WILDGOOSE RURAL TRAINING

Registered charity 1142201 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TOP BARN TRAINING CENTRE

Providing training, education and therapeutic opportunities in land based subjects via activities and courses designed for adults with disablities and young people who find the challenges of schooling difficult. We aim to reconnect people to the land and their food.

Objects

4.1 The Company's objects are principally for the benefit of the community:- 4.1.1 To provide or assist in the provision of services in the interests of social welfare for work or leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such services by reason of their age, ability or social circumstances within the object of improving their conditions of life 4.1.2 To advance the education of the beneficiaries, in particular, through the provision of training and experience in land based and practical skills 4.1.3 To develop the capacity and skills of the members of the community in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in society. 4.1.4 To promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment and access to open space and engage, advance and educate the public in these matters 4.1.5 such other charitable purposes as determined by the Board from time to time. [Nothing in the articles shall authorise an application of the property of the charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.]

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 · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stand at £383,731, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £200,000. However, the document notes that free liquid reserves are negative £35,893 due to historical and current capital investments, and the charity has long-term borrowings of £185,153.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kendall Wadley LLP. 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
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07390338 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: WGRT SERVICES LTD Companies House 14028978 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wildgoose Rural Training and Nature Reserve (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jim — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Geoff Sansome — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Brian Boswell — Vice Chair of Trustees (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development — “Part funded by The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe Investing in Rural Areas.” (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.

• BARLETTA, Antonio — director, appointed 06/08/2025not on trustee list
• CARTWRIGHT, Lynn Marie — director, appointed 26/06/2024on trustee list
• BOSWELL, Brian Peter — director, appointed 01/05/2023on trustee list
• MONTGOMERY, Helen — director, appointed 01/07/2022on trustee list
• SANSOME, Geoffrey — director, appointed 19/10/2021on trustee list
• TERRETT, Moira — director, appointed 02/04/2019on trustee list
• SAUNDERS, David Frank — director, appointed 01/08/2017on trustee list
• BROWN, Stuart Charles — director, appointed 01/01/2017on 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (73% 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: 21.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Antony Barletta
• Brian Boswell · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID FRANK SAUNDERS
• Geoffrey Sansome · trustee of 2 other charities
• Helen Montgomery
• Lynn Cartwright
• Moira Terrett
• Stuart Charles Brown

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WILDHEART TRUST.

• THE WILDHEART TRUST income £3.0m
• WILD GROUND income £394k
• WILD WELFARE income £283k
• WILDLIFE RESCUE income £48k
• THE WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• THE WILD EAST CHARITABLE TRUST income £240k

Side by side with its peers

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