The Berkeley Reafforestation Trust

Analysis

The Berkeley Reafforestation Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in November 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Berkeley Reafforestation Trust reported income of £12k and spending of £19k, spending 159% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £37k to £12k (-68%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 162%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, The Berkeley Reafforestation Trust sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Baffins Pond Association (£12k), The Friends of Leasowe Lighthouse Charitable Incorporated Organisation (£12k) and Recycling Organisation for Research Opportunities (£12k).