LAPWING SUFFOLK LIMITED

Registered charity 1136324 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide personalised learning opportunities to children and young people in East Anglia aged 4 - 25 years who are disadvantaged and/or experience complex barriers to learning. Lapwing aims to deliver holistic development through a highly personalised academic, vocational/work based and therapeutic provision, preparing students for re-entry or progression into education, employment or training.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £412,694, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £1,923,001. However, the trustees report that these reserves are below their stated policy target of approximately £2,396,036, representing six months of operating costs. The charity remains dependent on local authority funding, which constituted 92.4% of total income, but maintains sufficient liquidity with cash balances of £1,293,520 to meet short-term obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lovewell Blake LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07175060

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lapwing Education (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Will Fletcher — 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.

• BOOTHER, Thomas David — director, appointed 12/01/2024on trustee list
• QUANTRILL, Jessica Amy — director, appointed 14/07/2022on trustee list
• PERKINS, Lisa Jane — director, appointed 24/05/2019on trustee list
• MILLER, Kate — director, appointed 26/05/2016on trustee list
• JONES, Sophia Eve — director, appointed 02/03/2010on trustee list
• FLETCHER, William Geoffrey — secretary, appointed 11/10/2017

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — above the median 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kate Millerchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ellie Rose Allman
• Jessica Quantrill
• Lisa Jane Perkins
• SOPHIA EVE JONES
• Thomas David Boother

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Essex · Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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Side by side with its peers

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