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Registered charity · Grantham

The Woodland Trust

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £89m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar and more
Website
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Woodland Trust
Registered
1986

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£89m£72m
  • 2024£84m£72m
  • 2023£82m£70m
Earlier years
  • 2022£76m£69m
  • 2021£87m£70m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 14%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO CONSERVE, RESTORE AND RE-ESTABLISH TREES, IN PARTICULAR BROAD-LEAVED TREES, PLANTS AND ALL FORMS OF WILD LIFE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND THEREBY TO SECURE AND ENHANCE THE ENJOYMENT BY THE PUBLIC OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THOSE TERRITORIES.

Grants received

170 grants · £79,337,103 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 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £30,658,691 (16 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £26,877,207 (107 grants)
  • Postcode Green Trust · £12,100,000 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £5,504,716 (3 grants)
  • Pears Foundation · £2,000,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • SHAREGIFT £5,0002026-03-11
  • SHAREGIFT £12,5002026-02-09
  • Pears Foundation £120,0002025-12-15
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £551,8462025-11-26
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £6,6352025-10-27
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.

3.2y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (4)

12
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 12Education/training 3General Charitable Purposes 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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.

Agriculture 15Professional services 12Finance 8

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£89.4m 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.

6.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 3.4 in 2021

568 from 501 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.
15%
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
294344
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCISTION INCORPORATED 27/1/1986 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL AND WRITTEN RESOLUTIONS DATED 1/8/1991, 9/3/1994, 29/9/1994, 8/4/1997, 26/2/1998, 31/5/2000, 23/1/2001, 12/3/2003, 9/2/2005, 20/9/2007, 23/4/2009, 14/11/2012 AND SCHEME DATED 18/8/2006
Companies House
Company number 01982873 · Active
Contact on the register
0330 333 3300 · enquiries@woodlandtrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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