ECKLING GRANGE LIMITED

Registered charity 251534 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Eckling Grange is a leading local provider of Christian care. It has a 60 room Residential and Dementia Care Home for the elderly, providing personal care and accommodation. 20 of the rooms have additional security, providing secure accommodation. It also provides integrated sheltered accommodation in its 54 bungalows, as well as domiciliary, respite and day care services.

Objects

(A) TO SUPPORT THOSE ELDERLY PERSONS (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE BENEFICIARIES") WHO BY REASON OF POVERTY OR OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES ARE IN NEED THEREFORE BY:(I) PROVIDING ACCOMMODATION AND PERSONAL CARE WITHIN THE RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME;(II) PROVIDING SPECIALLY DESIGNED OR ADOPTED HOUSING, DOMICILIARY CARE, AND OTHER SERVICES OR FACILITIES WITHIN SHELTERED ACCOMMODATION.(B) PROMOTING THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION

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 · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £74,374 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £1,848,820. The trustees confirm the organization is a going concern, citing high occupancy levels and a significant waiting list for bungalows as evidence of financial stability. Free reserves were held at £522,479, which the trustees consider comfortable against their policy target of two to three months' expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MA Partners Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

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

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00853423 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Graham Pickhaver — Chairman (source)
• Steven Edmunds — General Manager (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.

• HOWSON, Peter John — director, appointed 08/02/2024on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Timothy Mark, Dr — director, appointed 01/07/2022on trustee list
• CROSS, Rachel Elizabeth — director, appointed 16/08/2021on trustee list
• PENNINGTON, Richard William — director, appointed 02/07/2021on trustee list
• PICKHAVER, Graham William, Dr — director, appointed 22/02/2018on trustee list
• GODDARD, Philip David — director, appointed 23/11/2017on trustee list
• HAVERS, Heather — director, appointed 19/04/2013on trustee list

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: Eckling Grange Limited — Registered, 1 registered location, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 22/01/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 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 (99% 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).

• Eckling Grange: Good (02/03/2019) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• DR GRAHAM PICKHAVERchair
• Dr Timothy Mark Johnson
• HEATHER HAVERS
• PHILIP GODDARD
• Peter John Howson
• RICHARD William PENNINGTON · trustee of 8 other charities
• Rachel Elizabeth Cross

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

Common questions

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 HILLBROOK GRANGE RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME.

• HILLBROOK GRANGE RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME income £2.1m
• EOTHEN HOMES LIMITED income £6.5m
• THE CHRISTIAN CARE TRUST income £681k
• ALLANDALE CARE GROUP LIMITED income £1.6m
• HOYLAKE COTTAGE income £5.2m
• BROADENING CHOICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE income £10.0m

Side by side with its peers

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