CPOTENTIAL TRUST

Registered charity 1124524 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q127608718 · also known as CPOTENTIAL, THE LONDON CENTRE FOR CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY, THE PETER RIGBY TRUST · filing overdue (register status)

CPotential Trust (formerly the London Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy) provides life-changing therapies and support for children with movement disorders due to conditions such as cerebral palsy. Services include conductive education, rebound therapy, music therapy, "learning for living" sessions, Mollii suit assessments, support and information for parents and outreach.

Objects

TO RELIEVE ANY CHARITABLE NEED FOR PERSONS WITH LEARNING, PHYSICAL, COMMUNICATION AND SENSORY DISABILITIES AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, FOR THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Haringey, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £179,718 for the year ended 31 December 2024, a significant improvement from the £593,197 deficit in 2023, largely due to a £294,872 gain from the sale of a property. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £242,246, which exceeds the stated policy target of £120,000, and the trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

Insolvency history (Companies House)

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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
• 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 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/12/2022 (received 17/04/2024, 170 days after the 30/10/2023 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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

• Trading subsidiary: CPOTENTIAL TRADING LIMITED Companies House 05544962
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05848363 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CPotential (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.

• CLARK, Kevin Alexander — director, appointed 15/12/2025on trustee list
• HAMMETT, Timothy John — director, appointed 01/09/2019on trustee list
• GILBERT, Christopher John — director, appointed 23/06/2015on trustee list
• SEDDON, Catharine Jane — director, appointed 31/03/2010on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £1.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (35% 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: 8.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHARINE SEDDON
• Christopher John Gilbert
• Emily Farruku
• Kevin Alexander Clark
• TIMOTHY JOHN HAMMETT

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Essex · Hertfordshire · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• ENHANCEABLE income £3.1m
• Cerebral Palsy Cymru income £1.7m
• HEEL AND TOE LTD income £961k
• THE PACE CENTRE LTD income £4.0m
• UP - UNLOCKING POTENTIAL income £3.2m
• CEREBRAL PALSY PLUS income £225k

Side by side with its peers

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