GOSCOTE GREENACRES COMMUNITY GARDEN

Registered charity 1178639 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Goscote Greenacres was set up to encourage and support adults with learning disabilities and the local community, to come together, to learn new skills, meet new people and enjoy gardening and other outdoor activities as a means to tackle prejudice. The garden provides a huge range of community gardening, development and social activities for local people to enjoy, including 54 allotment plots.

Objects

TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION BY PROVIDING AN AREA FOR USE AS A COMMUNITY GARDEN FOR INDIVIDUALS IN GOSCOTE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £37,216, reducing its net assets to £20,082. The trustees report that the surplus of funds was insufficient to cover another year's expenses, leading to the redundancy of all staff and a scaling down of activities. The charity intends to continue on a volunteer basis in the short term.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10168064

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Goscote Greenacres Community Garden (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• MORETON, Michael John — director, appointed 26/01/2025on trustee list
• DOLAN, Raymond — director, appointed 28/05/2024not on trustee list
• HOLLOWAY, Lynda Jean — director, appointed 01/01/2018not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Craig Mitchell Bayliss
• David Albert Clifford Mason
• Fiona Jayne Price
• Michael John Moreton
• ray dolan

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

Operates in: Walsall

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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