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Rainforest Foundation UK

The Objects of the Charity are for the benefit of the public, including Indigenous Peoples and other local communities of the world?s rainforests:1. To advance environmental conservation, protection and improvement, including but not limited to,...

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £2.9m (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon and more
Website
www.rainforestfoundationuk.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Rainforest Foundation UK
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£2.9m£2.8m
  • 2023£2.8m£2.6m
  • 2022£3.0m£2.5m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.0m£2.0m
  • 2020£1.9m£1.8m
Charitable objects

The Objects of the Charity are for the benefit of the public, including Indigenous Peoples and other local communities of the world?s rainforests:1. To advance environmental conservation, protection and improvement, including but not limited to, conserving or assisting in the conservation of rainforests, including all flora, fauna, rivers, waterways and other natural resources therein;2. To advance the education of the public on the need to conserve rainforests and other natural resources, and the need for a balance of such resources for the long-term benefit of the human race and all other living things;3. To promote human rights, including the right to self-determination of Indigenous Peoples and local communities of the world?s rainforests (as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent United Nations conventions and declarations) throughout the world, including by all or any of the following means:a. monitoring human rights breaches;b. obtaining redress for victims of human rights abuses;c. providing technical advice to government and others on human rights matters; andd. raising awareness of and promoting respect for human rights issues among individuals and corporations,In furtherance of this Object, but not otherwise, the Trustees shall have power to engage in political activity provided that the Trustees are satisfied that the proposed activities will further the purposes of the Charity to an extent justified by the resources committed and the activity is not the dominant means by which the Charity carries out its Objects.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

11 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

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.

Education/training 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11Economic/community Development/employment 10General Charitable Purposes 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 15Other services 2Arts and leisure 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£2.9m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

2.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.3 in 2020

22 from 19 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
1138287
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/09/2010 as amended on 16 Mar 2021 as amended on 17 Jul 2023 as amended on 07 Jan 2025 as amended on 01 Mar 2026
Companies House
Company number 07391285 · Active
Contact on the register
02074850193 · info@rainforestuk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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