TREE SISTERS

Registered charity 1149961 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TREESISTERS

TreeSisters is a restoration charity that centres women and trees for a world where nature and people flourish in connection, equity, and harmony. We partner with communities & NGOs towards ethical forest restoration, centre women and gender equity in our work and inspire connection with nature to promote a consciousness shift from consumer to restorer.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £243,368 for the year, driven by a significant decrease in income and reduced staff costs following a restructuring. Despite this deficit, unrestricted reserves of £213,234 remain above the trustees' stated policy target of £100,000, and the trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with sufficient resources for the next 12 months.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07369954

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.

• ANSELL, Brontie Maria — director, appointed 23/04/2025on trustee list
• MURRAY, Andrew — director, appointed 13/02/2024on trustee list
• MIRANDA, Maria Ines — director, appointed 04/04/2022not on trustee list
• PUNJA, Sital — director, appointed 04/04/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 27.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Murray
• Brontie Maria Ansell
• Maria Ines Miranda Salas
• Sital Punja

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

Operates in: Brazil · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Kenya · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 TREES FOR CITIES.

• TREES FOR CITIES income £5.4m
• TREE AID income £11.3m
• TREEANGLE FOUNDATION income £239k
• CITY OF TREES TRUST income £3.6m
• THE TREE COUNCIL income £2.8m
• 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.