Ridgegate Home

Registered charity 204859 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RIDGEGATE HOME FOR OLD PEOPLE

To provide a residential care home for the elderly

Objects

TO PROVIDE A HOME FOR ELDERLY OR INDIGENT PEOPLE WHO ON ACCOUNT OF ILL HEALTH AGE OR FOR OTHER REASONS ARE UNABLE TO MAINTAIN THEMSELVES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Reigate and Banstead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£1.0m
Latest spending
£1.0m
Registered
1962
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an overall surplus of £8,459 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £752,468. The trustees confirm that assets are sufficient to meet current obligations and allow the charity to continue with its objectives on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by GBJ Financial Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ridgegate Home (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

CQC provider record: Ridgegate Home — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 28/02/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Total income
£1.0m
Total spending
£1.0m
Reserves (reported)
£752k
Employees
29

Reported reserves equal ~8.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.0m£1.0m
31/03/2024£1.1m£985k
31/03/2023£811k£935k
31/03/2022£903k£902k
31/03/2021£983k£950k

Common questions

Is Ridgegate Home financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved an overall surplus of £8,459 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £752,468. The trustees confirm that assets are sufficient to meet current obligations and allow the charity to continue with its objectives on a going concern basis. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by GBJ Financial Limited.

Who funds Ridgegate Home?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Ridgegate Home as a grant recipient include THE SIR EDWARD LEWIS FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE SIR EDWARD LEWIS FOUNDATIONFY2022£4kSupport for people with learning disabilities

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 CHARITY OF ROGER REEDE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
Ridgegate Home£1.0m—0unclear—no doubt
CHARITY OF ROGER REEDE FY2025£381k—0unclear—no doubt
ROBERT BIRD COTTAGE HOMES CHARITY FY2025£33k—0above—no doubt
BISHOP CREIGHTON HOUSE SETTLEMENT FY2025£845k—0above—no doubt
FAIRFIELD RESIDENTIAL HOME FY2025£2.8mmore than £60,0001unclear—no doubt
RICHARDSON HOMES FY2026£49k——unclear—no doubt

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