WARREN HOUSE GROUP AT DARTINGTON

Registered charity 1099202 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC049621 (OSCR)

The Dartington Service Design Lab (Trading name of Charity) is an independent charity that brings science and evidence to bear on policy and practice in children's services to improve the health and development of children and young people.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS, ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE HEALTH OF NEEDY PERSONS, ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £86,094 for the year, reducing its unrestricted reserves from £990,431 to £904,337. The trustees state that these reserve levels cover more than the minimum required by their policy, which targets a minimum of 6 months of forecast expenditure. The accounts confirm the charity is well-placed to deliver its objectives and there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Westcotts (SW) LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tim Hobbs — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Hannah Stoddart — Chair of the Board of Trustees and Director (source)
• Dr Julie Harris — Director of Research and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (source)
• Arielle Garton — Director of Strategy, Partnerships and External Affairs (source)
• Laurence Jay — Director of Finance and Operations Designated Safeguarding Lead (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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

• Dr Maria Neophytou
• Dr Shivonne Marie Gates
• Eileen Fiona Clark · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hannah Catherine Stoddart
• Joel Ralph Glover
• Matthew Benedict Morris Kentridge
• Peter Jonathan Grigg

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

Operates in: Scotland

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DARTINGTON RECREATION ASSOCIATION.

• DARTINGTON RECREATION ASSOCIATION income £158k
• THE DARTINGTON HALL TRUST income £12.9m
• DARTINGTON CATTLE BREEDING TRUST income £250k
• THE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION income £1.4m
• DARTFORD AMATEUR OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY income £149k
• DESIGNABILITY CHARITY LIMITED income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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