LINDENGATE

Registered charity 1153868 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To improve people's mental health, physical health and wellbeing through the provision of nature based activities in horticulture, gardening, environmental conservation, heritage skills, arts and craft, woodworking and education.

Objects

TO ASSIST IN THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILLNESS OF ANY DESCRIPTION OR IN NEED OF REHABILITATION AS A RESULT OF SUCH ILLNESS, BY THE PROVISION OF HORTICULTURE AND GARDENING ACTIVITIES TO HELP THEM CHANGE THEIR LIVES.

Area of benefit: BUCKINGHAMSHIREHERFORDSHIREOXFORDSHIRE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £95,261 in 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year, with total income rising to £433,672. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £164,955, which aligns with the stated policy target of holding six months' operational expenditure. The filing confirms the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified by the independent examiner.

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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lindengate Charity (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (64% 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: 20.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Francis John Durdenchair
• Giles Flaxton
• Jane Susan Penton
• John Hartley Slaughter
• Roger Francis John Smith
• Sheila Elizabeth Bulpett · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Hertfordshire · Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m
• SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT income £63k
• PUDSEY WELLBEING CHARITY income £72k
• GUILD CARE income £27.5m
• LIFEGATE OUTREACH CENTRE income £264k
• GROWING WELL LIMITED income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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