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Registered charity · Dorchester

The Manta Trust

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £977k (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
Education/training, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Ecuador, Fiji, Indonesia, Maldives and more
Website
www.mantatrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Manta Trust
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£977k£1.1m
  • 2024£735k£843k
  • 2023£973k£857k
Earlier years
  • 2022£738k£545k
  • 2021£491k£435k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (THE OBJECTS) ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:- 3.1.1 TO ADVANCE THE CONSERVATION OF MANTA RAYS, THEIR RELATIVES, AND THEIR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IN UK TERRITORIAL AND GLOBAL WATERS; AND3.1.2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN AND RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF MANTA RAYS AND THEIR RELATIVES AND THEIR NATURAL HABITATS.3.1.3 TO CONDUCT, SUPPORT, AND DISSEMINATE RESEARCH INTO MANTA RAYS, THEIR RELATIVES, AND THEIR NATURAL HABITATS TO FURTHER THEIR CONSERVATION

Grants received

2 grants · £196,614 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.

Top funders

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.

6 trustees on the board

6.3y median 4y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 6Education/training 6Environment/conservation/heritage 6

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 7Finance 2Health and social care 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£977k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 4.8 in 2021

2
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
1145387
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01/06/2011 as amended on 11 Mar 2024
Companies House
Company number 07654820 · Active
Contact on the register
01935891744 · info@mantatrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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