The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Cornwall Wildlife Trust

Registered charity 214929 Registered since 1963

Operates: Cornwall

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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.

3.9y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (1)

15
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 15Animals 14Environment/conservation/heritage 14Economic/community Development/employment 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.

Education 17Business services 3Health and social care 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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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£7.6m 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.

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

113 from 77 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.
8%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk
Emailinfo@cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk
Phone01872273939
AddressCORNWALL WILDLIFE TRUST, FIVE ACRES, ALLET, TRURO, TR4 9DJ

Finances

£7,647,715 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£4,613,201£4,109,307
2022£5,915,671£5,599,610
2023£7,331,181£5,525,460
2024£5,869,614£5,748,260
2025£7,647,715£6,566,032

What it does

What

Education/trainingAnimalsEnvironment/conservation/heritageEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Advocacy/advice/informationSponsors Or Undertakes ResearchActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

To promote for the benefit of the public (in particular but not exclusively in Cornwall):(1) the conservation, protection, improvement and advancement of the physical and natural environment and its processes including through the promotion of biodiversity;(2) to advance the education of the public in the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment and the principles and practices of sustainable development and biodiversity conservation; and(3) to promote, facilitate and publish research in the natural sciences including but not limited to nature study, ecology, and geology.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15TH AUGUST 1962 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION OF 30TH APRIL 1983 as amended on 12 Dec 2020 as amended on 20 Sep 2021 as amended on 25 Nov 2021 as amended on 04 Feb 2022 as amended on 25 Mar 2022 as amended on 20 Jun 2022

Trustees (15)

15trustees
54median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Cornwall Wildlife Trust · 00732511 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 15/08/1962

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (1)

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