THE NORTHAM CARE TRUST

Registered charity 1081784 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTHAM LODGE

Provision of both residential and day care services for adults with learning disabilities

Objects

TO RELIEVE HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND ADULTS IN ANY MANNER WHICH NOW IS OR HEREINAFTER MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NORTH DEVON.

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: Torridge, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £153,986 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds held at £1,956,706. The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with sufficient resources to fund ongoing activities. The charity's reserves policy targets a minimum of 3 months' operating costs (£1,600,000), against which the unrestricted funds not tied to fixed assets stood at £967,754.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Ltd. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 23/02/2023, 23 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04010653

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Robin Stoneman — Chair (source)
• Katy Kerley — Finance Director (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).

• Edward Gostling Foundation — “We are so grateful to anyone that makes a donation or supports any of our fundraising events and we would like to thank the following donors…” (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.

• BOWEN, Vincent — director, appointed 03/09/2025not on trustee list
• WALTER, Joanne Lisa — director, appointed 13/12/2023on trustee list
• DOWN, Robert William Main — director, appointed 04/08/2022on trustee list
• WHITTAKER, Jane Helen — director, appointed 13/07/2020on trustee list
• STONEMAN, Robin Stanley — director, appointed 29/07/2015on trustee list
• MOLE, Peter Roderick — director, appointed 13/12/2001on trustee list
• KERLEY, Katy Victoria — secretary, appointed 27/11/2017

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: The Northam Care Trust — Registered, 2 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 04/05/2021.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram · linkedin

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 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 (98% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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).

• Northam Lodge: Good (05/04/2018) · CQC record
• TNCT Supported Living: Good (05/06/2021) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBIN STONEMANchair
• Christopher Derrik Fulford
• Jane Helen Whittaker
• Joanne Lisa Walter Mrs · trustee of 1 other charity
• RODERICK MOLE
• Robert William Main Down
• Vicent Patrick Bowen

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

Operates in: Devon

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 LD:NORTHEAST.

• LD:NORTHEAST income £1.4m
• FAMILY CARE TRUST income £4.1m
• STROUD & DISTRICT HOMES FOUNDATION LIMITED income £2.6m
• CARERS NORTHUMBERLAND income £468k
• CHESCOMBE TRUST LIMITED income £2.4m
• PARCHMENT TRUST income £4.3m

Side by side with its peers

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