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Registered charity · Telford

Small Woods Association

  • 3 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.smallwoods.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Small Woods Association
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.8m
  • 2024£1.8m£2.0m
  • 2023£1.7m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2021£817k£833k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 80%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1 TO PROMOTE AND FACILITATE THE USE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL WOODLANDS FOR THEIR FULL RANGE OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS.2 TO PROMOTE, FACILITATE AND PROVIDE ACTIVITIES THAT UTILISE WOODLANDS FOR ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS.3 TO PROMOTE, FACILITATE AND PROVIDE EDUCATION, TRAINING AND RESEARCH, AND PUBLISH OR DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION AND PROVIDE ADVICE TO SUPPORT THE ABOVE OBJECTS.4 WHERE IT IS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, TO PROVIDE, MAINTAIN OR IMPROVE A PUBLIC PARK OR OTHER PUBLIC AMENITY IN THE VICINITY OF A LANDFILL SITE.

Grants received

36 grants · £1,956,720 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,338,516 (9 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £297,549 (15 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £161,500 (3 grants)
  • Veterans Foundation · £54,955 (2 grants)
  • Ministry of Defence · £45,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

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.

3 trustees on the board

2.3y median 2y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
2.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (1)

3
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 3Environment/conservation/heritage 3General Charitable Purposes 3

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

Other services 3

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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£1.7m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.6 in 2021

56 from 38 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
1081874
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04 FEB 2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05 DEC 2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01 MAR 2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12 SEP 2015
Companies House
Company number 03919849 · Active
Contact on the register
01952432769 · office@smallwoods.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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