SMALL WOODS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1081874 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SWA

Provides education and training, membership services for all those interested in small woodlands

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £134,271 for the year, leading to a depletion of reserves. Per the trustees' report, the charity is facing inflationary pressures and uncertainty from funders, though a restructuring has led to a projected break-even position for the coming year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by James Holyoak & Parker Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Small Woods Association (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).

• Mills & Reeve — “WITH THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mills & Reeve” (source page)
• Mountain Warehouse — “WITH THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mills & Reeve Mountain Warehouse” (source page)
• Sprayway — “WITH THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mills & Reeve Mountain Warehouse Sprayway” (source page)
• Oboz — “WITH THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mills & Reeve Mountain Warehouse Sprayway Oboz” (source page)
• Wesleyan — “WITH THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mills & Reeve Mountain Warehouse Sprayway Oboz Wesleyan” (source page)
• Capgemini — “WITH THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mills & Reeve Mountain Warehouse Sprayway Oboz Wesleyan Capgemini” (source page)
• Jaguar Land Rover — “WITH THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mills & Reeve Mountain Warehouse Sprayway Oboz Wesleyan Capgemini Jaguar Land Rov…” (source page)
• Phoenix Group — “WITH THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mills & Reeve Mountain Warehouse Sprayway Oboz Wesleyan Capgemini Jaguar Land Rov…” (source page)
• Carter Jonas — “WITH THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mills & Reeve Mountain Warehouse Sprayway Oboz Wesleyan Capgemini Jaguar Land Rov…” (source page)
• Stihl — “WITH THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mills & Reeve Mountain Warehouse Sprayway Oboz Wesleyan Capgemini Jaguar Land Rov…” (source page)
• Tilhill Forestry — “WITH THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mills & Reeve Mountain Warehouse Sprayway Oboz Wesleyan Capgemini Jaguar Land Rov…” (source page)
• Woods4Sale — “WITH THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mills & Reeve Mountain Warehouse Sprayway Oboz Wesleyan Capgemini Jaguar Land Rov…” (source page)
• Ashridge Trees — “WITH THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mills & Reeve Mountain Warehouse Sprayway Oboz Wesleyan Capgemini Jaguar Land Rov…” (source page)
• Interface NRM — “WITH THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mills & Reeve Mountain Warehouse Sprayway Oboz Wesleyan Capgemini Jaguar Land Rov…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 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 (93% 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

• JOHN BLESSINGTONchair
• Alyson Anne May · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Ben Howard
• Dr Elizabeth Mary Newton
• Michael Innes · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 WOODLAND HERITAGE LIMITED.

• WOODLAND HERITAGE LIMITED income £1.5m
• THE ROYAL FORESTRY SOCIETY income £1.0m
• WOODCRAFT FOLK income £1.8m
• WILDWOOD TRUST income £4.4m
• UPWOOD SMALL TO TALL income £247k
• FRIENDS OF THE HURTWOOD income £155k

Side by side with its peers

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