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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

WOODMEADOW TRUST

Woodmeadow Trust is a pioneering charity taking practical action for nature and people by creating woodmeadows and inspiring others to plant and look after these exceptional habitats. We aim to promote woodmeadows throughout the UK whilst continuing to develop our flagship site, Three Hagges Woodmeadow, near York.
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Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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
30/09/23?£389£488£-98n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£121£145£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£121£92£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£92£72£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/19£115£87£28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/18£76£69£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/17£68£59£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/16£48£36£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/15£24£46£-22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/14£59£18£41n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years

woodmeadowtrust.org.uk

enquiries@woodmeadowtrust.org.uk

01757288381

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Land or water management
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • North Yorkshire,
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
Esmee Fairbairn£196,200
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Two Ridings Community Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Woodmeadow Trust
£5,450 06/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 24/06/2022
Core Funding
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Volunteer Training Programme
£5,000 10/06/2022
Funding to cover organisational costs and volunteer training. The organisation will deliver wildflower identification training, Great Crested Newt ID training, Coppicing workshops and scything and meadow management workshops.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Woodmeadow Trust
£27,250 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Woodmeadow Trust
£163,500 22/01/2020
36
Towards unrestricted core costs for the creation of new woodmeadow creating a landscape-scale network underpinned by continued management and research at Three Hagge Woods
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000 21/08/2019
24
Core Funding
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Hagge Woods Trust
£10,000 14/02/2018
Hagge Woods Trust Eco-Explorers: young people exploring and recording their local natural heritage
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Woodmeadow Trust
£128,000 18/11/2015
48
Towards unrestricted core costs to support the transition of the Three Hagges Jubilee Wood into a wood-meadow ecosystem, to increase biodiversity and public engagement.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Woodmeadow Trust
£30,000 17/03/2014
Towards monitoring and engagement work at Three Hagges Jubilee Wood, to create and manage a biodiverse woodland on formerly arable land.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • DR JOHN MICHAEL GRIMSHAW Appointed: 2015
  • ELIZABETH GRIERSON Appointed: 2013
  • NICK LANE FOX Appointed: 2013, Occupation: None
  • PROFESSOR DAVID GEORGE RAFFAELLI (Chair) Appointed: 2017
  • ROSALIND FORBES ADAM BA HONS Appointed: 2013
  • ROSIE BRUCE Appointed: 2022
  • SARAH WEST Appointed: 2017
  • TIMOTHY HEFFER Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/04/2013, number: 1151831
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
  • 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
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

Little Annexe
Estate Office
Escrick
York

Objectives

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IN AND AROUND THREE HAGGES JUBILEE WOOD BY PROMOTING BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, IN PARTICULAR IN RELATION TO THE CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF BIODIVERSE WOODLANDS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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