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Registered charity · Devon

The Shark Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £764k (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
Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Belgium, Cyprus, Greece and more
Website
www.sharktrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Shark Trust
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£764k£787k
  • 2024£573k£684k
  • 2023£671k£746k
Earlier years
  • 2022£406k£412k
  • 2021£470k£363k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE CONSERVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF SHARKS, RAYS AND CHIMAERAS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL WATERS THROUGH EDUCATION, PROMOTING AND DISSEMINATING RESEARCH INTO SUCH CONSERVATION AND SEEKING TO ACHIEVE THEIR SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT

Grants received

4 grants · £193,050 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

Most recent

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.

4y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8Education/training 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.

Professional services 11Finance 2Manufacturing 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£764k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

11 from 10 in 2023
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
1064185
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM & ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 2ND JULY 1997 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION PASSED ON 28TH AUGUST 1997
Companies House
Company number 03396164 · Active
Contact on the register
01752672008 · enquiries@sharktrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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