FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1011102 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q3067365 · Wikipedia · also known as FAUNA AND FLORA INTERNATIONAL, FAUNA AND FLORA PRESERVATION SOCIETY, FFI, Fauna & Flora · also registered in Scotland as SC055683 (OSCR)

Fauna & Flora's shared purpose is to protect the diversity of life on Earth, for the survival of the planet and its people. We work closely with local conservation partners around the world to save nature, together. We harness this collective expertise to inspire positive change globally.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT BY THE PROTECTION OF BIODIVERSITY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING GLOBALLY APPLICABLE SOLUTIONS THAT ARE EFFECTIVE LOCALLY; TO ADVANCE THE AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OF ALL SECTORS OF SOCIETY WORLDWIDE IN THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF BIODIVERSITY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£44.8m

Latest spending

£42.5m

Registered

1992

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £4.4m, representing 4.7 months of budgeted recurring core expenditure, which remains below the charity's stated policy target of 10 months. The trustees are committed to rebuilding reserves to the minimum policy level of 6 months and the longer-term target of 10 months through fundraising and planned surpluses.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Trusts and foundations (47% of income)

“Trusts & Foundations remain our largest source of income at 47% of total (2024: 40%).”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: 10 months of budgeted, recurring, unrestricted expenditure (held: £4.4m)

“Fauna & Flora’s policy is to hold 6–18 months of budgeted, recurring, unrestricted expenditure, with the target unrestricted reserve level of 10 months”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Grant funding provided to Chuilexi and Luambeze, subsidiaries of Fauna & Flora.

“Fauna & Flora provides grant funding to Chuilexi Conservação e Investimentos Limitada and Luambeze Investimentos Limitada, both of which are subsidiaries of Fauna & Flora.” — page 35

“Fauna & Flora has paid and received reimbursement of expenditure from Principe Foundation. A member of Fauna & Flora’s SLT is also a director of this organisation.” — page 35

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Reimbursement of expenditure paid to Principe Foundation, where an SLT member is a director.

“Fauna & Flora provides grant funding to Chuilexi Conservação e Investimentos Limitada and Luambeze Investimentos Limitada, both of which are subsidiaries of Fauna & Flora.” — page 35

“Fauna & Flora has paid and received reimbursement of expenditure from Principe Foundation. A member of Fauna & Flora’s SLT is also a director of this organisation.” — page 35

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Government income: £10,231,177 — grants £10,231,177 (26); 23% of the £44,795,369 total gross income on the same return
Employees paid over £60,000: 40 (£60,001–£70,000: 12; £70,001–£80,000: 12; £80,001–£90,000: 5; £90,001–£100,000: 5; £100,001–£110,000: 1; £110,001–£120,000: 3; £140,001–£150,000: 1; £150,001–£200,000: 1)
Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Government income: £5,208,891 — grants £5,208,891 (25); 12% of the £44,617,478 total gross income on the same return
Employees paid over £60,000: 39 (£60,001–£70,000: 10; £70,001–£80,000: 13; £80,001–£90,000: 5; £90,001–£100,000: 3; £100,001–£110,000: 3; £130,001–£140,000: 1; £140,001–£150,000: 2; £150,001–£200,000: 2)

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Government income: £4,196,721 — grants £4,196,721 (24); 11% of the £36,800,352 total gross income on the same return
Employees paid over £60,000: 25 (£60,001–£70,000: 8; £70,001–£80,000: 3; £80,001–£90,000: 4; £90,001–£100,000: 3; £100,001–£110,000: 4; £140,001–£150,000: 3)

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

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

Fauna and Flora International: Rescued from the jaws of extinction earthshotprize.org · 19/08/2022
Fauna & Flora International: providing a better benchmark for big money theguardian.com · 30/05/2012

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 02677068

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Fauna & Flora (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Sir David Attenborough OM FRS — Vice-president (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.

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.

CACHO, Joyce, Dr — director, appointed 07/10/2025on trustee list
TYLER, Martin Charles — director, appointed 13/02/2024on trustee list
FITZGERALD, Stephen Charles — director, appointed 13/02/2024on trustee list
WAUGHRAY, Dominic Kailashnath — director, appointed 21/12/2023on trustee list
LLOYD, Christine Susan — director, appointed 07/08/2023on trustee list
GONZALEZ-MERLANI, Hernan — director, appointed 07/08/2023on trustee list
ST. MATTHEW-DANIEL, Eyitola — director, appointed 07/08/2023not on trustee list
NOGALES, Miguel Roger — director, appointed 28/10/2022on trustee list
SLOANE, Hugh Patrick — director, appointed 29/09/2021on trustee list
HALAKE, Abshiro Soka — director, appointed 29/09/2021on trustee list
STEWART, Kimberly Louis — director, appointed 15/09/2020on trustee list
BLUMBERG, Jeffrey James — director, appointed 31/03/2020on trustee list
GAVAZZI ASSEILY, Anna — director, appointed 25/09/2019not on trustee list
IGNATIEVA, Svetlana — secretary, appointed 23/10/2014

