THE MUSTARD TREE FOUNDATION (READING)

Registered charity 1104631 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Mustard Tree is a Reading based charity supporting people who are often overlooked or marginalised. Working through partnerships with local communities, charities and statutory organisations we innovate and develop projects that reduce health and social inequalities, increase community engagement, and give a voice to the unheard.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £27,587 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £181,434. The trustees confirm that this level of reserves exceeds their stated policy target of three months of budgeted expenditure, which was approximately £142,000 at year-end. The independent examiner confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and reported no matters requiring attention.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Mustard Tree (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 4.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/10/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR M J PENSONchair
• Alison Awuku
• DAVID GIBBONS
• Dr JOHN HAWKINS OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Isabel Challis
• Kevin James Potter

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MUSTARD TREE.

• THE MUSTARD TREE income £2.1m
• Mustard Seed (SW) income £164k
• LOTE TREE FOUNDATION income £149k
• THE MUSTARDSEED ARTS AND EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £303k
• INTERNATIONAL TREE FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• AL-MUSTAFA COMMUNITY TRUST income £129k

Side by side with its peers

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