THE MULBERRY BUSH ORGANISATION LTD

Registered charity 309565 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MULBERRY BUSH SCHOOL LTD

Provide service of care, treatment and education to severely emotionally troubled & vulnerable children

Objects

3. The objects for which the Company is established are:- a) To provide specialist therapeutic services to meet the social, emotional and educational needs of emotionally troubled and traumatised children, young persons, adults, and their families and wider communities; b) Maintain a school under the name or style of ?The Mulberry Bush? at Standlake in the County of Oxford as established by Barbara Estelle Dockar-Drysdale, and/or elsewhere in England and Wales, conducting the same in such a manner that any such school shall be eligible for approval as a Residential Special School within the meaning of the Education Act 1993 or any statutory re- enactment or modification thereof for the time being in force; c) To contribute to the development of new and existing services for children, young persons, adults, and their families and communities with such needs; d) To advance the education of both the public and fellow professionals in the subject of specialist therapeutic services to meet the social, emotional and educational needs of emotionally troubled and traumatised children, young persons, adults, and their families and wider communities by supporting research, investigations, publish research materials, host seminars and facilitate the training of workers.

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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £665,469 for the year, which was a planned deficit to support growth through the use of reserves. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted net current assets of £3.1m fall below the stated reserves policy requirement of £3.3m, though the charity holds total reserves of £9.7m and the auditor confirmed no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Oxford LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: 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
• 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 00538828

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Mulberry Bush (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• John Turberville — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Dr Dave Roberts — Deputy CEO (source)
• Sarah Archer — Director of Finance (source)
• Joanna Mitchell — Director of Marketing & Development (source)
• Sarah Paget — Director of Insight and Influence (source)
• Lee Wright — Director of Specialist Therapeutic Practice (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.

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.

• LUDLOW, Amy, Dr — director, appointed 22/01/2025on trustee list
• SOWDEN, Helen — director, appointed 15/11/2024on trustee list
• BARRETT, Tobias Ernest — director, appointed 18/09/2024on trustee list
• LANGHOFF, Kristine, Professor — director, appointed 18/09/2024on trustee list
• WHITEHOUSE, Lucy Cecilia — director, appointed 28/05/2024on trustee list
• BIRD, Keith Campbell — director, appointed 28/05/2024on trustee list
• MCMAHON, Timothy Paul — director, appointed 28/05/2024on trustee list
• AKERMAN, Geraldine Ann, Dr — director, appointed 28/05/2024on trustee list
• SNOW, Victoria Rosemary — director, appointed 24/01/2024on trustee list
• PUGH, Chris Naunton — director, appointed 25/09/2020on trustee list
• LILLEY, Rosemary Dorothy — director, appointed 01/03/2020on trustee list
• LATTIMER, Zoe Barbara Maria — director, appointed 12/10/2019on trustee list
• SARRINGTON, Michael John Paul — director, appointed 01/09/2015on trustee list
• THOMAS, Mark — director, appointed 01/09/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Chris Naunton Pugh
• Dr Amy Ludlow
• Dr Geraldine Ann Akerman
• Helen Elizabeth Sowden
• Keith Campbell Bird · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lucy Cecilia Whitehouse
• MARK THOMAS
• MICHAEL SARRINGTON
• Prof Kristine Langhoff
• ROSEMARY LILLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Paul McMahon
• Tobias Barrett
• Victoria Snow
• Zoe Barbara Maria Lattimer

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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