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Registered charity · Fordingbridge

The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £12m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.gwct.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£12m£12m
  • 2023£11m£11m
  • 2022£11m£9.6m
Earlier years
  • 2021£9.3m£7.9m
  • 2020£7.7m£7.1m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government contracts 11%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1 TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE CONSERVATION OF GAME AND ITS ASSOCIATEDFLORA AND FAUNA;3.2 TO CONDUCT RESEARCH INTO GAME AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT (INCLUDING THE USE OFGAME ANIMALS AS A NATURAL RESOURCE) AND THE EFFECTS OF FARMING AND OTHER LANDMANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON THE ENVIRONMENT; AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OFSUCH RESEARCH;3.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND THOSE MANAGING THE COUNTRYSIDE IN THEEFFECTS OF FARMING AND MANAGEMENT OF LAND WHICH IS SYMPATHETIC TO GAME ANDOTHER WILDLIFE;3.4 TO CONSERVE GAME AND WILDLIFE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT INCLUDING:WHERE IT IS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, THE CONSERVATION OR PROMOTIONOF BIOLOGICAL BIODIVERSITY THROUGH:3.4.1 THE PROVISION, CONSERVATION, RESTORATION OR ENHANCEMENT OF A NATURALHABITAT; OR3.4.2 THE MAINTENANCE OR RECOVERY OF A SPECIES IN ITS NATURAL HABITAT ON LANDOR IN WATER AND IN PARTICULAR WHERE THE NATURAL HABITAT IS SITUATED INTHE VICINITY OF A LANDFILL SITE.

Grants received

22 grants · £1,385,944 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 · £478,520 (8 grants)
  • Westminster Foundation · £450,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £284,960 (3 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £66,000
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £39,996

Most recent

  • Westminster Foundation £225,0002024-11-07
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £99,7752024-07-11
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £98,9752023-12-07
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £75,9702023-02-27
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £39,9962022-11-30
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.

4.7y median 4y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (2)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 15Education/training 15Animals 14Environment/conservation/heritage 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 21Agriculture 9Finance 9

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£11.6m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.9 in 2020

146 from 128 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
1112023
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30 SEP 2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 SEP 2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09 NOV 2015 as amended on 05 Jul 2018
Companies House
Company number 05579632 · Active
Contact on the register
01425652381 · info@gwct.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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