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Registered charity · Kent

The Aspinall Foundation

The Aspinall Foundation is a registered charity (number 326567) based in Kent, governed by 2 trustees and chaired by Damian Aspinall. Latest income £1.9m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as AKA the Howletts and Port Lympne Foundation (Charity Commission)

  • 2 trustees
  • Income £1.9m (2024)
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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, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Congo, Gabon, Indonesia, Madagascar
Website
www.aspinallfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.9m£3.5m
  • 2023£1.5m£3.2m
  • 2022£1.9m£3.1m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.3m£3.3m
  • 2020£1.9m£2.9m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(I) THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION (WHETHER IN ENGLAND OR ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF EDUCATION AND USEFUL KNOWLEDGE IN RELATION TO THE SCIENCE OF ZOOLOGY, THE PRESERVATION AND EXHIBITION OF LIVING ANIMALS AND IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) ALL WILD ANIMALS IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION AND THE CONSERVATION OF THE NATURAL WILDLIFE INHABITANTS; (II) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY BE DEED APPOINT.

Grants received

1 grant · £5,000 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 Community Fund · £5,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £5,0002006-03-13
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.

2 trustees on the board

7y median 7y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 2Education/training 2Environment/conservation/heritage 2

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 1

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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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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£1.9m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

26.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.1 in 2020

20 from 19 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
326567
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 30/03/1984AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 23/02/1999AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 20/07/2007AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 14/07/2011AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 01/11/2011
Contact on the register
01303234199 · info@aspinallfoundation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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