THE RAMBLERS' ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1093577 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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.

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 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
• Water walking programme by Ramblers' Association timesofmalta.com · 29/07/2019

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 (3.8%) (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

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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
• SOUTH WEST COAST PATH ASSOCIATION income £1.1m
• THE LAKE DISTRICT SEARCH AND MOUNTAIN RESCUE ASSOCIATION income £430k
• SCARBOROUGH AND RYEDALE MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM income £159k
• RUTHERFORD ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB income £305k

Side by side with its peers

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