GREENFINGERS CHARITY

Registered charity 1076640 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GREENFINGERS APPEAL

The Greenfingers Charity creates Magical Gardens and tranquil spaces for children in hospices in the UK

Objects

TO ADVANCE ANY PURPOSE WHICH IS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

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: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 46% to £984,665, while total expenditure rose to £1,249,082, resulting in a net deficit for the year. Despite this, the charity reports a strong financial position with unrestricted reserves of £1,030,298, which the Trustees consider adequate to cover nine months of operational costs.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03716044

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Greenfingers Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Garden Centre Magazine — “Garden Centre Magazine served as headline sponsor” (source page)
• Vitax — “Vitax sponsored the Champagne Reception” (source page)
• Westland Horticulture — “Westland Horticulture sponsored the Champagne Auction” (source page)

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.

• HEAD, Roger Denys — director, appointed 30/10/2025on trustee list
• CAREY, David Andrew — director, appointed 31/10/2024on trustee list
• PEAT, Alastair James — director, appointed 21/04/2022on trustee list
• TOWSE, Heidi Baylis — director, appointed 21/04/2022on trustee list
• WOODHOUSE, Tamsin Susan — director, appointed 21/01/2020not on trustee list
• CAPEWELL, Richard Timothy — director, appointed 21/01/2020on trustee list
• ALLEN, Susan Alice — director, appointed 17/10/2019on trustee list
• SEWELL, Neil Robbie — secretary, appointed 28/05/2024

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 21.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alastair Peat · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anthony Edward Kersey
• Boyd John Douglas-Davies
• David Andrew Carey
• Heidi Towse
• Richard Capewell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Jones
• Roger Denys Head
• Susan Allen
• Tammy Woodhouse

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 GREENFIELDS CHILDCARE.

• GREENFIELDS CHILDCARE income £413k
• GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND UK income £4.9m
• FRIENDS OF GREEN FOLD income £29k
• MAGIC MOMENTS income £144k
• GREENFINCH CHURCH income £48k
• THE GREEN HAT FOUNDATION income £50k

Side by side with its peers

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