HORATIO'S GARDEN

Registered charity 1151475 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC045386 (OSCR)

After the devastation of a spinal injury, the future can seem bleak. Horatio's Garden creates and runs beautiful vibrant gardens beside NHS spinal injury rehabilitation centres. places where people can begin to find connection, enjoyment and calm. Where life goes on.

Objects

To meet the particular, but not exclusively, the needs of people with spinal injuries by:3.1 Creating outdoor spaces called Horatio’s Gardens which are places of tranquillity and beauty at spinal treatment centres 3.2 Maintaining and improving Horatio’s Gardens 3.3 Supporting people with spinal injuries and their friends and relatives to enable them to use Horatio's Gardens 3.4 Facilitating events especially in Horatio’s Gardens for people with spinal injuries their friends' relatives and carers and for volunteers and staff at the spinal treatment centres 3.5 Training and supporting staff and volunteers who care for people with spinal injuries 3.6 Conducting research, gathering and disseminating information and working to raise awareness and further understanding as to the benefits of gardens and accessible design in health care settings, including consulting with and for third parties.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved its highest-ever income of £3,617,726 and reported a surplus of £1,009,283 for the year. Free reserves of £976,376 are held, which the trustees confirm are within their stated policy target range of six to eight months' operating expenditure. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Horatio's Garden (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Katie Tait — CEO (source)
• Dr Olivia Chapple OBE EMH — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Julia Dustan — Finance Director (source)
• Bethan Cummings — Director of Fundraising & Events (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles 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 30/04/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (90% 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: 15.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Wareing DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID CHAPPLE FRCS
• Dr OLIVIA CHAPPLE
• Hattie Ghaui
• JAMES ALEXANDER-SINCLAIR
• JOHN YALLOP
• RICHARD GRAINGER
• VICTORIA HOLTON

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• HOXTON HEALTH income £206k
• HORTICARE income £106k
• MARTINEAU GARDENS income £243k
• SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY GARDENS income £134k
• GROWING WELL LIMITED income £1.5m
• THE GROWING SPACE (WINCANTON) LIMITED income £61k

Side by side with its peers

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