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Registered charity · Cambridge

Wcmc

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £20m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Cambridgeshire
Website
www.wcmc.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Wcmc
Registered
1989

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£20m£21m
  • 2023£22m£22m
  • 2022£22m£19m
Earlier years
  • 2021£16m£16m
  • 2020£15m£15m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government contracts 1% · Government grants 17%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, ENHANCEMENT AND SUPPORT OF NATURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES WORLD-WIDE. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION).

Grants received

47 grants · £8,802,670 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

  • ARCADIA · £5,000,000
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £2,267,233 (28 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £1,283,957 (9 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £251,480 (9 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £15,5472024-02-14
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £204,8812024-02-14
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £7,1462024-01-22
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £8562024-01-22
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £93,5132024-01-22
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.

9 trustees on the board

5.6y median 4.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

9
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 9Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Professional services 17Education 3Arts and leisure 1

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£20.1m 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.

4.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 2.6 in 2020

233 from 161 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.
18%
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
328044
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/12/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/03/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/03/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/12/2010AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 15/07/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/06/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/07/2015
Companies House
Company number 02330031 · Active
Contact on the register
01223277314 · information@unep-wcmc.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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