Willow Tree

Registered charity 1142508 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WILLOW TREE GARDEN

Willow Tree provides disabled people with a practical scheme where learners take part in a range of activities; catering, fitness, dog training, DIY skills including furniture restoration. Growing vegetables and taking part in healthy living and exercise thus improving their quality of life, level of fitness and reducing their isolation, hence increasing their sense of purpose and value.

Objects

(1) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH ANY FORM OF PHYSICAL OR LEARNING DISABILITY IN OR VISITING, NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, EXERCISE, EDUCATION, RECREATION, RESPITE, HOLIDAYS AND PRACTICAL ADVICE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.(2) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF PEOPLE WITH ANY FORM OF PHYSICAL OR LEARNING DISABILITY IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £20,570.83 for the year ended 31st March 2024, resulting in total closing funds of £79,700.41. The document does not disclose any specific reserves policy target or mention any financial risks or uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operating.

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

What the accounts disclose

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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.

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• Volunteer management

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Clare Winterchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Claire Quinn
• Dr HEATHER SAYER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Gordon Smith
• Mechelle Roderick · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rachael Down · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Norfolk · Suffolk

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