THE BENTLEY WOOD CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 288749 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Forestry managed for conservation, timber production, amenity and public access.

Objects

FOR SUCH PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND IN PARTICULAR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM COMMUNITY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: New Forest, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's finances are considered sound by the trustees, with total funds increasing from £3.4m to £3.5m over the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £345,824, which are below the stated strategic reserve target of £1.7m, though the overall net assets remain robust due to significant endowment investments.

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 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
• 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 policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY GODDARD
• Dr PATRICIA MARY WOODRUFFE
• James Fisher
• Jonathan Spencer
• Mark Charles Street
• Steven Bruce Brunt

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TOTTLE WOODLAND AND WILDLIFE CHARITY.

• THE TOTTLE WOODLAND AND WILDLIFE CHARITY income £136k
• MERSEY FOREST FOUNDATION income £124k
• THE WILLOW TREE TRUST income £184k
• THE WILDLIFE FOR ALL TRUST income £47k
• THE PETER SMITH CHARITABLE TRUST FOR NATURE income £250k
• THE FRIENDS OF ASHDOWN FOREST income £120k

Side by side with its peers

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