SEASHELL TRUST

Registered charity 1092655 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7441816 · Wikipedia · also known as SEA SHELL TRUST, SEA SHELL TRUSTEE LIMITED

The charity provides high quality specialist care and education, including physical training, to children and young adults with one or more form of complex communication and learning difficulties which means that they require special provision. Royal Schools for the Deaf, Manchester (charity no 526091) gifted certain assets and its operating activities to Seashell Trust on 1 September 2008.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING) AND/OR WELFARE OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WHO, THROUGH ANY ONE OR MORE FORMS OF DISABILITY, REQUIRE SPECIAL PROVISION FOR THEIR NEEDS ("BENEFICIARIES"), AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THOSE OBJECTS TO PROVIDE SUITABLE FACILITIES FOR ASSESSMENT, NURSERY CARE, EDUCATION, TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, RECREATION, CARE, RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION AND SUPPORT FOR BENEFICIARIES.

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stockport, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust returned a net deficit on unrestricted funds of £2,561,000 for the year ended 31 August 2025, primarily due to increased costs from government changes and reduced student numbers. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £1,336,000 are below the lower end of the target range (£2.1 million to £6.3 million), prompting a five-year plan to rebuild reserves. Despite this deficit, the Directors and auditors confirm the Trust remains a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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
• 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.

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 31/08/2023 (received 10/07/2024, 10 days after the 30/06/2024 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Laltex Group’s partnership with Seashell Trust honoured with King’s Award for Enterprise marketingstockport.co.uk · 08/05/2026
• Eric Wright completes £29m school for Seashell Trust placenorthwest.co.uk · 20/01/2026
• Trainee solicitor takes on triathlon for Seashell Trust nrtimes.co.uk · 21/07/2025
• Construction begins on Seashell Trust £22 million college building marketingstockport.co.uk · 08/08/2024
• Eric Wright starts on specialist education facility for Seashell Trust bdcmagazine.com · 07/08/2024
• HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh visits Seashell Trust charity in Cheadle stockport.nub.news · 20/05/2024
• Plans progress for new homes on former Seashell Trust campus marketingstockport.co.uk · 05/12/2023
• Seashell Trust cracks on with next stage of Stockport complex placenorthwest.co.uk · 11/08/2023

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04216714 · Financial health read from its filings

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Lynn Perry — Chair of Governors, Trustee and Vice Chair of Board of Trustees (source)
• Chris Smale — Governor (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.

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.

• QUAYLE, Nicola Jean — director, appointed 08/07/2025on trustee list
• LLOYD, Richard Huw — director, appointed 01/04/2025on trustee list
• KORTLAND, Elanor Ruth — director, appointed 11/02/2025on trustee list
• HOLBROOK, Beth — director, appointed 08/07/2024on trustee list
• MUNNELLY, Joanna — director, appointed 10/10/2022on trustee list
• HOGGINS, Colin — director, appointed 07/02/2022on trustee list
• MCMILLAN, Rachel — director, appointed 07/02/2022on trustee list
• PERRY, Lynn, Dr — director, appointed 19/07/2021on trustee list
• MASOM, Neil Andrew — director, appointed 01/02/2021on trustee list
• POVEY, Carol Mary — director, appointed 15/07/2019on trustee list
• HEATH, Martin — director, appointed 15/07/2019on trustee list
• BODDICE, Benjamin — secretary, appointed 12/12/2022

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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.

CQC provider record: Seashell Trust — Registered, 4 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 07/10/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (8,062 followers) · instagram (3,337 followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Trust and Statutory Fundraising Manager — £40,000 - £43,000 per year · England (Hybrid) · posted 3 weeks ago apply now (seen 16/09/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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: 2.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (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).

• Seashell Health Service: Outstanding (30/11/2022) · CQC record
• Royal College Manchester: Good (04/03/2026) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Beth Holbrook
• Dr Lynn Perry
• Elanor Kortland
• Joanna Munnelly
• MARK LEE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Martin Heath
• Neil Andrew Masom
• Nicola Quayle
• Rachel McMillan
• Richard Lloyd

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

Operates in: Stockport

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 CHESIL SAILING TRUST.

• THE CHESIL SAILING TRUST income £21k
• Royal Deaf Education Trust income £9.0m
• OAKHILL EDUCATION TRUST income £1.8m
• HAS TRUST income £52k
• READING EDUCATION TRUST income £1.1m
• SOUTH HILL CENTRE income £505k

Side by side with its peers

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