Love Trees Cornwall
Financial Statements
1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024
Registered Number: 1191424
LOVE TREES CORNWALL
Trustees annual report for the period ended 31 December 2024
| Charity Registration Number | 1191424 |
|---|---|
| Registered Office | 39 Fore Street |
| Newlyn | |
| PENZANCE | |
| TR18 5JP | |
| Trustees | Dr FA Jeffares Sekine |
| BA Williams ACCA | |
| GE Doo BEng, LCGI | |
| Website | https://www.lovetreescornwall.org/ |
| Bankers | CAF Bank Limited |
| 25 Kings Hill Avenue | |
| Kings Hill | |
| WEST MALLING | |
| ME19 4JQ |
Organisation
The charity is administered by the Trustees and established by the Constitution dated 10 August 2023 (as amended).
Objectives
To advance the education of children and young people living in Cornwall in the subjects of flora and fauna and in environmental protection, conservation and improvement in particular but not exclusively by the establishment and maintenance of natural sites in the area, and provision of awards for educational programmes and activities.
LOVE TREES CORNWALL
Annual Report of the Trustees for the period ended 31 December 2024
We have had another successful year as we continue to plant new native trees on the local Boland rewilding reserve, dedicated to native flora & fauna, while we plan a new Tree Centre for local schools and educational authorities in years to come.
The Tree Centre project is outlined on our website, and we would welcome any input from those reading this, as we wish to create a safe place for nature study, based around trees, to be as of much use to future generations for environmental awareness and learning projects as possible.
We have had IT help from a young Geography student (with a tree inspired project) from Durham University and are getting practical help from a future geology student at Falmouth University, helping with our secluded nature reserve, where everything flourishes peacefully.
We continue to work with community orchards enjoying their interwoven educational and celebratory links. Paul Orchard, linked with Mousehole School, is now beautifully planted up and will have the second 'Havel's Place' in the UK.
A Forest School teacher, based in Newlyn Community Centre, appreciates this orchard site with its linked 'Peace Garden', a natural learning place, whilst also experimenting with our imaginative 'My tree and me' format, to engage her local ‘Rainbows’ with specific and well-loved trees. We hope to learn from such warm hearted people prior to establishing our long term Cornish Tree Centre designed to encourage local young people to nurture the natural world.
A donation was given to Newquay Community Orchard to encourage their varied, young horticultural students to envisage new ways to help nature. A small grant went to Coads Green school for working with Symphony Woods where teachers are trying to capture children's appreciation of woodland by encouraging them to create new, tree inspired music.
We were asked to advise on Restorative Justice's Environmental plans for two large academies, based in Camborne and Redruth. These examples illustrate that it has been a mixed bag, action wise, but we do anything we can to encourage young people (and their mentors) to love trees, a perfect focus for nature care.
Our own rewilding site has carefully built up a wide range of native species, and we have given additional trees, including fruit trees, to Bosavern Community Farm, Badgers Food Forest, and Newlyn Community Centre. These organisations share a strong educational ethos, a growing interest in wellness and also - increasingly - in 'Green Prescribing.'
It is encouraging to see new connections forming between people interested in promoting green issues for our future generations' health and happiness.
We combine ‘down-to-earth’ environmental activities with inspirational ideas and images, running two, long term complementary projects. ‘Collect, Plant, Protect’ is practical, ‘My Tree and Me’ is imaginative. Linked learning themes can blend logical and intuitive values. First online, then enlarged into beautifully illustrated botanical panels for the Tree Centre these teaching guides will fuse art, science and healing to illustrate that all trees should always be cherished as ‘Trees of Life’.
If you wish to contact us for further information, or to make a donation, please see our website at www.lovetreescornwall.org.
Dr FA Jeffares Sekine (Chair)
Date: 3 October 2025
LOVE TREES CORNWALL
Accounts for the period ended 31 December 2024
| Unrestricted | Unrestricted | |
|---|---|---|
| funds | funds | |
| 2024 | 2023 | |
| Turnover | ||
| Bank interest receivable | 1 | 2 |
| Donations | - | 1,000 |
| Expenditure on | ||
| Website costs | 369 | 406 |
| Charitable activities | 430 | 200 |
| Bank charges | 64 | 62 |
| Postage | 3 | 3 |
| (866) | (671) | |
| SURPLUS/(DEFECIT) | (865) | 331 |
| 2024 | 2023 | |
| Unrestricted reserve | ||
| Brought forward | 1,125 | 794 |
| Surplus/(deficit) | (865) | 331 |
| Carried forward | 260 | 1,125 |
| Total Assets | 260 | 1,125 |
| Represented by: | ||
| 2024 | 2023 | |
| Current Assets | ||
| Cash at bank | 224 | 1,086 |
| Cash in hand | 36 | 39 |
| 260 | 1,125 | |
| Total Assets | 260 | 1,125 |
Dr FA Jeffares Sekine (Chair)
Date: 3 October 2025