FUTURE TREES TRUST CIO

Registered charity 1201851 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We envision that all productive forests and woodlands in the UK will contain a proportion of selected or genetically improved trees to enhance diversity and resilience to climate change, pests and diseases. The wood they produce will be used in the construction of net zero carbon buildings, locking up carbon for decades and helping to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY PROMOTING AND COMMISSIONING RESEARCH INTO HARDWOOD FORESTRY AND IN PARTICULAR RESEARCH INTO THE GROWING AND IMPROVEMENT OF BRITISH HARDWOOD SPECIES, AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ANY SUCH RESEARCH. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WORK OF THE BRITISH AND IRISH HARDWOODS IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME AND IN SUSTAINABLE FOREST AND WOODLAND MANAGEMENT. (SUSTAINABLE FOREST AND WOODLAND MANAGEMENT IS DEFINED AS BEING DEVELOPMENT THAT MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.)

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

Registered contact address: Vale of White Horse, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £525,517, with unrestricted free reserves totaling £96,770. The trustees report that these reserves are broadly in line with their stated policy target of maintaining twelve months' core operating costs as a contingency. The charity confirms it is prepared on a going concern basis with sufficient budgeted income and expenditure to continue 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (52% 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: 16.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALICE SNOWDEN
• Chris Hardy
• Christine Cahalan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Louise Ann Parry Gathercole · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN LEIGH-PEMBERTON · trustee of 6 other charities
• Sophie Torrance
• Stuart Atkinson

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL TREE FOUNDATION.

• INTERNATIONAL TREE FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• THE TREE COUNCIL income £2.8m
• MOOR TREES income £327k
• NEW FOREST TRUST income £84k
• CITY OF TREES TRUST income £3.6m
• THE WOODLAND TRUST income £89.4m

Side by side with its peers

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