FOREST FARM PEACE GARDEN

Registered charity 1123031 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Forest Farm Peace Garden is a therapeutic community garden which works with a broad cross-section of the community to promote health, wellbeing, inclusion, environmental sustainability, and intercultural awareness.

Objects

1)TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF THE WIDER COMMUNITY AND IN PARTICULAR REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ORGANIC GARDENING OPPORTUNITIES, CONSERVATION BASED ACTIVITIES, EDUCATION AND ONE TO ONE SUPPORT.2)TO PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND IMPROVE THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT; IN PARTICULAR THROUGH ORGANIC GARDENING, PERMACULTURE, CONSERVATION, AND OTHER ECOLOGICALLY SOUND PRACTICES.3) TO FOSTER A GENUINELY DIVERSE AND INTEGRATED COMMUNITY THROUGH:A) THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE, ETHNIC ORIGIN, GENDER, AGE, DISABILITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR RELIGION;B) PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED IN PRACTICE GREATER LONDON

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held £7,544 in unrestricted reserves at the end of the year, which is below its stated policy target of three to six months' running costs. However, the trustees report a satisfactory financial performance with no current concerns regarding income stability or activity access.

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.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Forest Farm Peace Garden (matched by registered charity number).

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Milica Robsonchair
• Alan Lieng
• Nigel Mayer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Kate Brincat
• Thomas Paul Blackburn

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

Operates in: Redbridge

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FOREST GATE COMMUNITY GARDEN.

• FOREST GATE COMMUNITY GARDEN income £45k
• FOREST OF HEARTS income £149k
• FARNCOMBE COMMUNITY GARDEN income £64k
• NORMANDY COMMUNITY THERAPY GARDEN income £250k
• COMMUNITY FOREST TRUST income £8.9m
• MERSEY FOREST FOUNDATION income £124k

Side by side with its peers

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