SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD WILD GARDEN AND WOODS

Registered charity 1133334 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To manage the Wychwood Wild Garden and related woodlands for the benefit of the local community, residents and visitors. To work with the community in the overall management, conservation and restoration of the Wild Garden while retaining its distinct character.

Objects

1. TO IMPROVE THE CONDITION OF LIFE FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF SHIPTON UNDER WYCHWOOD AND THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES, IN THE COUNTY OF OXFORDSHIRE AND THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE PUBLIC IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE LOCAL INHABITANTS (AND ANY SUCH LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND/OR ORGANISATIONS AS THE CHARITY DECIDE TO WORK WITH FROM TIME TO TIME) TO ACQUIRE, PROVIDE AND PRESERVE PUBLIC ACCESS TO, IN PARTICULAR, THE WILD GARDEN IN THE PARISH OF SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD AND SUCH OTHER AREAS AS THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE. 2. TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, RESTORATION, ESTABLISHMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF TREES, GARDENS, LAKES, WOODLANDS, WILDLIFE HABITATS, WALKWAYS, CHARACTERISTIC LANDSCAPES AND HISTORIC ASPECTS OF, IN PARTICULAR, THE WILD GARDEN IN THE PARISH OF SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD AND SUCH OTHER AREAS AS THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE. 3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORIC ASPECTS, OF IN PARTICULAR, THE WILD GARDEN IN THE PARISH OF SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD AND SUCH OTHER AREAS AS THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Area of benefit: SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD, OXFORDSHIRE

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's financial position is healthy, with unrestricted reserves of £44,964 held in cash at bank. The Trustees consider these reserves sufficient against their policy target of approximately 18 months of running costs, estimated at £12,750. Net assets totalled £95,122, with no disclosed liabilities or pension deficits.

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.

• 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07030839 · Financial health read from its filings

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Cotswold Conservation Board Sustainable Development Fund — “Wychwood Wild Garden was acquired by the charity in 2010 with the assistance of The Cotswold Conservation Board Sustainable Development Fund” (source page)
• The Cotswold Conservation Board’s Sustainable Development Fund — “Supported by The Cotswold Conservation Board’s Sustainable Development Fund” (source page)

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.

• SMITH, Graham Moreton — director, appointed 19/07/2023on trustee list
• DYER, Robert Kenneth — director, appointed 19/07/2023on trustee list
• YULES, David Paul, Dr — director, appointed 19/07/2023on trustee list
• TREVERS, Caroline Mary Stratford — director, appointed 19/01/2021on trustee list
• ARNOLD, Richard Andrew — director, appointed 24/04/2018on trustee list
• PRATT, John Haydon — director, appointed 25/03/2014on trustee list
• MAVIN, Jill Eileen — director, appointed 26/09/2009on trustee list
• HUNTINGFORD, Jeremy Frank — director, appointed 26/09/2009on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• JEREMY FRANK HUNTINGFORDchair
• Caroline Mary Stratford Trevers
• Dr David Paul Yules
• Graham Smith
• Jill Eileen Mavin · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Hayden Pratt
• Richard Andrew Arnold
• Robert Kenneth Dyer

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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