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Registered charity · Peterborough

Buglife the Invertebrate Conservation Trust

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £3.4m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland, Saint Helena
Website
www.buglife.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Buglife - the Invertebrate Conservation Trust
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£3.4m£2.8m
  • 2023£2.3m£2.1m
  • 2022£1.6m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.4m£1.2m
  • 2020£1.6m£1.2m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 17%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) THE STUDY, PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION FROM EXTINCTION OF NATURAL INVERTEBRATE FAUNA BY CONSERVING THEM IN THE WILD BU SUCH MEANS AS ARE AVAILABLE(B) TO PROMOTE AND SPONSOR SCIENTIFIC STUDY AND RESEARCH INTO THE HABITS DISEASES AND LIFE-CYCLES OF SUCH INVERTEBRATE FAUNA AND IN RELATION TO MODERN AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL AND HUMAN PRACTICES AND ACTIVITIES, AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE(C) TO PROMOTE THE PERMANENT PRESERVATION AND SOUND MANAGEMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY OF LANDS OF ECOLOGICAL OR OTHER SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO INVERTEBRATE FAUNA(D) TO FOSTER INTEREST IN GOVERNMENTAL AND VOLUNTARY BODIES, EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY CONCERNING THE CONSERVATION OR NATURAL INVERTEBRATE FAUNA

Grants received

48 grants · £3,372,467 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 · £2,449,103 (29 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £346,776 (5 grants)
  • John Ellerman Foundation · £182,619 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £145,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £119,439

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £64,0792026-03-10
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £15,5632025-12-18
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £249,9932025-11-12
  • SHAREGIFT £15,0002025-04-29
  • City Bridge Trust £22,6752025-01-31
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.

7 trustees on the board

2.1y median 1y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
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 7Environment/conservation/heritage 7

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 8

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£3.4m 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.

4.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.2 in 2020

41 from 19 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
1092293
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/12/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/02/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/05/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/04/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/05/2013 as amended on 30 May 2015 as amended on 14 Apr 2021 as amended on 25 Jun 2022 as amended on 24 Jun 2023 as amended on 24 Jun 2023 as amended on 24 Jun 2023
Companies House
Company number 04132695 · Active
Contact on the register
0300 102 7375 · info@buglife.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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