THE MUSTARD TREE

Registered charity 1135192 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Mustard Tree operates across Greater Manchester, providing food, clothing furniture and training for individuals in need. Our beneficiaries include those experiencing or at risk of homelessness, those recovering from addictions, ex-offenders, refugees, asylum seekers and those with mental health issues. We run various programmes helping people re-find their confidence, motivation and employment.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING BY THE PROVISION OF AND ASSISTANCE IN OBTAINING HOUSING, FURNITURE, FOOD, CLOTHING AND OTHER ITEMS FOR PERSONS WHO ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES ON TERMS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR NEEDS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RETRAINING, PARTICULARLY AMONG UNEMPLOYED AND DISADVANTAGED AND SOCIALLY EXCLUDED PEOPLE ('THE OBJECTS').

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern. The auditor confirmed that the trustees' report is consistent with the financial statements and prepared in accordance with legal requirements. No material misstatements or exceptions were identified by the auditor.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Indeken Audi Uk. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Adlestone OBE — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Dave Smith — Founder (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (65% 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: 29.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARK ISAAC ADLESTONE OBEchair
• Adrian Christopher Ellis
• Cllr Rabnawaz Akbar · trustee of 2 other charities
• Darren Clark CStJ,DL
• Nicola Ruth Wertheim
• Richard Caulfield

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford · Wigan

Income and spending

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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 MUSTARD TREE FOUNDATION (READING).

• THE MUSTARD TREE FOUNDATION (READING) income £298k
• MUSTARD SEED AUTISM TRUST income £207k
• CITY OF TREES TRUST income £3.6m
• Mustard Seed (SW) income £164k
• The Recovery Tree Charity income £180k
• THE COTTON TREE TRUST income £244k

Side by side with its peers

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