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

Causes: Education/training · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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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Known funders

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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 THE MULBERRY HOUSE MINISTRY TRUST.

• THE MULBERRY HOUSE MINISTRY TRUST income £122k
• CHARMINSTER PRE-SCHOOL income £189k
• CAUSEWAY EDUCATION LTD income £772k
• MBC income £327k
• THE DIFFERENCE EDUCATION LTD income £1.6m
• VOLUNTEER CENTRE BLACKPOOL WYRE AND FYLDE income £626k

Side by side with its peers

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