COLWALL ORCHARD TRUST

Charity number: 1142573
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

Colwall Orchard Trust restores, promotes and celebrates traditional orchards. It brings together volunteers to: plant and maintain community orchards; run public seasonal events; monitor and improve the biodiversity and condition of local orchards; run training courses and school visits; make juice and produce to raise funds; share information and advocate the importance of traditional orchards.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 January 2024

Total income: £54,579
Total expenditure: £44,405

Total income includes £36,756 from 3 government grant(s)

People

7 Trustee(s)

75 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No information available

Fundraising

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:
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science
  • Environment/conservation/heritage
Who the charity helps:
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
  • Provides Services
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Where the charity operates:
  • Gloucestershire
  • Herefordshire
  • Worcestershire

Governance

Registration history:
  • 24 June 2011: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
  • COLWALL ORCHARD GROUP (Working name)
Company number:
07495461 Open in new window
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • 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

7 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Robert Williams Chair 13 October 2020
None on record
Andrew John Pyle Trustee 14 October 2024
None on record
Jenny Papettas Trustee 22 June 2022
None on record
Robert Clive Killick Trustee 08 September 2021
None on record
Jilly Rosser Trustee 24 June 2020
None on record
Chris Blake Trustee 24 June 2020
None on record
PAM MCCARTHY Trustee 15 September 2015
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/01/2020 31/01/2021 31/01/2022 31/01/2023 31/01/2024
Total gross income £22.83k £23.02k £29.45k £65.22k £54.58k
Total expenditure £24.26k £19.75k £29.66k £48.83k £44.41k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants £3.62k £6.76k £5.64k £35.70k £36.76k

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
Annual return 31 January 2024 04 November 2024 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 January 2024 04 November 2024 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 January 2023 07 October 2023 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 January 2023 07 October 2023 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 January 2022 23 November 2022 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 January 2022 23 November 2022 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 January 2021 21 November 2021 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 January 2021 Not Required
Annual return 31 January 2020 24 August 2020 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 January 2020 Not Required
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

Memorandum as amended on 24 Jun 2020

Charitable objects

To restore, promote and celebrate traditional orchards in the parish of Colwall for the benefit of the public, the local community and the natural environment, and to advocate the importance of traditional orchards and fruit varieties both locally and nationally. This is achieved by: Conserving, restoring and enhancing traditional orchards and fruit varieties, as part of a better connected natural environment; To advance the education of the public, engaging the general public in looking after traditional orchards and by encouraging the enjoyment of orchards and sustainable orchard produce; Celebrating orchards and sharing information about the natural and historic heritage associated with them.

Contact information

Address:
Brookmead
Old Church Road
Colwall
MALVERN
Worcestershire
WR13 6HB
Phone:
07947869400
Email:
secretary@colwallorchardgroup.org
Website:

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