FRIENDS OF BARNET ENVIRONMENT CENTRE

Registered charity 1165515 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Environmental education and hands-on activities for school and youth groups; sessions are led by an experienced teacher.We work with other charities and organisations on specific projects on the nature reserve in which young people can learn basic skills in nature conservation, work collaboratively and enjoy working outdoors.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN NATURAL HISTORY AND NATURE CONSERVATION, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF SCHOOL VISITS, COMMUNITY EVENTS AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS PROJECTS, PRIMARILY AT THE BYNG ROAD NATURE RESERVE IN BARNET.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had a busy year with high demand for its educational work, being fully booked from February to July. The organization continues to operate its reserve and educational programs with support from volunteers and community engagement.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/11/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BERNARD JOHNSONchair
• ELIZABETH MARGARET PEARSON
• Geoffrey David Lee
• JENNIFER ARNOLD
• KATHERINE JEAN JOHNSON
• LINDA PERRY
• MELVYN JONATHAN DRESNER · trustee of 1 other charity
• PATRICIA RUTH BARRETT
• PETER GEORGE WILLIAM STERN
• RICHARD HARTLEY ELMS
• SANDRA ANN STERN

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

Operates in: Barnet · Camden · Enfield · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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