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Registered charity · Somerset

Secret World Wildlife Rescue

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (2024)
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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
Education/training, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Bath And North East Somerset and more
Website
www.secretworld.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Secret World Wildlife Rescue
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.3m£1.6m
  • 2023£1.6m£1.4m
  • 2022£1.2m£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.4m£920k
  • 2020£1.0m£798k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO UNDERTAKE THE CARE AND REHABILITATION OF ORPHANED, INJURED OR OTHERWISE DISTRESSED WILDLIFE AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC GENERALLY REGARDING WILDLIFE WITH THE AIM OF ENCOURAGING TOLERANCE, APPRECIATION AND RESPECT FOR ALL WILDLIFE IN PARTICULAR BY DISSEMINATING RESEARCH GAINED FROM CARING FOR WILDLIFE TO OTHER BODIES NATIONALLY WITH THE AIM OF FURTHERING THE PUBLIC'S UNDERSTANDING OF WILDLIFE.

Grants received

6 grants · £614,756 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 · £597,900 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £15,856 (3 grants)
  • Somerset Community Foundation · £1,000

Most recent

  • Somerset Community Foundation £1,0002022-03-01
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £13,8002020-08-17
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £584,1002011-09-20
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £1,9082010-06-17
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £4,6522009-04-15
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.

6 trustees on the board

3y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
9.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 6Education/training 6Environment/conservation/heritage 6

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 6Retail and trade 2Health and social care 1

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£1.3m 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.

3.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.1 in 2020

52 from 23 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
1097119
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 20 FEBRUARY 2003
Companies House
Company number 04672215 · Active
Contact on the register
01278783250 · info@secretworld.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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