THE APULDRAM CENTRE

Registered charity 801169 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Training in horticulture, cookery, carpentry, and the skills relating to the marketing and sale of related products. The provision of support for independent living.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income surplus of £100,762 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £2,427,187. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors regarding its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02345730

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rory Massey — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Karen Reeves — Chief Financial Officer (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Wickens Family Foundation — “The Bailey Bridge Club Wickens Family Foundation Gerald Micklem Trust The F Glenister Woodger Trust John Lewis & Partners Chichester” (source page)
• Gerald Micklem Trust — “The Bailey Bridge Club Wickens Family Foundation Gerald Micklem Trust The F Glenister Woodger Trust John Lewis & Partners Chichester” (source page)
• The F Glenister Woodger Trust — “The Bailey Bridge Club Wickens Family Foundation Gerald Micklem Trust The F Glenister Woodger Trust John Lewis & Partners Chichester” (source page)
• John Lewis & Partners — “The Bailey Bridge Club Wickens Family Foundation Gerald Micklem Trust The F Glenister Woodger Trust John Lewis & Partners Chichester” (source page)

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.

• GORE BROWNE, Edward — director, appointed 01/04/2026not on trustee list
• FANCOURT, Hugh Geoffrey — director, appointed 24/09/2025on trustee list
• THOMAS, Anthony — director, appointed 21/02/2024on trustee list
• BLABER, Stephen Lewis — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
• THORNTON, Richard Christopher, Dr — director, appointed 29/03/2022on trustee list
• BRADLEY, Peter Ernest — director, appointed 22/10/2020on trustee list
• MCCORMACK, Colin — director, appointed 06/08/2020on trustee list
• BELL, Janice — director, appointed 28/02/2019on trustee list
• BUCKLAND, Andrew Christopher — director, appointed 21/10/2010on 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 (3 freehold); recorded price paid £175k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Apuldram Centre — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 08/03/2018.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~14.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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 (5.2%) (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 Apuldram Centre: Not Rated · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Lewis Blaberchair
• ANDREW CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM BUCKLAND
• Anthony Thomas
• Colin McCormack · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Richard Christopher Thornton
• Edward Gore Browne
• Hugh Fancourt
• Janice Bell
• Peter Bradley

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 KHIDMAT CENTRES.

• KHIDMAT CENTRES income £664k
• COLLINGWOOD CENTRE LIMITED income £228k
• THE ANGELOU CENTRE income £1.3m
• CAMDEN GARDEN CENTRE CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.9m
• THE APSLEY PAPER TRAIL income £778k
• CENTRE 81 LIMITED income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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