Stump Up for Trees

The advancement of environmental protection or improvement in particular but not exclusively by promoting and enabling the planting and successful management of trees and development of diverse natural habitats, and;The advancement of education in particular but not exclusively by the provision of information and activities increasing knowledge of trees, diverse habitats and environmental prot

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 June 2025, it had income of £437,091 and spent £240,985.

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Income over time

Up 278%, from £115,538 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £437,091 in the year to 30 June 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 55% of its income in the year to 30 June 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

INRS gave £23,118 in the year to 30 June 2025, 5% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 30 June 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

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In its accounts for the year ending 30 June 2025, the charity named 6 funders who gave £67,964 between them. £20,000 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 2 grants to this charity since 2023, worth at least £29,770.

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Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 9 May 2024

  Named by Aled Jones in the Senedd

  Stump Up For Trees will show you quite clearly there are areas where we can increase tree planting. There's a community-based charity there that's demonstrated very, very clearly that there is a way of doing this.

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• 12 December 2023

  Named by Julie James in the Senedd

  …ificant difference to the amount of run-off that went into the local river. I can share the slides. The farmer, who's part of the collective Stump Up For Trees there, had the most extraordinary response in the summit; I've never seen that before. People were really enthused. What he was basically sa…

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• 12 December 2023

  Named by Julie James in the Senedd

  …the years I've been attending these things—because people were so impressed with what he's been able to do. He's part of a collective called Stump Up For Trees, if Members have had the chance to go and look at that—it's very impressive indeed. He was a very impressive individual, a committed farmer,…

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• 18 October 2023

  Named in a written question from Samuel Kurtz

  Addressed to the Minister for Climate Change.

  …ed. NRW have been trialling the use of alternatives to plastic, including products made from wool, as have other Welsh organisations such as Stump Up for Trees. There is further work to do to understand the potential of other types of guards before a ban could be considered.

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• 15 June 2023

  Named by Julie James in the Senedd

  …, nobody wants somebody like me to come along and tell you how to run your farm, quite rightly. But they do listen to other farmers, and the Stump Up For Trees project is a really good example of that, where you had a couple of farmers who wanted to do this, and then they've managed to widen it righ…

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• 15 June 2023

  Named by Julie James in the Senedd

  …ss Wales who are absolutely on board with this, who are very happy to host open farm days and so on. And if the committee hasn't been to see Stump Up For Trees, might I suggest you go immediately to see them? So, that is a collaboration of farmers who've come together to do exactly what we're talkin…

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• 1 March 2023

  Named by Julie James in the Senedd

  …call it—which I'm very keen on and which many farmers across Wales have embraced wholeheartedly already. If the committee hasn't been to see Stump Up for Trees, do go—it's great. It shows the real power of what you can do if you harness private investment, actually, of course, because the farmers ar…

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• 25 January 2023

  Named by Julie James in the Senedd

  …ng scheme. Lee and I have met with a large number of groups across Wales that are getting ahead of this. If the committee hasn't gone to see Stump Up For Trees, may I highly recommend that you do? Really, what we're doing is trying to get the pipeline in place for the woodland creation and make sure…

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• 10 November 2021

  Named by Lee Waters in the Senedd

  …patterns, but get the finance in so that the tree-planting targets can be met. I was very pleased to see that Cefin Campbell had visited the Stump Up for Trees project in Abergavenny and was impressed by the work that they're doing. I think it's an excellent model, because it does not displace food…

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• 2 September 2021

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Dep Min for Climate Change

  Purpose: NFU/Coed Cymru/Stump Up For Trees meeting.

  NFU/Coed Cymru/Stump Up For Trees meeting

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• 13 July 2021

  Named by Lee Waters in the Senedd

  …Dirprwy Lywydd, as part of this exercise. It's been a fascinating experience. There are some excellent examples to learn from, including the Stump Up For Trees project near Abergavenny, which I visited yesterday, a project led by farmers in consensus with communities to plant trees on unproductive l…

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• 13 July 2021

  Named by Lee Waters in the Senedd

  …ms of Glastir funding being used to allow inward investors, if you like, to come in and buy farms, what I found really instructive about the Stump Up for Trees model is that here we have a Welsh farming-led group of people who have got control and ownership locally but are drawing in money through c…

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• 12 July 2021

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Dep Min for Climate Change

  Purpose: Visit to Stump up for Trees, Great Bettws Farm.

  Visit to Stump up for Trees, Great Bettws Farm

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6 trustees run the charity.

• James Christopher Lovelace SuterChairAppointed 1 February 2020
• Andrew Hugh ColvinAppointed 5 May 2022
• Andrew Ralph ErskineAppointed 1 February 2020
• Lorna Caroline DavisAppointed 6 March 2025
• Richard James RoderickAppointed 1 July 2020
• Robert Andrew VaughanAppointed 22 February 2023

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

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Charity number

1188226

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

27 February 2020

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 27 Feb 2020

Website

stumpupfortrees.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Monmouthshire

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Monmouthshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Monmouthshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Fynwy Torfaen