THE NATURIST FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1179641 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing naturist recreational facilities and maintaining ancient woodlands

Objects

PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST AND IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE; SUCH FACILITIES TO BE PROVIDED WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE PRIMARILY INTENDED, AND TO BE AVAILABLE TO MALE AND FEMALE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC;PROVIDED THAT THE FOREGOING OBJECTS SHALL BE RESTRICTED AS FAR AS MAY BE NECESSARY AND REQUISITE AND SHALL BE CARRIED OUT SOLELY AND EXCLUSIVELY IN A MANNER RECOGNISED BY THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND SO AS TO COMPLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 5 OF THE CHARITIES ACT 2011 OR OTHERWISE IN A MANNER RECOGNISED BY THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS CHARITABLE.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds increased to £959,639, up from £924,777 in the prior year, reflecting a net income of £34,862. The charity generated £425,304 in total income against charitable expenditure of £390,442, resulting in a positive net movement in funds. Net assets are held entirely in unrestricted funds, with no mention of restricted or designated reserves.

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 risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Louise Joanne Howellschair
• Patricia Frances Mills
• Stephen Paul Paton

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UK NATIONAL PARKS CHARITY FOUNDATION.

• UK NATIONAL PARKS CHARITY FOUNDATION income £193k
• NER FOUNDATION income £606k
• THE TOTTLE WOODLAND AND WILDLIFE CHARITY income £136k
• YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM income £834k
• MY FOUNDATION income £430k
• TAIGH MOR FOUNDATION income £3.3m

Side by side with its peers

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