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Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust

Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust is a registered charity (number 232580) based in Gloucester, governed by 10 trustees. Latest income £6.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £6.1m (2025)
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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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire
Website
www.gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.1m£6.4m
  • 2024£5.5m£5.2m
  • 2023£5.6m£4.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.9m£4.4m
  • 2021£4.8m£3.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 28%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO RECORD & STUDY PLACES AND OBJECTS OF ORNITHOLOGICAL, ENTOMOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, ECOLOGICAL, ZOOLOGICAL, GEOLOGICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST, OR OF NATURAL BEAUTY, AND TO PROTECT THESE FROM INJURY, ILL TREATMENT OR DESTRUCTION. (2) TO ESTABLISH, FORM, OWN, MAINTAIN AND MANAGE SANCTUARIES OR NATURE RESERVES FOR THE CONSERVATION AND CONTROL OF WILD PLANTS AND OTHER VEGETATION AND OF THE WILD CREATURES OF ANY DESCRIPTION LIVING NATURALLY THEREIN. (3) TO ENCOURAGE THE BREEDING AND PRESERVATION OF WILD BIRDS, ANIMALS, PLANTS OR INSECTS WHICH ARE HARMLESS, USEFUL BEAUTIFUL, OR RARE. TO PROMOTE, ORGANIZE, CARRY ON AND ENCOURAGE STUDY AND RESEARCH FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES, AND TO MAKE GRANTS OR DONATIONS FOR SUCH PURPOSES.(5) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN (A) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTISE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, (B) THE PRINCIPLE AND PRACTISE OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION (5) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC CONCERNING RECYCLING AND WASTE MANAGEMENT INCLUDING THOROUGH PROGRAMS OF TEACHING, TRAINING, PUBLISHING, EXHIBITIONS, AND SEMINARS AND OTHER MEANS FOR PROVIDING PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION (6) TO PROMOTE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, PRESERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY THE PRODUCTION OF SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, RECYCLING AND REUSE OF GOODS, INCLUDING PROMOTING THE EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY OF RECYCLING WASTE PRODUCTS

Grants received

65 grants · £6,663,175 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 · £3,556,416 (21 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £1,992,531 (29 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £439,889 (6 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £361,230 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £193,620 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,8632026-03-05
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £366,7222025-11-27
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £236,0632025-03-03
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £24,4532024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £25,5272024-04-01
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.

10 trustees on the board

3.7y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (5)

10
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 9Education/training 3Arts/culture/heritage/science 2Animals 1Disability 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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 12Professional services 9Finance 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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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£6.1m 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.

0.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.0 in 2021

109 from 87 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.
29%
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
232580
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06 NOV 1961AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 JAN 1969AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 JAN 1970AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 JAN 1971AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24 MAR 1973AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 SEP 1976AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04 NOV 1978AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25 NOV 1980AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01 JUN 1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 NOV 2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 NOV 2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22 NOV 2014 as amended on 05 Dec 2020
Companies House
Company number 00708575 · Active
Contact on the register
01452383333 · info@gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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