THE SUTHERLAND CRANIAL COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY LIMITED

Registered charity 1152353 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Post graduate teaching of cranial osteopathy

Objects

TO ADVANCE AND FURTHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF GRADUATES AND UNDERGRADUATES AND PERSONS OTHERWISE QUALIFIED IN OSTEOPATHY, MEDICINE, DENTISTRY AND RELATED ARTS AND SCIENCES. IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY PROMOTING AND TEACHING THE PRINCIPLES OF OSTEOPATHY AS CONCEIVED BY ANDREW TAYLOR STILL AND DEVELOPED BY WILLIAM GARNER SUTHERLAND DISSEMINATING A GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS FOR OSTEOPATHY IN THE CRANIAL FIELD, ENCOURAGING PHYSICIANS; PROVIDING OSTEOPATHIC CLINICS AND STIMULATING CONTINUED STUDY FOR GREATER PROFICIENCY IN THE PRACTICE OF CRANIAL OSTEOPATHY IN ANY MANNER CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE IN THE ABSOLUTE DISCRETION OF THE DIRECTORS.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported an operating deficit and a net movement in funds of (£142,808), reducing its total net assets to £502,967. The Trustees acknowledge financial risks and have engaged consultants to implement a recovery plan aiming for a surplus by 2027/28, while maintaining sufficient reserves to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/10/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Neil Alexander Haydenchair
• Ana Bennett
• Andrew Rhys Mansfield
• Hadiati Poespodihardjo
• Katherine Susan Oliver
• Merna Louise Horthy
• Nicholas David Mountifield
• Stephan Cameron

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

Operates in: Germany · Gloucestershire · Scotland · Spain · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE OSTEOPATHIC FOUNDATION.

• THE OSTEOPATHIC FOUNDATION income £83k
• LONDON SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHY income £1.4m
• INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL OSTEOPATHY income £71k
• THE BRITISH NEUROPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £181k
• THE JOHN WERNHAM COLLEGE OF CLASSICAL OSTEOPATHY income £28k
• BCNO LIMITED income £3.7m

Side by side with its peers

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