THE PROSPECTS FOUNDATION
Registered charity 1076541 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
WE ARE A COMMUNITY-LED CHARITY WORKING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPROVEMENTS WHICH BENEFIT THE PEOPLE OF HYNDBURN. OUR MISSION IS TO BE THE KEY MOVEMENT IN HYNDBURN FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND TO USE OUR COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, WORK AND EXPERIENCE TO SECURE THIS FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS.
Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £140,410, with free reserves amounting to £125,410 after accounting for fixed assets. This figure is above the trustees' stated policy target of three months of total expenditure, which is approximately £114,965. The charity reports a net reduction in resources for the year but maintains sufficient cash and unrestricted funds to meet current liabilities.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Largest income source: Energiekontor (52% of income)
“Energiekontor 187,255” — page 19
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three months of total expenditure (held: £125k)
“it is considered that the level of reserves needs to be adequate to maintain core activities and that the equivalent of three months of total expenditure is appropriate (being approximately £114,965)” — page 10
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
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.
- HARGREAVES, Gaynor Louise — director, appointed 30/07/2025on trustee list
- SCALES, Jeff — director, appointed 31/07/2024not on trustee list
- HOPLEY, Mark — director, appointed 07/03/2024not on trustee list
- DALY, David — director, appointed 19/08/2020on trustee list
- CUNLIFFE, Roger Harling — director, appointed 23/09/2019on trustee list
- WORSWICK, Paul David — director, appointed 28/03/2012on trustee list
- HOLMES, Catherine Lorraine — director, appointed 06/10/2004on trustee list
- HEMINGWAY, Stephen — director, appointed 09/08/2001on trustee list
- VINCENT-BARWOOD, Philip — director, appointed 22/12/1998not on trustee list
- WORDEN, Margaret — secretary, appointed 28/09/2011
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
2 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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- PAUL DAVID WORSWICKchair
- CATHERINE LORRAINE HOLMES · trustee of 1 other charity
- David Daly
- Gaynor Hargreaves
- Jeffrey Scales
- MARGARET WORDEN
- MR NICK CORT
- Michael Booth · trustee of 1 other charity
- PHILIP VINCENT BARWOOD
- Roger Cunliffe
- STEPHEN HEMINGWAY
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Lancashire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is THE PROSPECTS FOUNDATION financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £140,410, with free reserves amounting to £125,410 after accounting for fixed assets. This figure is above the trustees' stated policy target of three months of total expenditure, which is approximately £114,965. The charity reports a net reduction in resources for the year but maintains sufficient cash and unrestricted funds to meet current liabilities. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds THE PROSPECTS FOUNDATION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name THE PROSPECTS FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE AURORA TRUST, THE NINEVEH CHARITABLE TRUST.
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