BIRMINGHAM TREE PEOPLE

Registered charity 1190536 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Birmingham TreePeople aims to plant, establish and advocate for trees in Birmingham. We provide free training and organise community activities relating to trees. We are also a registered training centre for the Skills Education Group Level 2 in Arboriculture. We survey trees across the city and use this data in our decision making and advocacy work.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT IN BIRMINGHAM BY PLANTING, MAINTAINING, PRESERVING AND PROMOTING TREES TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT ALL ASPECTS OF TREES AND TREE CARE AND TO EDUCATE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO FULFIL THE ROLE OF VOLUNTEER TREE WARDENS.

Area of benefit: IN BIRMINGHAM

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 unrestricted reserves total £75,791 and restricted reserves total £58,246, resulting in total free reserves of £134,037. The trustees' policy aims to maintain reserves equivalent to three months of running costs to cover potential redundancy payments and funding gaps. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters were identified that would cast doubt on the charity's ability to continue its operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deanne Brettle
• Debra Gordon
• Harry Croxford
• James Tucker
• Julianne Mary Statham
• Lawrence Weston
• Nina Griffiths
• Samantha Dobbie

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• CITY OF TREES TRUST income £3.6m
• INTERNATIONAL TREE FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• TREES FOR CITIES income £5.4m
• THE ARBORICULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £1.7m
• THE TREE COUNCIL income £2.8m
• MORE TREES FOR BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET income £166k

Side by side with its peers

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