WHIRLOW HALL FARM TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 508910 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

An education and environmental charity based on a working upland farm on the outskirts of Sheffield. It exists to nurture, inspire and expand horizons for children and young people. Farming, horticulture and the countryside are used to enhance and underpin existing educational and vocational provision, or to re-engage those who have been excluded from mainstream education.

Objects

A. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY INHABITANTS OF SHEFFIELD AND SOUTH YORKSHIRE, AND PARTICULARLY YOUNG MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC (WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THOSE WHO ARE FROM SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED AREAS OR WITH ADDITIONAL NEEDS), IN AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, COUNTRY LIFE, ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION AND RELATED SUBJECTS SO THAT THEY DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES AND GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY, AND THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.B. TO RELIEVE MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN, YOUNG PERSONS AND ADULTS LIVING IN OR NEAR THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD AND ELSEWHERE BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY AND/OR VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND/OR EMPLOYMENT.C. TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY PROVIDING ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL TO INCREASE THEIR UNDERSTANDING ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY, FARMING AND THE ENVIRONMENT.D. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF A PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

Area of benefit: CITY OF SHEFFIELD

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net operational loss of £54,130 for the year ended 31 July 2025, despite noting that its income-generating activities contributed a surplus. Per the trustees' report, the organization maintains a healthy financial position with unrestricted reserves of £2,095,416, which exceeds the stated policy target of £435,000 in free cash reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hollis and Co Limited. 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
• 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

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 31/07/2022 (received 08/06/2023, 8 days after the 31/05/2023 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 — Whirlow Hall Farm Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (62% 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: 60.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin Arthur Rosschair
• Carey New
• Hugh Facey
• Joanne Mills
• Kate Louise Gemmell
• Martin McKervey
• Martin Zeidler
• NORMAN FARMER
• Peter Edwards

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• THE WOODLANDS FARM TRUST income £234k
• THE SHALLOWFORD TRUST income £275k
• THE SPRINGHEAD TRUST LIMITED income £213k
• WWOOF (WORLD WIDE OPPORTUNITIES ON ORGANIC FARMS) income £146k
• THE NFU MUTUAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.2m
• THE CONGELOW ORGANIC EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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