OAK TREE FARM RURAL PROJECT LIMITED

Registered charity 1138396 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OAK TREE FARM RURAL PROJECT

Oak Tree Farm provides training and supported occupation for adults with learning disabilities in a rural environment.

Objects

THE SUPPORT OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AND DIFFICULTIES THROUGH ACTIVITIES AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN HORTICULTURE, AGRICULTURE, CATERING, POTTERY AND ASSOCIATED RURAL ACTIVITIES.

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stafford, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £102,400 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £547,079 to £444,679. The trustees report that the charity is confident of its financial position and considers there to be no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Reserves of £444,679 significantly exceed the stated policy target of £113,000, which is intended to cover wind-up costs.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Oak Tree Farm Rural Project (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen Andersonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANNE ELIZABETH BIRD
• Carol Blurton
• Caroline Shallcross
• DAVID LESLIE FOLKES
• Dr Colin Cambell
• Fiona Clare
• Jean Pattinson-Evans
• Kathy Browne
• Patricia Connell
• Steven Elliott

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OAK TREE ANIMALS' CHARITY.

• OAK TREE ANIMALS' CHARITY income £2.6m
• WILLOW TREE FAMILY FARM income £249k
• OAK TREE HOMES TRUST income £64k
• THE ORCHARD TRUST income £5.4m
• LONGMEAD COMMUNITY FARM LIMITED income £77k
• THE OAKLANDS income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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