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Registered charity · Isle of Wight

The Wildheart Trust

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £2.1m (2024)

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
Throughout England And Wales, India, Madagascar
Website
www.wildheartanimalsanctuary.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Wildheart Trust
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£2.1m£1.9m
  • 2023£1.7m£1.8m
  • 2022£1.6m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.8m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.8m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO ADVANCE ANIMAL WELFARE AND CONSERVATION, INCLUDING BY PROVIDING EXEMPLARY STANDARDS OF ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING WITHIN THE LIVING COLLECTION, BY CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS COLLABORATIVE BREEDING PROGRAMMES AND BY PROVIDING SANCTUARY FOR RESCUED, CONFISCATED OR UNWANTED ANIMALS THAT ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION;2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ANIMAL WELFARE AND CONSERVATION, IN PARTICULAR BY RAISING AWARENESS OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AND BY DELIVERING HIGH QUALITY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES WHICH INSPIRE A PASSION FOR AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURAL WORLD;3. TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, IN PARTICULAR BY PROMOTING AND DEMONSTRATING SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTS TO ENSURE THE INTEGRITY OF EX-SITU POPULATIONS AND BY CONTRIBUTING EXPERTISE AND FUNDING TO EFFECTIVE IN-SITU CONSERVATION PROJECTS;4. TO PROMOTE AND PARTICIPATE IN SCIENCE-BASED RESEARCH PROJECTS TO ASSIST THE SURVIVAL OF ENDANGERED SPECIES AND TO FURTHER ENHANCE ANIMAL MANAGEMENT, THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH TO BE FREELY DISSEMINATED TO THE SCIENTIFIC AND ANIMAL CONSERVATION WORLDS.

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

3.2y median 2.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

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.

Arts and leisure 6Other services 2Retail and trade 2

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 4 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.1m latest income
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.

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

49 from 38 in 2021
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
1171144
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17 JUN 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 JUN 2016
Companies House
Company number 10238727 · Active
Contact on the register
07809610099 · enquiries@wildheartanimalsanctuary.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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