THE LEARNING THROUGH LANDSCAPES TRUST

Registered charity 803270 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LTL · also registered in Scotland as SC038890 (OSCR)

Latest income
£1.9m
Latest spending
£1.8m
Registered
1990
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £176,190 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total turnover of £1,927,937. Unrestricted reserves increased to £641,457, which the trustees note represents 6.6 months of operational costs, exceeding their policy target of six months. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £60,001 - £70,000 — below the median for charities its size (£76k)
One employee earned more than £60,000 per annum (2024: one). — page 46
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Employees paid over £60,000: 1
One employee earned more than £60,000 per annum (2024: one). — page 46
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: six months' operational expenditure (held: £641k)
They have established a policy whereby the unrestricted funds not committed or invested in tangible fixed assets held by the Trust should be the value of no less than six months’ operational expenditure. — page 24
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Remuneration paid to connected person
No Trustee, or person related to or connected by business to them, has received any remuneration from the Trust, with the exception of the wife of M Denton-Thompson, Dr J Denton-Thompson, who received £2,562 (2024: £2,878) remuneration in connection with her work for the Trust on the School Playing Fields Advisory Panel. — page 48
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Learning through Landscapes Limited
Learning through Landscapes Limited, a subsidiary of The Learning through Landscapes Trust, has not traded during the year ending 31 March 2025. — page 40
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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

Total income
£1.9m
Total spending
£1.8m
Cost of raising funds
£4
Reserves (reported)
£641k
Employees
37

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Trustees

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.9m£1.8m
31/03/2024£1.9m£1.8m
31/03/2023£1.5m£1.7m
31/03/2022£1.5m£1.7m
31/03/2021£1.1m£1.2m

Common questions

Is THE LEARNING THROUGH LANDSCAPES TRUST financially healthy?

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £176,190 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total turnover of £1,927,937. Unrestricted reserves increased to £641,457, which the trustees note represents 6.6 months of operational costs, exceeding their policy target of six months. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Knox Cropper LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of THE LEARNING THROUGH LANDSCAPES TRUST earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £60,001 - £70,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Postcode Lottery25/11/2024£201k2024 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery25/11/2024£161k2024 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery25/11/2024£161k2024 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery25/11/2024£161k2024 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery25/11/2024£161k2024 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery25/11/2024£201k2024 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery25/11/2024£140k2025 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery25/11/2024£140k2025 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery25/11/2024£140k2025 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery25/11/2024£221k2025 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery25/11/2024£221k2025 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery25/11/2024£140k2025 LTL LSNG Grant
The National Lottery Heritage Fund05/12/2022£249k"My School, My Planet – North West"
Postcode Lottery03/11/2022£139k2023 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery03/11/2022£142k2023 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery03/11/2022£225k2023 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery03/11/2022£225k2023 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery03/11/2022£139k2023 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery03/11/2022£138k2023 LTL LSNG Grant
The National Lottery Heritage Fund21/07/2022£250k"My School, My Planet - Walsall"
Postcode Lottery03/11/2021£227k2022 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery03/11/2021£138k2022 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery03/11/2021£227k2022 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery03/11/2021£136k2022 LTL LSNG Grant
Postcode Lottery03/11/2021£137k2022 LTL LSNG Grant

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