BEDFORDSHIRE OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES LTD

Registered charity 1091271 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEDS GARDEN CARERS, BGC

We provide a day care service for adults with learning disabilities in the Bedford area, offering gardening, furniture renovation, and training in independent living skills.

Objects

1) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF HELP AND SUPPORT FOR THEM AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND CARERS, AND TO PREVENT LEARNING DISABILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, AND2) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED THEREOF BY REASON OF LEARNING DISABILITY WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE"LEARNING DISABILITY" MEANS ANY DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY OF THE MIND AND ANY ASSOCIATED CONDITION HOWEVER CAUSED AND WHETHER MILD MODERATE OR SEVERE

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.

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Registered contact address: Bedford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £34,191 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total funds of £991,234. Unrestricted reserves stood at £664,702, which exceeds the stated policy target of maintaining three months of unrestricted expenditure. The accounts were subject to independent examination rather than audit, with the examiner reporting no matters requiring attention.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• 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
• 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)

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £250k. 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 ~14.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/10/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER HOLLICKchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Alan Joseph Neate
• Gill Hargreaves
• JANET SCOTT
• Jo-Anne Marie Middleditch
• Laura Partridge
• Matthew Lumbers-Cortes
• Nicola Forrester
• Nicola Murphy
• Norma Hoyte

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

Operates in: Bedford · Cambridgeshire · Central Bedfordshire · Luton · Milton Keynes

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REACH LEARNING DISABILITY.

• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m
• THE NEW BLENDWORTH CENTRE LIMITED income £455k
• COMMUNITY CARE OPTIONS income £705k
• Learning Disability Network London Limited income £22.7m
• BANGLADESHI PARENTS AND CARERS ASSOCIATION income £682k
• KINGSTON SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES income £105k

Side by side with its peers

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