COMMUNITY FOREST TRUST

Registered charity 1072706 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CITY OF TREES, COMMUNITY FORESTS NORTH WEST LIMITED, COMMUNITY FORESTS NORTHWEST THE RED ROSE FOREST TRUST

The Community Forest Trust works to support the development of community forestry initiatives including City of Trees, The Mersey Forest, and White Rose Forest. Projects include mitigating climate change through the provision of high quality green infrastructure.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £435,522 (group) from £379,325 in the prior year, with a designated reserves policy fund of £105,362 held to cover three months of operational activities. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2024) to £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 2 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03598556

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.

• KIRKMAN, Thomas Alexander — director, appointed 29/09/2025on trustee list
• WILCOCK, Kieran Paul — director, appointed 29/09/2025on trustee list
• MAIN, Angela Mary — director, appointed 12/12/2024on trustee list
• LINDLEY, Tom Barnaby — director, appointed 12/12/2024on trustee list
• WORTHINGTON-COBB, Jane — director, appointed 12/12/2024on trustee list
• SHAW, Clare — director, appointed 24/06/2024on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Benjamin Antony — director, appointed 04/12/2020on trustee list
• BALL, Alison Margaret — director, appointed 04/12/2020on trustee list
• MERTON, Victoria Frances — director, appointed 15/02/2017on trustee list
• SIMSON, Alan James, Professor — director, appointed 22/05/2014on trustee list
• MORGAN, Claire — secretary, appointed 23/06/2025

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

9 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALISON BALLchair
• Angela Main
• BENJAMIN WILLIAMS
• Clare Shaw
• Jane Worthington-Cobb
• Kieran Wilcock
• PROF ALAN SIMSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Kirkman
• Tom Lindley
• VICTORIA MERTON

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• ALISON BALL — trustee here and at COMMUNITY FOREST TRUST
• Angela Main — trustee here and at COMMUNITY FOREST TRUST
• BENJAMIN WILLIAMS — trustee here and at COMMUNITY FOREST TRUST
• Clare Shaw — trustee here and at COMMUNITY FOREST TRUST
• Jane Worthington-Cobb — trustee here and at COMMUNITY FOREST TRUST
• Kieran Wilcock — trustee here and at COMMUNITY FOREST TRUST
• PROF ALAN SIMSON — trustee here and at COMMUNITY FOREST TRUST
• Thomas Kirkman — trustee here and at COMMUNITY FOREST TRUST
• Tom Lindley — trustee here and at COMMUNITY FOREST TRUST
• VICTORIA MERTON — trustee here and at COMMUNITY FOREST TRUST

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

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 CITY OF TREES TRUST.

• CITY OF TREES TRUST income £3.6m
• MERSEY FOREST FOUNDATION income £124k
• THE FOREST OF MARSTON VALE TRUST income £4.3m
• FOREST OF AVON TRUST income £2.3m
• THE SHERWOOD FOREST TRUST income £379k
• HIGH TREES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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