L'ARCHE

Registered charity 264166 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as L'ARCHE LIMITED · also registered in Scotland as SC038493 (OSCR)

Building Communities with people who have learning disabilities

Objects

THE SOCIETY IS ESTABLISHED TO RELIEVE, ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF AND ADVANCE RELIGION AMONG THE MENTALLY OR PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED AND FOR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE.

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a near breakeven position with a deficit of £703 for the year ended July 2025, following previous years of deficits. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased by 18% to £2,152,295, covering 5 weeks of operating expenditure, which is below the stated medium-term policy target of 9 weeks (2 months).

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW). 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
• 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 01055041 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — L'Arche (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.

• CARTER, Jonathan Patrick — director, appointed 17/10/2024on trustee list
• WINTER, Anne — director, appointed 13/09/2023on trustee list
• MAPP, Nigel John Godfrey — director, appointed 13/09/2023on trustee list
• WEALE, Martin Andrew Charles — director, appointed 25/11/2020on trustee list
• OAKES, Peter Michael, Dr — director, appointed 10/04/2019on trustee list
• MACGREEVY, Aedan Michael Mary — director, appointed 05/12/2018on trustee list
• GRAY, Isobel Watson — director, appointed 22/03/2018on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Susan Margaret — director, appointed 27/02/2016on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

CQC provider record: L'Arche — Registered, 26 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 16/05/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (5,054 followers) · instagram (2,765 followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Registered Manager (Support & Care Coordinator) — £38,870.89 per annum · Ipswich, Suffolk (On-site) · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 30/09/2026)
• Trust Fundraiser, L’Arche UK — £30,159 - £31,507 per year · Multiple Locations (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 30/09/2026)
• L'Arche Internship — £365.41 per month, plus daily meals, a private bedroom, all bills covered · Multiple Locations (On-site) · posted 5 days ago (seen 30/09/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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 (3.7%) (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).

• L'Arche Preston: Requires improvement (22/09/2022) · CQC record
• L'Arche Bognor Regis Jericho: Requires improvement (24/05/2022) · CQC record
• L'Arche Kent Faith House: Requires improvement (09/02/2023) · CQC record
• L'Arche Preston Moor Fold: Good (18/01/2019) · CQC record
• L'Arche Liverpool: Good (16/05/2019) · CQC record
• L'Arche Ipswich: Outstanding (31/07/2019) · CQC record
• L'Arche Bognor Regis Bethany: Good (23/07/2024) · CQC record
• L'Arche Manchester - St Paul's Office: Outstanding (13/03/2019) · CQC record
• L'Arche Kent The Rainbow: Good (03/04/2020) · CQC record
• L'Arche Bognor Regis: Good (23/12/2025) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aedan Michael Mary MacGreevychair
• Anne Winter
• Dr Peter Michael Oakes
• Isobel Gray
• Jonathan Carter
• Martin Weale
• Nigel Mapp · trustee of 3 other charities
• Susan Margaret Williams

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Nigel Mapp — trustee here and at THE NIGEL AND NICKY MAPP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

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 REACH LEARNING DISABILITY.

• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m
• FULL FACT income £3.1m
• THE PARK COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED income £1.3m
• WATERBERRY COMMUNITY PROJECTS LIMITED income £124k
• PEREDUR TRUST income £314k
• BRIGHT PARK income £92k

Side by side with its peers

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