WILLOW TREE FAMILY FARM

Registered charity 1122101 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

EDUCATIONAL AND LEISURE SERVICES, Sports, Nature, horticulture, social health and wellbeing, unemployment, disadvantaged families and disability in children and adults

Objects

3. THE OBJECT OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR YOUNG PEOPLE, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF THEIR AGE, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR CULTURE, POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS OPINIONS, IN AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, CONSERVATION, THE CARE AND CONSIDERATION OF ALL ANIMALS AND OTHER ASSOCIATED SUBJECTS WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SAID PERSONS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFNED. IN PRACTICE: IN THE SHIREBROOK, BOLSOVER AREA OF DERBYSHIRE.

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£249k
Latest spending
£368k
Registered
2007
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a net expenditure of £119,055 for the year, reducing its total unrestricted funds from £148,863 to £29,808. The trustees report significant financial challenges due to rising costs and reduced income, noting that the charity is heavily reliant on visitor income and faces uncertainty regarding its land lease.

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 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Willow Tree Family Farm (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£249k£368k
31/12/2024£390k£415k
31/12/2023£425k£421k
31/12/2022£426k£406k
31/12/2021£447k£367k

Common questions

Is WILLOW TREE FAMILY FARM financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity operated at a net expenditure of £119,055 for the year, reducing its total unrestricted funds from £148,863 to £29,808. The trustees report significant financial challenges due to rising costs and reduced income, noting that the charity is heavily reliant on visitor income and faces uncertainty regarding its land lease. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds WILLOW TREE FAMILY FARM?

Funders whose own accounts filings name WILLOW TREE FAMILY FARM as a grant recipient include SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2023£2k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund08/02/2017£9kWillow Tree Family Farm - The Next Step
The National Lottery Community Fund04/12/2009£7kLearn in the Woods