THE FRIENDS OF UPTON COUNTRY PARK

Registered charity 272450 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE FRIENDS OF UPTON COUNTY PARK · filing overdue (register status)

To promote the educational and physical recreation aspects of Upton Country Park area (which includes Upton House) and to improve the area and facilities and amenities within it for so long as, in the opinion of the Executive Committee, that area shall be maintained as a Country Park and as a place of achitectural and natural beauty.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATIONAL AND PHYSICAL RECREATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE UPTON COUNTRY PARK AREA (WHICH, FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CONSTITUTION, SHALL BE DEEMED TO INCLUDE UPTON HOUSE AND ITS ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS) AND TO IMPROVE THE AREA AND THE FACILITIES AND AMENITIES WITHIN IT FOR SO LONG AS, IN THE OPINION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE THAT AREA SHALL BE MAINTAINED AS A COUNTRY PARK AND AS A PLACE OF ARCHITECTURAL AND NATURAL BEAUTY.

Area of benefit: POOLE

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: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted cash reserves were £83,911 at the end of the financial year, with an additional £160,000 invested in interest-bearing bonds. The charity reports no funds materially in deficit and notes that volunteers are instrumental in fundraising and operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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 handling
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2025 (received 03/11/2026, 3 days after the 31/10/2026 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 02/01/2025, 63 days after the 31/10/2024 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery — “helped progress the Discovery Project by donating £125,000 towards the Partnership Funding required for our £2.3 million National Lottery bi…” (source page)
• International Tree Foundation — “successfully applied for a grant from the International Tree Foundation, allowing us to work with community groups & volunteers to plant 1,0…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Leppan
• Diana Butler
• Kathy Dinmore
• Lindsey Mumford
• MARY CARR
• MR MIKE YEOMANS
• Nick Woods
• Robert Griffin

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

Operates in: Poole

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE UPTON VILLAGE HALL.

• THE UPTON VILLAGE HALL income £36k
• FRIENDS OF SYWELL COUNTRY PARK income £39k
• FRIENDS OF ROWNTREE PARK income £45k
• ASTBURY MERE TRUST income £105k
• UPPERTOWN SOCIAL CENTRE income £40k
• FRIENDS OF HISTON & IMPINGTON COMMUNITY income £158k

Side by side with its peers

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