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Registered charity · Newark

Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £44m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle Of Man
Website
www.wildlifetrusts.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£44m£30m
  • 2024£33m£29m
  • 2023£27m£20m
Earlier years
  • 2022£19m£17m
  • 2021£18m£19m
Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF NATURE FOR THE PURPOSES OF STUDY AND RESEARCH AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF NATURE, THE AWARENESS OF ITS VALUE AND THE NEED FOR ITS CONSERVATION.

Board analysis for researchers

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

2.4y median 2.5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (3)

8
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 13Education/training 3General Charitable Purposes 2The 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.

Other services 8Professional services 6Education 5

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£43.7m 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.

1.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

134 from 69 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.
1%
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
207238
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTERS OF 20/09/1916 & 02/03/1976 AS AMENDED 18/02/1981, 19/07/1994, 19/05/1998, 10/12/2003, 04/04/2007 & BYE-LAWS DATED 02/03/1976 AS AMENDED 19/07/1994, 19/05/1998, 10/12/2003, 08/05/2008, 31/08/2010 & 1/8/2012 as amended on 26 Nov 2020 as amended on 27 Mar 2025
Contact on the register
01636677711 · info@wildlifetrusts.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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