CHERRY TREES

Registered charity 800222 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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 4.8 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 5.2%) (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
• Heath Williams
• Simon Runton
• Susan Walker

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Surrey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHERRY TREE (CHERITON) PLAYGROUP.

• CHERRY TREE (CHERITON) PLAYGROUP income £110k
• CHERRY GROCE FOUNDATION income £112k
• THE MULBERRY BUSH ORGANISATION LTD income £8.0m
• The Chiltern Centre Limited income £1.3m
• Chesterfield and District Society for People with a Disability income £2.4m
• TAKE A BREAK WARWICKSHIRE LIMITED income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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