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Registered charity · Liverpool

Community Forest Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £8.9m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 2 more
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.cf-trust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Community Forest Trust
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£8.9m£6.2m
  • 2024£12m£11m
  • 2023£9.8m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.4m£5.5m
  • 2021£3.1m£2.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 71%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE WITHIN NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND AND BEYOND CONNECTED WITH THE ENHANCEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT, MAINTENANCE AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND LANDSCAPE

Grants received

41 grants · £6,845,024 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £3,368,493 (27 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £1,553,981 (5 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £760,981
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £595,850 (6 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £565,719 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £97,9972024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £102,0602024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £50,0002024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £3972024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £23,1932024-04-01
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

10 trustees on the board

4.3y median 2y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

10
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 10General Charitable Purposes 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9Environment/conservation/heritage 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Agriculture 11Professional services 2Education 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£8.9m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

44 from 29 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1072706
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15/07/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/09/2004AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 08/10/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/10/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 15/10/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 30/10/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/05/2013
Companies House
Company number 03598556 · Active
Contact on the register
07483 317111 · info@cf-trust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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