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Trustpilot: Fauna & Flora International scores 4.1/5 from 7 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

Technical Specialist, Partnerships & Organisational Development, Arctic — £39,640 per year · CB2, Cambridge (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 02/09/2026)
Programme Development Manager, Americas & Caribbean — £39,640 per year · CB2, Cambridge (Hybrid) · posted 4 days ago (seen 02/09/2026)
Purchase Ledger Clerk — £32,515 per year · CB2, Cambridge (Hybrid) · posted 6 days ago (seen 02/09/2026)
Specialist Partnerships & Organisational Development — $24,086 per year · Honduras (On-site) · posted 1 day ago (seen 02/09/2026)

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

Total income

£44.8m

Total spending

£42.5m

Cost of raising funds

£2.8m

Reserves (reported)

£4.2m

Employees

626

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (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

Stephen Charles Fitzgeraldchair
ABSHIRO SOKA HALAKE
Anna Gavazzi Asseily
Christine Lloyd
Dominic Kailashnath Waughray
Dr Anthony Thomas Juniper
Dr Joyce Cacho
Eyitola St Matthew-Daniel
HUGH PATRICK SLOANE
Hernan Gonzalez-Merlani
JEFFREY JAMES BLUMBERG
KIMBERLY STEWART
MARTIN CHARLES TYLER · trustee of 1 other charity
Miguel Nogales
RICHARD HALL

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

Operates in: Anguilla · Antigua And Barbuda · Australia · Barbados · Belize · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Bulgaria · Burma · Cambodia · Cape Verde · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Croatia

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£44.8m	£42.5m
31/12/2024	£44.6m	£48.8m
31/12/2023	£36.8m	£41.9m
31/12/2022	£33.2m	£30.4m
31/12/2021	£36.5m	£25.6m

Common questions

Is FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £4.4m, representing 4.7 months of budgeted recurring core expenditure, which remains below the charity's stated policy target of 10 months. The trustees are committed to rebuilding reserves to the minimum policy level of 6 months and the longer-term target of 10 months through fundraising and planned surpluses. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Who funds FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL as a grant recipient include CARIBBEAN BIODIVERSITY FUND, THE RUFFORD FOUNDATION, The Brindle Foundation, THE MARCELA TRUST, THE SCHRODER FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
CARIBBEAN BIODIVERSITY FUND	FY2021	£388k	EbA Program
THE RUFFORD FOUNDATION	FY2025	£355k	4 grants to entity where Trustee H P Nelson is an employee
The Brindle Foundation	FY2026	£350k
CARIBBEAN BIODIVERSITY FUND	FY2022	£292k	EbA Program
THE MARCELA TRUST	FY2024	£280k	to fund selected charitable community initiatives in the remote Zarand region of Western Transylvania
CARIBBEAN BIODIVERSITY FUND	FY2023	£199k	EbA Program
THE MARCELA TRUST	FY2023	£150k
THE SCHRODER FOUNDATION	FY2023	£120k
THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES	FY2021	£110k	Conservation / United for Wildlife
JAMMA INTERNATIONAL	FY2022	Unverified read£97k
THE MANOUKIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2021	£74k	Scholarships
PROJECT GIVING BACK	FY2023	£72k	Grant for garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023
THE MANOUKIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2022	£68k
JAMMA INTERNATIONAL	FY2024	£61k
THE SAMUEL STOREY FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£57k
JOCK'S INFLUENCE LIMITED	FY2024	£50k	120 year old, UK based wildlife conservation charity working in 48 countries to save nature
LEVINE FAMILY FOUNDATION	FY2022	£50k
THE AURUM CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£50k
THE WIXAMTREE TRUST	FY2025	£50k	Grant paid (Related Party Transaction)
SWIRE 2765	FY2024	£49k
CARIBBEAN BIODIVERSITY FUND	FY2025	£40k
JAMMA INTERNATIONAL	FY2024	£39k
THE SCHRODER FOUNDATION	FY2021	£35k
THE SCHRODER FOUNDATION	FY2022	£35k
LEVINE FAMILY FOUNDATION	FY2023	£30k
The Brindle Foundation	FY2025	£25k
REUBEN FOUNDATION	FY2021	£25k
THE BUFFINI CHAO FOUNDATION	FY2025	£25k
THE DILKES FAMILY FOUNDATION	FY2026	£20k	For 12-months to support core costs. Fauna & Flora works with partners around the world to save extraordinary wildlife and precious habitats and address climate
THE DILKES FAMILY FOUNDATION	FY2025	£20k	For 12-months to support core costs.
THE AURUM CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£20k
THE KILROOT FOUNDATION	FY2022	£20k
THE KILROOT FOUNDATION	FY2022	£20k
SWIRE 2765	FY2023	£20k
CHK Foundation	FY2022	£15k	Grants to charitable institutions
DALGLEISH TRUST	FY2023	£15k
THE PENCHANT FOUNDATION	FY2025	£15k
THE PATRICK & HELENA FROST FOUNDATION	FY2025	£15k
THE MILLICHOPE FOUNDATION	FY2022	£13k
REUBEN FOUNDATION	FY2022	£13k
JAMMA INTERNATIONAL	FY2023	Unverified read£12k
THE JOHN BROWNE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£11k
THE PATRICK & HELENA FROST FOUNDATION	FY2022	£10k
THE PATRICK & HELENA FROST FOUNDATION	FY2024	£10k
THE MILLICHOPE FOUNDATION	FY2026	£10k
MERRIMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2022	£10k	World - Conservation & Environment
THE PATRICK & HELENA FROST FOUNDATION	FY2023	£10k
RUTH SMART FOUNDATION	FY2023	£10k
RUTH SMART FOUNDATION	FY2024	£8k
THE BOLTINI TRUST	FY2021	£5k	International

