Finance Score: -8

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 2

Low unrestricted reserves: -2
Volatile income: -3
Fundraising costs high: -3

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

Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 0

TREE SISTERS

TreeSisters is a restoration charity that centres women and trees for a world where nature and people flourish in connection, equity, and harmony. We partner with communities & NGOs towards ethical forest restoration, centre women and gender equity in our work and inspire connection with nature to promote a consciousness shift from consumer to restorer.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Income has been volatile recently
Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised

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		£1,429	£1,422	£7	£404	£1,083	£335	2.8	14	0
31/03/22		£1,885	£1,708	£178	£385	£1,076	£321	2.3	15	35
31/03/21		£2,138	£1,647	£491	£186	£898	£677	4.9	11	60
31/03/20		£1,777	£1,748	£29	£198	£269	£235	1.6	10	58
31/03/19		£906	£1,005	£-99	£109	£227	£215	2.6	8	58
31/03/18		£1,151	£905	£246	£125	£338	£332	4.4	4	0
31/03/17		£371	£335	£36	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£186	£138	£49	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£76	£97	£-21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£78	£52	£26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 28.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 28.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 3%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 31%
Reserves/Spending: 2.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 28.4

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Established: 11 years
(13 years as a company)

www.treesisters.org

support@treesisters.org

07715812674

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

GiG Classification

Services for females

How it operates

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

Where it operates

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Congo (Democratic Republic), Indonesia, Kenya, Throughout England And Wales, Uganda,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

14 employees

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
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Core costs
£10,000	17/06/2019	Towards core costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - TreeSisters Groves - Community Groups for Women
£10,000	20/12/2017 12	The funding will be used to help women across England to set up local groups that will support each other through personal challenges, initiate local tree planting projects and work together to ....more The funding will be used to help women across England to set up local groups that will support each other through personal challenges, initiate local tree planting projects and work together to advocate environmental issues.
National Lottery Community Fund - Development of TreeSisters Multimedia Empowerment Programme
£10,000	02/05/2013 12	This is a project to develop an interactive multimedia online project leadership programme with women's groups. It will develop the capacity of the group to train and produce publicity and training ....more This is a project to develop an interactive multimedia online project leadership programme with women's groups. It will develop the capacity of the group to train and produce publicity and training materials for their environmental sustainability project to empower women to develop projects in their own area. Funding will inc group facilitator, video and audio material, website and monitoring.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 31-60

ZAC ROWE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Senior Legal Counsel

ANDREW MURRAY Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Finance Manager

JENNIFER ANN COMEAU Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Entrepreneur

MARIA INES MIRANDA SALAS Appointed: 2022

SITAL PUNJA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/11/2012, number: 1149961
Registered at Companies House on 08/09/2010, number: 07369954

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
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

10 returns made; AR16: 1 days late,

Main office

5 Reedswood Road
ST. LEONARDS-ON-SEA
East Sussex
TN38 8DN

Objectives

1. TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY PROMOTING BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY THROUGH INCREASED GREEN COVER.2.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING AND SUPPORT TO ENCOURAGE LEADERSHIP AND PARTICIPATION IN THE WORK OF THE CHARITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN GENERAL, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON WOMEN.

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