Finance Score: -6

Governance Score: -2

Support Score: 1

Spending falling: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2

Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: -7

TARKA COUNTRY TRUST

To act in capacity of enabler co-ordinator, working as the interface between those willing to donate funds and those requiring grant aided support to implement environmental projects in northern Devon. Donations are actively encouraged from a variety of sources and then distributed for charitable purposes to organizations and individuals.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 24 years

http://www.tarkacountrytrust.org.uk/

info@tarkacountrytrust.org.uk

01271388647

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Financial Data ?

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	*	£2	£5	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/22		£7	£3	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/21		£0	£3	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/20		£17	£27	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/19		£20	£13	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/18		£0	£20	£-20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£27	£7	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£27	£25	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£4	£4	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	NAN	0	0
31/03/10	*	£2	£1	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£3	£0	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£9	£12	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£30	£36	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£60	£71	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£60	£117	£-57	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£470	£457	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Makes Grants to Individuals
Makes Grants to Organisations

Where it operates

Devon,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£2,000	02/07/2021	Community Biodiversity Awards
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500	30/04/2019	Life on the Verge
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Tarka Country Trust
£49,300	07/07/2016	Life on the Verge - Biosphere

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 62-74

ANGELA EVANS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Bookkeeper, Other trusteeship: BARNSTAPLE AND NORTH DEVON MUSEUM DEVELOPMENT TRUST,

DAVID MICHAEL ROWE Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: BARNSTAPLE AND NORTH DEVON MUSEUM DEVELOPMENT TRUST,

MR TOM HYNES, Occupation: Retired

RICHARD JOHN PROWSE Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: DARTINGTON NORTH DEVON CHARITABLE TRUST,

STEPHEN BERTRAM PITCHER Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/10/1999, number: 1077996
Registered at Companies House on 30/03/1999, number: 03745337

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Conflicting interests
Risk management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR23: 13 days late, AR17: 42 days late, AR10: 213 days late, AR07: 245 days late, AR04: 1 days late,

Main office

Taw View
North Walk
Barnstaple
EX31 1EE

Objectives

(1) TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THOSE NATURAL FEATURES OF THE LAND IN NORTHERN DEVON (INCLUDING LAND COVERED BY WATER) AND IN PARTICULAR ITS VEGETATION AND ANIMAL LIFE WHICH ARE OF ECOLOGICAL OR EDUCATIONAL VALUE WHILST RESPECTING ITS HISTORICAL FEATURES SUCH AS THE REMAINS OF MEDIAEVAL OR OTHER CIVILIZATION;(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN NORTHERN DEVON.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NORTHERN DEVON.

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