THE CHILD BEALE TRUST

Registered charity 300105 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHILD-BEALE WILDLIFE TRUST

The objectives of the Charity are to provide and maintain a public park, providing an educational facility for those interested in wildlife and plants , and also providing a leisure facility for the general public.The Charity owns land in Berkshire and has developed Beale Park to achieve the above objectives. In addition the Charity's activities include the conservation of animal species.

Objects

PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING A PUBLIC PARK OR PUBLIC PARKS IN THE COUNTIES OF BERKSHIRE AND OXFORD, FOR THE USE AND ENJOYMENT OF THE PUBLIC, MAKING GIFTS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE NATIONAL TRUST, CORPORATION OR OTHER ASSOCIATION EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE NATURE FORMED OR ESTABLISHED WHOLLY FOR PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR RECREATION. To promote the conservation of the physical and natural environment by promoting biodiversity

Area of benefit: BERKSHIRE AND OXFORD

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £2,645,695 while charitable expenditure reduced to £1,849,774, resulting in a net incoming resource of £256,892. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains strong financial controls and a healthy reserves policy, with unrestricted funds totaling £8,423,090 at year-end. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Richardsons. 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Beale Wildlife Park (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~21.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (66% 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: 6.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID CARR
• Jim Bryce
• Michelle Carvell
• Paul Aitken

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Oxfordshire · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LITTLE BELHUS COUNTRY PARK TRUST.

• LITTLE BELHUS COUNTRY PARK TRUST income £137k
• THE BELFORTE TRUST income £329k
• THE PARHAM PARK TRUST (1984) income £983k
• HORSELL COMMON PRESERVATION SOCIETY income £343k
• NENE PARK TRUST income £6.7m
• LONDON HISTORIC PARKS AND GARDENS TRUST income £269k

Side by side with its peers

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