HACKNEY TREE PEOPLE

Registered charity 1168716 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HACKNEY COMMUNITY TREE NURSERY, TREE MUSKETEERS

Planting, watering, weeding and caring for trees in local parks. Managing and growing trees at the Hackney Community Tree Nursery.

Objects

(1) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY THE GROWING, CARE AND CONSERVATION OF TREES, MAINLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY. (2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, MAINLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF WORKSHOPS ON WOODLAND MANAGEMENT AND TREE COPPICING AND FELLING.

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: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£63k

Latest spending

£21k

Registered

2016

Accounts read

FY2026

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted cash reserves of £74,039, which the trustees describe as a 'substantial balance' resulting from generous funding. The accounts indicate a healthy financial position with net receipts of £21,369 for the year, supported significantly by grants and donations. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accord with those records, with no matters requiring further attention.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 6 months of its operating costs (reserves figure: £74k)

“HTP has a reserves policy of 6 months of its operating costs.” — page 4

Per its FY2026 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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Internal risk management policy and procedures
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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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2026

Volunteers: 48
Government income: £30,000 — grants £30,000 (1); 48% of the £62,802 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Volunteers: 50
Government income: £8,500 — contracts £4,250 (1), grants £4,250 (1); 21% of the £40,620 total gross income on the same return
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 30
Government income: £26,800 — contracts £11,800 (1), grants £15,000 (1); 62% of the £43,435 total gross income on the same return
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

Aoife Donnelly
Francisco Marcelo Herrera White
Hannah Van Den Brul
Natalie Anne Sutton
Neil Richard Sinden
Samuel James Douglas Parry
Tessa Darbyshire
Yuti Gada · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hackney

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2026	£63k	£21k
31/03/2025	£41k	£62k
31/03/2024	£43k	£42k
31/03/2023	£41k	£28k
31/03/2022	£22k	£10k

Common questions

Is HACKNEY TREE PEOPLE financially healthy?

Per its FY2026 accounts: The charity holds unrestricted cash reserves of £74,039, which the trustees describe as a 'substantial balance' resulting from generous funding. The accounts indicate a healthy financial position with net receipts of £21,369 for the year, supported significantly by grants and donations. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accord with those records, with no matters requiring further attention. Its FY2026 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds HACKNEY TREE PEOPLE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HACKNEY TREE PEOPLE as a grant recipient include THE LANCASHIRE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE LANCASHIRE FOUNDATION	FY2023	£5k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	22/09/2025	£20k	Tree Musketeers: Growing Hackney
UK government	04/01/2024	£4k	TPCG_98
UK government	01/04/2023	£19k	TPCG_98 Hackney Tree People
Greater London Authority	01/05/2019	£1k	Grant to Tree Musketeers

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE NORTHWICK TRUST	2	£30k
HACKNEY PAROCHIAL CHARITIES	2	£29k
THE FORRESTER FAMILY TRUST	2	£25k
WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF INSURERS CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£15k
SOUTH HACKNEY PAROCHIAL CHARITY	2	£14k
CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£4k
THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUST	2	£2k
THE ALA GREEN CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£878k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL TREE FOUNDATION.

INTERNATIONAL TREE FOUNDATION income £1.4m
ACTIVITEENS income £144k
THE TREE COUNCIL income £2.8m
MADE IN HACKNEY income £584k
HACKNEY CITY FARM LIMITED income £507k
Plymouth Tree People income £148k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
HACKNEY TREE PEOPLE	£63k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
INTERNATIONAL TREE FOUNDATION FY2025	£1.4m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
ACTIVITEENS FY2025	£144k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE TREE COUNCIL FY2025	£2.8m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
MADE IN HACKNEY FY2025	£584k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
HACKNEY CITY FARM LIMITED FY2025	£507k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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