GROWING WELL LIMITED

Registered charity 1182018 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GROWING WELL

To enable mental health and wellbeing, and reduce our beneficiaries' reliance on health services, through supported employment and training within an inspirational horticultural business.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND/OR SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILL HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING:- SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING- EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN HORTICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AND RELATED SUBJECTS - SUPPORT TO ENABLE BENEFICIARIES TO MANAGE THEIR MENTAL HEALTH AND REDUCE THEIR RELIANCE ON HEALTH SERVICES.”

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £302,216, driven by a 28% increase in overall income to £1,451,773. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £268,364, though this remains below the stated policy target of three months of expenditure. The charity reports adequate resources for going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11446092

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Growing Well (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Copeland Community Fund — “Major funders (£25,000 or more) Copeland Community Fund” (source page)
• CRH Charitable Trust — “Large grants (£5,000 or more) CRH Charitable Trust” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DUXBURY, Joy Ann, Professor — director, appointed 15/10/2024on trustee list
• SIMPER, Adrian Mark, Dr — director, appointed 15/10/2024on trustee list
• WATSON, Tessa Marie — director, appointed 28/09/2022on trustee list
• SHARP, James Edward — director, appointed 01/08/2022on trustee list
• WREN, Stewart Keith — director, appointed 18/07/2022on trustee list
• SMITH, Mary Isobel — secretary, appointed 01/01/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (90% 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: 7.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Adrian Simper
• James Edward Sharp
• Joy Duxbury
• Stewart Keith Wren
• Tessa Marie Watson

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Lancashire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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 THE GROWING SPACE (WINCANTON) LIMITED.

• THE GROWING SPACE (WINCANTON) LIMITED income £61k
• GROW FOR LIFE income £106k
• GROW ORGANISATION income £557k
• GROWING HOPE SOLENT income £81k
• BRIDEWELL ORGANIC GARDENS income £378k
• LINDENGATE income £434k

Side by side with its peers

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