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Registered charity · Suffolk

Suffolk Wildlife Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £7.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 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
Suffolk
Website
www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Suffolk Wildlife Trust
Registered
1971

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.7m£6.2m
  • 2024£8.4m£5.8m
  • 2023£6.0m£5.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.7m£4.1m
  • 2021£7.2m£3.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE CONSERVATION MAINTENANCE AND PROTECTION OF;(I) WILDLIFE AND ITS HABITATS;(II) PLACES OF NATURAL BEAUTY;(III) PLACES OF ZOOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST;(IV) FEATURES OF LANDSCAPE WITH GEOLOGICAL, PHYSIOGRAPHICAL, OR AMENITY VALUE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN WAYS THAT FURTHER BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION.(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN;(I) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;(II) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION.(3) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH IN ALL BRANCHES OF NATURE STUDY AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

Grants received

77 grants · £14,853,099 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 · £11,550,172 (31 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £2,962,478 (33 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £134,764 (3 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £108,822
  • Sport England · £45,000

Most recent

  • Cambridgeshire Community Foundation £10,0002024-10-08
  • Making A Difference Locally £6402024-04-11
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £46,8412024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £51,0652024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £73,1462024-04-01
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.

8 trustees on the board

3.5y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
3
trustees past 6 years
8.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
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 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8

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

Arts and leisure 10Retail and trade 3Education 2

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£7.7m 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.

3.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.5 in 2021

110 from 76 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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
262777
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13/06/1961AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/12/1967AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/12/1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/10/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/10/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/11/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/10/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/03/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/10/2013 as amended on 23 Oct 2021 as amended on 10 Nov 2021
Companies House
Company number 00695346 · Active
Contact on the register
01473890089 · Teamwilder@suffolkwildlifetrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
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