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Registered charity · London

The Rufford Foundation

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £3.9m (2025)
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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
Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England, Argentina, Armenia, Benin and more
Website
www.rufford.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.9m£4.4m
  • 2024£4.2m£3.8m
  • 2023£3.6m£3.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.5m£3.6m
  • 2021£3.3m£4.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO:1. PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC PREDOMINANTLY IN COUNTRIES OTHER THAN THOSE DENOTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AS "ADVANCED ECONOMIES" THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF FAUNA AND FLORA AND THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT;2. ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF FAUNA AND FLORA AND THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING RESEARCH INTO THE SAME AND DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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.

3.8y median 2y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 6Environment/conservation/heritage 6Education/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.

Education 4Arts and leisure 3Agriculture 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£3.9m 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

5 from 5 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1117270
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 15/11/2006AS AMENDED BY TRUSTEES' RESOLUTION UNDER SECTION 282 OF CHARITIES ACT 2011 AND CONCURRED WITH ON 17/10/2012AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 18/10/2012AS AMENDED ON 26/03/2013 as amended on 08 Oct 2024
Contact on the register
02074368604
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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