THE WOODLAND TRUST

Registered charity 294344 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q742394 · Wikipedia · also known as COED CADW, THE WOODLAND TRUST IN NORTHERN IRELAND, THE WOODLAND TRUST SCOTLAND · also registered in Scotland as SC038885 (OSCR)

Our Objects are to conserve restore & re-establish trees & in particular broad leaved trees, plants and all forms of wildlife & thereby to secure & enhance the enjoyment by the public of the natural environment.Our vision is a UK rich in native woods & trees for people & wildlife. Life's better with trees strengthening the role of woods & trees in our landscapes & rekindling our love of them.

Objects

TO CONSERVE, RESTORE AND RE-ESTABLISH TREES, IN PARTICULAR BROAD-LEAVED TREES, PLANTS AND ALL FORMS OF WILD LIFE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND THEREBY TO SECURE AND ENHANCE THE ENJOYMENT BY THE PUBLIC OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THOSE TERRITORIES.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM.

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Kesteven, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The Woodland Trust reported a surplus of £16.9m for the year ended 31 May 2025, with total income rising by 6% to £89.4m. Free reserves stood at £41.8m, representing 5.7 months of budgeted expenditure, which the trustees note is in line with their policy target of six months. The charity maintains sufficient liquidity and financial resilience to navigate current economic uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Haysmac 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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Woodland Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Postcode Lottery — “Support from players of the Postcode Lottery has raised over £31 million to date, planting millions of trees, investing in the next generati…” (source page)
• Pets at Home — “A thriving partnership in its seventh year with more than £1.2 million donated to protect, restore and create almost 10,000 acres of woodlan…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1,304 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1220 freehold); recorded price paid £11.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: Woodland Trust scores 3.8/5 from 57 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (581,402 likes) · instagram (472K followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Head of Estate and Programmes - North — £55,500 - £57,500 per year · Remote · posted 3 weeks ago (seen 21/08/2026)
• Commercial Solicitor — £51,729.4 per year · England (Hybrid) · posted 1 day ago (seen 21/08/2026)
• Service Delivery Manager — £40,823.5 per year · England (Hybrid) · posted 4 days ago (seen 21/08/2026)
• Fundraising Development Officer - South West — £39,823.5 per year · Remote · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 21/08/2026)
• Site Manager - North — £39,372.50 per year · Remote · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 21/08/2026)
• Project Officer - Mourne Park — £35,834.0 per year · Northern Ireland (Hybrid) · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 21/08/2026)
• Engaging Communities Officer - Trees for All — £33,518 per year (pro-rata) · Greater London (Hybrid) · posted 3 weeks ago (seen 21/08/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/12/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/06/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Baron Hall of Birkenhead Anthony William Hallchair
• Amber Kaur Thiara
• Andrew Leigh Bryant
• Briony Leigh Nesbitt
• Carole Elizabeth Pomfret · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Robert Saddington · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Fay Margaret Cooke
• Dr Julia Suzanna Knights · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Frederick Ogilvie
• Marina Wyatt
• Professor David Hill · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sandeep Kumar
• Stuart John Green

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

Operates in: Gibraltar · Guernsey · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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

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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 WOODLAND HERITAGE LIMITED.

• WOODLAND HERITAGE LIMITED income £1.7m
• WILDWOOD TRUST income £4.4m
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• THE HEREFORDSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £3.0m
• NEW FOREST TRUST income £84k
• WILDERNESS FOUNDATION UK income £929k

Side by side with its peers

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