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Registered charity · Kent

Wildwood Trust

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £4.4m (2025)
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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
Education/training, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Devon, Kent
Website
www.wildwoodtrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Wildwood Trust
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.4m£4.3m
  • 2024£3.7m£4.2m
  • 2023£3.7m£4.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.0m£3.5m
  • 2021£3.1m£2.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, INCLUDING BY PROMOTING BIODVERSITY, AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) TO ACQUIRE, PROTECT, PRESERVE AND IMPROVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE BUILDINGS, WOODLAND AND OTHER LAND SITUATE AT WILDWOOD, HERNE COMMON, HERNE BAY, KENT ("WILDWOOD") AND ITS ASSOCIATED FLORA AND FAUNA. (PLEASE SEE COPY OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION ON FILE FOR DETAILS).

Grants received

13 grants · £907,115 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 · £647,376 (7 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £164,631 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £66,037
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £29,071 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £220,4762025-04-02
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £98,5932021-02-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £66,0382020-06-11
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £66,0372020-06-11
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £37,9002015-08-28
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.

4.8y median 7y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

18.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 7Education/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.

Arts and leisure 12Property 9Professional 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£4.4m latest income
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.

1.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.6 in 2021

97 from 121 in 2021
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.
51 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1093702
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON THE 20 MARCH 2002.
Companies House
Company number 04399827 · Active
Contact on the register
01227712111 · info@wildwoodtrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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