THE CORNWALL SUSTAINABLE BUILDING TRUST

Registered charity 1100982 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CSBT

Provider of training for various disciplines in the construction indusrty and related organisations. Raising awareness of various environmental and sustainable issues relating to the building sector and providing consultancy and advice.

Objects

(A) TO ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF SUSTAINABLE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACCOMMODATION FOR PERSONS IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, POVERTY OR DISTRESS, ON TERMS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR MEANS, WITHIN THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL ("THE AREA OF BENEFIT").(B) TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING INCLUDING TRAINING IN SKILLS RELEVANT TO SECURING EMPLOYMENT RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE BUILDING AMONG THOSE LIVING OR WORKING WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND BEYOND.(C) TO PRESERVE, PROTECT AND ENHANCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND BEYOND BY:-(I) RAISING AWARENESS OF THE IMPACT OF CONSTRUCTION ON THE CORNISH AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTS;(II) DEMONSTRATING THE ECONOMIC AND OTHER BENEFITS OF A SUSTAINABLE ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO DESIGN MATERIALS SYSTEMS AND PLANNING;(III) PROVIDING INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TO THOSE INVOLVED IN CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF CORNWALL AND BEYOND

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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Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reports a positive financial position with unrestricted funds of £232,178, exceeding its policy target of maintaining one to two months of expenditure. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future, supported by a continuing positive cash flow and an improving balance sheet.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2025) to "above" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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 04614816 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: SUSTAIN CORNWALL LIMITED Companies House 05624503

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.

• COCKING, Brendon — director, appointed 16/12/2021on trustee list
• TATTERTON, Allison Julie — director, appointed 16/12/2021on trustee list
• CROSSLEY, Philip Nicholl — director, appointed 18/08/2020on trustee list
• EDMONDSON, David Morton — director, appointed 20/06/2007on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID EDMONDSONchair
• Allison Julie Tatterton
• Brendon Cocking
• Philip Nicholl Crossley

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

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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 THE CORNWALL HERITAGE TRUST LIMITED.

• THE CORNWALL HERITAGE TRUST LIMITED income £1.2m
• BUILDING SOCIETIES TRUST LIMITED income £139k
• C.A.B. CORNWALL income £1.8m
• THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT TRUST income £2.7m
• THE CORNWALL BUILDINGS PRESERVATION TRUST income £150k
• BUILDING TRUST INTERNATIONAL income £176k

Side by side with its peers

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