MILLENNIUM FARM TRUST

Registered charity 1070145 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MFT

Millennium Farm Trust provides supported work and training opportunities and programmes in agriculture, horticulture and rural skills for adults with additional needs, people recovering their mental health or those with an acquired brain injury at Depden Care Farm, their six acre care smallholding in Suffolk.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC WHO HAVE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND / OR LEARNING DISABILITIES BY GIVING OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRAINING WORK EXPERIENCE AND WORK OR EMPLOYMENT IN AGRICULTURE , HORTICULTURE AND RELATED SUBJECTS AND IN THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP SO THAT SUCH PERSONS CAN DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL , MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES AND GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Area of benefit: SUFFOLK

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 · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£378k
Latest spending
£333k
Registered
1998
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net incoming resources for the year were £44,846, resulting in total net assets of £420,138. The charity holds free reserves of £154,718, which the trustees describe as providing cash flow contingencies. The trustees confirm that adequate resources exist to continue operating for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: two months working capital (held: £155k)
“The charity retains around two months working capital along with any other committed spends; this is reviewed on a quarterly basis in line with the forward view.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Millennium Farm Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Essex · Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£378k£333k
31/03/2024£322k£268k
31/03/2023£255k£241k
31/03/2022£270k£214k
31/03/2021£326k£195k

Common questions

Is MILLENNIUM FARM TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that net incoming resources for the year were £44,846, resulting in total net assets of £420,138. The charity holds free reserves of £154,718, which the trustees describe as providing cash flow contingencies. The trustees confirm that adequate resources exist to continue operating for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds MILLENNIUM FARM TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name MILLENNIUM FARM TRUST as a grant recipient include ST EDMUNDS TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
ST EDMUNDS TRUSTFY2025£12k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund09/10/2020£65kCovid Safe Spaces at Depden Care Farm
The National Lottery Community Fund25/06/2018£50kTPP3 - Minds To Mend
The National Lottery Community Fund16/11/2016£9kPathways for Growth

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 THE CHILDREN'S ADVENTURE FARM TRUST LTD.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
MILLENNIUM FARM TRUST£378k—0above—no doubt
THE CHILDREN'S ADVENTURE FARM TRUST LTD FY2025£1.2m£70,000 - £80,0001above—no doubt
WINDMILL HILL CITY FARM LIMITED FY2025£2.8m—0unclear—no doubt
THE MILLENNIUM AWARDS TRUST FY2025£4.9m—0unclear—no doubt
THE GOOD SOIL TRUST FY2025£185k£28,4920below—no doubt
MILL GROVE CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE TRUST FY2024£486k—0unclear—no doubt

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