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Registered charity · Bournemouth

The Parks Foundation

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £535k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Bournemouth, Poole
Website
www.parksfoundation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Parks Foundation
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£535k£539k
  • 2024£611k£506k
  • 2023£343k£609k
Earlier years
  • 2022£643k£888k
  • 2021£890k£496k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 46%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO PROVIDE AND ENHANCE, OR ASSIST IN SUCH, THE FACILITIES, MAINTENANCE, EQUIPPING OF PARKS, GARDENS, LANDSCAPED AREAS, WOODLAND, OPEN SPACES, PLAYING FIELDS, PLAYGROUNDS, NATURE RESERVES AND RECREATIONAL AMENITY SPACES WITHIN BOURNEMOUTH, CHRISTCHURCH AND POOLE, AND THE ENVIRONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS THEREOF(B) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO HORTICULTURE, ARBORICULTURE, ECOLOGY, GEOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY, HERITAGE AND LOCAL HISTORY(C) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Grants received

12 grants · £1,986,631 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 Heritage Fund · £1,213,744 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £508,051 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £211,289 (3 grants)
  • People's Health Trust · £30,497
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £22,400

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £498,5512024-12-18
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £250,0002023-01-18
  • Dorset Community Foundation £6502022-12-06
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £22,4002021-06-21
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £89,6002021-06-21
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.

6 trustees on the board

4y median 3.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
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 6Environment/conservation/heritage 6Recreation 6

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

Arts and leisure 7Construction 2Hospitality 2

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£535k latest income
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.

7.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.9 in 2021

14 from 8 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
1159939
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/10/2014 as amended on 15 Jan 2021 as amended on 21 Dec 2020 as amended on 17 Feb 2022 as amended on 11 Jul 2023
Companies House
Company number 09272223 · Active
Contact on the register
01202143724 · info@parksfoundation.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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