Registered charity · Tyne and Wear
Durham Wildlife Trust
- 13 trustees
- Income £4.3m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Clare June ButcherTrustee · since 2025
- Dr Vivien KentTrustee · since 2019
- Faye ButlerTrustee · since 2018
- Harvey NeveTrustee · since 2022
- Ian Robert ColeTrustee · since 2024
- Michael Andrew CoatesTrustee · since 2025
- Nigel BellTrustee · since 2022
- Paul William DavidsonTrustee · since 2020
- Professor Stephen Geoffrey WillisTrustee · since 2025
- Professor William Mark OxburyTrustee · since 2024
- Richard Francis Joseph ArrowsmithTrustee · since 2024
- Simon David BellTrustee · since 2024
- Stephen Kumar BhowmickTrustee · since 2025
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
- Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland, Durham and more
- Website
- www.durhamwt.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Durham Wildlife Trust
- Registered
- 1972
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£4.3m£3.3m
- 2024£5.3m£2.3m
- 2023£6.8m£2.6m
Earlier years
- 2022£3.1m£2.3m
- 2021£2.0m£1.5m
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE TRUST IS ESTABLISHED ARE: - FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND MORE PARTICULARLY IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM :-I) TO RECORD, STUDY AND PROTECT FROM INJURY, ILL-TREATMENT OR DESTRUCTION PLACES AND OBJECTS OF NATURAL BEAUTY OR OF BOTANICAL, ZOOLOGICAL, ECOLOGICAL, SILVICULTURAL, GEOLOGICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST.II) TO PROMOTE, ORGANISE, CARRY ON AND ENCOURAGE STUDY AND RESEARCH FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES AND TO MAKE GRANTS OR DONATIONS FOR SUCH PURPOSES.III) TO ESTABLISHED, FORM, OWN, MAINTAIN AND MANAGE SANCTUARIES AND RESERVES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FAUNA AND VEGETATION AND AREAS OF NATURAL BEAUTY OR OF BOTANICAL, ZOOLOGICAL, ECOLOGICAL, SILVICULTURAL, GEOLOGICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST.
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.
13 trustees on the board
- Clare June Butcher since 2025
- Dr Vivien Kent since 2019
- Faye Butler since 2018
- Harvey Neve since 2022
- Ian Robert Cole since 2024
- Michael Andrew Coates since 2025
- Nigel Bell since 2022
- Paul William Davidson since 2020
- Professor Stephen Geoffrey Willis since 2025
- Professor William Mark Oxbury since 2024
- Richard Francis Joseph Arrowsmith since 2024
- Simon David Bell since 2024
- Stephen Kumar Bhowmick since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Vivien Kent since 2019
- Faye Butler since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Clare June Butcher since 2025
- Faye Butler since 2018
- Ian Robert Cole since 2024
- Michael Andrew Coates since 2025
- Paul William Davidson since 2020
- Professor William Mark Oxbury since 2024
- Richard Francis Joseph Arrowsmith since 2024
- Simon David Bell since 2024
Portfolio (5)
- Dr Vivien Kent since 2019
- Harvey Neve since 2022
- Nigel Bell since 2022
- Professor Stephen Geoffrey Willis since 2025
- Stephen Kumar Bhowmick since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
2.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.1 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 501038
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30 JULY 1971 AS AMENDED 8 NOVEMBER 1980 AND 10 NOVEMBER 2008.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 SEP 2016 as amended on 18 Oct 2021
- Companies House
- Company number 01019263 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01915843112 · mail@durhamwt.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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