THE OAKLANDS

Registered charity 512326 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WARSOP AND DISTRICT MENTALLY HANDICAPPED ASSOCIATION

1. To improve the lifestyle of adults with learning disabilities through their work/leisure-time activities so to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities that they may grow to full maturity, within their capabilities. 2 To provide and extend links between the community at large and people with learning disabilities. 3. To assist and encourage persons and organisations involved in t

Objects

1. TO IMPROVE THE LIFESTYLE OF THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS THROUGH THEIR WORK/LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY WITHIN THEIR CAPACITIES. 2. TO PROVIDE AND EXTEND LINKS BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE AND MENTALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS..3. TO ASSIST AND ENCOURAGE PERSONS AND ORGANISATIONS INVOLVE IN THE SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED - IN PRACTICE WARSOP AND DISTRICT

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: Mansfield, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with total funds of £779,308, comprising restricted funds of £740,923 and unrestricted funds of £38,385. The trustees consider this level of reserves to be satisfactory to secure the future of the charity in the medium term, noting that reserves are placed in fixed-term accounts attracting interest. The charity reported a net income of £28,456 for the year, having managed a challenging financial environment with increased wage costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Stopfords (Mansfield) Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

CQC provider record: The Oaklands — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 09/12/2020.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.0% 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).

• The Oaklands: Outstanding (27/03/2018) · CQC record
• Oaklands: Good (25/08/2017) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sandra Cooperchair
• BRENDA STOCKDALE
• ELIZABETH NUTTALL
• Elizabeth Jane Cannings
• Geoff Milnes
• Lynne Hutchinson
• Margaret Shooter
• Philip Pritchard

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

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• THE WOODLAND CENTRE TRUST income £396k
• THE OAKLAND FOUNDATION LIMITED income £161k
• FORELAND FIELDS CHARITY income £152k
• BEAMSTAFFS income £211k
• PARKLANDS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £60k
• THE LANTERN COMMUNITY income £4.7m

Side by side with its peers

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