STEPPING STONES LEARNING AND LEISURE

Registered charity 1174850 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

STEPPING STONES PROVIDES A RANGE OF MUCH NEEDED EDUCATION AND LEISURE CLASSES FOR ADULTSWITH LEARNING DISABILITIES, ENABLING AN OFTEN NEGLECTED SECTION OF THECOMMUNITY TO WORK FROM A BASE WHERE THEY CAN MAKE NEW FRIENDS AND BUILD THEIRSKILLS. THE CLASSES PROMOTE HEALTH & HYGIENE; EXERCISE & FITNESS; THE ARTS, SKILLS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING AND SELF-DEVELOPMENT.

Objects

1) TO RELIEVE PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES RESIDENT IN SOUTHWARK AND NEIGHBOURING BOROUGHS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WHO ARE IN NEED, BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND SUPPORT AND SERVICES THAT ARE SPECIALLY DESIGNED TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PERSONS.2) TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONGST PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN SOUTHWARK AND NEIGHBOURING BOROUGHS, WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY BECAUSE THEY FACE DISCRIMINATION, OR ARE UNABLE TO EASILY DRIVE, USE PUBLIC TRANSPORT OR OTHERWISE ACCESS SERVICES.3) TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST THE PUBLIC OF THE RESTRICTIONS FACING THOSE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AND PROVISION OF SERVICES THROUGH WHICH THIS CAN BE ALLEVIATED.4) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF SOUTHWARK AND NEIGHBOURING BOROUGHS THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE,IN PARTICULAR, BY:PROVIDING CLASSES AND ACTIVITIES IN SUBJECTS INCLUDING DRAMA, COOKING, ART, MUSIC, KEEP FIT, GARDENING, DANCE AND WALKING GROUP (AND OTHER SUBJECTS WHICH ARE DRIVEN BY THE NEEDS AND WISHES TO THE ADULTS WHO ATTEND) THAT ENABLE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LEARNING DISABILITIES TO INTERACT SOCIALLY IN ORDER TO REDUCE SOCIAL ISOLATION AND PARTICIPATE MORE EFFECTIVELY IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a small surplus for the year, with total income of £80,165 and expenditure of £77,068. Unrestricted reserves stood at £45,320, which the trustees noted was below their stated policy target of maintaining at least one year’s operating costs. The accounts state the charity remains financially stable and confident in its future sustainability due to supportive funding relationships.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Annika Agnello
• Avery Jayne Benton
• David Cleverly
• David Keaveney-Sheath
• Dr Juliette Claire Wratten · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elena Verigo
• Lynn Bransby
• SALLY REID

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

Operates in: Bromley · Croydon · Lambeth · Lewisham · Southwark

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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• STEPPING STONES COLLABORATION FOR RECOVERY AND WELLBEING income £228k
• STEPPING STONES COMMUNITY ORGANISATION income £780k
• STEPPING STONES PRE-SCHOOL LEVERINGTON income £125k
• STEPPING STONES PRE-SCHOOL, LITTLEPORT income £221k
• STEPPING STONES OF CHESTER income £246k
• STEPPING STONES PRE-SCHOOL (DURSLEY) income £97k

Side by side with its peers

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