THE GREEN TEAM

Registered charity 1080247 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Green Team recruits volunteers and trains them in horticulture and gardening, and deploys them to provide a low-cost gardening service to older and disabled people within a ten mile radius of Goole, East Riding. Volunteers also cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on a rented allotment in Goole.

Objects

1. FOR THE BENEFIT OF ELDERLY AND DISABLED PEOPLE IN GOOLE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY THE PROVISION OF A GARDENING SERVICE2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PERSONS IN HORTICULTURAL SKILLS AND PRACTICES BY PROVIDING TRAINING

Area of benefit: GOOLE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £920 for the period, with total income of £83,958 and total expenditure of £84,878. The trustees consider the charity a going concern, noting that a payment plan has been put in place with HMRC for outstanding debts, although cash reserves were insufficient to cover outstanding debt at year-end. The charity currently has no stated reserves policy.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 27/07/2026, 177 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2024 (received 09/10/2025, 251 days after the 31/01/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRIAN ROBERTSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Barbara Cavanagh

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire

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 GOSCOTE GREENACRES COMMUNITY GARDEN.

• GOSCOTE GREENACRES COMMUNITY GARDEN income £14k
• GROW FOR LIFE income £106k
• ROUS LENCH AND RADFORD COMMUNITY GARDEN income £28k
• GREEN FUTURES GREATER GRIMSBY LTD income £122k
• HEREFORDSHIRE GROWING POINT income £80k
• GREEN DOOR income £93k

Side by side with its peers

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