LITTLE GATE FARM

Registered charity 1153584 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LITTLE GATE CARE FARM, Little Gate

Little Gate is a charity providing a skills and training program for learning disabled & Autistic adults and young people who want to go into paid work through supported employment. We also provide respite through our holiday club for children with learning disabilities and difficulties.

Objects

TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY 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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rother, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £245,493 for the year ended 31 August 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Per the trustees' report, total funds carried forward were £417,873, with unrestricted reserves of £375,158 held for general expenditure. The trustees confirmed sufficient financial resources to continue operations for at least the next 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ashdown Hurrey Auditors Limited. 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Little Gate Farm (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Andrea Randall-Smith — Chief Executive (source)
• John Hassell — Chair (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Jane Jagot
• JOHN ANTHONY HASSELL OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Leigh Barry Bennett
• Sonia Blizzard

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GATEWAY INTO THE COMMUNITY.

• GATEWAY INTO THE COMMUNITY income £843k
• LITTLE TREASURES income £65k
• GATE TRUST LIMITED income £30k
• LONGMEAD COMMUNITY FARM LIMITED income £77k
• LITTLE VILLAGE LEARNERS AND FUN TRACK income £322k
• THE GARDEN GATE PROJECT LTD income £158k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.