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Avon Needs Trees

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1184386
Status
Registered
Reporting
Up to date Last filed April 30, 2026. Filing history
Registered
July 12, 2019
Legal form
CIO

Address

Address
Wick Farm Cottage
Rankers Lane
Compton Dando
Bath and North East Somerset
BS39 4NU

Activities

Avon Needs Trees is acquiring suitable land in the Bristol-Avon Catchment Area tocreate new, permanent forest through reforesting and rewilding. We aim to lock upcarbon, improve biodiversity, mitigate flooding through natural means and to createopportunities for the public to engage with nature. Our first purchase was 34 acres atHazeland near Calne, where we have planted over 10,000 trees.

Objects: The objects of the CIO are:1) The conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and naturalenvironment for the public benefit by the establishment and maintenance of trees,woodland and complementary habitats in such areas within the Bristol-Avoncatchment area as the trustees shall determine.2) To advance the education of the public in the conservation, protection andimprovement of the physical and natural environment including by promotingwoodlands as a means for the public to learn about wider environmental issues suchas: sustainability, climate change, ecology and the mitigating need for trees.For the purposes of this clause ‘the Bristol-Avon catchment area’ comprises the landidentified as such by the Environment Agency, covering catchments of all thewatercourses and their tributaries that empty into the stretch of the Severn estuarybetween and including, to the north, the mouth of the Little Avon near Berkeley inSouth Gloucestershire and, to the south, Sand Bay in North Somerset.

Classification

How
Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Other Charitable Activities
What
Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Who
The General Public/mankind

Geography

Local Authority
Bath And North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure Assets Employees
June 30, 2025 April 30, 2026On time £1,983,763 £1,227,002 £6,271,283 23
June 30, 2024 April 30, 2025On time £4,822,833 £583,509 £5,514,522 8
June 30, 2023 Jan. 8, 2024On time £765,190 £311,260 £1,275,198 8
June 30, 2022 July 27, 2022On time £219,714 £169,563 - -
June 30, 2021 May 9, 20229 days late £335,117 £77,903 - -
July 11, 2020 May 1, 2021 £516,994 £7,997 £508,997 -

Trustees

Name Appointed
Mark Funnell (Chair) May 23, 2022
Antony Gavin Spittlehouse Dec. 4, 2019
Catherine Lucy Bedford June 22, 2020
Theo Blanchard Nov. 28, 2022