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Registered charity (CIO) · Gloucestershire

Rainforest Trust UK

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £2.7m (2024)
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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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil and more
Website
www.rainforesttrust.org/uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£2.7m£2.7m
  • 2023£2.2m£2.1m
  • 2022£1.3m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.9m£2.0m
  • 2020£850k£717k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

1) TO CONSERVE, OR ASSIST IN THE CONSERVATION OF, RAINFORESTS AND OTHER TROPICAL HABITATS AROUND THE WORLD, PARTICULARLY AREAS THAT STORE LARGE QUANTITIES OF CARBON TO HELP MITIGATE THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THOSE WHICH ARE HOME TO ENDANGERED SPECIES. THIS CONSERVATION IS ACHIEVED BY WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH TRUSTED LOCAL ORGANISATIONS AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES TO PLACE THREATENED AREAS UNDER PERMANENT PROTECTION, EITHER THROUGH DESIGNATION AS LEGALLY PROTECTED AREAS, INDIGENOUS LAND TITLING OR LAND PURCHASE.2) TO ADVANCE THE AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OF PEOPLE IN THE UK CONCERNING THE ECOLOGICAL VALUE OF RAINFORESTS AND OTHER TROPICAL ECOSYSTEMS, AND THE NECESSITY FOR THEIR CONSERVATION TO SAVE ENDANGERED SPECIES, SUPPORT INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE.

Grants received

1 grant · £2,500 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.

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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

2.8y median 2.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Environment/conservation/heritage 6

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Narrow spread of causes across 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.7m 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.

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

7 from 3 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
1169111
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 09 SEP 2016 AS AMENDED ON 03 FEB 2023AMENDED ON 07 OCT 2025
Contact on the register
02034884495 · uk@rainforesttrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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