THE KENT BRANCH OF THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND

Registered charity 1092012 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CPRE KENT, PROTECT KENT

CPRE Kent, the countryside charity, exists to promote the beauty, tranquillity and diversity of rural England by encouraging the sustainable use of land and other natural resources in town and country.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE BRANCH IS ESTABLISHED (THE "OBJECTS") ARE TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE IMPROVEMENT AND PROTECTION OF THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE AND IN PARTICULAR THAT OF KENT AND ITS TOWNS AND VILLAGES AND THE BETTER DEVELOPMENT OF THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT.

Area of benefit: KENT

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £84,656 for the year, which was offset by investment gains of £159,031 to result in a net movement in funds of £129,962. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds total reserves of £6,145,201, with only £83,817 held in unrestricted free reserves, which is below the stated policy target of six months' budgeted expenditure. The trustees note that the charity continues to withdraw cash from its designated endowment fund to fund cash flow.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves LLP. 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 policy and procedures
• 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 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £230k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• BENEDICT ROBERT KIRKWIN MOORHEAD DL
• Christine Evelyn Cary Drury
• Dr Hilary Anne Newport
• Graham Horner
• MANUELO LUIGI LORENZO
• Nigel Britten
• Paul Buckley
• Rt Hon Damian Howard Green
• Sarah Louise Cassidy

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

Operates in: Kent · Medway

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND, HAMPSHIRE BRANCH.

• CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND, HAMPSHIRE BRANCH income £224k
• CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND income £4.3m
• THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND WILTSHIRE income £131k
• CPRE HERTFORDSHIRE income £84k
• THE OXFORDSHIRE BRANCH OF THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND income £371k
• THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND (CPRE) LEICESTERSHIRE income £286k

Side by side with its peers

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