THE TREE COUNCIL

Registered charity 279000 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7770078 · Wikipedia

The Tree Council works towards making trees matter to people; more trees, of the right kind, in the right places; better care for all trees of all ages and inspiring effective action for trees. An umbrella body and a forum for tackling issues relating to trees and woods, it promotes the improvement of the environment by the planting and conservation of trees and woods throughout the UK.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE PLANTING CARE NURTURE AND CULTIVATION OF TREES IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £2,756,571 against total expenditure of £2,374,411, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £922,591, which the trustees confirm equates to 8.8 months of core costs, satisfying their policy target of maintaining between six to twelve months of core costs. The auditor confirmed 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 audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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 31/03/2021 (received 01/02/2022, 1 day after the 31/01/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01459056

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Tree Council UK (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DIGGENS, Toby William Livingston — director, appointed 19/11/2025on trustee list
• LIEPINA, Eliza — director, appointed 07/11/2023on trustee list
• GOULANDRIS, Anna Helen — director, appointed 18/10/2022on trustee list
• FENWICK, Andrew — director, appointed 26/11/2019on trustee list
• CADBURY, Joel Michael — director, appointed 16/07/2019on trustee list
• AHMED, Tariq — director, appointed 18/07/2017on trustee list
• LOM, Sara Ann — secretary, appointed 10/05/2018

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 3.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joel Cadburychair
• Andrew Fenwick
• Anna Helen Goulandris
• Eliza Liepina
• Tariq Ahmed
• Toby William Livingston Diggens

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

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
• ANCIENT TREE FORUM income £156k
• THE TREE OF LIFE CENTRE WYTHENSHAWE income £561k
• TREE SHEPHERD LTD income £272k
• Plymouth Tree People income £148k
• TREE LIFE CLUB income £654k

Side by side with its peers

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