HEATHERCOMBE BRAKE TRUST

Registered charity 1087001 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEATREE ACTIVITY CENTRE, HEATREE HOUSE

To advance the education and promote the physical, spiritual and mental welfare and development of children and young people and their families within a Christian environment and ethos by providing, managing and improving one or more residential activity centres conducted on Christian principles and to assist in organising conferences and training courses for the advancement of such purposes.

Causes: Education/training · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves stood at £356,607, which is significantly above the trustees' stated policy target of £220,000. The charity reported a net expenditure of £1,110,399 against total income of £1,029,641, resulting in a net movement in funds of (80,758).

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Griffin. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04175683

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.

• HARVEY, Fiona — director, appointed 15/02/2025on trustee list
• WEBB, Adrian George Albert — director, appointed 21/03/2020on trustee list
• PITTS, Matthew James Garvey — director, appointed 17/04/2016on trustee list
• BISHOP, Jonathan Paul — director, appointed 26/07/2002not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~16.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR BISHOPchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Adrian Webb
• Fiona Harvey
• Ian Clive Rees · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Stewart Murray
• Matthew James Garvey Pitts · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 THE HIGHCOMBE EDGE TRUST.

• THE HIGHCOMBE EDGE TRUST income £2.2m
• THE HASTINGS COMMUNITY TRUST income £1.9m
• STALLCOMBE HOUSE income £3.9m
• HEBRON HALL LIMITED income £1.9m
• HEATH MOUNT SCHOOL TRUST LTD income £10.1m
• BRITISH MOTOR SPORTS TRAINING TRUST income £122k

Side by side with its peers

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