RAINFOREST CONCERN

Registered charity 1028947 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To protect and conserve threatened natural habitats for the public benefit and for endangered species of animals and plants. In particular, in areas having endangered forests or other endangered natural habitats.

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total reserves of £3,074,215, with unrestricted reserves of £2,333,355. The trustees consider that free reserves of £528,102 exceed their policy target of one year's operating expenditure, indicating sufficient resources to cover short-term fluctuations. The independent auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Begbies. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rainforest Concern (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Peter Bennett — Executive Director and Founder (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).

• Ancient + Brave — “Ancient + Brave produces organic, botanical blends and supplements. They support the vital work of our forest guards and other projects arou…” (source page)
• Aqua Firma — “Aqua Firma have been supporting us for over a decade.” (source page)
• Arbor Vitae — “Arbor Vitae supports the planting and preservation of woodlands and donates towards our conservation projects in the Tropical Andes.” (source page)
• ARMEDANGELS — “Sustainable fashion brand, ARMEDANGELS has supported Rainforest Concern's projects in Ecuador.” (source page)
• Beyond ONE — “Beyond ONE is a digital services provider and TMT-sector (technology, media, telecommunications) investment and operations company. They are…” (source page)
• BodyMe — “BodyMe supports our work by donating to our sponsor an acre programme.” (source page)
• CANOPY Beauty — “CANOPY Beauty skincare produces sustainable & conscientiously crafted serums, creams & beauty products and donates towards our conservation …” (source page)
• Chippenham Borough Lands — “Chippenham Borough Lands has twinned an acre of its land with a donation towards the purchase and protection of rare cloud forest at our Neb…” (source page)
• Digital Wonderlab — “Digital Wonderlab Award-winning experts at creating websites, apps and strategies for clients that make a real difference to our world.” (source page)
• GO SUPERFOODS — “GO SUPERFOODS which sells superfoods, donates funds towards the Juruá Project, in Brazil, and Neblina Reserve, in the Tropical Andes.” (source page)
• Grant Associates — “Grant Associates is an international landscape architecture practice, helping reconnect people with nature in insightful, delightful and dis…” (source page)
• Interaction — “Interaction have been designing and building award winning office spaces for over 30 years and donate towards our conservation projects.” (source page)
• Lanson Moore — “Lanson Moore is a Yorkshire based abstract artist who creates large original abstract art inspired by nature and donates 10% of her sales to…” (source page)
• LEX Reception — “LEX Reception is a legal answering service, which has twinned its Scottish forest with a donation towards the purchase and protection of an …” (source page)
• NatureSpy — “NatureSpy have been supporting Rainforest Concern for many years. As wildlife technology experts, they have kindly provided us with funding …” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~10.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nathaniel Pagechair
• ALBERTO PULIDO CRUZ
• Catriona Syed
• MAXIME VAN NIEUWENHUYSE
• Martin Gardner
• Oliver Whalley
• Sita Annette Schutt · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Brazil · Chile · Colombia · Costa Rica · Ecuador · India · Peru · Romania

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION AGENCY.

• ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION AGENCY income £332k
• RAINFOREST TRUST UK income £2.7m
• HORSELL COMMON PRESERVATION SOCIETY income £343k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS income £195.0m
• THE WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• THE LANCASHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.2m

Side by side with its peers

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