WORLD LAND TRUST

Registered charity 1001291 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NATURE PRESERVATION FUND, PHILLIPINE REEF & RAINFOREST PROJECT, PROGRAMME FOR BELIZE, THE WORLD WIDE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST, WORLD WIDE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST

To promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the natural environment.To protect and sustainably manage natural ecosystems of the world and to conserve their biodiversity.To develop partnerships with local individuals, communities and organisations.To raise awareness in the UK and elsewhere of the need for conservation.

Causes: Education/training · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is a table of contents and a list of supporters for the World Land Trust for the year ended 31 December 2025. It does not contain financial figures, reserves data, or narrative statements regarding the charity's financial health or going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• World Land Trust, Media Bounty get the UK buzzin’ with dynamic birds and bees billboards | Media4Growth media4growth.com · 08/09/2023
• Obituary: World Land Trust founder and conservationist, John Burton, dies aged 78 edp24.co.uk · 08/06/2022
• John Burton, co-founder of the World Land Trust, whose ‘buy-an-acre’ project helped save endangered wild habitat – obituary telegraph.co.uk · 30/05/2022
• Representatives of World Land Trust visit Caucasus Wildlife Refuge in Armenia en.armradio.am · 18/05/2022
• World Land Trust launches appeal to save Guatemalan migrant hot-spot birdguides.com · 10/10/2021
• Bvlgari Man Terrae Essence: Bvlgari and Dufry team up to highlight new masculine fragrance and support World Land Trust moodiedavittreport.com · 24/09/2021
• Potts Print certified by World Land Trust digitalprintermag.co.uk · 17/03/2021
• Card Printer Windles Urges Publishers To Join Its World Land Trust Scheme pgbuzz.net · 13/02/2020

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — World Land Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Catherine Barnard — CEO (source)
• Charlotte Beckham — Interim Director of Conservation (source)
• Dan Bradbury — Director of Brand and Communications (source)
• Emma Douglas — Director of Development (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.

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 · linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MYLES ARCHIBALDchair
• Claire Ashby
• Dr Andrew Paul Balmford · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Julius Alexander Arinaitwe
• Emma Tozer
• LAWRENCE DAVID SIMANOWITZ
• Lucila Belen Castro
• Michael Gerard Krause
• Phillip Simon Shapiro

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

Operates in: Angola · Argentina · Armenia · Belize · Bolivia · Brazil · Cameroon · Colombia · Costa Rica · Ecuador · Gloucestershire · Guatemala

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Claire Ashby — trustee here and at WORLD LAND TRUST
• Dr Andrew Paul Balmford — trustee here and at WORLD LAND TRUST
• Dr Julius Alexander Arinaitwe — trustee here and at WORLD LAND TRUST
• Emma Tozer — trustee here and at WORLD LAND TRUST
• LAWRENCE DAVID SIMANOWITZ — trustee here and at WORLD LAND TRUST
• Lucila Belen Castro — trustee here and at WORLD LAND TRUST
• MYLES ARCHIBALD — trustee here and at WORLD LAND TRUST
• Michael Gerard Krause — trustee here and at WORLD LAND TRUST
• Phillip Simon Shapiro — trustee here and at WORLD LAND TRUST

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 RAINFOREST TRUST UK.

• RAINFOREST TRUST UK income £2.7m
• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m
• THE SOIL ASSOCIATION LAND TRUST income £639k
• SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £5.3m
• THE LANCASHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.2m
• THE WOODLAND TRUST income £89.4m

Side by side with its peers

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