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Registered charity (CIO) · Monmouthshire

Bees for Development

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda and more
Website
www.beesfordevelopment.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2022

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.1m£1.2m
  • 2024£1.8m£1.0m
  • 2023£212k£57k

Income trend, 2023 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 24%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: (1) TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:(A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES USING HABITAT RESTORATION AND THE CRAFT OF BEEKEEPING; AND(B) THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION.(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SCIENCE AND CRAFT OF SUSTAINABLE BEEKEEPING AND THE ROLE OF BEES IN MAINTAINING BIODIVERSITY.SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.

Grants received

7 grants · £667,860 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

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £657,860 (6 grants)
  • CHK Foundation · £10,000

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £85,0872024-04-01
  • CHK Foundation £10,0002023-10-04
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £139,8462023-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £80,0002023-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £96,1122022-06-01
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.

8 trustees on the board

2.9y median 3y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (4)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 8

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

Business services 3Education 1Health and social care 1

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 3 years.
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.1m 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.

6.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.3 in 2023

10 from 9 in 2024
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
1198116
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 02 Mar 2022
Contact on the register
01600614382 · info@beesfordevelopment.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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