MAKING SPACE

Registered charity 512907 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q107503872 · Wikipedia

Making Space exists for the relief of people who are in need by reason of any physical or mental illness or disability arising from age, accident, disease or infection, including but without limitation learning disabilities and dementia, and the relief of their families and carers.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF ANY PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ILLNESS OR DISABILITY ARISING FROM AGE, ACCIDENT, DISEASE OR INFECTION, INCLUDING BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION LEARNING DISABILITIES AND DEMENTIA, AND THE RELIEF OF THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Warrington, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £459,256 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a reversal from the previous year's deficit, driven largely by fire safety expenditure and reduced occupancy. Despite this, total income grew by 1.5% to £34.21 million, and the charity maintains a robust financial position with unrestricted reserves of £15.39 million and cash reserves of £8.12 million, well above its two-month operating reserve policy target of £5.74 million.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 4 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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 06/02/2024, 6 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01642033 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Making Space (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• SHAW, Jamie Ian — director, appointed 19/06/2025on trustee list
• RESTON, Andrew — director, appointed 20/03/2025on trustee list
• CARMODY, Jessica — director, appointed 20/03/2025on trustee list
• CARVALHO, Vasco — director, appointed 22/06/2023on trustee list
• QUINLAN, Timothy Joseph — director, appointed 23/03/2023on trustee list
• THOMAS, Michael, Professor — director, appointed 08/12/2022on trustee list
• JENKINSON, Mark — director, appointed 06/11/2019on trustee list
• JOHNSTONE, Elaine — director, appointed 22/06/2017on trustee list
• TURNEY, Paul — secretary, appointed 08/06/2023

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

22 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (12 freehold); recorded price paid £2.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Making Space — Registered, 68 registered locations, 3 regulated activities, last inspected 18/12/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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 (3.7%) (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).

• Cedar House: Requires improvement (31/12/2022) · CQC record
• Hollymere: Good (25/03/2023) · CQC record
• Ashwood Court Supportive Pathways: Good (19/10/2023) · CQC record
• Ashwood Court - Unit 1: Good (23/11/2018) · CQC record
• Kingshill: Good (23/05/2023) · CQC record
• Syrian House: Good (22/05/2019) · CQC record
• Greengate House: Good (03/04/2019) · CQC record
• Palmyra: Good (31/05/2019) · CQC record
• Sherdley Court: Good (08/07/2022) · CQC record
• Rivacre House: Good (30/03/2018) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Michael Thomaschair
• Andrew Reston
• Elaine Johnstone
• Jamie Shaw
• Jessica Carmody
• Mark Jenkinson
• Timothy Joseph Quinlan
• Vasco Carvalho

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Making Space For Crafts Ltd.

• Making Space For Crafts Ltd income £188k
• CREATE SPACE LONDON income £311k
• MAKING SENSE CIO income £104k
• MAKE A MOVE income £55k
• KIDS SPACE income £81k
• INTERIM SPACES income £123k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.