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Registered charity · Stafford

Staffordshire Wildlife Trust Limited

Staffordshire Wildlife Trust Limited is a registered charity (number 259558) based in Stafford, governed by 13 trustees and chaired by Stephen Michael Smith since 2020. Latest income £8.5m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Staffordshire Wildlife Trust (Charity Commission)

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £8.5m (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
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Staffordshire, Stoke-on-trent City
Website
www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust Limited
Registered
1969

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£8.5m£4.7m
  • 2024£6.9m£4.7m
  • 2023£5.0m£5.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.4m£4.0m
  • 2021£5.8m£5.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 3% · Government grants 64%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE CONSERVATION MAINTENANCE, RESTORATION, REGENERATION AND PROTECTION OF: WILDLIFE AND ITS HABITATS; PLACES OF NATURAL BEAUTY; PLACES OF ZOOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST; FEATURES OF LANDSCAPE WITH GEOLOGICAL, PHYSIOGRAPHICAL OR AMENITY VALUE IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN WAYS THAT FURTHER BIODIVERSITY. 2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN: THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION. 3) TO PROMOTE AND UNDERTAKE RESEARCH IN ALL AREAS OF THE NATURAL WORLD AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF. SUSTAINABLE 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

65 grants · £8,796,616 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 · £7,067,453 (25 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £597,972 (4 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £433,531 (19 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £266,683 (8 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £196,189 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £250,0002025-04-10
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £20,0002024-04-10
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £15,0002024-04-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,3682024-03-21
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £250,0002024-01-22
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.

13 trustees on the board

4.5y median 2y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (1)

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 12Economic/community Development/employment 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 15Health and social care 4Professional services 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£8.5m 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.

1.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.1 in 2021

120 from 139 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.
67%
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
259558
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 5/8/1969 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 14/4/1971, 22/2/1971, 21/5/1980,16/5/1986, 25/5/1994, 12/6/2002, 11/09/2008 & 11/12/2008 & CERTIFICATES OF INCORPORATION DATED 9/11/1989 & 17/6/1994.
Companies House
Company number 00959609 · Active
Contact on the register
01889880100 · info@staffs-wildlife.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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