AVON NEEDS TREES

Registered charity 1184386 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Avon Needs Trees is acquiring suitable land in the Bristol-Avon Catchment Area tocreate new, permanent forest through reforesting and rewilding. We aim to lock upcarbon, improve biodiversity, mitigate flooding through natural means and to createopportunities for the public to engage with nature. Our first purchase was 34 acres atHazeland near Calne, where we have planted over 10,000 trees.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets increased to £6,271,283, driven largely by land and property assets, while unrestricted reserves decreased to £490,231 due to planned investments in woodland establishment. The charity maintains adequate liquidity with cash and short-term deposits of £1,092,824 and has prepared detailed cash flow forecasts extending to April 2027 to support its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: AVON NEEDS TREES TRADING LTD Companies House 15771034

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Avon Needs Trees (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Funnell — Chair of Trustees and Director (source)
• Dave Wood — Chief Executive & Director (source)
• Theo Blanchard — Trustee Treasurer and Director (source)
• Hilary Jeffkins — Director (source)
• Carrie Spittlehouse — Director (source)
• Aran Shaunak — Head of Business Development & Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold); recorded price paid £7.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Funnellchair
• Antony Gavin Spittlehouse
• Catherine Lucy Bedford
• Theo Blanchard

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · Somerset · South Gloucestershire · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FOREST OF AVON TRUST.

• FOREST OF AVON TRUST income £2.3m
• WILL WOODLANDS income £602k
• THE FOREST OF MARSTON VALE TRUST income £4.3m
• AVON WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.1m
• MORE TREES FOR BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET income £166k
• AVON NAVIGATION TRUST income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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