FOREST SCHOOL CAMPS

Registered charity 306006 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as F S C, FSC

Providing supervised camping activities for young people of an educational nature.

Objects

THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND CHARACTER TRAINING OF A PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL NATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £16,185 for the year ended 31 October 2025, with total income of £470,742 and total expenditure of £454,557. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £77,333, which is below the charity's stated policy target of approximately one year of support costs (£97,193). The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, with the trustees confirming adequate resources and borrowing in place to support cash flow.

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 5 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
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/10/2021 (received 11/09/2022, 11 days after the 31/08/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Forest School Camps (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~49.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alma Fay Okkum Collinschair
• ALTHEA SMITH
• ANDREW FREEDMAN
• Alice Jane Husband
• Amy Jane Steward
• Benjamin John Russell McCarthy · trustee of 1 other charity
• CAROLINE KEAM
• Celeste Datta
• Christine Wood-Uwins
• Clare Elizabeth McGuinness Gilbert
• DAPHNE CARRE
• Daniel James Hall
• Dr BRYSON GORE
• Dr Piete Brooks
• Dr Sophie Meekings
• FRANCES RAINFORD
• Georgina Alice Sharp
• JOEL JAMES ADAM SMITH
• Jennifer Mary Sykes
• John Harrington Taylor
• Joshua Hanson
• Kate Elizabeth Hall
• Kevin Simon Hafter
• LEE MONK
• LLEWELLYN GORE
• MR DANIEL SIMON · trustee of 4 other charities
• Margaret Stone
• Rebecca Mary Birch Powell
• Rosemary Julia Whinnett · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NATURE VIBEZZZ.

• NATURE VIBEZZZ income £119k
• THE ROYAL FORESTRY SOCIETY income £1.0m
• FOREST SENSORY SERVICES income £96k
• DANEMEAD SCOUT CAMPSITE income £64k
• FRIENDS OF GREEN FOLD income £29k
• FOREST PEOPLES PROGRAMME income £9.6m

Side by side with its peers

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