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.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £40,844 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total funds of £134,954. The trustees' reserves policy targets six months' day-to-day expenditure, whereas the actual unrestricted reserves were £27,655. Per the trustees' report, restructuring measures implemented in Q4 2024 helped bring expenditure in line with income, with income exceeding expenditure in the final three months of the year.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

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 7.0 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 2.9%) (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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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).