THE WILDLIFE TRUST FOR BEDFORDSHIRE CAMBRIDGESHIRE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

Registered charity 1000412 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as "THE WILDLIFE TRUST", BEDFORDSHIRE AND CAMBRIDGESHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST, THE WILDLIFE TRUST BCNP, THE WILDLIFE TRUST FOR BEDFORDSHIRE CAMBRIDGESHIRE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH, THE WILDLIFE TRUST FOR BEDFORDSHIRE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH

Conservation and enhancement of wildlife habitats and biodiversity throughoput Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire and enhancing everyone's enjoyment and understanding of wildlife.

Causes: Education/training · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a significant unrestricted surplus of £4,205,865, bringing total net assets to £35,006,322. Per the trustees' report, free reserves cover 3.7 months of unrestricted expenses, which is below the stated policy target of six months. The charity remains in good financial health with adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02534145
• Trading subsidiary: WTBCN TRADING LIMITED Companies House 11098048

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Wildlife Trust BCN (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Hilary Allison — Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery Heritage Fund — “National Lottery Heritage Fund” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CRICK, Humphrey Quentin Pitts, Professor — director, appointed 23/06/2026on trustee list
• SCHULTE, Reiner — director, appointed 11/03/2025on trustee list
• MARSH, James John Paul — director, appointed 12/12/2023on trustee list
• BROWN, Caroline Elizabeth — director, appointed 14/03/2023on trustee list
• VYSE, Richard James — director, appointed 14/03/2023on trustee list
• SAMWAYS, Michael — director, appointed 14/03/2023on trustee list
• DAY, Matthew Gordon William — director, appointed 14/03/2023on trustee list
• ALLISON, Hilary Mary — director, appointed 01/11/2021on trustee list
• HAYES, Matthew Philip — director, appointed 16/03/2021on trustee list
• DAVIS, Janet Audrey — director, appointed 31/03/2020on trustee list
• BARTRAM, Hannah Mary — director, appointed 04/04/2019on trustee list
• BROCKINGTON, Samuel Fraser, Professor — director, appointed 17/01/2017on trustee list
• DAVIS, Janet Audrey — secretary, appointed 19/10/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Hilary Mary Allisonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caroline Brown
• Dr Reiner Schulte
• Hannah Mary Bartram
• James John Paul Marsh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janet Audrey Davis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew Gordon William Day
• Matthew Philip Hayes
• Michael Samways
• Professor Humphrey Quentin Pitts Crick
• Professor Samuel Fraser Brockington
• Richard James Vyse

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bedford · Cambridgeshire · Central Bedfordshire · Luton · Northamptonshire · Peterborough City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DERBYSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED.

• DERBYSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £5.5m
• HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.9m
• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m
• THE LANCASHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.2m
• GWENT WILDLIFE TRUST LTD income £1.3m
• NORFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.4m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.