CANTERBURY OAST TRUST

Registered charity 291662 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5033673 · Wikipedia · also known as THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND RARE BREEDS CENTRE

The provision of long term residential care services, supported living, life skills, training and supported occupation to enable people with a learning disability to lead a fulfilling and rewarding life.

Objects

The objects for which the Trust is established are to provide for the training, instruction, employment, future living, occupation, accommodation, sustenance, maintenance and care of people with a learning disability, or Autism, whether or not they have any other disability (hereinafter referred to as “Beneficiaries”) and who have difficulty in attaining, or are unable to attain, a normal standard of education, training and general ability and capacity by or through ordinary methods of educational training and who are in need of help and care by the provision of special training, day care or accommodation, or other means, to enable the Beneficiaries to live happy and useful lives and with the intent that the Beneficiaries may be helped and enabled to contribute as far as possible to the wellbeing and maintenance of themselves individually, or to the wellbeing and maintenance of any group or community to which they may belong or in which they may be living

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE UK AND OVERSEAS

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a deficit of £1,072,626 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in net assets to £6,667,525. The trustees report that the charity has sufficient reserves and cash from property sales to absorb the current deficit and maintain operations for at least twelve months. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Insolvency history (Companies House)

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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 01897198
• Trading subsidiary: COT TRADING LIMITED Companies House 02888014 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Canterbury Oast Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• NATS — “A big thank you as well to NATS , who generously matched Coral and Stephen’s total.” (source page)

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.

• DUNN, Colette Ann Maxwell — director, appointed 11/10/2025on trustee list
• TEUNON, Nicholas John — director, appointed 11/10/2025on trustee list
• GOWER-SMITH, Daniel Steven — director, appointed 14/10/2023on trustee list
• ASH, Fiona Mary — director, appointed 14/10/2023on trustee list
• ALLCHIN, Michele — director, appointed 15/10/2022on trustee list
• HAZEVOET, Sophy Catherine — director, appointed 17/10/2020on trustee list
• TWEEDLEY, Michaela Louise — director, appointed 07/10/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

15 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (15 freehold); recorded price paid £1.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Canterbury Oast Trust — Registered, 14 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 28/03/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 0.2% of total income — below 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).

• Rosemary Cottage: Requires improvement (20/12/2022) · CQC record
• Community Support Services: Requires improvement (19/04/2023) · CQC record
• Farm House: Good (04/08/2018) · CQC record
• The New Bungalow: Good (29/08/2018) · CQC record
• Homelands: Good (01/05/2018) · CQC record
• Ivy Cottage: Good (14/07/2018) · CQC record
• Boldshaves Oast: Good (05/05/2018) · CQC record
• Holly Cottage: Good (15/09/2018) · CQC record
• Old School House: Good (21/06/2018) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charnel Harry
• Colette Dunn · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel Gower-Smith
• Michael John Franklin
• Michele Allchin
• NICHOLAS JOHN TEUNON
• Robert Antony Weare
• Scott Anthony Craddock
• Sophy Catherine Hazevoet

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• HAS TRUST income £52k
• BEAMSTAFFS income £211k
• LD:NORTHEAST income £1.4m
• THE ORCHARD TRUST income £5.4m
• THE ALDINGBOURNE TRUST income £9.4m
• THE ALBRIGHTON TRUST LIMITED income £146k

Side by side with its peers

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