FREEWAYS

Registered charity 298603 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FREEWAYS TRUST LIMITED

Freeways provides residential, supported living and day care services for adults with learning disabilities in Bristol, North Somerset, South Glouc and Bath & N East Somerset. Freeways provides a person centred range of activities tailored to meet individual needs. This can be residential accomodation to floating support, day care, in either the local community or at our Leigh Court Centre.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held free reserves of £2,196,000, which is in line with its policy target of two months of operational expenditure. The Trustees consider it appropriate to continue preparing the financial statements on a going concern basis, noting no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to operate for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Frank Morton — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Rachel Burkinshaw — Finance Director (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.

CQC provider record: Freeways — Registered, 14 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 19/10/2023. CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (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).

• Jonathan House: Good (12/03/2020) · CQC record
• Hillsborough House: Good (29/01/2025) · CQC record
• Susan Hampshire House: Good (20/11/2025) · CQC record
• Clevedon House: Good (03/11/2023) · CQC record
• Miller Farm: Good (16/01/2020) · CQC record
• Leigh Court Centre: Good (12/08/2023) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• FRANKLIN SELION MORTONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Andrew Browne
• Christopher Clement Britton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dawn Yvonne Pincott · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melanie Suzanne Barnett

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• FREEWAYS TRUST income £2.0m
• SEVERN FREEWHEELERS EMERGENCY VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £200k
• FREEDOM COMMUNITY ALLIANCE LIMITED income £1.3m
• FREE THE WAY income £394k
• HEADWAY NORFOLK AND WAVENEY LTD income £1.1m
• HEADWAY CARDIFF AND SOUTH EAST WALES income £542k

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