FOREST OF SELWOOD

Registered charity 1200944 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FOREST OF SELWOOD CIC

Forest of Selwood is set up to achieve the following charitable objects:i. To promote the conservation of the natural and physical environment of the Forest of Selwood and its surroundings and to educate the public in its heritage. ii. To advance the education and awareness of the Forest of Selwood community and the public in the principles of biodiversity conservation and sustainability.

Objects

1.TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF THE NATURAL AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE FOREST OF SELWOOD AND ITS SURROUNDINGS AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN ITS HERITAGE.2.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND AWARENESS OF THE FOREST OF SELWOOD COMMUNITY AND THE PUBLIC IN THE PRINCIPLES OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY.

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 the charity reported a net surplus of £1,834 for the period, with total income of £108,201 and expenditure of £106,118. Per the trustees' report, sufficient reserves are held in a general fund to ensure running costs can be met as they fall due. The balance sheet shows net assets of £95,264, indicating the charity remains financially stable.

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 policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jill Elizabeth Butlerchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charles Couzens
• James Alexander Coward
• Patricia Anne Stainton
• Samantha Mennell
• Thomas Lewis

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

Operates in: Dorset · Somerset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Wychwood Forest Trust Ltd.

• Wychwood Forest Trust Ltd income £168k
• THE SHERWOOD FOREST TRUST income £379k
• THE BENTLEY WOOD CHARITABLE TRUST income £342k
• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m
• WALESBY FOREST income £1.5m
• THE COTSWOLD WILDLIFE PARK CONSERVATION TRUST income £239k

Side by side with its peers

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