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Registered charity · Dorchester

Dorset Wildlife Trust

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £7.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Dorset
Website
www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Dorset Wildlife Trust
Registered
1961

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.3m£5.4m
  • 2024£13m£4.4m
  • 2023£5.1m£4.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.2m£3.2m
  • 2021£3.5m£2.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 2% · Government grants 22%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1.1.1 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BOTH ON LAND AND SEA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN DORSET BY: (A) ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING NATURE RESERVES, WILDLIFE HABITATS AND NATURAL SPACES;(B) SURVEYING, RECORDING, RESEARCHING AND STUDYING THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT; AND(C) ENGAGING PEOPLE WITH THEIR ENVIRONMENT THROUGH EVENTS, CENTRES, VOLUNTEERING AND/OR OTHER MEANS.1.1.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN AND INFORM THEM ABOUT THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, AND THE NATURAL SCIENCES BOTH ON LAND AND SEA IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN DORSET BY:(A) PROVIDING WALKS, TALKS, EVENTS, MEETINGS, DIGITAL AND OTHER MEANS OF COMMUNICATION; AND (B) ADVOCATING GOOD PRACTICE AND PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLES AND WORKING.

Grants received

65 grants · £9,491,696 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £6,255,543 (22 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £2,506,646 (32 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £410,113
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £183,413 (2 grants)
  • Quartet Community Foundation · £125,000 (6 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £142,1762025-11-27
  • Quartet Community Foundation £25,0002025-04-25
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £128,6002024-10-04
  • Quartet Community Foundation £20,0002024-05-24
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £47,3452024-04-01
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.

14 trustees on the board

3.5y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (3)

13
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 14Environment/conservation/heritage 13General Charitable Purposes 12Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Recreation 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

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

Professional services 15Education 2Other services 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 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£7.3m 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.

9.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 8.4 in 2021

84 from 53 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.
23%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
200222
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 8TH MARCH 1961 AS AMENDED 24TH OCTOBER 1985 AND 27TH OCTOBER 2004AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 14 DEC 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 26 FEB 2018 as amended on 06 Dec 2021
Companies House
Company number 00688439 · Active
Contact on the register
01305264620 · mail@dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
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