BRUNSWICK ORGANIC NURSERIES LTD

Registered charity 1010178 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRUNSWICK ORGANIC NURSERY AND CRAFT WORKSHOP

Brunswick offers purposeful work and training to people with learning difficulties. They have the chance to work in horticulture, cooking and crafts, and are supported to produce goods which are sold on site.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH PHYSICAL, MENTAL OR SOCIAL HANDICAP OR DISABILITY AND THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS RLATING TO SUCH HANDICAP OR DISABILITY, ORGANIC HUSBANDRY AND CRAFTS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated net deficit of £17,262 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by rising staff costs and inflationary pressures that outpaced income increases from local authority contracts. Despite this deficit, the charity maintained free reserves of £287,420, which exceeded its stated policy target of approximately £230,000, and the trustees confirmed adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 02/02/2024, 2 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (67% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 25.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Mark Stevenson
• Charlotte Mary Inch
• Colin Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Deborah Pendle
• Frederick Anthony Woodhead
• Sally Elizabeth Light
• Simon Antony Usher

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

Operates in: City Of York · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRUNSWICK HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE.

• BRUNSWICK HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE income £376k
• BLYTHWOOD COMMUNITY NURSERY LIMITED income £209k
• ORGANICARTS income £73k
• JENNYRUTH WORKSHOPS LTD income £561k
• BOLTON NURSERY LIMITED income £328k
• BNEI ZION COMMUNITY NURSERY income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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