RODLEY NATURE RESERVE TRUST

Registered charity 1070744 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q48601560

Nature reserve providing free access to the general public. A free educational resource for primary school groups and older students. Free guided walks for groups throughout the year. Special facilities for disabled visitors. Protection of the environment and biodiversity of the area.

Objects

THE CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF LEASED LANDS AT THE FORMER RODLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS AS A NATURE RESERVE BY HABITAT MANAGEMENT FOR WILDLIFE AND IN PARTICULAR THE WILDLIFE OF WETLAND HABITATS AND THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE UNDERSTANDING, APPRECIATION AND ENJOYMENT OF WILDLIFE BY ANY MEANS CONSISTENT WITH SUCH OBJECT

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: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net profit of £3,104 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total funds increasing to £556,348. The trustees note that unrestricted reserves of £332,855 are well above their stated policy target of £40,000. The filing confirms the charity is operated entirely by volunteers with no staff employed.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

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 03423104

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.

• FINN, Carolyn — director, appointed 10/12/2024on trustee list
• GANDER, Rachel Margaret — director, appointed 10/12/2024on trustee list
• STANILAND, Barbara Louise — director, appointed 05/12/2022on trustee list
• SWANN, Denese Lynn — director, appointed 04/12/2022on trustee list
• MCLEOD, Kirsty Ann — director, appointed 07/02/2019on trustee list
• MURPHY, Peter — director, appointed 07/06/2018on trustee list
• BELLWOOD, Margaret Jane — director, appointed 23/04/2016on trustee list
• KNAPP, Jeremy Stephen, Dr — director, appointed 29/05/2013on trustee list
• NESHAM, David Arthur — director, appointed 09/11/2006on trustee list
• MURPHY, Peter — secretary, appointed 01/04/2004

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew John Woodall Mr
• Barbara Louise Staniland
• Carolyn Finn
• DAVID ARTHUR NESHAM
• DR JEREMY STEPHEN KNAPP
• Denese Lynn Swann
• Kirsty Ann McLeod
• Margaret Jane Bellwood
• PETER MURPHY
• Rachel Margaret Gander

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WILDLIFE FOR ALL TRUST.

• THE WILDLIFE FOR ALL TRUST income £47k
• THE WHITLEY FUND FOR NATURE income £2.6m
• THE TOTTLE WOODLAND AND WILDLIFE CHARITY income £136k
• NATURAL ENTERPRISE LTD income £753k
• WATCHTREE NATURE RESERVE LIMITED income £612k
• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

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