THE ROSSENDALE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1146771 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ROSSENDALE TRUST

Provider of Supported Living Services (including support with leisure/learning activities), within the Cheshire & Buxton areas across 9 sites. Also provision of day activities through our Oakwood Day Service.

Objects

(1)THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH LEARNING AND / OR PHYSICAL DISABILITIES (OR BOTH) INCLUDING:A)THE PROVISION OF RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATIONB)THE PROVISION OF DAY CARE FACILITIESC)THE PROVISION OF A DAY SERVICED)BY SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS IN SUPPORTED LIVING ARRANGEMENTSE)OR IN SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT(2)THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY THE PROVISION OF RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION OR IN SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT;

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Cheshire East, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a total surplus of £258,445 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by a gain on the revaluation of an investment property. The trustees report that free unrestricted reserves stood at £217,158, which is above their stated policy target of four weeks of expenditure. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Harts Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 30/04/2026, 89 days after the 31/01/2026 due date).

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

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07921722 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Rossendale 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.

• CREWDSON, Michael Paul — director, appointed 18/02/2026on trustee list
• RUTLEY, David — director, appointed 24/01/2025on trustee list
• GAFFNEY, Sarah Ruth — director, appointed 08/11/2024on trustee list
• AINLEY, Richard Thomas Lano — director, appointed 23/09/2024on trustee list
• BEVAN, Rosalind Elizabeth — director, appointed 08/03/2024on trustee list
• ROCKETT, Andrew Jack — director, appointed 15/08/2022on trustee list
• WARD, John Edward — director, appointed 24/01/2022on trustee list
• POYNTON, Ian Michael — director, appointed 12/05/2021on trustee list
• SCHOFIELD, Adam — director, appointed 12/05/2021on trustee list
• GODDARD, Marion — director, appointed 27/05/2014on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Philip Andrew — director, appointed 25/03/2014on trustee list
• HARWOOD, Margaret — director, appointed 27/03/2013not on trustee list

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)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £815k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Rossendale Trust Limited — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 08/05/2019. CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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).

• Rossendale Hall: Good (31/05/2019) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/05/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Schofieldchair
• Andrew Jack Rockett
• David Rutley
• Ian Michael Poynton
• John Ward
• MAGGIE HARWOOD
• MARION GODDARD
• Michael Paul Crewdson
• Philip Andrew Richards · trustee of 2 other charities
• Richard Thomas Lano Ainley
• Rosalind Elizabeth Bevan
• Sarah Ruth Gaffney

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Derbyshire

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 HOSPICE IN ROSSENDALE.

• HOSPICE IN ROSSENDALE income £1.1m
• THE ROSENFELD CHARITABLE TRUST income £47k
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Side by side with its peers

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