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Birdlife International

  • 18 trustees
  • Income £33m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Cambridgeshire, Belgium, Cambodia, Ecuador and more
Website
www.birdlife.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Birdlife International
Registered
1994

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£33m£32m
  • 2023£36m£30m
  • 2022£40m£32m
Earlier years
  • 2021£24m£25m
  • 2020£26m£23m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO CONSERVE ALL WILD BIRD SPECIES AND THEIR HABITATS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND ALL OTHER THINGS AS ARE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THESE OBJECTS

Grants received

21 grants · £5,969,266 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

  • ARCADIA · £3,300,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £2,046,766 (16 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £605,000 (2 grants)
  • SHAREGIFT · £17,500

Most recent

  • SHAREGIFT £17,5002025-09-17
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £83,4682024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £43,7772023-06-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £157,7752023-06-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £53,5092023-06-01
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.

3.1y median 4y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (16)

Portfolio (2)

14
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 18Environment/conservation/heritage 18Economic/community Development/employment 16Education/training 2

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

Professional services 22Business services 6Other services 3

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£33.0m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

1.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

254 from 253 in 2020
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
1042125
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 2 NOVEMBER 1994 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 27 AUGUST 1996 AND REVISED ON 13 MAY 2009. as amended on 27 Sep 2018 as amended on 13 Sep 2022
Companies House
Company number 02985746 · Active
Contact on the register
01223277318 · birdlife@birdlife.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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