Registered charity · London
Save the Elephants
- 5 trustees
- Income £5.3m (2025)
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, Animals
- Where
- City Of London, Kenya, Mali, South Africa
- Website
- www.savetheelephants.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Save the Elephants
- Registered
- 2007
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£5.3m£4.1m
- 2024£4.3m£4.0m
- 2023£4.0m£4.0m
Earlier years
- 2022£4.6m£4.6m
- 2021£3.7m£2.7m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION AND MONITORING OF ELEPHANTS THROUGHOUT THEIR RANGE, ECOLOGY AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.
Grants received
7 grants · £252,831 total360Giving 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
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £172,831 (2 grants)
- Tuixen Foundation · £40,000 (4 grants)
- CHK Foundation · £40,000
Most recent
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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.
5 trustees on the board
- Ambrose Carey since 2014
- George Wittemyer since 2025
- Marlene Mccay
- Patricia Awori since 2022
- Professor Fritz Vollrath
Trustees past 6 years
- Ambrose Carey since 2014
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Ambrose Carey since 2014
- George Wittemyer since 2025
- Marlene Mccay
- Patricia Awori since 2022
- Professor Fritz Vollrath
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
13.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 10.6 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1118804
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 5 MARCH 2007.
- Companies House
- Company number 06138125 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07490 406 825 · info@savetheelephants.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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