TREE AID

Registered charity 1135156 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7837530 · Wikipedia

TREE AID works with poor families, especially women, in the African drylands to unlock the potential of trees to reduce poverty & protect the environment. We provide education, training, policy & technical advice on tree based development initiatives that support poor communities build incomes, improve their management of & secure access to natural resources, & achieve nutritional security.

Objects

RELIEVING THE POVERTY OF AND PROMOTING THE WELFARE OF POOR PERSONS OVERSEAS BY, PROMOTING FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH PERSONS THE CONSERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THEIR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT ESPECIALLY THROUGH SILVICULTURE AND JOB CREATION; ANDPROMOTING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT RESEARCH INTO METHODS OF RECLAIMING OR PREVENTING DEGRADATION OF CURRENT AGRICULTURAL OR FOREST LAND INTO DESERT LAND FOR ITS CONTINUED USE FOR FORESTRY, AGRICULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL OR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE. OVERSEAS

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

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

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £12.5 million from £11.3 million in the prior year, while total expenditure decreased to £11.7 million. The charity ended the year with a net income of £0.7 million and unrestricted reserves of £1.9 million, which met the board's target level. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate reserves to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2025) to "above" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03779545
• Trading subsidiary: TREE AID ENTERPRISES LTD Companies House 09199430 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Tree Aid (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• MAHJOUR, Ahmed Medhi — director, appointed 23/07/2026on trustee list
• MADGWICK, Fiona Jane — director, appointed 23/07/2026on trustee list
• BARRY BOYLE, Maura — director, appointed 23/07/2026not on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Ian Maurice — director, appointed 23/07/2026on trustee list
• WHARTON, Kate Owens — director, appointed 24/07/2024on trustee list
• BOWYER, Katherine — director, appointed 24/07/2024on trustee list
• MAMON, Anwar — director, appointed 24/07/2024on trustee list
• SEGAL, Sabrina — director, appointed 24/07/2024on trustee list
• DEDEJ, Defrim — director, appointed 13/07/2023on trustee list
• SIMUYANDI, Alexander Halwindi — director, appointed 02/12/2021on trustee list
• ALLISON, Hilary Mary — director, appointed 02/12/2021on trustee list
• HILBORN, Tristram David — director, appointed 02/12/2021on trustee list
• SHEAHAN, Benedict Robert — secretary, appointed 07/07/2017

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/09/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fiona Jane Madgwickchair
• Ahmed Mehdi Mahjour
• Alexander Halwindi Simuyandi
• Amit Shah
• Anwar Mamon
• Defrim Dedej
• Dr Hilary Mary Allison · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Maurice Robinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kate Owens Wharton
• Katherine Bowyer
• Maura Barry Boyle
• Sabrina Segal
• Tristram Hilborn

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

Operates in: Burkina Faso · Ethiopia · Ghana · Mali · Niger

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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 THE TREE COUNCIL.

• THE TREE COUNCIL income £2.8m
• TREE SISTERS income £660k
• TREE OF HOPE income £1.1m
• TREES FOR CITIES income £5.4m
• WITHY TREES WELFARE & EDUCATION income £794k
• INTERNATIONAL TREE FOUNDATION income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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