INTERNATIONAL TREE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1106269 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q48767674 · Wikipedia

Protecting, promoting and planting trees to benefit the natural environment and the wellbeing and livelihoods of communities

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND INPROVENENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, IN PARTICULAR BY:1.1 PLANTING AND CARING FOR TREES AND ENCOURAGING THE PLANTING AND CARING FOR TREES GLOBALLY; AND1.2 FOSTERING AN APPRECIATION OF TREES AND THE AMENITY AND ECOLOGICAL VALUE OF TREE COVER.2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN TREES AND THEIR HABITATS3. TO PROMOTE THE SCIENCES OF SYLVICULTURE, ABORICUULTURE, AGRO-FORESTRY AND ASSOCIATED FIELDS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE UNITED KINGDOM

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Oxford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is in good financial health with unrestricted reserves of £470,964, which exceeds the trustees' policy target of six months' running costs (approximately £188,000). Total income for the year was £1,364,333, with 94% of expenditure directed toward charitable activities. The auditor confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wenn Townsend. 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 handling
• 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
• 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 05219549 · Financial health read from its filings

What the charity says about itself (2021)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — International Tree Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Thomas Lupton — Chair of Trustees (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• LUPTON, Thomas Geoffrey — director, appointed 13/06/2024on trustee list
• DRORI, Jonathan Ilan — director, appointed 19/09/2023on trustee list
• BARBER, Stephen Douglas — director, appointed 15/09/2022on trustee list
• FARMER, Benjamin Glanville — director, appointed 15/09/2022on trustee list
• ADLAM, Thomas Richard — director, appointed 15/09/2022on trustee list
• LOWNDES REED, Andrea — director, appointed 15/09/2022not on trustee list
• MACQUEEN, Christine Ann — director, appointed 09/07/2020on trustee list
• KIMANI, Josiah Njore — director, appointed 27/10/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Thomas Geoffrey Luptonchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Andrea Lowndes
• Benjamin Farmer
• Christine Ann Macqueen
• George Dinnes David Meacham
• Josiah Njore Kimani
• Prof Jonathan Drori
• Stephen Barber · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Adlam

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

Operates in: Burkina Faso · Cameroon · Ghana · Kenya · Madagascar · Malawi · Mali · Oxfordshire · Rwanda · Tanzania · Uganda

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Stephen Barber — trustee here and at THE OFENHEIM CHARITABLE TRUST

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 TEMPLE TREE FOUNDATION.

• TEMPLE TREE FOUNDATION income £125k
• THE TREE COUNCIL income £2.8m
• MERSEY FOREST FOUNDATION income £124k
• STUMP UP FOR TREES income £437k
• ANCIENT TREE FORUM income £156k
• THE WILLOW TREE TRUST income £184k

Side by side with its peers

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