PATHMAKERS (CIO)

Registered charity 1161475 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IMPROVING COUNTRYSIDE ACCESS TOGETHER, IMPROVING COUNTRYSIDE ACCESS TOGETHER IN NORFOLK (ICAT NORFOLK), IMPROVING NORFOLK'S LOCAL ACCESS, INOLA, PATHMAKERS

Pathmakers was set up by the Norfolk Local Access Forum to make improvements to countryside access in Norfolk. Pathmakers will develop the access network, particularly for those not currently using it, seeking funding to make improvements on the ground and benefiting communities and the environment.

Objects

1) For the public benefit, the advancement of health and wellbeing of residents of, and visitors to Norfolk and adjacent areas by promoting, raising awareness of, improving and creating countryside access for outdoor recreation in the area of Norfolk and adjacent areas.2) For the public benefit, the advancement of improvement to the environment in Norfolk and adjacent areas for the benefit of residents of, and visitors to Norfolk and adjacent areas by the promotion of, assisting and organising projects to conserve and improve the environment.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Breckland, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £25,684.64 for the year, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £52,422.34. This figure significantly exceeds the trustees' stated working reserve target of £5,000. The accounts were examined by an independent examiner who confirmed the arithmetic correctness and bank balances.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 07/02/2024, 7 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Pathmakers CiO (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Auger
• John Martin Jones
• Kate MacKenzie
• MARTIN SULLIVAN
• Paul Donald Cowley
• Sarah Abercrombie
• Simon Fowler · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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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 PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE LTD.

• PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE LTD income £2.3m
• WAYMAKER INTERNATIONAL income £207k
• DESIGNERMAKERS CIO income £29k
• Pathways Church income £48k
• MAKING IT OUT CIO income £207k
• DEROCHIM PATHWAYS income £90k

Side by side with its peers

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