FRIENDS OF PAXTON PITS NATURE RESERVE

Registered charity 1125221 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FPPNR

Through volunteer action, The Friends works to: enhance habitat and create new habitat for wildlife at Paxton Pits; achieve expansion of the nature reserve; enhance visitor facilities and the visitor experience; promote and provide information about the Reserve and its wildlife through public events, publications and the Reserve website, and support informal and formal educational activities.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF PAXTON PITS NATURE RESERVE BY PROMOTING BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY;2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

Area of benefit: CAMBRIDGSHIRE

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £16,641 for the year and holds unrestricted reserves of £253,456. The trustees confirm the charity is in a strong financial position to meet future challenges and has no material uncertainties regarding its continuing as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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.

• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Arthur Anderson-Brownchair
• Alison Jean Barwell
• Carina Jasmine McKee
• David Wilson
• Ian Michael Crosby
• Jane Woodhead
• Martin Runchman
• Maxine Biggs
• Mike Thomas
• Neal Parkin
• Stephen Matthews

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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