KEMERTON CONSERVATION TRUST

Registered charity 702488 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KEMERTON TRUSTEES LIMITED

Conservation

Objects

THE CONSERVATION OF FLORA AND FAUNA AND OF PLACES OF NATURAL AND CULTIVATED BEAUTY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE COUNTIES OF HEREFORD AND WORCESTER GLOUCESTER AND COUNTIES ADJOINING THEM.

Area of benefit: HEREFORD AND WORCESTER, GLOUCESTER AND COUNTIES ADJOINING.

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

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Registered contact address: Wychavon, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £3,505 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £209,384 to £205,879. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £205,041 remain well above their stated policy target of holding reserves equivalent to between six months’ and two years’ recurrent cash expenditure. The charity is not going through any financial distress, as the trustees have confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

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 31/03/2023 (received 12/02/2024, 12 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

13 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (13 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MATTHEW GEORGE DARBYchair
• ADRIAN MARTEN GEORGE DARBY OBE
• Jonathan Charles Stewart Chenevix-Trench
• PETER SINCLAIR DOBLE
• Roger Alan Umpelby
• Rosemary Winnall MBE

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · Herefordshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE KASNER CHARITABLE TRUST income £487k
• LOWER URE CONSERVATION TRUST income £157k
• FULL FACT income £3.1m
• WHITTINGTON CASTLE PRESERVATION TRUST income £223k
• BEDFORDSHIRE CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £372k
• BRIGHTON AND HOVE ESTATES CONSERVATION TRUST income £150k

Side by side with its peers

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