THE ROSE ROAD ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 276172 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROSE ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON AND DISTRICT SPASTICS ASSOCIATION

Services for young disabled people and their families including: Oaks and Acorns Residential Short breaks Service children and adultsOutreach Community ServicesActivities in schools and communityParent advice independent support information and empowerment through Family Services Specialist sensory, Hydrotherapy and Soft Play facilities.

Objects

THE ASSOCIATION IS ESTABLISHED FOR CHARITABLE OBJECTIVES AND PURPOSES ONLY FOR THE CARE, WELL-BEING, TREATMENT, INTERESTS, EDUCATION, ACCOMMODATION, EMPLOYMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES PRIMARILY IN HAMPSHIRE AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES.

Area of benefit: HAMPSHIRE AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southampton, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £238,986 for the year, driven by a 20% increase in gross income to £6,071,814, primarily from increased community services delivery. Unrestricted reserves stood at £2,419,873, with the general fund providing 3.2 months of operating expenditure cover, which falls within the trustees' stated policy of 2 to 4 months. The auditors confirmed the appropriateness of the going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hopper Williams & Bell Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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
• 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Rose Road Association supporter Janice Peirson dies aged 82 dailyecho.co.uk · 13/01/2023
• Generous Paul gives £100,000 charity donation to Rose Road Association advertiserandtimes.co.uk · 02/11/2018
• Rose Road Association heart.co.uk · 27/07/2018
• Falling profits at Rose Road Association children's charity forces it to axe all of its Hampshire shops dailyecho.co.uk · 30/03/2015

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Rose Road Association (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Steve Swift — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Julie Gomer — Chair of Trustees (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 (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Rose Road Association — Registered, 1 registered location, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 17/02/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 5.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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).

• The Rose Road Association: Good (16/03/2019) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Julie Gomerchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher David Sirl
• Karen Elizabeth Rankine
• Kimberley Anne Provan
• Michael Grimmett
• Samantha Clough
• Sharon Jones

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

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire · Poole · Portsmouth City · Southampton City · West Berkshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• THE ROSE FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• BETTER WAY RECOVERY income £566k
• SURREY CROSSROADS income £3.9m
• BROUGHTON ROAD COMMUNITY CENTRE income £32k
• COMMUNITY CARE OPTIONS income £705k
• HESSLE ROAD NETWORK income £326k

Side by side with its peers

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