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Registered charity · Great Wigborough

Essex Wildlife Trust Limited

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £10.0m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Essex
Website
www.essexwt.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Essex Wildlife Trust Limited
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£10.0m£9.7m
  • 2023£9.2m£11m
  • 2022£8.4m£9.8m
Earlier years
  • 2021£8.6m£8.4m
  • 2020£10m£7.4m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE CONSERVATION MAINTENANCE AND PROTECTION OF:(I) WILDLIFE AND ITS HABITATS;(II) PLACES OF NATURAL BEAUTY(III) PLACES OF ZOOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST(IV) FEATURES OF LANDSCAPE WITH GEOGRAPHICAL, PHYSIOGRAPHICAL, OR AMENITY VALUEIN ANY WAYS THAT ARE CHARITABLE IN LAW AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN WAYS THAT FURTHER BIODIVERSITY2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN:(I) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT(II) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATIONSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IS PRIMARILY DEFINED AS "DEVELOPMENT THAT MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS" [BRUNDTLAND COMMISSION]

Grants received

45 grants · £6,379,904 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 · £5,371,188 (18 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £389,031 (12 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £376,149 (2 grants)
  • Department for Transport · £176,911
  • City Bridge Trust · £50,000

Most recent

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.

9 trustees on the board

4.6y median 6y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

9
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 9Animals 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 12Tech and media 9Professional services 6

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£10.0m 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.

6.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 5.9 in 2020

203 from 136 in 2020
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
210065
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 2 OCTOBER 1959 AMENDED 21 MAY 1971, 24 MAY 1977, 21 MAY 1985, 2 JUNE 1987, 6 JUNE 1989, 12 JUNE 1990, 8 JUNE 1993, 18 JUNE 2002 , 3 JULY 2004 AND 10 JUNE 2006 AND 7 JUNE 2008. as amended on 22 Oct 2022
Companies House
Company number 00638666 · Active
Contact on the register
01621862960 · admin@essexwt.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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