CANTERBURY OAST TRUST
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
The provision of long term residential care services, supported living, life skills, training and supported occupation to enable people with a learning disability to lead a fulfilling and rewarding life.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2025
Total income:
£7,851,305
| Donations and legacies | £443.06k | |
| Charitable activities | £7.40m | |
| Other trading activities | £0 | |
| Investments | £2.38k | |
| Other | £9.29k |
Total expenditure:
£8,896,745
| Raising funds | £14.24k | |
| Charitable activities | £8.65m | |
| Other | £231.62k |
-£27,186 investments gains (losses)
Total income includes £4,895,609 from 123 government contract(s)
Charitable expenditure
Charitable expenditure with investment gains
Charitable expenditure
Some charities generate all, or a substantial part, of their income from investments which may have been donated to the charity as endowment or set aside by the charity from its own resources in the past. Such investments usually take the form of stocks and shares but may include other assets, such as property, that are capable of generating income and/or capital growth.
In managing their spending and investments charities need to strike a balance between the needs of future and current beneficiaries. They also need to take account of spending commitments that may stretch over a number of future years. To do this, charities will normally adopt an investment strategy designed to generate both income and capital growth. To maximise returns trustees may commit to investment strategies for several years.
Investments can experience large swings in value so trustees may, in a particular year, decide to realise and spend part of their charity’s capital or to invest part of its income.
By clicking the investment gains checkbox the charitable spending bar is adjusted to take account of capital growth as well as income. This shows the balance the charity is striking, between spending on current beneficiaries and retaining resources for future beneficiaries.
| Raising funds and other expenditure | £245.86k | |
| Charitable expenditure | £8.65m |
People
213 Employee(s)
8 Trustee(s)
120 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
| Number of employees | |
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| £60k to £70k | 1 |
| £70k to £80k | 2 |
| £90k to £100k | 1 |
Fundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- Disability
- People With Disabilities
- Provides Services
- Kent
Governance
- 25 April 1985: Standard registration
- 22 December 2020: Funds received from 297213 THE LOCKHART FOUNDATION
- CANTERBURY OAST TRUST (Working name)
- THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND RARE BREEDS CENTRE (Working name)
- Care Quality Commission
- 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
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
8 Trustee(s)
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| Colette Dunn | Trustee | 11 October 2025 |
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| NICHOLAS JOHN TEUNON | Trustee | 11 October 2025 |
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| Christopher Bannocks | Trustee | 19 October 2024 |
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| Daniel Gower-Smith | Trustee | 14 October 2023 |
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| Fiona Ash | Trustee | 14 October 2023 |
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| Michele Allchin | Trustee | 15 October 2022 |
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| Sophy Catherine Hazevoet | Trustee | 17 October 2020 |
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| Michaela Louise Tweedley | Trustee | 07 October 2017 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | 31/03/2025 | ||
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Total gross income | £6.89m | £6.68m | £6.61m | £7.64m | £7.85m | |
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Total expenditure | £5.88m | £6.52m | £8.18m | £8.35m | £8.90m | |
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Income from government contracts | £4.55m | £4.74m | £4.66m | £4.37m | £4.90m | |
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Income from government grants | £495.40k | £214.46k | £20.37k | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £432.82k | £476.81k | £384.80k | £684.48k | £443.06k | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £5.12m | £6.15m | £6.18m | £6.93m | £7.40m | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Income - Investment | £2.90k | £923 | £4.30k | £13.41k | £2.38k | |
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Income - Other | £1.33m | £61.00k | £39.62k | £15.35k | £9.29k | |
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Income - Legacies | £20.02k | £15.00k | £75.00k | £266.97k | £39.98k | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £5.82m | £6.45m | £8.10m | £8.31m | £8.65m | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £51.60k | £60.92k | £71.91k | £34.91k | £14.24k | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £64.21k | £62.06k | £74.95k | £81.03k | £297.52k | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Other | £5.52k | £5.24k | £8.76k | £1.15k | £231.62k |
Assets and liabilities
Definitions for assets and liabilities
These are assets, other than investments, which are held for more than 12 months and used to run and administer the charity such as buildings, offices, exhibits and fixtures and fittings.
Long term InvestmentsInvestments are assets held by the charity with the sole aim of generating income which will be used for their charitable purposes such as deposit accounts, shares, rental property and unit trusts.
Investment assets are re-valued every year and included in the balance sheet at their current market value.
Long term investments are held for more than 12 months.
These are assets held generally for less than 12 months such as cash and bank balances, debtors, investments to be sold within the coming year and trading stock.
Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liabilityThis is a surplus or deficit in any defined benefit pension scheme operated and represents a potential long-term asset or liability.
Total liabilitiesThese are all the amounts owed by the charity at the balance sheet date to third parties such as bills due but not yet paid, bank overdrafts and loans and mortgages.
| Asset / Liability | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | 31/03/2025 | ||
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Own use assets | £4.30m | £4.21m | £5.27m | £5.13m | £4.91m | |
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Long-term investments | £1.31m | £1.46m | £1.44m | £1.62m | £1.34m | |
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Other assets | £4.79m | £5.17m | £2.80m | £1.96m | £1.15m | |
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Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liability | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Total liabilities | £861.16k | £984.32k | £1.24m | £968.62k | £730.39k |
Accounts and annual returns
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2025 | 19 January 2026 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2025 | 19 January 2026 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 01 January 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 01 January 2025 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 30 January 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 30 January 2024 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 21 January 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 21 January 2023 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 25 January 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 25 January 2022 | On time | Download Open in new window |
Governing document
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19/03/1985 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/07/1988 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/09/1994 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/10/2004 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/10/2005 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/10/2013 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 OCT 2015 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07 OCT 2017 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 OCT 2018 as amended on 16 Oct 2021 as amended on 20 Apr 2024
Charitable objects
The objects for which the Trust is established are to provide for the training, instruction, employment, future living, occupation, accommodation, sustenance, maintenance and care of people with a learning disability, or Autism, whether or not they have any other disability (hereinafter referred to as “Beneficiaries”) and who have difficulty in attaining, or are unable to attain, a normal standard of education, training and general ability and capacity by or through ordinary methods of educational training and who are in need of help and care by the provision of special training, day care or accommodation, or other means, to enable the Beneficiaries to live happy and useful lives and with the intent that the Beneficiaries may be helped and enabled to contribute as far as possible to the wellbeing and maintenance of themselves individually, or to the wellbeing and maintenance of any group or community to which they may belong or in which they may be living
Area of benefit
NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE UK AND OVERSEAS
Contact information
- Address:
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Highlands Farm
Woodchurch
Ashford
Kent
TN26 3RJ
- Phone:
- 01233861493
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