Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

THE PROSPECTS TRUST

The Prospects Trust is all about the people who come through the gates, and our gates are always open. We provide meaningful work experience sessions on an 18 acre organically certified farm near Reach, Cambridge for adults with learning difficulties, physical disabilities and mental ill health.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£759£750£9£16£410£37263725
31/03/22£707£612£95£12£410£3516.93715
31/03/21£726£576£150£10£314£2936.13020
31/03/20£606£591£15£11£154£1352.73110
31/03/19£449£455£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£404£420£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£360£355£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£337£314£23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£292£277£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£320£269£51n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£236£249£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£209£224£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£224£224£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£173£192£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£234£202£32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£198£201£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£205£223£-18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£234£189£45n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£146£173£-27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£143£177£-34n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.2%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 91%
Reserves/Spending: 6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 14.9
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 29 years

www.prospectstrust.org.uk

enquiries@prospectstrust.org.uk

01638741551

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Other education support
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cambridgeshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£19,994
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Tudor Trust£1,500
Co-Operative Group£1,382
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Prospects Trust at Snakehall Farm
£1,382 21/10/2023
We are rewilding a corner of Snakehall Farm, creating a woodland, meadows and nature space for our coworkers and the wider community. We would like to pave the way with accessible footpaths.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Orchard at Prospects Trust
£10,000 01/07/2022
The funding will be used to create a purpose-built potting shed within an eighteen-acre organic care farm in rural Cambridgeshire for people with complex profound or multiple disabilities. The project aims to provide them with access to work based ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£10,000 08/10/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,994 24/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Prospects Trust
£1,500 25/03/2020
as a staff grant towards the running costs of an organic care farm in rural Cambridgeshire which offers placements and therapeutic opportunities to people with additional needs
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Prospects Trust
£14,200 13/06/2016
purchase of vehicle for a charity which works with disabled people in Cambridge
National Lottery Community Fund - No ROT at Prospects Trust
£50,000 27/11/2014
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-72
  • AMIR SULEMAN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Broadcaster
  • ANDREW NIGEL FEATHER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
  • JANE KERSHAW Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Manager
  • MARGARET KERRY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired
  • NAOMI FRANCES ROWE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Assessment Standards Senior Manager
  • PAUL HAMER Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Senior Environmental Consultant
  • PETER FRETWELL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Researcher
  • RACHEL MARGUERITE COQUARD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Hr Director
  • SUSAN OLDFIELD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/08/1995, number: 1048584
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/08/1995, number: 03087221
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

SNAKEHALL FARM
SWAFFHAM ROAD
REACH
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
CB25 0HZ

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE VULNERABLE AND WHO MAY BE AT RISK OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION BECAUSE OF THEIR AGE, PHYSICAL OR LEARNING DISABILITIES OR MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH THE PROVISION OF TRAINING AND WORK OPPORTUNITIES IN AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND RELATED SUBJECTS IN THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP SO THAT SUCH PERSONS CAN DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES AND GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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