TREE AID

Registered charity 296708 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Tree Aid aims to empower poor families and especially women to unlock the potential from trees to meet their basic needs and generate income, to protect the environment, and to raise awareness of the power of trees to transform lives.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THE POVERTY OF, AND THE PROMOTION OF THE WELFARE OF PERSONS OVERSEAS BY PROMOTING FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH PERSONS THE PRESERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THEIR AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT AND ESPECIALLY SYLVICULTURE.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Merged into TREE AID (charity 1135156) — merger registered 28/09/2011.
Source: Charity Commission register of merged charities (OGL v3.0).
Latest income
£1.4m
Latest spending
£1.5m
Registered
1987

We have not yet analysed this charity’s accounts. Register data shown below.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2010

  • Volunteers: 65

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2009

  • Volunteers: 45

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2008

  • Volunteers: 6

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2010)

Total income
£1.4m
Total spending
£1.5m
Reserves (reported)
£174k
Employees
29

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Register events

Operates in: Burkina Faso · Ethiopia · Ghana · Mali

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2012——
31/03/2011——
31/03/2010£1.4m£1.5m
31/03/2009£1.3m£1.4m
31/03/2008£1.5m£1.1m