RUSKIN MILL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1137167 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141191014 · also known as R MILL LIMITED, RUSKIN MILL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED

Ruskin Mill Trust works with vulnerable children and young people that have learning disabilities and difficulties, including autistic spectrum disorders and developmental delay. Our pioneering approach has proved highly successful with specialist schools, colleges and adult social care provision operated by the wider Ruskin Mill Trust group, in England, Scotland and Wales.

Objects

The objects of the charity are, for the public benefit to:1. Advance the education and health of people with additional educational needs of any kind through training in the areas of arts, crafts, biodynamic agriculture and holistic sciences, a method known as Practical Skills Therapeutic Education and through provision of Holistic medical support and services, with particular reference being given to the indications and insights of Rudolf Steiner.2. Advance education in and promote research into the teaching, practice and development of specialist education and care through the method of Practical Skills Therapeutic Education or otherwise concerned with the indications and insights of Rudolf Steiner (provided that all such research findings will be widely disseminated); and3. To promote Rudolf Steiner educational establishments which advance education and health.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stroud, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group generated a consolidated surplus of £3,508,227 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income rising to £74.4 million. Per the trustees' report, the group's free reserves are £3,918,783, and the Trustees are satisfied that the group has sufficient free reserves to meet its obligations and future growth plans.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW); Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07252866

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ruskin Mill Trust (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.

• MCGAVIN, Johann, Dr — director, appointed 16/09/2024not on trustee list
• WRAGG, David Christopher — director, appointed 20/09/2021on trustee list
• FEARNLEY, James Townend — director, appointed 16/03/2020on trustee list
• COURT, Constantin — director, appointed 28/06/2019on trustee list
• VASSALL-ADAMS, Guy Luke — director, appointed 16/03/2018not on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS, Vivian Frederick Blenheim — director, appointed 16/06/2016on trustee list
• GORDON, Aonghus Coinn Huntly — director, appointed 04/10/2012on trustee list
• DANIELS, Anna-Marie Yvette — secretary, appointed 15/09/2025

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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.

CQC provider record: Ruskin Mill Trust Limited — Registered, 4 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 21/07/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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 (3.7%) (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).

• Freeman College: Good (14/09/2022) · CQC record
• Glasshouse College: Good (20/04/2022) · CQC record
• Ruskin Mill College: Good (23/10/2021) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aonghus Coinn Huntly Gordonchair · trustee of 8 other charities
• David Wragg · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Constantin Court · trustee of 4 other charities
• Dr Johannes McGavin
• Guy Vassall-Adams QC · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Margaret Kippax · trustee of 7 other charities
• James Townend Fearnley
• Lynne Griffin · trustee of 1 other charity
• VIVIAN FREDERICK BLENHEIM GRIFFITHS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Carmarthenshire · Darlington · Dudley · East Sussex · Gloucestershire · North Yorkshire · Pembrokeshire · Scotland · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• RUSKIN MILL LAND TRUST income £7.5m
• RUSKIN MILL CENTRE FOR RESEARCH income £41k
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Side by side with its peers

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