Registered charity · London
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
- Lucy Katherine Napier ClaridgeChair · since 2021
- Catherine ClarkeTrustee · since 2024
- Charlie Kabanga TshaliTrustee · since 2023
- David Robert MorganTrustee · since 2021
- Dr Emily CloughTrustee · since 2023
- Helen Victoria ThompsonTrustee · since 2025
- Josceline Mary BlackTrustee · since 2021
- Leila Rosalie Curran ReidTrustee · since 2023
- Olga Iga OwczarekTrustee · since 2021
- Robert PooreTrustee · since 2021
- Tal Eran HarrisTrustee · since 2026
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
- Lucy Katherine Napier Claridge Chair since 2021
- Catherine Clarke since 2024
- Charlie Kabanga Tshali since 2023
- David Robert Morgan since 2021
- Dr Emily Clough since 2023
- Helen Victoria Thompson since 2025
- Josceline Mary Black since 2021
- Leila Rosalie Curran Reid since 2023
- Olga Iga Owczarek since 2021
- Robert Poore since 2021
- Tal Eran Harris since 2026
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Lucy Katherine Napier Claridge Chair since 2021
- Catherine Clarke since 2024
- Charlie Kabanga Tshali since 2023
- David Robert Morgan since 2021
- Helen Victoria Thompson since 2025
- Josceline Mary Black since 2021
- Leila Rosalie Curran Reid since 2023
- Robert Poore since 2021
- Tal Eran Harris since 2026
Portfolio (2)
- Dr Emily Clough since 2023
- Olga Iga Owczarek since 2021
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
2.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.3 in 2020
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
- 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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