LINDLEY EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 247662 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOLLOWFORD CENTRE, LINDLEY TRAINING

The Trust's mission is to release and empower people to develop their individual strengths. The Trust specialises in the development of young people with emphasis on experiential learning through the use of outdoor activities. A key focus is to indentify and develop interventions that benefit disaffected and vunerable young people.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £1,411,557, which is significantly higher than the stated reserves policy target of four months of base costs (approximately £3.8 months held). The charity reported a net surplus of £33,031 for the year and confirmed it is a going concern with sufficient resources to continue operations through June 2026.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hawsons Chartered Accountants. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lindley Educational Trust Ltd (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Paul Booker — Operations Manager (source)
• Claire McDonald — Staff Member (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Pricechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID HENDERSON
• DOUGLAS JONES
• JAMES MURRAY REYNOLDS
• KAREN LESLEY JONES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lisa Jane Mitchell
• TIMOTHY SOAR
• Thomas James Alisdair Curtis

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE LINDSELL FOUNDATION income £154k
• LONDON YOUTH SPORTS TRUST LIMITED income £199k
• LEYTON ORIENT TRUST income £1.6m
• THE HERON EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £1.6m
• WILLIAM PALMER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £260k
• EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £73.8m

Side by side with its peers

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