PARCHMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1081148 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of occupational and day care services to people with learning disabilities

Objects

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, MINIMISING THE EFFECTS OF DISABILITY AND IMPAIRMENTS, WHICH INCLUDE ISOLATION, POVERTY AND DISADVANTAGE IN THE WORKPLACE, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY BY:A) THE PROVISION OF SERVICES DIRECTLY TO ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS, EITHER RESIDENTIAL, IN THE COMMUNITY OR THROUGH SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT TRAINING PROGRAMMESB) IMPROVING OPPORTUNITIES TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, OF WHICH THE ABOVE MENTIONED INDIVIDUALS ARE PART, BY CREATING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY CENTRES AND SUPPORTED BUSINESSES WHICH BENEFIT THE WHOLE COMMUNITY SOCIAL STRUCTURE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained a healthy financial position with unrestricted free reserves of £987,957, meeting its policy target of six weeks' operational turnover. The charity reported a net surplus of £219,865 for the year, driven by increased fee rates from Adult Social Care, and confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Manningtons. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2025) → 1 (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Parchment Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sara — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Theresa — Director of Services (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 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 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• KAREN THERESA WALKERchair
• David Michael Walker · trustee of 3 other charities
• JOHN ANTHONY HASSELL OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard David White
• Susan Parsons · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 PARITY FOR DISABILITY.

• PARITY FOR DISABILITY income £1.9m
• COQUET TRUST income £10.0m
• MINSTEAD TRUST income £8.7m
• HELPING DISABILITIES TRUST income £131k
• COMMUNITY CARE OPTIONS income £705k
• THE INTEGRATION TRUST LIMITED income £395k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.