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Registered charity · London

The British Ecological Society

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £6.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.britishecologicalsociety.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The British Ecological Society
Registered
1981

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.3m£5.8m
  • 2024£5.7m£5.4m
  • 2023£5.1m£5.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.4m£4.5m
  • 2021£5.4m£4.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF ECOLOGY AS A BRANCH OF NATURAL SCIENCE AND TO ADVANCE AND SUPPORT RESEARCH IN THAT FIELD, AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH USEFUL RESEARCH.

Grants received

4 grants · £258,020 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

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £223,830 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £24,870
  • Point North · £9,320

Most recent

  • Point North £9,3202022-07-28
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £24,8702021-06-21
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £99,4802021-06-21
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £124,3502021-06-21
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.

3.1y median 3.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.8y
average years in governance
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 14Environment/conservation/heritage 14Animals 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 15Professional services 3Tech and media 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£5.7m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

11.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 24.0 in 2020

38 from 33 in 2020
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
281213
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 26 SEPTEMBER 1980 AS AMENDED 17 DECEMBER 1991, 20 DECEMBER 1994, 20 DECEMBER 1995, 17 DECEMBER 1997, 6 JANUARY 1999, 20 DECEMBER 1999 AND 4 JANUARY 2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 SEP 2006NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 13 DEC 2017 as amended on 13 Dec 2021
Companies House
Company number 01522897 · Active
Contact on the register
02039948282 · hello@britishecologicalsociety.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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