DAWS HALL TRUST

Registered charity 1157570 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To conserve and protect for the benefit of the public and the environment as a whole, the land and waters around Daws Hall.

Objects

(A) TO CONSERVE AND PROTECT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE ENVIRONMENT AS A WHOLE AND ITS ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE AND IN PARTICULAR TO CONSERVE AND TO PROTECT AND MAINTAIN THE LAND AND WATERS AROUND DAWS HALL. (B) TO ESTABLISH A NATURE RESERVE AND FIELD STUDY CENTRE TO HOUSE NATURAL HISTORY SPECIMENS AND TO ORGANISE OR CONDUCT LECTURES WITH A VIEW TO ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC (INCLUDING PUPILS OF SCHOOLS) IN THE STUDY OF WILDLIFE AND NATURE CONSERVATION.

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

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Registered contact address: Braintree, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £349,093, exceeding the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining reserves sufficient to cover 12 months of expenses. The trustees report a reasonable expectation that the trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 01/02/2023, 1 day after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 03/02/2022, 3 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/03/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Garthwaite · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Marsden
• David Guest · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Donald Herries Gibbs · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katherine Holder

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

Operates in: Essex · Suffolk · Throughout London

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Side by side with its peers

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