ANCIENT TREE FORUM

Registered charity 1071012 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ATF

to promote the protection and preservation of ancient trees, and their associated wildlife, for the benefit of the public;

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF ANCIENT AND OTHER VETERAN TREES, AND THEIR ASSOCIATED WILDLIFE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN THE BIOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION OF ANCIENT AND OTHER VETERAN TREES AND THEIR ASSOCIATED WILDLIFE AND TO DEVELOP THE BEST TECHNIQUES FOR THEIR CONSERVATION TO PUBLISH AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION ON ANCIENT AND OTHER VETERAN TREES AND THEIR ASSOCIATED WILDLIFE, AND ON TECHNIQUES FOR THEIR MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE BIOLOGICAL, CULTURAL, HISTORIC AND AESTHETIC VALUE OF ANCIENT AND OTHER VETERAN TREES

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £12,891 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £144,510. This figure significantly exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of £36,000, which represents three months of operating costs. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its 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
• 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 03578609

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.

• CLARK, Tonia Jane Margaret — director, appointed 16/09/2025on trustee list
• BOUGHTON, Tom — director, appointed 16/09/2025not on trustee list
• HILL, Thomas — director, appointed 05/09/2023on trustee list
• POWELL, Richard Charles — director, appointed 05/09/2023not on trustee list
• SEARLE, Matthew James — director, appointed 06/09/2022on trustee list
• DOYLE WILDMAN, Michelle Anne — director, appointed 06/09/2022not on trustee list
• SILVAWOOD, Cheryl — director, appointed 06/09/2022on trustee list
• BARLEY, Luke — director, appointed 07/12/2021on trustee list
• HOLBAN, Luminita — director, appointed 01/11/2021on trustee list
• TODD, Philip Allen — director, appointed 09/10/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Powell OBEchair
• Cheryl Silvawood · trustee of 1 other charity
• Luke Barley
• Luminita Holban
• Matthew Searle
• Michelle Doyle Wildman
• Philip Allen Todd
• Thomas Boughton
• Thomas Hill
• Tonia Clark

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HELPING OLDER PEOPLE NEW FOREST.

• HELPING OLDER PEOPLE NEW FOREST income £204k
• THE TREE COUNCIL income £2.8m
• INTERNATIONAL TREE FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• NEW FOREST TRUST income £84k
• THE HONORARY TREASURERS FORUM income £39k
• ACTION FOR CONSERVATION income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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