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Registered charity (CIO) · Oxford

Action for Conservation

Action for Conservation is a registered charity (number 1157297) based in Oxford, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by David Macdonald CBE since 2014. Latest income £1.2m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.2m (2025)
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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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.actionforconservation.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.2m£1.1m
  • 2024£876k£816k
  • 2023£864k£954k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£1.1m
  • 2021£423k£305k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

TO EDUCATE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT NATURE CONSERVATION AND TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN RELATED PROJECTS.

Grants received

17 grants · £1,405,358 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.

10 trustees on the board

6.1y median 3y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

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company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 10Education/training 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board

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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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£1.2m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

19 from 11 in 2022
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
1157297
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 03 JUN 2014AMENDED ON 21 JUL 2017 as amended on 30 Jul 2025
Contact on the register
07766307675 · info@actionforconservation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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