Love Trees Cornwall
Financial Statements
1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025
Registered Number: 1191424
LOVE TREES CORNWALL
Trustees annual report for the period ended 31 December 2025
| 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 2025
What is our role?
We have decided to concentrate on the inspirational aspects of trees, so fundamental to our health and wellbeing. We would like to encourage young people to feel empowered, as when thinking up new ways to protect and encourage the natural world, cross fertilising their individual 'Seed Thoughts'. We will continue with this focus as our Tree Centre becomes increasingly established. Please see more about this on http://www.lovetreescornwall.org.
The local 16-acre nature reserve (Boland) was set up in 2015 by Love Trees Founder Dr FA Jeffares Sekine, when 'rewilding' was unknown or laughed at, but now it has become mainstream. Similarly, when we started this environmental charity in 2020, not much was being done to link children with practical tree planting. Now it is a popular practice, popularised by educational groups throughout the land. But there is still a lot of room for improvement in the emotional connections children and young people make with living trees, calm heroes of the natural world, celebrated in the arts, eternal sources of beauty, grace and wisdom.
What is our ultimate aim?
Looking out for the right site, we have been in touch with The Tree Council, and its sub branch The Forest for Cornwall, who will help landscaping this holistic haven. We are thinking about altruistic partners and steady, long-term volunteers who will combine reliable back up with dazzling educational challenges. People will be able to pass on their passions whether for bees, owls, stars or soil. Playful integrations with nature, the aim of good Forest School teachers, will delight and relax.
How are we unique?
A professor from Durham University surveying U.K. charities in the South West said he had never come across one like ours combining arts and nature, and wished us luck! Amongst our activities, we have assisted in donating art works to similar charities, such as The Gardeners House in Penzance. Redwing Arts, C.I.C. also in Penzance, kindly asked us to contribute to their Tree exhibition and Green Fair. Adding to earlier gifts - a Tree, Garden, Flower, Fountain and Wave - we are giving the European Centre for the Environment and Human Health, who make the correct connection between nature and wellness, a new mobile entitled 'Seed Thoughts'. Hoping to stimulate new ideas about conserving nature in young minds, the head of the Foundation Year in Fine Art at the University of Falmouth wants our input. So, we may be small, but we can also be a creative catalyst, like the salt in the stew, or the yeast in the bread, a vital constituent within the shared Tree of Life.
Dr FA Jeffares Sekine (Chair)
Date: 2 May 2026
LOVE TREES CORNWALL
Accounts for the period ended 31 December 2025
| Unrestricted | Unrestricted | |
|---|---|---|
| funds | funds | |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| Turnover | ||
| Bank interest receivable | 1 | 1 |
| Donations | 800 | - |
| Expenditure on | ||
| Website costs | 369 | 369 |
| Charitable activities | 160 | 430 |
| Bank charges | 64 | 64 |
| Postage | - | 3 |
| (593) | (866) | |
| SURPLUS/(DEFECIT) | 208 | (865) |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| Unrestricted reserve | ||
| Brought forward | 260 | 1,125 |
| Surplus/(deficit) | 208 | (865) |
| Carried forward | 468 | 260 |
| Total Assets | 468 | 260 |
| Represented by: | ||
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| Current Assets | ||
| Cash at bank | 432 | 224 |
| Cash in hand | 36 | 36 |
| 468 | 260 | |
| Total Assets | 468 | 260 |
Dr FA Jeffares Sekine (Chair)
Date: 2 May 2026