Pipal Tree

Registered charity 1159770 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHORACHORI

Our Mission is to restore the degraded environment in Nepal so that wildlife and communities can co-exist in harmony, while offering opportunities for the poorest people to live healthier, more secure lives and realise their full potential.

Objects

TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) WITHIN NEPAL AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Hams, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income increase to £505,619 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven largely by a £550,000 property bequest. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £64,334, which is above the stated policy target of £45,000. The charity holds significant designated funds of £550,000 related to the property legacy, bringing total net assets to £789,455.

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 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
• 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.

What the charity says about itself (2024/25)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Philip Holmes — Founder (source)
• Bev Holmes — Founder (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 Big Give — “The majority of our donations and grants are channelled through The Big Give, itself a registered charity, which allows gifts to automatical…” (source page)
• Paradigm Norton Trust — “We have been consistently impressed at the way in which Pipal Tree communicates, and the degree to which they evidence the outstanding impac…” (source page)

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 · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANGELA MARIE SHERMAN
• John Stuart Clark ACA
• Julian Francis Bates
• Nicholas Jonathan Helson Hinton MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel Dennis Clarke

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

Operates in: Nepal

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 THE HIMALAYAN TRUST UK CIO.

• THE HIMALAYAN TRUST UK CIO income £263k
• LINCS2NEPAL income £146k
• TEMPLE TREE FOUNDATION income £125k
• NEW LIFE NEPAL SUPPORT TRUST income £26k
• CHANCE FOR NEPAL income £81k
• COMMUNITY ACTION NEPAL income £572k

Side by side with its peers

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