PLYMOUTH HIGHBURY TRUST

Registered charity 252165 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PLYMOUTH SOCIETY FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED, PLYMOUTH SOCIETY FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN

Relieveing poverty, the education and religion of people with Learning Disabilities in the City of Plymouth

Objects

TO RELIEVE, ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF AND ADVANCE RELIGION AMONG THE LEARNING DISABLED LIVING IN AND AROUND PLYMOUTH, DEVON.

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: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Plymouth, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's financial position remains sound, with total unrestricted reserves of £1,236,849 and liquid reserves of £545,135, which equates to just over four months of running costs. The trustees report that the group achieved a net incoming resource surplus of £129,536 for the year, supported by charitable activity income of £1,477,623. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the group's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Westcotts (SW) LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05554535
• Trading subsidiary: PLYMOUTH SUPPORTED LIVING LIMITED Companies House 06958521 · Financial health read from its filings

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

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.

• WALLIS, Stephen Paul — director, appointed 18/09/2024on trustee list
• KNIGHT, John — director, appointed 20/07/2022on trustee list
• PEARSON, Victoria Joan — director, appointed 18/05/2022on trustee list
• STEWART, Matthew — director, appointed 18/05/2022on trustee list
• BRANTON, Deborah — director, appointed 16/03/2022on trustee list
• HARRIS, Hilary Ann — director, appointed 28/05/2007on trustee list
• BRIMMICOMBE, Wendy Elizabeth — director, appointed 28/09/2005on trustee list
• NEWMAN, Martin — secretary, appointed 28/05/2007

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew Stewartchair
• Deborah Branton
• HILARY ANN HARRIS
• John Knight
• Stephen Paul Wallis
• Victoria Joan Pearson · trustee of 1 other charity
• WENDY ELIZABETH BRIMMICOMBE

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

Operates in: Plymouth City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• THE LIMBOURNE TRUST income £120k
• HELPING DISABILITIES TRUST income £131k
• TRANSFORMING PLYMOUTH TOGETHER income £88k
• THE PHOENIX TRUST (MILTON) LTD income £256k
• PARCHMENT TRUST income £4.3m
• PLYMOUTH CHARITY TRUST income £558k

Side by side with its peers

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