THE BOX MOOR TRUST

Registered charity 206142 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4951552 · Wikipedia · also known as THE BOXMOOR ESTATE, THE BOXMOOR TRUST

The sustainable management of agricultural and amenity land extending to 487 acres of moors, commons, woodland and grassland and provision of environmental education facilities for the use and enjoyment of the residents and youth of the area of benefit of Hemel Hempstead and Bovingdon

Objects

FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF HEMEL HEMPSTEAD AND BOVINGDON. ANY SURPLUS INCOME TO BE DIVIDED 90% TO HEMEL HEMPSTEAD AND 1O% TO BOVINGDON FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: HEMEL HEMPSTEAD AND BOVINGDON

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dacorum, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds free reserves of £577,883, which is below its stated policy target of £1.5m, though the board intends to build reserves over time. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months, with £2.2m in cash held at year-end.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~83.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (62% 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: 10.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Patrick Schneiderschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDY COOK
• DAVID HENRY WILLIAM KIRK
• Graham Russell French
• Kevin Brown
• Lisa Timms
• Lynda Mills-Webb
• Matthew Whitbread
• PETER ABLETT
• PETER PHILLIPS
• Stephen James Wilson

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 THE HURST WATER MEADOW TRUST.

• THE HURST WATER MEADOW TRUST income £29k
• BADGWORTHY TRUST FOR THE PRESERVATION OF EXMOOR income £109k
• THE BEAUMONT TRUST income £27k
• MOOR POOL HERITAGE TRUST income £164k
• HORSELL COMMON PRESERVATION SOCIETY income £429k
• CHICHESTER HARBOUR TRUST income £75k

Side by side with its peers

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