LAWRENCE WESTON COMMUNITY FARM

Registered charity 1046563 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LAWRENCE WESTON COMMUNITY FARM LTD

Lawrence Weston Community Farm is a community-managed project that aims to improve the quality of life for local people and its service users by working with local people and others to provide a range of innovative, exciting, educational, environmental and recreational activities in Lawrence Weston.

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION. 2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, HOME CRAFTS, COUNTRY LIFE AND RELATED SUBJECTS. 3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION IN THE CARE AND CONSIDERATION OF ALL ANIMALS. 4) TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING SO TO PREPARE THE BENEFICIARIES FOR ANY TRADE, OCCUPATION OR SERVICE. 5) TO RELIEVE PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS BY THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND THERAPUTIC ACTIVITIES. (FOR FULL OBJECTS DESCRIPTION SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE GOVERNING INSTRUMENT)

Area of benefit: AVONMOUTH, KINGSWESTON, HENBURY, WESTBURY ON TRYM, SOUTHMEAD

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £23,697 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £240,091 against total expenditure of £216,394. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted general fund reserves were £51,366, which falls within the stated policy target range of £50,000 to £90,000. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03040752

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lawrence Weston Community Farm (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HYDE, Jason Paul — director, appointed 07/05/2026on trustee list
• YUEN, Gail — director, appointed 29/10/2025on trustee list
• MITCHARD, Alyson — director, appointed 28/10/2024on trustee list
• SEWARD, Angie — director, appointed 10/07/2023on trustee list
• CORDING, Sarah — director, appointed 01/05/2012on trustee list
• FLANAGAN, Paula, Dr. — secretary, appointed 03/03/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/02/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alyson Mitchard
• Angie Seward
• Gail Yuen
• Harriett Holly
• SARAH CORDING

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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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.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LAWRENCE WESTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT.

• LAWRENCE WESTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £102k
• WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM income £228k
• LONG ASHTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £218k
• AMBITION LAWRENCE WESTON income £729k
• WESTWOOD FARM COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL income £130k
• LONGMEAD COMMUNITY FARM LIMITED income £77k

Side by side with its peers

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