COQUET TRUST

Registered charity 1121062 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of quality domiciliary and day care for people with learning disabilities, enabling them to have, as far as possible, a good quality of life within the community.

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Latest income

£10.0m

Latest spending

£10.1m

Registered

2007

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a modest operational surplus of £148,254, though the overall result was a deficit of £42,999 due to expenditure from the designated Innovation Fund. Per the trustees' report, free reserves increased to £1,736,467, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain the charity's reserves policy target of three to six months' expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £80,001 - £90,000 — above the median for charities its size (£70k)

“The number of employees whose annual remuneration was more than £60,000 is as follows: £80,001 to £90,000 1” — page 26

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 1

“The number of employees whose annual remuneration was more than £60,000 is as follows: £80,001 to £90,000 1” — page 26

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: three and six month’s expenditure (held: £1.7m)

“It is the policy of the charity that unrestricted funds which have not been designated for a specific use should be maintained at a level equivalent to between three and six month’s expenditure.” — page 8

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

Gosforth-based disability charity the Coquet Trust marks 20 years of providing care chroniclelive.co.uk · 29/06/2015

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 06251078

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Coquet Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Victoria Neish — Chief Executive Officer (source)
Susan Scott — Head of Positive Behavioural Support (source)
Rachel Stokes — Head of HR (source)
Michelle Burrows — Head of Quality (source)
Amin Mazloom — Head of Business Development (source)
Chris Hutchinson — Head of Finance (source)
Victoria Cunningham — Head of Transformation & Innovation (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.

CARNABY, Steven Ronald — director, appointed 18/09/2025on trustee list
TITMUS, Andrew William — director, appointed 02/12/2022on trustee list
ROGERSON, Elizabeth Clare — director, appointed 22/06/2021on trustee list
ROWLAND, David Ian — director, appointed 22/06/2021on trustee list
TURNER, Sarah Jane — director, appointed 22/06/2021on trustee list
SMITH, Paul, Dr — director, appointed 22/06/2021on trustee list
GALE, Ian — director, appointed 22/06/2021on trustee list
WELSH, Susan — director, appointed 13/06/2008on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £1.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Coquet Trust — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 22/12/2020.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Total income

£10.0m

Total spending

£10.1m

Reserves (reported)

£1.7m

Employees

309

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 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 (100% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

Coquet Trust: Not Rated · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

Andrew Titmus
DAVID IAN ROWLAND
Dr PAUL SMITH
Elizabeth Clare Rogerson
IAN GALE
SUSAN WELSH
Sarah Turner
Steven Carnaby

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

Operates in: Gateshead · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland · South Tyneside

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£10.0m	£10.1m
31/03/2024	£9.0m	£9.1m
31/03/2023	£8.1m	£7.8m
31/03/2022	£7.3m	£7.3m
31/03/2021	£6.5m	£6.5m

Common questions

Is COQUET TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a modest operational surplus of £148,254, though the overall result was a deficit of £42,999 due to expenditure from the designated Innovation Fund. Per the trustees' report, free reserves increased to £1,736,467, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain the charity's reserves policy target of three to six months' expenditure. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Azets Audit Services.

What does the highest-paid employee of COQUET TRUST earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £80,001 - £90,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	02/11/2023	£10k	"Nature, Habitat and Heritage Project"
Northern Rock Foundation	13/12/2005	£90k	Grant awarded to Coquet Trust (Tyne & Wear)

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE ALBERT GUBAY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£374k
THE GERALD MICKLEM CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£227k
THE PATRICK & HELENA FROST FOUNDATION	1	£59k
THE HELEN ROLL CHARITY	1	£25k
DUCHY HEALTH CHARITY LIMITED	1	£20k
Army Benevolent Fund	1	£15k
THE REED FOUNDATION	1	£14k
THE EDWARD AND DOROTHY CADBURY TRUST	1	£10k

Charities like this

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

CITYCOAST TRUST income £467k
Cocoon Support Ltd income £3.6m
HF TRUST LIMITED income £85.0m
FAMILY CARE TRUST income £4.2m
Lingfield Beacon Trust income £342k
THE ORCHARD TRUST income £5.4m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
COQUET TRUST	£10.0m	£80,001 - £90,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
CITYCOAST TRUST FY2025	£467k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
Cocoon Support Ltd FY2025	£3.6m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
HF TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£85.0m	—	—	unclear	50.0%	material uncertainty
FAMILY CARE TRUST FY2025	£4.2m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
Lingfield Beacon Trust FY2025	£342k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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