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Registered charity · Devon

Devon Wildlife Trust

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £7.5m (2025)
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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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Devon
Website
www.devonwildlifetrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Devon Wildlife Trust
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.5m£7.4m
  • 2024£6.1m£6.2m
  • 2023£5.8m£5.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.8m£5.2m
  • 2021£5.5m£4.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 2% · Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO CONSERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF DEVON AND OTHER PLACES OBJECTS AND CREATURES OF ORNITHOLOGICAL, ENTOMOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, ZOOLOGICAL, GEOLOGICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC INTEREST, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROMOTING THE BIODIVERSITY OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHERE IT SHALL BE CHARITABLE TO DO SO;2) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR TO INCREASE KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS OF BIODIVERSITY.

Grants received

62 grants · £5,515,085 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 · £4,337,144 (17 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £1,116,784 (38 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £35,907 (3 grants)
  • The Badur Foundation · £15,000
  • SHAREGIFT · £7,500

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £18,0002026-01-30
  • SHAREGIFT £7,5002025-10-14
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £23,8312024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £48,9402024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £52,3282024-04-01
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.

2.2y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

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 13Environment/conservation/heritage 13Disability 1General Charitable Purposes 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 19Professional services 6Education 4

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£7.5m 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.

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

109 from 86 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.
17%
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
213224
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23/08/1962AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/05/1965AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/06/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/11/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/10/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/11/2003AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22/11/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/11/2012 as amended on 20 Nov 2025
Companies House
Company number 00733321 · Active
Contact on the register
01392279244 · contactus@devonwildlifetrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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