THE PAPWORTH TRUST

Registered charity 211234 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PAPWORTH, PAPWORTH TRUST

Papworth Trust helps disabled people achieve equality, choice and independence. Papworth Trust focuses its activities in seven areas: Home; Work: Employment; Rehabilitation; Leisure; and Involvement; Care.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that general reserves stood at £7.705m, which is above the trustees' target range of £4.3m to £6.6m, indicating a strong financial buffer. The trustees confirmed that adequate resources exist for the trust to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Whippet donates bus rear advertising space to Papworth Trust - route-one.net route-one.net · 22/06/2026
• Centenary Circle raises £17,000 for the Papworth Trust cambridgeindependent.co.uk · 11/05/2019
• Who’s Moving: Papworth Trust, Freedom from Torture, Target Ovarian Cancer and more civilsociety.co.uk · 19/03/2018
• Up and Coming: Vicky McDermott of the Papworth Trust thirdsector.co.uk · 15/08/2014
• Jimmy Doherty named as new ambassador for the Papworth Trust thirdsector.co.uk · 11/02/2014
• Wherstead: Jimmy Doherty of Jimmy’s Farm helps secure £2million for the Papworth Trust eadt.co.uk · 25/03/2013

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00148906

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Papworth Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Donna Covey — Interim CEO (source)
• Sarah Miller — CEO (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Whippet — “Papworth Trust is excited to share that Whippet have kindly gifted advertising space on the back of a bus running on their network across Ca…” (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.

• BURGOYNE, Deana Mary — director, appointed 05/11/2025on trustee list
• LAMB, Andrew James — director, appointed 05/11/2025on trustee list
• ADIE, Naomi — director, appointed 07/11/2024not on trustee list
• PATEL, Minesh Bharatbhai — director, appointed 07/11/2024on trustee list
• TOWLE, Adam Stewart — director, appointed 07/11/2024on trustee list
• HARDIMAN, Jack Ross David — director, appointed 25/10/2023on trustee list
• CARTER, Amy Rebecca Brook — director, appointed 26/10/2022on trustee list
• BERRY, Grazina — director, appointed 26/10/2022on trustee list
• ANDERSON, Michael Connelly — director, appointed 07/05/2020on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Andrew John — director, appointed 07/05/2020on trustee list
• STEWART, Brian West — director, appointed 23/05/2019not on trustee list
• STANISLAS, Vanessa Clare — director, appointed 23/11/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

153 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (120 freehold); recorded price paid £6.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Papworth Trust — Registered, 11 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 17/08/2018.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~23.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (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).

• Lowestoft Papworth Trust, Office 1&2: Good (28/09/2018) · CQC record
• Vange Place: Good (25/04/2018) · CQC record
• Ipswich: Outstanding (08/09/2018) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/10/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Stewart Towle
• Amy Carter
• Andrew John Williams
• Andrew Lamb
• BRIAN STEWART OBE
• Deana Burgoyne
• GRAZINA BERRY
• Jack Hardiman
• Michael Connelly Anderson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Minesh Bharatbhai Patel
• Naomi-Jayne Adie
• Vanessa Clare Stanislas

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 VARRIER-JONES FOUNDATION.

• THE VARRIER-JONES FOUNDATION income £2.2m
• ROYAL PAPWORTH HOSPITAL CHARITY income £1.9m
• THE SHAW TRUST LIMITED income £291.1m
• LIFE PATH TRUST LIMITED income £1.9m
• HELPING DISABILITIES TRUST income £131k
• THE PAPHITIS CHARITABLE TRUST income £172k

Side by side with its peers

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