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Registered charity · Herefordshire

Wild Planet Trust

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £13m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Devon, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
Website
www.wildplanettrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£27m
  • 2023£12m£14m
  • 2022£12m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2021£12m£11m
  • 2020£9.3m£12m
Charitable objects

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION; (2) THE PROMOTION OF SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL STUDY AND RESEARCH AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ALL SUCH STUDY AND RESEARCH. (3) THE CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS; AND (4) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND THE INHABITANTS OF PAIGNTON IN PARTICULAR IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE PROVIDED.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

4 trustees on the board

5.7y median 2y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

17.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

Portfolio (4)

4
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Animals 4Education/training 4Environment/conservation/heritage 4

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 12Retail and trade 4Education 3

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
2025
incomespending£13.1m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 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 3.1 in 2020

190 from 237 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
306622
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME OF THE COMMISSIONERS DATED 3 SEPTEMBER 1991 AS AMENDED BY FURTHER SCHEME DATED 5 JUNE 1997
Contact on the register
01803 697513 · trust.secretary@wildplanettrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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