FUSION MAIDSTONE

Registered charity 1115338 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PARK WOOD PLUS, PARK WOOD PLUS MAIDSTONE

The provision of advice, information, activities and training based around healthy living.

Objects

To promote for the benefit of the inhabitants of Park Wood and the wider Maidstone area the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financil hardship or social an economic cirumstances or for the public at large in the interests of health, social welfare and community support capacity and with the object of improving the conditions of life of the said inhabitants.

Area of benefit: PARK WOOD

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

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

Latest income
£332k
Latest spending
£258k
Registered
2006
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £223,836, with unrestricted reserves at £171,102, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of a minimum £65,000. The charity reported a net income surplus of £74,068 for the year, though the trustees note an uncertain future due to decreasing funding opportunities.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 60
  • Government income: £47,600 — contracts £38,800 (1), grants £8,800 (3); 14% of the £331,653 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 40
  • Government income: £60,550 — contracts £60,550 (1); 24% of the £251,699 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 70
  • Government income: £75,050 — contracts £75,050 (2); 42% of the £180,803 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

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.

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): facebook

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£332k£258k
31/03/2024£252k£218k
31/03/2023£181k£180k
31/03/2022£159k£158k
31/03/2021£140k£141k

Common questions

Is FUSION MAIDSTONE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total funds increased to £223,836, with unrestricted reserves at £171,102, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of a minimum £65,000. The charity reported a net income surplus of £74,068 for the year, though the trustees note an uncertain future due to decreasing funding opportunities. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds FUSION MAIDSTONE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name FUSION MAIDSTONE as a grant recipient include THE COLYER-FERGUSSON CHARITABLE TRUST, THE PHILIP AND CONNIE PHILLIPS FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE COLYER-FERGUSSON CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£38k
THE PHILIP AND CONNIE PHILLIPS FOUNDATIONFY2025£5kUnrestricted

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England26/08/2025£12kThe PACE Project - Parkwood Accessible Chair Exercise
The National Lottery Community Fund19/02/2025£19kPark Wood Community Table
Sport England21/06/2024£13kSit Down Work Out
The National Lottery Community Fund29/02/2024£281kPark Wood Connects
Sport England27/03/2023£4kChair Exercise
The National Lottery Community Fund30/08/2018£10kResilient Families
The National Lottery Community Fund26/10/2016£8kFamily Friendly Fusion
The National Lottery Community Fund07/02/2013£6kBreaking Barriers to Learning

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 FUSION UK.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
FUSION MAIDSTONE£332k—0unclear—no doubt
FUSION UK FY2025£950k—0above—no doubt
FUSION PLUS FY2025£140k£39,5000unclear—no doubt
FUSION HEALTH AND WELL BEING FY2025£402k—0above—no doubt
UNITEDLIFE FY2025£297k—0unclear—no doubt
MAIDSTONE COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTRE FY2025£386k—0unclear—no doubt

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