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Registered charity · Essex

Friends of the Flitch WAY and Associated Woodlands

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £8k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Essex
Website
www.friends-of-the-flitch-way.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£8k£10k
  • 2024£7k£11k
  • 2023£8k£8k
Earlier years
  • 2022£9k£6k
  • 2021£10k£9k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1. IN CONJUNCTION WITH ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL (ECC) COUNTRY PARKS SERVICE, TO WORK FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO THE FLITCH WAY (FORMERLY THE BRAINTREE TO BISHOPS STORTFORD RAILWAY LINE), GARNETTS WOOD NEAR BARNSTON, LEVELLY WOOD NEAR SHALFORD, TARECROFT WOOD NEAR RIVENHALL, BORDER WOOD NEAR LITTLE WALTHAM, THE BLACKWATER RAIL TRAIL (FORMERLY THE WITHAM TO MALDON RAILWAY LINE), THE COLNE VALLEY LINEAR PARK, WHITE COLNE, ALL WITHIN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX, AND ANY OTHER SITES WHICH MAY COME UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE FLITCH WAY RANGER SERVICE. 2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

Grants received

1 grant · £3,004 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 · £3,004

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £3,0042013-05-09
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.

8 trustees on the board

8.4y median 7y
average tenure
21y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

1
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 8Environment/conservation/heritage 7Recreation 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Health and social care 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£8k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1115617
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 24 JANUARY 2006 AS AMENDED 10 JULY 2006AS AMENDED ON 12 AUG 2014AS AMENDED ON 03 MAY 2019
Contact on the register
01376328676 · info@flitchwayfriends.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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