TREES FOR CITIES

Registered charity 1032154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7837722 · Wikipedia

Trees for Cities empowers people to plant and care for trees in towns and cities, targeting places where they have the greatest impact for people, places and nature. Through trees, we connect people to nature, enrich lives and create leafy, liveable places for today and future generations. Trees for Cities is the only UK charity operating at national scale that is solely dedicated to urban trees.

Objects

To advance the education of the public in the appreciation of trees and nature, particularly with regard to their social and environmental value by the planting, protection and promotion of trees and green spaces everywhere and in particular in towns and cities

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £773,485 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted free reserves falling significantly below the stated policy minimum of £570,000. Per the trustees' report, this created challenges to liquidity and agility, prompting a restructure and cost reductions to rebuild reserves over the next two to three years.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Bauer Media Outdoor celebrates 10 years of partnership with Trees for Cities in a new OOH campaign outsmart.org.uk · 22/09/2026
• Topics - Charity Spotlight: Emma Peet, Marketing and Communications Manager at Trees for Cities charitydigital.org.uk · 13/03/2024
• Trees for Cities’ seeing shift towards more women in leadership positions hortweek.com · 05/03/2024
• Trees for Cities host community tree planting day news.merton.gov.uk · 14/02/2024
• Third Sector Awards: Charity Chair of the Year – Janine Hawkins, Trees for Cities thirdsector.co.uk · 22/09/2023
• Trees for Cities: Implementing Nature-Based Solutions in India thecityfix.com · 01/05/2023
• ABP partners with Trees for Cities to plant 21,000 trees across UK regions abports.co.uk · 09/02/2023
• Our team plant record number of trees for Trees for Cities news.co.uk · 07/09/2022

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Trees for Cities (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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 ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (69% 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: 13.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ruth Chamberschair
• Alexander William MacGillivray
• Bella Bardswell
• David Mark Woodbine
• John Rose
• Julia Ann Bramley
• Mandip Singh Hayer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Foster
• Sarah Potter

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITY OF TREES TRUST.

• CITY OF TREES TRUST income £3.6m
• TREE SISTERS income £660k
• THE TREE COUNCIL income £2.8m
• TREE AID income £12.5m
• CENTRE FOR CITIES income £1.6m
• FUTURE TREES TRUST CIO income £526k

Side by side with its peers

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