THE SPRINGHEAD TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1112083 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPRINGHEAD

We introduce children to the countryside by organising residential school visits. We teach and encourage techniques and principles associated with a more sustainable way of life. We run rural craft courses.We open the garden and grounds to the public and hold garden tours and lectures.We hold art festivals, exhibitions and musical events

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE TO PROMOTE AND / OR SUPPORT ANY EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR CHARITABLE OBJECTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR DISCRETION SHALL THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of -£3,697 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £1,539,600. This balance is significantly above the charity's stated reserves policy target of £75,000. The trustees confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• IAN SCOTT
• Julian Charles Richards
• LEE VINCENT SMITH
• NIKOLAUS DAVID SEAN BOULTING

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

Operates in: Dorset

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SPRINGFIELD PROJECT.

• THE SPRINGFIELD PROJECT income £1.7m
• THE SPRINGBOARD CHARITY income £3.7m
• THE OTTERHEAD ESTATE TRUST COMPANY LIMITED income £30k
• WHIRLOW HALL FARM TRUST LIMITED income £1.7m
• COUNTRYSIDE LEARNING income £437k
• THE SPEARHEAD TRUST AT BELLS FARMHOUSE income £192k

Side by side with its peers

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