SCRUBDITCH CARE FARM

Registered charity 1153460 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We advance the education of adults and young people with learning difficulties, challenging behaviours, or mental health problems through the provision of training and experience in agriculture, horticulture and other related skills. We develop the capacity and skills of the beneficiaries so they are better able to identify and help meet their needs and to participate more fully in society.

Objects

(1) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF ADULTS AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES, CHALLENGING BEHAVIOURS, OR MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS ("THE BENEFICIARIES") THROUGH THE PROVISION OF TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE IN AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND OTHER RELATED SKILLS;(2) DEVELOPING THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE BENEFICIARIES IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY;

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £424,188, which exceeds the trustees' stated reserves policy target of nine months' running costs. The charity reported a net income surplus of £10,417 for the year, supported by diverse income streams including student fees, donations, and grants.

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 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08399833 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• YAP, Toby — director, appointed 03/11/2025on trustee list
• BEADLE, Alison — director, appointed 03/03/2025on trustee list
• ANGUS, Nicolas William — director, appointed 20/10/2022not on trustee list
• CHARNLEY, Tristram — director, appointed 20/10/2022on trustee list
• COSTLEY-WHITE, Emma Frances — director, appointed 12/02/2013on trustee list
• COSTLEY-WHITE, Michael Alexander — director, appointed 12/02/2013not on trustee list

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicholas Angus Mrchair
• Alison Beadle
• EMMA COSTLEY-WHITE
• Julian Paul Wraight
• Toby Yap · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tristram Charnley · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONGMEAD COMMUNITY FARM LIMITED.

• LONGMEAD COMMUNITY FARM LIMITED income £77k
• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m
• SCROPTON RIDING FOR THE DISABLED CENTRE income £340k
• MORE EDUCATION income £531k
• FarmAbility income £541k
• GRADBACH SCOUT CAMP income £124k

Side by side with its peers

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