — director, appointed 06/11/2023on trustee list
- BRAMBLE, Mark Howard — director, appointed 08/08/2022on trustee list
- EVANS, Paul — director, appointed 25/10/2019on trustee list
- GARDNER, Robert Lyle — director, appointed 28/01/2019on trustee list
- HARTLEY, Norman Adrian — director, appointed 30/07/2018on trustee list
- LANNON, Rachel Elizabeth — director, appointed 28/06/2017on trustee list
- PAYNE, Julie — director, appointed 27/10/2014on trustee list
Official officers record.
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Property (HM Land Registry)
7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £1.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£120k
Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 3.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).
- Rachel Lannonchair
- JOHN PEACOCK · trustee of 1 other charity
- JULIE PAYNE
- Mark Bramble
- Norman Adrian Hartley
- Paul Evans
- Richard David Whall · trustee of 2 other charities
- Robert Gardner
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Nottinghamshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is REACH LEARNING DISABILITY financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported an unrestricted surplus of £16,496 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a forecast deficit. Total income increased by 10% to £3.95 million, while expenditure on charitable activities rose by 14% to £3.68 million. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £1,065,348, which the trustees consider adequate against their policy target of three months' operating expenditure. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Beeley Hawley & Co Ltd.
Who funds REACH LEARNING DISABILITY?
Funders whose own accounts filings name REACH LEARNING DISABILITY as a grant recipient include THE BLYTH CHARITABLE TRUST, LILIAN FRANCES HIND BEQUEST (TRUSTEES OF LADY HIND), THE WILL CHARITABLE TRUST, THE JONES 1986 CHARITABLE TRUST, THE THOMAS FARR CHARITY.
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.
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