MOUNTLANDS TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 219215 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LIME TREE HOUSE, MOUNTLANDS, MOUNTLANDS TRUST (BOWDON) LIMITED

The operation of "Lime Tree House" which provides 24-hour Christian Science nursing care in a homely environment.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £3,027,945, significantly exceeding the stated policy target of six months' running expenses (around £400,000). The charity reported a net gain of £2,480,294 for the year, driven largely by donations and legacies of £3,100,787, resulting in total reserves increasing to £4,141,891.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00326093

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Julie Brearley — Christian Science Nursing Manager & Registered Manager (source)
• Steven Brearley — Administrator & Company Secretary (source)
• Courtenay Rule — Deputy Christian Science Nursing Manager (source)
• Wendy de la Harpe — Manager of Christian Science Nursing Education (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.

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.

• MORGAN, Anita Margaret — director, appointed 29/04/2025on trustee list
• PLUMMER, Hugh — director, appointed 10/11/2022on trustee list
• FRASER, Gillian Roma — director, appointed 02/07/2022on trustee list
• HOSSELL, Marian Joyce — director, appointed 14/12/2021on trustee list
• KENNEDY, Ruth Stella — director, appointed 09/06/2019on trustee list
• BREARLEY, Steven Norman — secretary, appointed 31/10/2007

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Mountlands Trust Limited — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 23/08/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/02/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~34.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% 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: 0.1% 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).

• Lime Tree House: Outstanding (29/12/2023) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/04/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RUTH STELLA KENNEDYchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anita Margaret Morgan
• Gillian Roma Fraser
• Hugh Plummer
• Marian Joyce Hossell

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

Operates in: Trafford

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LOTE TREE FOUNDATION.

• LOTE TREE FOUNDATION income £149k
• THE MULBERRY HOUSE MINISTRY TRUST income £122k
• RIVERTREE TRUST income £518k
• CAREDUCATION TRUST LTD income £133k
• MOUNTBATTEN HAMPSHIRE LIMITED income £8.7m
• THE LINDEN LODGE CHARITABLE TRUST income £314k

Side by side with its peers

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