ABNEY PARK TRUST

Registered charity 1005334 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ABNEY PARK CEMETERY TRUST

The conservation and management of Abney Park (a 32acre memorial park, heritage chapel & woodland nature reserve) for environmental and arts education, skills training courses, museum/archive services, & cultural events. Projects include restoration of the Abney Park Chapel, arboretum, and memorials, and a new classroom and children's garden. Based in Stoke Newington, Hackney, London N16.

Objects

(1)THE CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS ABNEY PARK CEMETERY AS AN AREA OF ARCHITECTURAL AND ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS (2)TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF LONDON AND IN PARTICULAR THE BOROUGH OF HACKNEY WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RACE, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS (3)THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND DISPLAY OF A COLLECTION OR COLLECTIONS OF INFORMATION LITERATURE MANUSCRIPTS AND ARTIFACTS CONCERNING THE HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT, ASSOCIATIONS AND ECOLOGY OF THE CEMETERY

Area of benefit: HACKNEY

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£86k

Latest spending

£70k

Registered

1991

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net income of £16,622, with total income rising to £86,935 and unrestricted funds carried forward at £67,762. The trustees report that reserves are healthy and sufficient to finance core activities for three months, noting there is no imminent threat to sustainability despite known reductions in grant funding. The charity monitors liquidity regularly, with all funds held in immediately accessible bank accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (reserves figure: £68k)

“The Trust retains reserve funds sufficient to finance core activities for three months and other exceptional costs including redundancies if all existing income streams were to cease.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Volunteers: 43
Government income: £47,800 — grants £47,800 (2); 55% of the £86,395 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 43
Government income: £22,000 — grants £22,000 (1); 53% of the £41,613 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Volunteers: 30
Government income: £20,214 — grants £20,214 (1); 45% of the £44,991 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

Tom Walkerchair
Alex James Sargent · trustee of 1 other charity
Councillor Florence Schechter
Dr Stephen Patrick Pinkerton
Imogen Rebecca Frances Clark
John McShane
Martina Girvan
Mary Link Hurd
Mx Zoe Irma Pahne
Nicholas Toner
Professor Yasminah Beebeejaun
Susan Fajana-Thomas
Thomas Mark Beardmore
Wilhelm Reinhardt Tegtmeyer

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Hackney

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£86k	£70k
31/03/2024	£42k	£41k
31/03/2023	£45k	£45k
31/03/2022	£57k	£41k
31/03/2021	£68k	£48k

Common questions

Is ABNEY PARK TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a net income of £16,622, with total income rising to £86,935 and unrestricted funds carried forward at £67,762. The trustees report that reserves are healthy and sufficient to finance core activities for three months, noting there is no imminent threat to sustainability despite known reductions in grant funding. The charity monitors liquidity regularly, with all funds held in immediately accessible bank accounts. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Hackney Council	04/01/2025	£13k	Grant to Abney Park Trust
London Borough of Hackney	04/01/2025	£13k	Grant to Abney Park Trust
London Borough of Hackney	01/04/2024	£22k	Grant to Abney Park Trust
Hackney Council	01/04/2024	£22k	Grant to Abney Park Trust
London Borough of Hackney	21/03/2022	£20k	Grant to Abney Park Trust
Hackney Council	21/03/2022	£20k	Grant to Abney Park Trust
London Borough of Hackney	10/12/2020	£20k	Grant to Abney Park Trust
Hackney Council	10/12/2020	£20k	Grant to Abney Park Trust
London Borough of Hackney	09/12/2020	£20k	Grant to Abney Park Trust
Hackney Council	09/12/2020	£20k	Grant to Abney Park Trust
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	17/08/2020	£10k	"COVID19 Abney Park Trust"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	17/02/2009	£9k	"A Project By This Hackney Group To Run A Programme Of Spring And Summer Activities In Abney Park, A Local Nature Reserve. The Activities Wil"
The National Lottery Community Fund	17/02/2009	£9k	Environmental Skills and Creativity Workshops
The National Lottery Community Fund	14/05/2008	£10k	Abney Park
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	11/05/2007	£24k	"Heritage Skills Linking to the history of Abolition"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	18/12/2006	£5k	"A Project For Volunteers To Learn About Conservation And Specialist Skills Relating To Nature."
The National Lottery Community Fund	08/12/2006	£5k	Spring Into Action
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	26/04/2005	£5k	"The Maintenance, Management, Restoration And Conservation Of Abney Park A 32 Acre Wooded Nature Reserve (Open 7 Days A Week). The Trust Aim"
The National Lottery Community Fund	21/04/2005	£5k	Open day - Celebration of Cultures
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	27/07/2004	£50k	"A Sustainable Future for Abney Park Victorian Garden Cemetery"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	08/03/2002	£5k	"This group maintains, manages, restores and conserves Abney Park, a 32 acre wooded nature reserve. They plan to use the award to develop a D"

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE PILGRIM TRUST	1	£40k
CONGLETON INCLOSURE TRUST	1	£7k
CRIPPLEGATE FOUNDATION	1	£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHENLEY PARK TRUST.

SHENLEY PARK TRUST income £457k
THE HACKNEY HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST income £197k
THE FRIENDS OF ABINGDON ABBEY BUILDINGS TRUST income £571k
AWE FOR NATURE TRUST UK income £163k
THE RADLEY LAKES TRUST income £61k
ASTBURY MERE TRUST income £105k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
ABNEY PARK TRUST	£86k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
SHENLEY PARK TRUST FY2025	£457k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE HACKNEY HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST FY2025	£197k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE FRIENDS OF ABINGDON ABBEY BUILDINGS TRUST FY2025	£571k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
AWE FOR NATURE TRUST UK FY2025	£163k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE RADLEY LAKES TRUST FY2025	£61k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.