Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 10
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

MOOR TREES

The growing, planting and preservation of broad-leaved trees in sympathetic locations in SW England; and education associated with these activities, especially to the disadvantaged.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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 ?
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£297£276£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£611£595£16£0£65£-42-0.94172
31/03/21£98£129£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£125£79£46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£29£52£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£62£45£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£65£58£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£5£60£-55n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£83£64£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£84£54£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13*£64£66£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£92£84£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£75£74£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£77£81£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£73£73£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£82£74£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£91£75£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£34£47£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£37£33£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£35£23£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 24 years

www.moortrees.org

info@moortrees.org

01364649277

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Devon,
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
Garfield Weston Foundation£70,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Crowdfunder£7,018
The Grocers' Charity£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Grocers' Charity - 2024 Grant - Moor Trees
£5,000 26/04/2024
To support the growth and planting of native broadleaved trees on Dartmoor and advocate for the increased growth of local trees by tree nurseries. The aim is to deliver significant benefits in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 08/11/2023
Sow, Grow, Revive: Dartmoor's Native Broadleaf Woodland Restoration and Creation.
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£1,303 29/09/2022
Covid response
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£5,715 29/06/2022
Covid response
National Lottery Community Fund - Let's Grow More Trees!
£10,000 22/04/2022
The funding will be used to cover the costs to grow 10000 more trees at their tree nursery and engage with the community to deliver volunteer sessions and learn the principles of growing trees. The project aims to improve the local environment by ....more
Devon Community Foundation - First Aid Training for Moor Trees
£2,000 10/03/2022
first aid training costs for core staff members who work with volunteers and who conduct lone work
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Moor Trees
£2,658 23/10/2021
We wish to expand and improve our community tree nurseries so we can provide a better space for our volunteers, grow more native broad-leaved trees and plant lots of new woodland in Devon.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 27/03/2020
Growing Moor Trees
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Communities Through Learning
£9,920 13/12/2017
12
The funding will be used to work with those who are rurally socially isolated due to learn about trees and growing seedlings in local nurseries. The nurseries will provide a safe space for older people and those with specific physical and mental ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Creating a Landscape for Learning
£10,000 28/01/2015
12
Not Available
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-71
  • DR ALEXANDRA KATHRYN THIEMANN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Veterinary Surgeon
  • DR JOHN PETER GREEN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Local Government Officer
  • DR THOMAS MURPHY Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Academic
  • JAKE DAVID ALEXANDER WILLIS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Environmental Consultant
  • JENNY ISAAC Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Consultant
  • TIM FERRY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/06/2000, number: 1081142
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/02/1999, number: 03716434
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR13: 32 days late,
Main office

OLD SCHOOL CENTRE
TOTNES ROAD
SOUTH BRENT
DEVON
TQ10 9BP

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE:(A) THE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE ENVIRONMENT , AND IN PARTICULAR DARTMOOR'S WILD NATURAL FORESTS;(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST THE PUBLIC CONCERNING NATURAL HISTORY, CONSERVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ROLE OF THE WOODLAND RESTORATION IN THE STABILISATION AND REGENERATION OF ECOSYSTEMS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

DARTMOOR NATIONAL PARK, DEVON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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