CAREW POLE GARDEN TRUST

Registered charity 268964 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trust owns these historic woodland gardens, listed Grade 2*, based on a design by Humphrey Repton which adjoin Antony House, Cornwall (a National Trust property), which are regularly open to the public. The gardens are also used for the purposes of research, with a view to furthering the study and science of botany and the improvement of the methods and practice of horticulture.

Objects

AS AND FOR A GARDEN FOR THE ONJOYMENT OF THE PUBLIC AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF RESEARCH (BY THE GROWTH AND PROPAGATION OF TREES AND PLANTS) WITH A VIEW TO THE FURTHERANCE OF THE STUDY AND SCIENCE OF BOTANY AND THE INCREASE OF KNOWLEDGE IN RESPECT THEREOF AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE METHODS AND PRACTICE OF HORTICULTURE.

Area of benefit: ANTONY HOUSE TORPOINT CORNWALL

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

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Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £2,710 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a previous deficit. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,711,171, though it faces net current liabilities of £31,101. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 06/02/2025, 6 days after the 31/01/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• LADY Mary Carew Pole DCVO · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIR RALPH FERRERS ALEXANDER VYVYAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stamford Timothy John Galsworthy
• Tremayne John Carew Pole

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CAREW POLE CHARITABLE TRUST.

• CAREW POLE CHARITABLE TRUST income £142k
• THE ANTONY DALE TRUST income £33k
• TREBAH GARDEN TRUST income £3.0m
• THE GIBBERD GARDEN TRUST income £80k
• HAREWOOD HOUSE TRUST LIMITED income £6.0m
• THE PALACE TRUST income £2.2m

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