COUNTRYSIDE LEARNING
Charity number: 327091
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
We organise events for schoolchildren, educating them about the countryside, and do teacher training sessions.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2025
Total income: £406,131
Total expenditure: £355,185
People
12 Trustee(s)
325 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- Education/training
- Amateur Sport
- Environment/conservation/heritage
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England And Wales
Governance
Registration history:
- 17 April 1986: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
- THE COUNTRYSIDE FOUNDATION (Previous name)
- THE COUNTRYSIDE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION (Previous name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
- 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
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
12 Trustee(s)
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| LORD FRANCIS MELFORT WILLIAM STAFFORD | Chair |
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| Antonia Kate Bury | Trustee | 11 September 2019 |
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| Susannah Hall | Trustee | 11 September 2019 |
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| NATASHA VIVIEN BRANSTON | Trustee | 13 September 2013 |
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| ANTHONY R DOWNS | Trustee | 26 January 2012 |
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| CLAIRE LOUISE BARKER | Trustee | 12 September 2011 |
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| SIMON PAUL ROBERTS | Trustee |
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| DERMOT CHRISTOPHER DALY | Trustee |
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| MICHAEL THOMAS ELLIOT | Trustee |
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| THE COUNTESS PEEL | Trustee |
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| GEORGE EDWARD SPENCER SELIGMAN | Trustee |
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| HAROLD HENDERSON | Trustee |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | 31/03/2025 | ||
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Total gross income | £283.75k | £229.76k | £289.15k | £306.76k | £406.13k | |
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Total expenditure | £283.62k | £222.12k | £285.80k | £301.01k | £355.19k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2025 | 08 October 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2025 | 08 October 2025 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 01 October 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 01 October 2024 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 26 October 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 26 October 2023 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 01 November 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 01 November 2022 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 23 September 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 23 September 2021 | On time |