CARSTAIRS COUNTRYSIDE TRUST

Registered charity 1201792 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

(a) To promote either through its own acts or by supporting other registered charities the conservation of wildlife, the countryside and heritage within the United Kingdom to benefit all society and to include educational provision. (b) To promote either through its own acts or by supporting other registered charities the provision of facilities to enable all persons to in

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Latest income
£375k
Latest spending
£308k
Registered
2023
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £23,330 for the year ended 31 March 2024, with total funds increasing to £2,605,734. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £440,344, which the trustees determined should be reduced to cover five years of core running costs. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: five years of core running costs (held: £440k)
“Trustees regularly reviewed commitments and concluded that the level of financial reserves should be reduced to a sum which equates to the core running costs of the Charity for a five year period, on the assumption that there would be no income.” — page 5
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

40 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (40 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Doncaster · East Riding Of Yorkshire · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£375k£308k
31/03/2024£182k£152k

Common questions

Is CARSTAIRS COUNTRYSIDE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £23,330 for the year ended 31 March 2024, with total funds increasing to £2,605,734. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £440,344, which the trustees determined should be reduced to cover five years of core running costs. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds CARSTAIRS COUNTRYSIDE TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CARSTAIRS COUNTRYSIDE TRUST as a grant recipient include FRIENDS OF THE LOWER DERWENT VALLEY CONSERVATION GROUP.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
FRIENDS OF THE LOWER DERWENT VALLEY CONSERVATION GROUPFY2025£850kLand purchase (Stubbins Land Thornton)

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund15/02/2010£13k"Cornfield Flowers: Out of Intensive Care"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund08/12/1999£34k"Shirley Pool-Sutton Common Adjacent Land - Acquisition"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund16/02/1999£96k"Pepper Arden Bottoms - Acquisition"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund27/11/1997£77k"Thorganby Undergrounding and Removal of Electricity Cables"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund24/09/1996£24k"Sykehouse Fields, South Yorkshire"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund23/07/1996£71k"Sutton Common, Askern"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund23/07/1996£13k"Kexby Ings"

Funders of similar charities

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
CARSTAIRS COUNTRYSIDE TRUST£375k—0unclear—no doubt
THE COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FY2024£2.0m——below—no doubt
HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST FY2025£9.9m——unclear—no doubt
SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST FY2025£3.4m——below—no doubt
CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND FY2025£4.3m——above—no doubt
DOWNLANDS TRUST FY2024£1.1m—0above—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.