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)

LTL undertakes research, gives advice, encourages action and supports all those who care about making the most of school grounds, including encouraging young people to have a say in the way their grounds are used and improved. We work with government agencies, other charities and businesses, and run a number of programmes for school communities and early years settings throughout the UK.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN THE PRINCIPLES AND OF THE RAISING OF STANDARDS OF PRACTICE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ALL SUCH RESEARCH.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Eastleigh, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved 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.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Juno Hollyhock — Chair (source)
• Matt Robinson — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Emily Akerman — Chief Operating 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Juno Hollyhockchair
• Catherine Elizabeth Beith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Chanel Annabel McPherson-George
• Chloe Diane Atkins
• DAVID EDWARD COLEMAN
• Dr Gill Francis
• MERRICK HUGH DENTON -THOMPSON OBE
• Michael John Greenaway
• Philip Thomas Edward Sanderson
• SUSAN HUMPHRIES OBE MA

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

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

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 LONGTOWN OUTDOOR LEARNING TRUST.

• LONGTOWN OUTDOOR LEARNING TRUST income £776k
• LINDLEY EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £1.7m
• LONDON GRID FOR LEARNING TRUST income £26.5m
• LIVERPOOL LEARNING PARTNERSHIP LTD income £379k
• NORTHERN LEARNING TRUST income £890k
• LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS income £688k

Side by side with its peers

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