Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

SMALL WOODS ASSOCIATION

Provides education and training, membership services for all those interested in small woodlands
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

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£1,667£1,674£-6£0£726£2661.94040
31/03/22£1,095£1,104£-10£0£732£6346.92440
31/03/21£817£833£-16£0£742£6419.23875
31/03/20£933£790£144£0£758£6559.933347
31/03/19£698£651£47£651£614£56210.42830
31/03/18£472£452£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£369£414£-45n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£416£463£-47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£456£551£-96n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£802£722£80£76£735£61610.2150
31/03/13£775£762£13£71£654£5869.2180
31/03/12£851£831£21£79£641£5838.4200
31/03/11£803£914£-112£75£620£5957.8260
31/03/10£683£733£-50£85£732£4156.8240
31/03/09£949£755£195£95£783£4316.9210
31/03/08£573£528£45£69£579£4019.1140
31/03/07£628£514£114£66£543£4089.5100
31/03/06*£711£630£81n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£676£639£37n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£612£571£41n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 41%
Liabilities/Income: 31%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 37%
Reserves/Spending: 1.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 24 years

www.smallwoods.org.uk

office@smallwoods.org.uk

01952432769

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • General Community services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
National Lottery Community Fund£378,301
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs£83,984
National Lottery Heritage Fund£61,500
Ministry of Defence£45,000
Dulverton Trust£30,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Build a Bench
£378,301 24/03/2023
This funding will be used to continue and extend the practical green wood crafting skills programme. The project aims to improve emotional and physical wellbeing by providing the opportunity for participants to learn new skills.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 11/11/2022
Small Woods Future Resilience
Dulverton Trust - Core Funding 22/23
£30,000 19/10/2022
Core Funding 22/23
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Network for Resilience and Growth
£17,602 01/04/2022
The Woods into Management Forestry Innovation Funds aim to stimulate the development and testing of new ideas that can help improve the ecological condition of woodlands, and their resilience to climate change, via increased demand for wood and ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Routes to production and market for Ash BioChar
£35,913 01/04/2022
The Woods into Management Forestry Innovation Funds aim to stimulate the development and testing of new ideas that can help improve the ecological condition of woodlands, and their resilience to climate change, via increased demand for wood and ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - NEIRF2026CLAIM1 SMALL WOODS ASSOCIATION
£3,412 01/04/2022
The funding will be used to develop a broad range of projects that deliver environmental benefits while also demonstrating a wide range of innovative approaches to generating revenues from ecosystem services. In doing so, these projects will ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - NEIRF2026CLAIM2b SMALL WOODS ASSOCIATION
£1,771 01/04/2022
The funding will be used to develop a broad range of projects that deliver environmental benefits while also demonstrating a wide range of innovative approaches to generating revenues from ecosystem services. In doing so, these projects will ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - NEIRF2026CLAIM3c SMALL WOODS ASSOCIATION
£13,346 01/04/2022
The funding will be used to develop a broad range of projects that deliver environmental benefits while also demonstrating a wide range of innovative approaches to generating revenues from ecosystem services. In doing so, these projects will ....more
Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
£10,000 11/02/2022
For local projects that reduce isolation and promote integration
Power to Change - Wrekin Forest Community Interest Company (Small Wood Asso.) (TU)
£10,850 19/07/2021
Grant to Wrekin Forest Community Interest Company (Small Wood Asso.) (TU)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Feasibility Study into the use of Bio Char in the removal of Ash
£7,690 01/04/2021
The WiM Forestry Innovation Funds aim to restore vulnerable woodland habitats and help woodlands adapt to a changing climate and recover from the impacts of pests and diseases.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - FSC Ecosystem Services Project
£4,250 01/04/2021
The WiM Forestry Innovation Funds aim to restore vulnerable woodland habitats and help woodlands adapt to a changing climate and recover from the impacts of pests and diseases.
Ministry of Defence - £10M Veterans' Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund
£35,000 12/02/2021
The Positive Pathways programme funded projects that develop and run activities supporting the mental health and wellbeing of ex-Forces.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Small Woods Association
£61,500 09/07/2020
COVID19: Small Woods Association
National Lottery Community Fund - Actif Woods Wales - Coed Actif Cymru
£249,000 23/01/2013
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Small Woods Association will deliver a project to 1660 people in Aberystwyth, Treherbert, Anglesey, Neath Port Talbot and Wrexham with chronic health conditions, aiming to improve their physical fitness and mental wellbeing. This will be achieved ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Small Woods Association
£90,000 19/10/2011
Towards raising awareness of coppicing and to promote its practice as a financially viable woodland- management option across the UK.
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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: 29-70
  • ALYSON ANNE MAY Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Forester
  • BEVERLY TYLEY Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Director
  • CHRISTOPHER DUNCAN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Company Director
  • DR BEN HOWARD Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Research Associate
  • DR MICHAEL INNES Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
  • GARY BATTELL Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Project Manager
  • JOHN BLESSINGTON (Chair) Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Local Government Arboricultural Officer
  • LIZ NEWTON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • PHIL TIDEY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/08/2000, number: 1081874
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/02/2000, number: 03919849
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
  • 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; AR06: 14 days late,
Main office

GREENWOOD CENTRE
THE OLD STATION
STATION ROAD
COALBROOKDALE
TELFORD
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Objectives

1 TO PROMOTE AND FACILITATE THE USE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL WOODLANDS FOR THEIR FULL RANGE OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS.2 TO PROMOTE, FACILITATE AND PROVIDE ACTIVITIES THAT UTILISE WOODLANDS FOR ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS.3 TO PROMOTE, FACILITATE AND PROVIDE EDUCATION, TRAINING AND RESEARCH, AND PUBLISH OR DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION AND PROVIDE ADVICE TO SUPPORT THE ABOVE OBJECTS.4 WHERE IT IS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, TO PROVIDE, MAINTAIN OR IMPROVE A PUBLIC PARK OR OTHER PUBLIC AMENITY IN THE VICINITY OF A LANDFILL SITE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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