WOODLAND HERITAGE LIMITED

Registered charity 1041611 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal activity of the Charity is that of the conservation of trees and woodland areas in the United Kingdom. The aim to achieve this by widening the skills and knowledge base of those people and organisations connected with arboreal matters. Through training courses we can ensure that the existence and integrity of these areas are available to the public for years to come.

Objects

“THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“OBJECTS”) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: (1) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE CREATION, PROTECTION, CONSERVATION, MANAGEMENT AND ENHANCEMENT OF WOODLAND AND TIMBER RESOURCES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF SUSTAINABLE WOOD SUPPLY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: - HELPING PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS TO CONSERVE, GROW AND MAINTAIN BETTER QUALITY TREES AND WOODLAND AREAS VIA THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT, THEREBY SECURING ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL BENEFITS FROM THEIR ENDEAVOURS; - ESTABLISHING AND SUPPORTING A SUBSIDIARY COMPANY TO OPERATE A TRADE OR BUSINESS (IN PARTICULAR A SAWMILL) WHICH DEMONSTRATES THE VALUE OF THOSE PARTS OF THE TIMBER SUPPLY CHAIN UNDER THREAT FROM OBSOLESCENCE; - ACTING AS A RESOURCE BODY FOR CONNECTING THE GROWERS AND USERS OF HIGH QUALITY TIMBER; - RAISING THE AWARENESS BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE VALUE OF CRAFTSMANSHIP IN WOOD; - PROVIDING SUPPORT INCLUDING MAKING GRANTS AND AWARDS TO OTHER CHARITIES, VOLUNTARY BODIES, INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS WHOSE WORK FURTHERS THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THIS OBJECT.(2) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL AND PARTICULARLY AMONGST OTHER CHARITIES, VOLUNTARY BODIES AND ORGANISATIONS WITH AN ACTIVE INTEREST IN FORESTRY ON THE SUBJECTS OF THE VALUE OF WELL-MANAGED WOODLANDS AND HIGH QUALITY TIMBER AND ON THE THREATS FACING WOODLAND AND TIMBER RESOURCES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: - THE PROVISION OF OR THE FACILITATION OF ACCESS TO SKILLS AND TRAINING WITHIN THE FORESTRY AND TIMBER INDUSTRIES; - THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON THE VALUE OF AND THREATS FACING WELL-MANAGED WOODLANDS AND HIGH QUALITY TIMBER; - UNDERTAKING AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH INTO IMPROVING TREE STOCK AND CONTROLLING DAMAGE CAUSED BY PESTS, DISEASES AND A CHANGING CLIMATE, AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; - MAKING GRANTS AND AWARDS OF MONEY TO ANY INDIVIDUAL, CHARITY, VOLUNTARY BODY OR OTHER ORGANISATION WHOSE WORK FURTHERS THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THIS OBJECT. NOTHING IN THE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND/OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds were £1,813,793 and free reserves were £96,145, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their reserves policy target of three months' unrestricted expenditure (£45,000). The consolidated net income for the year was £215,848, driven by a surplus in restricted funds, although the charity's unrestricted funds ran a deficit of £21,824.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by A D Accounts Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Woodland Heritage (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 (2 freehold); recorded price paid £255k. 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 · linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~19.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SIMON BURVILLchair
• Adrian Jowitt
• Clare OReilly
• Elizabeth Binks
• Huw Davies
• John Deakin
• Katie Walker
• Nick Wright
• Simon Lloyd

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WILL WOODLANDS.

• WILL WOODLANDS income £602k
• THE WOODLAND TRUST income £89.4m
• DOWDESWELL CONSERVATION LIMITED income £72k
• THE TOTTLE WOODLAND AND WILDLIFE CHARITY income £136k
• Wychwood Forest Trust Ltd income £168k
• WORCESTERSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £2.8m

Side by side with its peers

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