DOWNLANDS TRUST

Registered charity 1126535 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF DOWNLANDS PROJECT

We are a volunteer-run charity set up to support countryside conservation and management schemes across NE Surrey and adjoining urban fringe areas of South London. We do this principally via raising funds in order to provide grants to further our aims. These include enhancing the local landscape, maintaining biodiversity in rare habitats and promoting access to the countryside for everyone.

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £123,606, which comfortably exceeds the stated policy target range of £40,000 to £60,000. The charity reported a net expenditure for the year, reducing total funds from £127,223 to £125,309, but maintains strong liquidity with cash in hand and at bank of £133,541.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06661092

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.

• PRINGLE, Elspeth — director, appointed 24/11/2020on trustee list
• HASELER, Geoffrey Peter — director, appointed 22/10/2019on trustee list
• WAKEHAM, Peter — director, appointed 15/04/2019on trustee list
• MILAN, Sarah — director, appointed 23/10/2018on trustee list
• SIBA, Noreen — director, appointed 26/02/2018on trustee list
• MASCALL, Pamela Jean — director, appointed 30/11/2016on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elspeth Pringle
• Geoffrey Haseler
• NOREEN SIBA
• PAMELA MASCALL
• Peter Wakeham
• ROGER JAMES FINDLAY
• Sarah Milan · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Croydon · Surrey · Sutton

Income and spending

Common questions

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 SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK TRUST.

• SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK TRUST income £2.3m
• THE WOODLANDS FARM TRUST income £234k
• THE DOWNS SCHOOL TRUST income £106k
• THE COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• WORLD LAND TRUST income £9.7m
• FAMILY FOUNDATIONS TRUST LIMITED income £327k

Side by side with its peers

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