GROWING WORKS

Registered charity 1160003 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Growing Works vision is to nurture lives to empower vulnerable people to build resilience. We don?t only grow vegetables, we grow people. We run outdoor therapeutic activities for children and adults, volunteers and other members of the community Activities include growing, cooking, eating, drinking, foraging, planting, crafting, bush craft, making and learning.

Objects

(A) TO PRESERVE, PROTECT AND PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH AMONGST THE COMMUNITY BY PROMOTING AND ENCOURAGING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY EXERCISE AND CREATIVE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY;(B) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BECAUSE OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, ESPECIALLY THOUGH THE PROVISION OF OUTDOOR THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY FOR FAMILIES WITH COMPLEX NEEDS, PEOPLE IN ISOLATED AND VULNERABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, AND PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES;(C) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC WITH REGARD TO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE SEASONS THROUGH GARDENING AND UTILISATION OF THE OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; AND IN PARTICULAR TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND CHILDREN, IN ORDER TO DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES SO THEY MAY BE ENABLED TO BETTER PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £3,091 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £133,441 to £130,350. The trustees consider reserves of £48,334 to be acceptable against a policy target of four months' operating costs or a minimum of £40,000. The charity is eligible for independent examination rather than audit under small company and charity regulations.

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
• Paying staff
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07832832

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.

• JEBSON, Vivien Jane — director, appointed 07/03/2026on trustee list
• CHAMBERS, Paula — director, appointed 10/01/2026on trustee list
• BLACKBURN, Richard — director, appointed 21/10/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Blackburnchair
• Paula Chambers
• Vivien Jane Jebson

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

Operates in: Kirklees

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 GROW FOR LIFE.

• GROW FOR LIFE income £106k
• GROWING WELL LIMITED income £1.5m
• THE GROWING SPACE (WINCANTON) LIMITED income £61k
• GROW ORGANISATION income £557k
• ORGANICARTS income £73k
• GROW CARDIFF income £247k

Side by side with its peers

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