THE BEVERN TRUST

Registered charity 1103520 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEVERN VIEW

The Bevern Trust is a Christian trust founded by parents to provide long stay care and short stay care in a safe, loving and stimulating environment for young people with complex needs arising from profound learning disabilities and other impairments (physical, sensory and communicative).

Objects

1. THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH LEARNING, PHYSICAL, MENTAL OR OTHER FORM OF DISABILITY BY THE PROVISION OF RESIDENTIAL HOMES, HOLIDAY FACILITIES AND MEDICAL CARE2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PERSONS WHO RESIDE AT BEVERN VIEW 3. THE PROMOTION OF AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES OF LEARNING DIFFICULTIES/DISABILITY; THEIR NEEDS AND THE SUPPORT OF SUCH PEOPLE (AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF THE SAME).

Area of benefit: FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, PARTICULARLY RESIDENTS OF BEVERN VIEW, SUSSEX.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lewes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The Bevern Trust reported an operating surplus of £89,930 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted liquid reserves standing at £691,212. This reserve level is significantly above the trustees' stated policy target of £203,000, which is designed to cover working capital, income gaps, and healthcare contingencies. The charity maintains a strong balance sheet with net assets of £2,078,836 and 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 TC Group. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04993720 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Bevern Trust (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.

• RUSSELL-VICK, Christine Dawn — director, appointed 25/09/2025on trustee list
• MAIN, James Douglas — director, appointed 13/03/2024on trustee list
• MUNDY, Paul Kevin, Reverend — director, appointed 20/12/2019on trustee list
• ADAMSON, Benetta Sara Yolande Kinloch — director, appointed 28/09/2016on trustee list
• SCHUELER, Sandra Elizabeth — director, appointed 09/03/2016on trustee list
• HOUSTON, Nicholas James Findlay — director, appointed 09/04/2014on trustee list
• FROST, Peter George Ashfield, Doctor — director, appointed 12/12/2003on trustee list
• HOUSTON, Nicholas James Findlay — secretary, appointed 30/05/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £560k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Bevern Trust — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 14/02/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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).

• Bevern View: Good (14/09/2018) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicholas Houstonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• BENETTA SARA YOLANDE KINLOCH ADAMSON
• Christine Dawn Russell-Vick
• Dr PETER FROST
• James Douglas Main
• Rev Paul Mundy
• SANDRA ELIZABETH SCHUELER

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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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Side by side with its peers

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