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Registered charity · South Yorkshire

The Conservation Volunteers

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £10m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.tcv.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Conservation Volunteers
Registered
1970

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£10m£10m
  • 2024£11m£11m
  • 2023£11m£11m
Earlier years
  • 2022£9.3m£8.9m
  • 2021£7.4m£7.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 17% · Government grants 21%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO CONSERVE THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, INCLUDING: A) THE CONSERVATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE CHARACTER AND AMENITY OF RURAL, URBAN AND INNER CITY AREAS. B) THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF NATURE RESERVES AND OTHER SITES OF BIOLOGICAL, SCIENTIFIC OR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPORTANCE. 2) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF CONSERVATION THROUGH VOLUNTEERING AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT.3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE PROVISION OF TRAINING. IN PARTICULAR:- A) IN PRACTICAL CONSERVATION SKILLS. B) BASIC SKILLS. C) SKILLS TO IMPROVE EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS.

Grants received

195 grants · £27,189,850 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 · £14,180,394 (65 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £6,382,301 (43 grants)
  • Postcode Earth Trust · £3,400,000 (4 grants)
  • People's Health Trust · £1,681,015 (6 grants)
  • Leeds Community Foundation · £282,255 (31 grants)

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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.

11 trustees on the board

2y median 1y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

10
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 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11General Charitable Purposes 11

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Professional services 12Business services 3Arts and leisure 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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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£10.1m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.8 in 2021

224 from 234 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.
38%
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
261009
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07/04/1970AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/10/1972AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/02/1979AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/02/1980AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/07/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/07/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/09/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/09/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/05/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/08/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/11/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/12/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/12/2007AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 29/01/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/10/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/11/2014 as amended on 22 Jul 2019 as amended on 06 Jan 2022
Companies House
Company number 00976410 · Active
Contact on the register
01302 388883 · info@tcv.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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