Barnes Common Limited

Registered charity 1153079 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BARNES COMMON MANAGEMENT COMPANY, FRIENDS OF BARNES COMMON

To promote the conservation, protection and enhancement of the physical and natural environment of metropolitan open spaces and public sites in Barnes and surrounding areas including the LNR's of Barnes Common and Leg O'Mutton reservoir and the recreation ground at Vine Road.To promote community engagement along with education for all in the study of the environment, ecology and conservation.

Objects

The charity?s objects (?Objects?) are specifically restricted to the following, in each case for the public benefit: 1.1 To promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment and specifically but without prejudice to the generality of this object, the metropolitan open land open spaces and other sites in Barnes, South West London and surrounding areas. 1.2 To advance the education of the public in the study of ecology and wild life generally and the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment, including the study of heathlands and acid grasslands.

Area of benefit: IN BARNES AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating surplus of £109,579 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £237,370. The trustees confirm that these reserves are sufficient to cover three months of normal expenditure, which was approximately £114,000, and that the charity has no long-term debt. Consequently, the trustees are confident that the charity will continue as a going concern.

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.

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 policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 — Barnes Common (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Podmore
• Dr Maria Alicia Josephine Guzkowska
• Ian Christopher Tottman
• MICHAEL EDMUND HILDESLEY
• Sarah Anne Wilson · trustee of 1 other charity
• christopher owen Thomas

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

Operates in: Richmond Upon Thames

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BARNES COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

• BARNES COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £300k
• BARNES COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE income £800k
• RESTORE OUR PLANET income £162k
• COMMUNITY BARNET income £1.6m
• FOUNDATION FOR COMMON LAND income £314k
• MONKEN HADLEY COMMON TRUST income £94k

Side by side with its peers

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