CHERRY TREES

Registered charity 800222 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q83558959

Our mission is to be a force for good by transforming lives through exceptional home from home care for children with all disabilities and their families. Respite is offered to children aged 0-19 years, anything from a 2 hour tea visit up to a 16 night stay. Our ethos of child first, disability second is central to us achieving our aims for each of the children that access our services.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THE DISABLED IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING ACCOMMODATION OR PLACES FOR TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT CARE OR TREATMENT (OR BOTH) FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH LEARNING AND/OR PHYSICAL DISABILITIES ESPECIALLY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) THOSE LIVING OR RECEIVING TREATMENT IN THE SOUTH WESTERN PART OF SURREY, AND BY VISITING SUCH CHILDREN OR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR OWN HOMES TO PROVIDE TEMPORARY CARE OR TREATMENT

Area of benefit: PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY SOUTH WESTERN SURREY

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: Guildford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves stood at £2,175,925, which the directors consider prudent given constrained public funding. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £203,888 for the year, supported by investment gains of £6,081. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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)

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02241223

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cherry Trees (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sally Davies — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Liv Corbishley — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Charlie Shembry-Major — Chief Operating Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CULVERHOUSE, Cathryn Elizabeth — director, appointed 14/09/2023on trustee list
• STRONG, Clive Stewart — director, appointed 29/11/2022on trustee list
• BRUCE, Eileen Veronica — director, appointed 21/06/2022on trustee list
• DOOLEY, Ailsa — director, appointed 28/06/2021on trustee list
• RUNTON, Simon James Christopher — director, appointed 08/07/2014on trustee list
• CULVERHOUSE, Cathryn — secretary, appointed 14/09/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~14.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (51% 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: 17.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ailsa Dooley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Cathryn Culverhouse
• Clive Strong
• Eileen Bruce
• Simon Runton

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TREE HOUSE CHILDREN'S CENTRE.

• THE TREE HOUSE CHILDREN'S CENTRE income £336k
• CHERRY TREE (CHERITON) PLAYGROUP income £110k
• CHERRY TREE PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £44k
• THE MAPLE TREE income £86k
• THE CHERRY FAMILY FOUNDATION income £85k
• CHERRY TREE FOUNDATION income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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