Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 0

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3

Overall GiG Score: 7

EDEN NATURE GARDEN, AT ST PAUL’S CLAPHAM

Eden Nature Garden is a community garden, established in 2000. Its aim is to create and maintain a sustainable habitat for wildlife and promote biodiversity by planting British native species and through organic gardening.

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Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	*	£47	£44	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
31/03/22		£69	£57	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/21		£35	£49	£-14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/20		£43	£43	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/19		£53	£63	£-9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/18	*	£41	£41	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£39	£39	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£38	£33	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£46	£28	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	*	£41	£28	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£38	£99	£-61	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£39	£43	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£37	£28	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£38	£27	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£34	£23	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£39	£27	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£44	£39	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£48	£31	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£51	£77	£-26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£55	£39	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 28 years

www.edennaturegarden.org

edennaturegarden@gmail.com

02076222128

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Environment/Conservation/Heritage
General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Other facilities management and maintenance

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space

Where it operates

Lambeth, Wandsworth,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
25 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

LORENE CAMERON Appointed: 2023

MARY ALLISON CLARK Appointed: 2022

PHILIPPA BRIDGE (Chair) Appointed: 2022

REV JONATHAN BOARDMAN Appointed: 2018

ROSALIND BOWLES Appointed: 2022

MICHAEL ROBIN MCNISH Appointed: 2022, Other trusteeship: THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PAUL'S, CLAPHAM,

MICHELLE CAMERON-KNOX Appointed: 2022, Other trusteeship: THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PAUL'S, CLAPHAM,

NICHOLAS JOHN STRACHAN Appointed: 2022, Other trusteeship: THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PAUL'S, CLAPHAM,

PATRICIA MARION CARTER Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeship: ST PAUL'S OPERA,

ROBERT JAMES COWLEY Appointed: 2022, Other trusteeships: THE SHADWORTH HODGSON BEQUEST, CHURCHES TOGETHER IN CLAPHAM, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PAUL'S, CLAPHAM,

RODERICK DAVID CLARK Appointed: 2022, Other trusteeship: THE UNITED WESTMINSTER AND GREY COAT FOUNDATION,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 01/06/1996, number: 1055769

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR23: 2 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR14: 1 days late, AR13: 1 days late, AR12: 1 days late, AR08: 10 days late, AR07: 2 days late, AR06: 27 days late, AR05: 17 days late, AR04: 45 days late,

Main office

c/o St Paul's church office
Rectory Grove
Clapham
London
SW4 0DZ

Objectives

3.1) TO MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE A COMMUNITY GARDEN AS A GREEN TRANQUIL INNER-CITY SPACE IN THE CHURCHYARD OF ST PAUL’S CLAPHAM SW4 ODX AS A FREELY ACCESSED PUBLIC AMENITY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE ENVIRONS OF CLAPHAM AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RACE, SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS. 3.2) TO SUPPORT THE USE OF THE GARDEN FOR MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY THROUGH GARDEN BASED ACTIVITIES SUCH AS VOLUNTEER GARDENING, EDUCATION AND CREATIVE PROJECTS TO ENHANCE THEIR MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING AND TO IMPROVE THEIR AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF BIODIVERSITY AND GARDENING PRACTICES TO PROMOTE WILDLIFE. 3.3) TO MAINTAIN A SUSTAINABLE HABITAT FOR WILDLIFE WITHIN THE INNER CITY ENVIRONMENT OF THE CLAPHAM AREA AND TO STRIVE TO BE A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN THIS FIELD.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CLAPHAM AND IT'S NEIGHBOURHOOD

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