ROWAN HUMBERSTONE LIMITED

Registered charity 1099555 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Using the medium of ART Rowan endeavours to provide a safe, creative and unique environment where adults, with learning disabilities, under the direction of artists and craftspeople can grow artistically as well as in their abilities, confidence and self esteem, these being vital ingredients for independent living.

Objects

To advance the education of adults with learning disabilities through the provision of workshops and training in the creative arts and by providing access to artistic culture and nature. To promote and carry out any charitable purpose which supports adults with learning disabilities within the local community of Cambridgeshire and adjoining counties.

Area of benefit: WITHIN CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND ADJOINING COUNTIES

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £12,681 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £950,656 and expenditure of £937,975. The trustees report that unrestricted assets were £416,048, which exceeds the stated reserves policy target of four and a half months' expenditure, and they confirm the charity is a going concern.

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 4 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
• 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
• 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.

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

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (49% 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: 11.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/05/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/12/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Julie Brophychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christina Smith
• David McConnell
• Deborah Lauder
• Hannah-Ruth Garrett
• Jonathan Lewis McLaren Wilson

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Hertfordshire · Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

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• CAROUSEL PROJECT income £434k
• RAVEN ROW income £1.5m
• LODDON SOCIAL ENTERPRISE LTD income £194k
• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m
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Side by side with its peers

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