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Greenwood Place	01/03/2025	£20k	Grant to Fauna and Flora International
Postcode Lottery	25/02/2025	£1.5m	Regular Grant 2025
Greenwood Place	01/07/2024	£1.0m	Grant to Fauna & Flora
UK government	01/04/2024	£78k	DARCC052: Small but mighty: empowering Tajik conservation organisations through capacity building
UK government	01/04/2024	£118k	IWT130: Protecting yellow-naped parrot through situational crime prevention in Ometepe, Nicaragua
UK government	01/04/2024	£215k	IWT136: Tackling wild meat demand, supply and trade in Western Equatoria
Postcode Lottery	01/12/2023	£1.5m	Regular Grant 2024
William Grant Foundation	12/10/2023	£110k	Strengthening community-led conservation in Scotland
UK government	01/07/2023	£70k	DARNV016: Promoting equitable gender norms to strengthen conservation governance and impact
UK government	01/07/2023	£85k	DARNV016: Promoting equitable gender norms to strengthen conservation governance and impact
UK government	01/05/2023	£115k	DAR30009: Developing sustainable sea moss farming methods in Saint Lucia
UK government	01/05/2023	£107k	DAR30009: Developing sustainable sea moss farming methods in Saint Lucia
UK government	01/04/2023	£1.2m	DAREX006: Increasing ecological and socio-economic resilience of Upper-Ewaso Ngiro North Ecosystem
UK government	01/04/2023	£159k	DAR30002: Sustainable Wetland Management in the Central Ayeyarwady River Basin
UK government	01/04/2023	£177k	DAR30010: Securing Spermondes seascape through community-based coral reef fisheries management
UK government	01/04/2023	£107k	DAR30010: Securing Spermondes seascape through community-based coral reef fisheries management
UK government	01/04/2023	£113k	DAR30002: Sustainable Wetland Management in the Central Ayeyarwady River Basin
UK government	01/04/2023	£972k	DAREX006: Increasing ecological and socio-economic resilience of Upper-Ewaso Ngiro North Ecosystem
Postcode Lottery	07/02/2023	£1.6m	Regular Grant 2023
Greenwood Place	01/07/2022	£1.0m	Grant to Fauna & Flora International
UK government	01/06/2022	£106k	29-008 Community-led conservation and fisheries development in North coast, Kenya
UK government	01/06/2022	£111k	29-002 Conserving and restoring orangutan habitat and ecosystems, Gunung Palung, Indonesia
UK government	01/06/2022	£136k	29-002 Conserving and restoring orangutan habitat and ecosystems, Gunung Palung, Indonesia
UK government	01/06/2022	£18k	DARNV001 Incentivising responsible fisheries in Central America: testing novel intermediary models
UK government	01/06/2022	£116k	DARNV001 Incentivising responsible fisheries in Central America: testing novel intermediary models

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION	2	£535k
JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£14k
THE THOMAS RAWCLIFFE CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£12k
THE JOHN COATES CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£11k
THE NINEVEH CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£5k
Becht Foundation	1	£1.0m
ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS	1	£298k
THE REECE FOUNDATION	1	£236k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL AID FOR THE PROTECTION AND WELFARE OF ANIMALS.

INTERNATIONAL AID FOR THE PROTECTION AND WELFARE OF ANIMALS income £340k
WILDLIFE AND WELFARE income £119k
CONSERVATION WITHOUT BORDERS income £29k
PLANTLIFE INTERNATIONAL-THE WILD PLANT CONSERVATION CHARITY income £8.1m
RESTORE OUR PLANET income £162k
THE FROGLIFE TRUST income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL	£44.8m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
INTERNATIONAL AID FOR THE PROTECTION AND WELFARE OF ANIMALS FY2025	£340k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
WILDLIFE AND WELFARE FY2025	£119k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
CONSERVATION WITHOUT BORDERS FY2024	£29k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PLANTLIFE INTERNATIONAL-THE WILD PLANT CONSERVATION CHARITY FY2025	£8.1m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
RESTORE OUR PLANET FY2025	£162k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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