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Registered charity · Woking

The Surrey Wildlife Trust Limited

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £7.5m (2026)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 2 organisations acting as trustee: Caroline Louise Lovelace, James Walter Sinclair.

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Surrey
Website
www.surreywildlifetrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Surrey Wildlife Trust
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£7.5m£6.8m
  • 2025£6.4m£7.2m
  • 2024£6.8m£7.0m
Earlier years
  • 2023£6.6m£6.4m
  • 2022£7.3m£5.2m

Income trend, 2022 to 2026.

Income source mix, 2026: Government contracts 7% · Government grants 17%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, IMPROVEMENT AND ACCESSIBILITY OF:(A) WILDLIFE AND ITS HABITATS(B) PLACES OF NATURAL BEAUTY(C) PLACES OF ZOOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, GEOLOGICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST(D) FEATURES OF LANDSCAPE WITH GEOLOGICAL, PHYSIOGRAPHICAL, OR AMENITY VALUE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN WAYS THAT FURTHER BIODIVERSITY;(2) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN:(A) THE STUDY OF NATURE(B) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION(C) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;(3) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND NATURAL HERITAGE:(A) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH IN ALL BRANCHES OF NATURE STUDY(B) TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

Grants received

43 grants · £4,935,135 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 · £2,008,600 (9 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £1,495,954 (23 grants)
  • Postcode Innovation Trust · £1,250,000
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £138,231 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £35,202 (4 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £15,0002024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £15,0002024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £17,9462024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £71,0492024-04-01
  • Community Foundation for Surrey £1,0002023-05-10
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.

10 trustees on the board

4.4y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

10
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 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10

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 10Arts and leisure 1Hospitality 1

Gaps to watch

  • 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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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£6.4m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

2.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

121 from 100 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.
32%
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
208123
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 22ND DECEMBER 1959 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 21 MARCH 1975, 5 MAY 1976 AND 18 JUNE 2008 as amended on 09 Nov 2019 as amended on 12 Nov 2022
Companies House
Company number 00645176 · Active
Contact on the register
01483795440 · info@surreywt.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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