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Registered charity · Chelmsford

Wilderness Foundation UK

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £929k (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Essex, Scotland
Website
www.wildernessfoundation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Wilderness Foundation UK
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£929k£875k
  • 2024£1.6m£830k
  • 2023£690k£757k
Earlier years
  • 2022£558k£616k
  • 2021£622k£440k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY INCREASING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF WILDERNESS AND THE CONSERVATION THEREOF AND THE INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WILDERNESS AND THE ENVIRONMENT GENERALLY BY THE PROVISION OF INSTRUCTION AND OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR DIRECT EXPERIENCE OF WILDERNESS.TO INITIATE AND MANAGE SOCIAL BENEFIT PROGRAMMES WHICH USE WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE TO ENABLE VULNERABLE AND DISADVANTAGED YOUNG PEOPLE TO PLAY A FULLER ROLE IN SOCIETY (ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG)

Grants received

38 grants · £1,052,336 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.

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Most recent

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.

13 trustees on the board

3.5y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (1)

13
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 13General Charitable Purposes 13The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 12Religious Activities 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 15Health and social care 4Professional services 4

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£1.6m 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.

2.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.5 in 2020

13 from 9 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
1118493
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM & ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20 NOVEMBER 2006 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 16 APRIL 2009 AND 6 SEPTEMBER 2010 as amended on 13 May 2021
Companies House
Company number 06003527 · Active
Contact on the register
03001233073 · info@wildernessfoundation.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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