TREES FOR CITIES

Registered charity 1032154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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.

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

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.

In the news

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

• Trees for Cities host community tree planting day news.merton.gov.uk · 14/02/2024
• Trees for Cities: Implementing Nature-Based Solutions in India thecityfix.com · 01/05/2023
• FEA to hold Earth Day event to benefit Trees for Cities cateringinsight.com · 13/04/2021
• Local nonprofit encourages less carbon pollution, more trees for cities and towns knkx.org · 13/06/2019
• The Modder Who Spends Hundreds of Hours Building Trees for ‘Cities: Skylines’ vice.com · 04/05/2017

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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
• THE TREE COUNCIL income £2.8m
• INTERNATIONAL TREE FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• BIRMINGHAM TREE PEOPLE income £229k
• TREE SISTERS income £660k
• CITY TO CITY UK income £377k

Side by side with its peers

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