ROCK UK ADVENTURE CENTRES LIMITED
Registered charity 1107724 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BARNABAS ADVENTURE CENTRES, BARNABAS ADVENTURE CENTRES LIMITED · also registered in Scotland as SC040118 (OSCR)
We are a Christian organisation that is passionate about developing young people, bringing adventure into learning in the outdoors, to transform lives.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Religious Activities · Amateur Sport · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported an adverse net movement of funds of £457,833 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds decreasing to £4,831,609. The trustees note that the charity failed to achieve one of the five measures in its revised reserves policy at year-end, although they maintain the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis due to strong balance sheet assets and ongoing banking support.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £4.8m)
“As at year-end, 31 August 2025 the Board considered that the Charity failed to achieve one of the five measures of the policy, achieving the other four, though at certain times during the year all of the tests were met.” — page 17
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Griffin Stone Moscrop & Co. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rock UK (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.
- WATTS, Brian David — director, appointed 13/10/2025on trustee list
- HAGON, Keith Martin — director, appointed 10/02/2025on trustee list
- HODGE, Simon Jonathan — director, appointed 17/07/2023on trustee list
- CHARLESWORTH, Rachel Paula — director, appointed 03/02/2021on trustee list
- FOOT, Nicola Dawn — director, appointed 12/07/2016on trustee list
- ELLIS, Huw Alwyn — director, appointed 26/04/2016on trustee list
- BELCHER, Alan David — director, appointed 02/07/2015on trustee list
- WOODING JONES, Margaret Jane — director, appointed 15/12/2011not on trustee list
- MACLEAN, Malcolm — secretary, appointed 31/03/2020
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£71k
Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (13/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is ROCK UK ADVENTURE CENTRES LIMITED financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported an adverse net movement of funds of £457,833 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds decreasing to £4,831,609. The trustees note that the charity failed to achieve one of the five measures in its revised reserves policy at year-end, although they maintain the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis due to strong balance sheet assets and ongoing banking support. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Griffin Stone Moscrop & Co.
Who funds ROCK UK ADVENTURE CENTRES LIMITED?
Funders whose own accounts filings name ROCK UK ADVENTURE CENTRES LIMITED as a grant recipient include WORLD DAY OF PRAYER NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR ENGLAND, WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND, THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED, THE DE BRYE CHARITABLE TRUST, THE NINEVEH CHARITABLE TRUST, THE HDH WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
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