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Registered charity · Bristol

Forest of Avon Trust

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £2.3m (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
Education/training, Disability, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage and 2 more
Where
Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, North Somerset and more
Website
forestofavon.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Forest of Avon Trust
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.3m£2.2m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.0m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£920k£833k
  • 2021£370k£236k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 95%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT WITHIN THE FOREST OF AVON, IN PARTICULAR BY:A) PROVIDING, CONSERVING, PROTECTING AND IMPROVING WOODLANDS;B) DELIVERING EDUCATION, TRAINING, VOLUNTEERING AND OTHER ACTIVITIES INCLUDING THE ARTS, WHICH ENGAGE THE PUBLIC IN CONSERVING, PROTECTING, IMPROVING, USING AND UNDERSTANDING WOODLANDS AND THE WIDER PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT;C) IMPROVING DERELICT LAND AND HARMFUL SITES; AND TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, IN PARTICULAR BY MAINTAINING, IMPROVING AND PROVIDING RECREATION AND LEISURE OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN THE FOREST OF AVON.

Grants received

11 grants · £41,778 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.

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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.

7 trustees on the board

5.6y median 5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 7Education/training 7Disability 6General Charitable Purposes 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 10Education 4Other services 4

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£2.3m 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.

2.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.2 in 2021

17 from 6 in 2022
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
1122314
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18 MAY 2007 AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION PASSED 14 DECEMBER 2007
Companies House
Company number 06252763 · Active
Contact on the register
01179633383 · info@forestofavontrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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