Finance Score: 3

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 3

Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 15

INTERNATIONAL TREE FOUNDATION

Protecting, promoting and planting trees to benefit the natural environment and the wellbeing and livelihoods of communities

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from a grant maker
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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
31/12/22		£886	£856	£30	£42	£589	£230	3.2	12	3
31/12/21		£664	£516	£148	£42	£559	£148	3.5	9	5
31/12/20		£642	£577	£65	£69	£411	£120	2.5	8	2
31/12/19		£740	£621	£118	£81	£346	£164	3.2	11	3
31/12/18		£637	£514	£123	£54	£228	£190	4.4	9	3
31/12/17?		£573	£664	£-91	£53	£105	£69	1.2	5	0
30/09/16		£395	£402	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/15		£365	£315	£50	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/14		£267	£287	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/13		£143	£163	£-20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/12		£144	£222	£-78	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/11	*	£98	£286	£-188	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/10		£212	£332	£-120	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/09		£174	£299	£-125	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/08		£168	£282	£-114	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/07	*	£186	£262	£-76	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/06		£124	£235	£-111	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/05		£220	£178	£41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.9%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 39%
Reserves/Spending: 3.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 32.9

Asset Split ?

Established: 20 years

www.internationaltreefoundation.org

info@internationaltreefoundation.org

01865922430

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Land or water management

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides other finance
Provides services

Where it operates

Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Oxfordshire, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

12 employees
3 volunteers

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
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Grant:Darwin Main 25-014:Landscapes and Livelihoods: Participatory Restoration of the Mt Bamboutos Ecosystem
£88,630	01/04/2020	Reestablishment of key biodiversity habitat and catchment areas through community-led forest restoration on degraded Bamboutos Mountain. Increasing tree cover on farms through agroforestry and the ....more Reestablishment of key biodiversity habitat and catchment areas through community-led forest restoration on degraded Bamboutos Mountain. Increasing tree cover on farms through agroforestry and the development of tree-based value chains will improve food security and income for poor mountain communities, leading to improved livelihoods, as well as biodiversity.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Grant:Darwin Main 25-014:Landscapes and Livelihoods: Participatory Restoration of the Mt Bamboutos Ecosystem
£82,890	01/07/2018	Reestablishment of key biodiversity habitat and catchment areas through community-led forest restoration on degraded Bamboutos Mountain. Increasing tree cover on farms through agroforestry and the ....more Reestablishment of key biodiversity habitat and catchment areas through community-led forest restoration on degraded Bamboutos Mountain. Increasing tree cover on farms through agroforestry and the development of tree-based value chains will improve food security and income for poor mountain communities, leading to improved livelihoods, as well as biodiversity.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Grant:Darwin Main 25-014:Landscapes and Livelihoods: Participatory Restoration of the Mt Bamboutos Ecosystem
£42,481	01/04/2018	Reestablishment of key biodiversity habitat and catchment areas through community-led forest restoration on degraded Bamboutos Mountain. Increasing tree cover on farms through agroforestry and the ....more Reestablishment of key biodiversity habitat and catchment areas through community-led forest restoration on degraded Bamboutos Mountain. Increasing tree cover on farms through agroforestry and the development of tree-based value chains will improve food security and income for poor mountain communities, leading to improved livelihoods, as well as biodiversity.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Nkhata Bay Natural Way
£370,202	21/03/2015 48	Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - The Nkhata Bay Natural Way
£10,000	25/06/2014 12	Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Trees For livelihoods
£479,717	20/02/2013 48	This project in four communes in Mopti District, Mali, aims to increase food security, reduce poverty and build resilience to climatic shocks and long term climate change.The project will promote ....more This project in four communes in Mopti District, Mali, aims to increase food security, reduce poverty and build resilience to climatic shocks and long term climate change.The project will promote techniques to enable farmers to restore tree cover quickly to agricultural land in order to help reduce erosion and improve soil fertility.
National Lottery Community Fund - Trees For livelihoods
£12,551	29/03/2012 12	This project, based in four communes in the Mopti District of Mali, aims to improve food security and reduce poverty through improved access to and more sustainable and profitable use of ....more This project, based in four communes in the Mopti District of Mali, aims to improve food security and reduce poverty through improved access to and more sustainable and profitable use of agricultural, pastoral and forest land by disadvantaged people.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (12)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 38-72

Commentary:Not evident where Trustee section is on web site. Timothy Hornsby has been Chair since 2014 and career spans academic life, Whitehall, and leading three public sector bodies: currently chairing two organisations, and acting as a non-executive Director for five others.

ANDREA LOWNDES Appointed: 2022

BENJAMIN FARMER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Senior Vice President, Human Resources

JULIUS WAMBUGU KAMAU Appointed: 2023

PROF JONATHAN DRORI Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Author

THOMAS ADLAM Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chartered Accountant

CHRISTINE ANN MACQUEEN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Communications Director

DR KATE SCHRECKENBERG Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Lecturer

JOSIAH NJORE KIMANI Appointed: 2017, Occupation: It Consultant

MIRIAM RERU Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Mobile Payments And Compliance Consultant

RACHEL WANGECHI WANYOIKE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Sustainable Development Professional

STEPHEN BARBER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Independent Consultant, Other trusteeship: THE DAIWA ANGLO-JAPANESE FOUNDATION,

DR STEPHEN VICKERS (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Chief Executive, Other trusteeship: SOUTH EAST ENGLAND FAITHS FORUM,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/10/2004, number: 1106269
Registered at Companies House on 01/09/2004, number: 05219549

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

18 returns made; AR11: 8 days late, AR07: 14 days late,

Main office

The Old Music Hall
106-108 Cowley Road
OX4 1JE

Objectives

1. TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND INPROVENENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, IN PARTICULAR BY:1.1 PLANTING AND CARING FOR TREES AND ENCOURAGING THE PLANTING AND CARING FOR TREES GLOBALLY; AND1.2 FOSTERING AN APPRECIATION OF TREES AND THE AMENITY AND ECOLOGICAL VALUE OF TREE COVER.2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN TREES AND THEIR HABITATS3. TO PROMOTE THE SCIENCES OF SYLVICULTURE, ABORICUULTURE, AGRO-FORESTRY AND ASSOCIATED FIELDS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE UNITED KINGDOM

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