Aspire Foundation

Registered charity 1155305 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GARDNERS LANE AND OAKWOOD FEDERATION

The Cheltenham and Tewksbury Children & Family Centres offer information and activities to support families and children ages 0-5. This support can help develop a families overall well-being. Specific activities include: breastfeeding support, baby and toddler activities, healthy eating advice, high quality nursery education, access to adult training and employment information.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £1,196,764, which exceeds the Directors' stated appropriate reserve level of £1,000,000. Per the trustees' report, the organization relies heavily on Gloucestershire County Council for funding but has secured a significant contract until 2029, providing medium-term financial stability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Julie Hunt — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Nia Thomas — Vice-Chair of Trustees (source)
• Melanie Hill — Organisation Strategic Lead (source)
• Maud McLoughlin — Family Support Services Strategic Lead (source)
• Sara Derbyshire — Early Years Strategic Lead (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-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CLAIRE PRICE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel Tarver
• Dr Nia Thomas
• Julie Hunt
• Lesley Molnar-Pleydell
• Oliver Tuck
• Sara Bennion

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASPIRE LIVING LIMITED.

• ASPIRE LIVING LIMITED income £11.4m
• THE FAMILY PLACE FOUNDATION income £224k
• THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION income £5.0m
• THE FAMILY CENTRE (DEAF CHILDREN) income £147k
• HOME-START ASHFORD & DISTRICT income £277k
• WEST CHADSMOOR FAMILY CENTRE LTD income £204k

Side by side with its peers

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