THE RAMBLERS' ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1093577 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q14566957 · Wikipedia · also known as THE RA, THE RAMBLERS · also registered in Scotland as SC039799 (OSCR)

The Ramblers helps everyone, everywhere, enjoy walking and protects the places we all love to walk. We are the only charity dedicated to looking after paths and green spaces, leading walks, opening up new places to explore and encouraging everyone to get outside and discover how walking boosts your health and your happiness.

Objects

1. THE PROVISION AND PROTECTION OF FOOTPATHS AND OTHER WAYS OVER WHICH THE PUBLIC HAVE A RIGHT OF WAY OR ACCESS ON FOOT, INCLUDING THE PREVENTION OF OBSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY2. THE PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF THE BEAUTY OF THE COUNTRYSIDE AND OTHER AREAS BY SUCH LAWFUL MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING BY ENCOURAGING THE PROVISION, PRESERVATION AND EXTENSION OF PUBLIC ACCESS TO LAND ON FOOT3. THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR AND THE ORGANISING OF OPEN-AIR RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND IN PARTICULAR RAMBLING AND MOUNTAINEERING WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE INTENDED, NAMELY THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, AND IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE (INCLUDING HEALTH)4. ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUBJECTS RELATING TO ACCESS TO, AND THE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION OF, THE COUNTRYSIDE AND OF THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL PURSUITSTHE TRUSTEES MAY FURTHER THE OBJECTS PARTICULARLY BY HELPING ALL PERSONS TO A GREATER LOVE, KNOWLEDGE AND CARE OF THE COUNTRYSIDE AND URBAN OPEN SPACES, AND BY ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION IN WALKING FOR RECREATION AND AS A MEANS OF TRANSPORT.'

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 · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an operating surplus of £0.9m in 2024/25, with total net assets increasing to £8.3m. Per the trustees' report, the organisation maintains a strong financial position with liquid reserves of £5.4m, which are within the stated policy target range of £2.34m to £3.34m for general funds.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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)

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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).

• Walk of the Week: Fabulous Farley Mount with The Ramblers’ Association dailyecho.co.uk · 21/02/2026
• Walk of the Week: Explore Itchen Valley Villages with The Ramblers’ Association dailyecho.co.uk · 06/09/2025
• Menston resident elected chair of West Riding Area Ramblers' Association ilkleygazette.co.uk · 06/02/2025
• These are the walks the Ramblers' Association will organise in May timesofmalta.com · 03/05/2024
• Ramblers Association volunteers thanked for help improving footpath network bedfordindependent.co.uk · 13/03/2023
• Ramblers’ Association resumes its walks timesofmalta.com · 25/09/2022
• ‘The system is completely broken, works in favour of illegal development’ – Ramblers Association theshiftnews.com · 21/04/2022
• Scouts deputy CEO takes top job at Ramblers Association charitytimes.com · 18/03/2022

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: RAMBLERS' ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 03033217
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04458492

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Ramblers (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• MCLAREN, Robin Alexander, Dr — director, appointed 25/04/2026on trustee list
• REDDICK, Yvonne Jennifer — director, appointed 25/04/2026on trustee list
• ORBAN, Florence Claude Catherine — director, appointed 25/04/2026on trustee list
• LEWIS, Tina — director, appointed 15/07/2025on trustee list
• GEE, Janet Elizabeth — director, appointed 05/04/2025on trustee list
• LAVENSTEIN, Mark James — director, appointed 05/04/2025on trustee list
• EVANS, Kelly Louise — director, appointed 17/05/2024on trustee list
• KASPROWSKI, Joerg Heinz — director, appointed 20/04/2024on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Graham Charles — director, appointed 20/04/2024on trustee list
• FIRMAGER, Daniel Jordan — director, appointed 12/04/2022on trustee list
• REHMAN, Gulshun — director, appointed 11/04/2022on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Lucy Isobel — director, appointed 17/04/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles 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 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lucy Isobel Robinsonchair
• Christopher Hodgson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel Jordan Firmager
• Florence Orban
• Graham Taylor
• Gulshun Rehman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janet Elizabeth Gee
• Joerg Heinz Kasprowski
• Kelly Louise Evans
• Mark James Lavenstein
• Robin Alexander McLaren
• Tina Lewis
• Yvonne Jennifer Reddick

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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

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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 RAMBLERS HOLIDAYS CHARITABLE TRUST.

• RAMBLERS HOLIDAYS CHARITABLE TRUST income £128k
• LIVING STREETS (THE PEDESTRIANS ASSOCIATION) income £6.0m
• THE STRAGGLERS RUNNING CLUB income £130k
• HAGLEY RAMBLERS SCOUT GROUP income £35k
• THE WALKER 597 TRUST income £63k
• SMALLEY ROAD RUNNERS income £26k

Side by side with its peers

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