THE SHEEPDROVE TRUST

Registered charity 328369 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The trust supports initiatives which increase sustainability, biodiversity and organic farming, for example research into organic seed production and nutrition. The trust also supports specific work in educational research and spiritual care for the living and the dying.

Objects

FOR GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES

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: General Charitable Purposes · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Vale of White Horse, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£200k

Latest spending

£845k

Registered

1989

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £26,773,359, representing a decrease from the previous year's £28,427,209 due to a net expenditure of £1,653,850. The charity's primary income source is investment income, which generated £200,105, while charitable activities, primarily grant making, cost £710,110. The trustees have adopted a policy of drawing on capital for increased grant making with the aim of reducing the capital base to a residual level within 15 years.

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

What the accounts disclose

Payments to trustees: Helen Craven-Jones received payment for administration services via Sheepdrove Farm (£12,469).

“The trustee, Helen Craven-Jones, is employed as an administrator for Sheepdrove Farm which invoices the charity for the administration services the trustee provides to the charity. During the year ended 31 December 2025, the charity paid the farm £12,469 (2024: £3,656).” — page 16

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Grant to Tabitha Robertson Aromatherapy for treatments at Neal's Yard premises

“During the year the charity paid a grant of £2,875 to Tabitha Robertson Aromatherapy for treatments carried out at Neal's Yard premises for Grenfell Tower survivors.”

“The Trust also paid £660 for room hire and £5,135 for habitat restoration work and hedgelaying at Sheepdrove Farm. (2024: £13,316). Two of the Trustees are partners in the Farm.” — page 20

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Payment to Sheepdrove Farm for room hire and habitat restoration work

“During the year the charity paid a grant of £2,875 to Tabitha Robertson Aromatherapy for treatments carried out at Neal's Yard premises for Grenfell Tower survivors.”

“The Trust also paid £660 for room hire and £5,135 for habitat restoration work and hedgelaying at Sheepdrove Farm. (2024: £13,316). Two of the Trustees are partners in the Farm.” — page 20

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Payment to Sheepdrove Farm for administration services via connected party

“During the year the charity paid a grant of £2,875 to Tabitha Robertson Aromatherapy for treatments carried out at Neal's Yard premises for Grenfell Tower survivors.”

“The Trust also paid £660 for room hire and £5,135 for habitat restoration work and hedgelaying at Sheepdrove Farm. (2024: £13,316). Two of the Trustees are partners in the Farm.” — page 20

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 3 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.

Conflicting interests
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management

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 31/12/2025

Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Grant-making is its main activity

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

Trustees · trustee networks

ANABEL KINDERSLEY
BARNABAS GUY KINDERSLEY
HARRIET ROSE TREUILLE
HELEN ANN CRAVEN-JONES
JULIET ELIZABETH KINDERSLEY
PETER DAVID KINDERSLEY

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£200k	£845k
31/12/2024	£89k	£1.1m
31/12/2023	£58k	£502k
31/12/2022	£104	£766k
31/12/2021	£176	£609k

Common questions

Is THE SHEEPDROVE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £26,773,359, representing a decrease from the previous year's £28,427,209 due to a net expenditure of £1,653,850. The charity's primary income source is investment income, which generated £200,105, while charitable activities, primarily grant making, cost £710,110. The trustees have adopted a policy of drawing on capital for increased grant making with the aim of reducing the capital base to a residual level within 15 years. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sumer Auditco Limited.

Who funds THE SHEEPDROVE TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE SHEEPDROVE TRUST as a grant recipient include BRITISH HEN WELFARE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
BRITISH HEN WELFARE TRUST	FY2022	£10k	Voluntary income

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY HURDSFIELD	1	£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SWALLOW TRUST.

THE SWALLOW TRUST income £436k
THE PRIMROSE TRUST income £121k
THE BEECHING TRUST income £78k
TEMPLE TREE FOUNDATION income £125k
THE SCARFE CHARITABLE TRUST income £61k
THE STEVENSON FAMILY'S CHARITABLE TRUST income £397k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE SHEEPDROVE TRUST	£200k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE SWALLOW TRUST FY2025	£436k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PRIMROSE TRUST FY2025	£121k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE BEECHING TRUST FY2026	£78k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
TEMPLE TREE FOUNDATION FY2025	£125k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE SCARFE CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026	£61k	—	above	—	no doubt

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