TURNING THE RED LIGHTS GREEN

Registered charity 1112429 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RED2GREEN

The charity's objects are to increase opportunities in education, training, work and leisure for people with disabilities and special needs and their carers in South and East Cambridgeshire

Objects

(I) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION AND RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND SPECIAL NEEDS AND THEIR CARERS, PRIMARILY IN SOUTH AND EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE.(II) TO PROMOTE INSOFAR AS IS CHARITABLE UNDER ENGLISH LAW THE WELFARE OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WHETHER PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITIES OR LEARNING DIFFICULTIES BY PROMOTING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUCH PEOPLE IN INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE

Area of benefit: SOUTH AND EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £68,547 against a stated policy target of £182,876, indicating reserves are below the trustees' own target. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, and the independent auditor confirmed no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 04/02/2023, 4 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05485413 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Elizabeth Taylor — Chief Executive Officer (source)

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.

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.

• LEWIS, Philip Edgar — director, appointed 29/01/2026on trustee list
• TUFFNELL, Robert Andrew — director, appointed 26/09/2025on trustee list
• KIMBERLEY, Beka Tara — director, appointed 31/07/2025on trustee list
• MESSINGER, Aelein — director, appointed 15/05/2025on trustee list
• CONSTANTINE, Sian Rebecca Danielle — director, appointed 28/10/2022on trustee list
• LANE, Philip Ernest John — director, appointed 20/05/2021on trustee list
• BULLMAN, Hobson, Dr — director, appointed 26/01/2018on trustee list
• HAINS, Peter — director, appointed 10/06/2013on trustee list
• MILLER, Jane — director, appointed 20/07/2011on trustee list
• KIRK, Anthony James — director, appointed 31/03/2010on trustee list
• PEELING, Frederick Charles — director, appointed 26/10/2005on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Elizabeth Frances Rachel — secretary, appointed 22/10/2021

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 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 (84% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aelein Messinger
• Beka Tara Kimberley
• Dr Hobson Bullman
• FREDERICK CHARLES PEELING
• PETER HAINS
• Philip Edgar Lewis
• Philip Ernest John Lane
• Robert Andrew Tuffnell
• Sian Constantine

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GARY KESNER TRUST.

• GARY KESNER TRUST income £163k
• RIDING LIGHTS income £455k
• THE REDLYNCH CHARITABLE TRUST income £37k
• Cambridgeshire Deaf Association income £1.4m
• SIGNIFICANCE income £53k
• READING FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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