ST WERBURGHS CITY FARM

Registered charity 297091 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide educational and recreational services including:-- a working livestock farm, gardens, playground, open daily 360 days a year with free entry- animal husbandry training- horticultural training for adults with learning difficulties- environmental youth work- community events- volunteer opportunities- community building hire- cafe

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a small overall deficit of £2,030, which relied on one-off filming income, and projects a deficit for the following year due to rising costs and competitive grant funding. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves are held at £107,426, which is below the stated policy target of three months of core operating costs, leaving only approximately £30,000 in free reserves.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Werburghs City Farm (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (68% 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: 6.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jacqueline Lois Barkerchair
• Clara Daisy Greenwood
• Dom Wood
• Emma Morton
• Fiona Jane McDonald
• Jess Bunyan
• Keily Elvin
• Lisa Pascoe
• Shankari Raj
• Thomas Hague

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 SWANSEA COMMUNITY FARM.

• SWANSEA COMMUNITY FARM income £469k
• FARMS FOR CITY CHILDREN LIMITED income £2.7m
• PATHWAYS CARE FARM income £462k
• KENTISH TOWN CITY FARM LIMITED income £389k
• WINDMILL HILL CITY FARM LIMITED income £2.7m
• HACKNEY CITY FARM LIMITED income £507k

Side by side with its peers

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