REAL FARMING TRUST

Registered charity 1061607 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WINGED HORSE TRUST

The Trust supports farming and food production projects that are economically sound, democratic, socially just, humane to animals, and promote the long-term protection of the biosphere

Objects

SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR OBJECTS AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE

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: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £17,356 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £242,491. The trustees confirm that these reserves represent just under eleven months of unrestricted expenditure, satisfying their policy target of nine to twelve months. The filing confirms adequate resources for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (63% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joy Louise O'Neillchair
• Cassie Robinson
• Jack Edward Easton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Philip Saltmarsh
• Nicola Helen Read
• Richard Gantlett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rosemary Jessica Lewis
• Sandra Cristina Salazar D'eca

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

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

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• THE WOODLANDS FARM TRUST income £234k
• THE FARMING COMMUNITY NETWORK income £1.8m
• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m
• FARM URBAN income £143k
• THE COUNTRY FOOD TRUST income £649k
• FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CHARITABLE TRUST income £15.3m

Side by side with its peers

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