LAMBOURNE END LTD

Registered charity 1105063 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LAMBOURNE END OUTDOOR CENTRE

A Centre for outdoor learning running personal development programmes aimed at developing confidence, raising self-esteem, building team work, learning new skills and inspiring people to fulfil their potential. Challenging them to look at, the way in which they view themselves, the world in which they live and the people with whom they share it, in a safe, welcoming stimulating environment.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.3m
Latest spending
£1.4m
Registered
2004
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £74,830 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year, driven by increased expenditure on staffing and inflationary pressures. Despite the deficit, the trustees consider the charity to be in a healthy financial position with unrestricted reserves of £1,122,094, which significantly exceeds their stated policy target of six months' expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months' expenditure (held: £1.1m)
“The Company’s reserves policy is aimed at building reserves to a level of six months’ expenditure” — page 11
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Clemence Hoar Cummings. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lambourne End Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Total income
£1.3m
Total spending
£1.4m
Cost of raising funds
£57k
Reserves (reported)
£500k
Employees
32

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 4.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.3m£1.4m
31/03/2024£1.3m£1.2m
31/03/2023£1.4m£1.0m
31/03/2022£1.1m£894k
31/03/2021£890k£675k

Common questions

Is LAMBOURNE END LTD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £74,830 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year, driven by increased expenditure on staffing and inflationary pressures. Despite the deficit, the trustees consider the charity to be in a healthy financial position with unrestricted reserves of £1,122,094, which significantly exceeds their stated policy target of six months' expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Clemence Hoar Cummings.

Who funds LAMBOURNE END LTD?

Funders whose own accounts filings name LAMBOURNE END LTD as a grant recipient include THE NINEVEH CHARITABLE TRUST, SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, TALLOW CHANDLERS BENEVOLENT FUND NO 2, CHARLES S FRENCH CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England08/01/2026£15kObstacle Course
The National Lottery Community Fund15/12/2023£20kULEZ compliant transport
Sport England21/03/2022£13kStorm 22 - Rebuild Archery Shelter
The National Lottery Community Fund25/04/2019£10kReaching Out; Involving the Community
The National Lottery Community Fund20/01/2016£10kLambourne End Consultation and Development and Business Plan

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HILL END OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTRE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
LAMBOURNE END LTD£1.3m—0unclear—no doubt
HILL END OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTRE FY2025£738k—0unclear—no doubt
PATCHWORK PROJECT FY2025£263k—0unclear—no doubt
LIVE AND LEARN FY2024£984k—0unclear—no doubt
MOORDOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2024£126k—0within—no doubt
GRENVILLE HOUSE OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTRE FY2025£534k—0below—no doubt

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