THE WILLOW TREE TRUST

Registered charity 1096149 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Making grants to individuals and organisations which are consistent with the objects of the Trust and general charitable purposes.

Objects

SUCH OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES. (PLEASE SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION FOR FURTHER DETAILS)

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £6,052,144, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of retaining £3,000,000 on a permanent basis. The charity reported a net income of £365,500 driven by investment gains and confirms it has sufficient resources to meet liabilities for at least one year.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

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 policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 28/02/2022 (received 11/01/2023, 14 days after the 28/12/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04625426

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.

• FLINTOFF, Paul Edmund — director, appointed 24/12/2002on trustee list
• HORNER, David Jeremy — director, appointed 24/12/2002on trustee list
• PHILIPS, David Raymond St Clair — director, appointed 24/12/2002on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID HORNER
• DAVID RAYMOND ST CLAIR PHILIPS
• PAUL EDMUND FLINTOFF

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

Operates in: Ethiopia · Sierra Leone · Uganda

Income and spending

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