NORTHERN ROOTS (OLDHAM) LTD

Registered charity 1196806 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTHERN ROOTS

To provide, maintain, protect, improve and equip the gardens, landscaped areas, woodlands, open spaces, playing fields and recreational amenity spaces within the Northern Roots site, advance health by promoting outdoor activities including Horticulture and Agriculture, land based activities and recreation and amateur sport. Provision of allotment facilities. Promotion of arts, history, culture.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state the charity achieved a total surplus of £313,032 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted funds increasing to £303,828. The trustees report that the charity has sufficient financial resources to continue as a going concern, despite noting high risks related to securing future funding for the upcoming Visitor Centre opening.

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery Heritage Fund — “We already partner with: National organisations like Natural England , the National Health Service , the National Lottery Heritage Fund and …” (source page)
• Esmee Fairbairn Foundation — “We already partner with: National organisations like Natural England , the National Health Service , the National Lottery Heritage Fund and …” (source page)
• The Oglesby Family Trust — “Regional bodies like University of Salford , Lancashire Wildlife Trust , Manchester Histories Festival , The Oglesby Family Trust , or the G…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNE SELBY
• Allan Tyrer
• COUNCILLOR ABDUL JABBAR · trustee of 2 other charities
• Councillor Barbara Brownridge
• Ghazala Koosar
• Jonathan Bland · trustee of 1 other charity
• STUART LOCKWOOD

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

Operates in: Oldham

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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