FRIENDS OF CANNIZARO PARK

Registered charity 1160982 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Friends of Cannizaro Park was founded in 1997 and works with Merton Council to protect this 300 year old Grade II* listed garden. The activities of the Friends include a volunteer group to undertake garden maintenance; funding of and fund-raising for planting and restoration; providing information on the park and organizing guided walks for the public.

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND FUTURE GENERATIONS THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF CANNIZARO PARK LOCATED IN WIMBLEDON ("THE PARK"), BY SUPPORTING THE MAINTENANCE AND RENOVATION OF THIS SITE OF HISTORICAL AND ECOLOGICAL INTEREST AND BEAUTY; B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PARK'S STATUS AS A GRADE II* LISTED GARDEN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH ENGAGEMENT AND APPRECIATION OF ITS DIVERSE COLLECTION OF NATIVE AND EXOTIC TREES AND HISTORIC WOODLAND GARDEN.

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Merton, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased by 6% to £54,239 at the financial year end. The trustees note that this balance is intentionally higher than their policy target of £15,000-20,000 to fund upcoming major projects. The charity reports a surplus from its events programme and has maintained prudent management of costs.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 2 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Nelsonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANNE PEACOCK · trustee of 1 other charity
• CAROLINE NEWSHOLME · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Rink · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Watkins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katrine Weig · trustee of 1 other charity
• Liza Llewellyn · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paola Bassi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Samantha Ellis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Ingall · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Merton

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF ROUNDHAY PARK.

• FRIENDS OF ROUNDHAY PARK income £21k
• FRIENDS OF GREENWICH PARK income £31k
• FRIENDS OF SPENCER PARK income £335k
• FRIENDS OF ROWNTREE PARK income £45k
• FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CHARITABLE TRUST income £15.3m
• FRIENDS OF THE BARGELLO income £42k

Side by side with its peers

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