WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST

Registered charity 1030884 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1423063 · Wikipedia · also known as W W T

WWT works to save wetlands for wildlife and for people by inspiring people to connect with and value wetlands and their wildlife, by demonstrating and promoting the importance and benefits of wetlands, by countering threats to wetlands and their wildlife, by creating and restoring wetlands and protecting key wetland sites and by savings threatened wetlands species.

Objects

The Trust’s objects are to restore, create and protect wetlands to enhance their value for wildlife; to undertake any activity that in the opinion of the Council raises awareness of wetlands, including their critical value to wildlife, to people and to the environment; undertake scientific research, provide evidence, learning and guidance to support these objects; to maintain any establishments and sites as the Council may think fit, to manage, restore, create and protect wetlands; to disseminate knowledge and understanding of wetlands and their wildlife and/or to inspire conservation action through recreational opportunities and engagement; and to operate in the UK and in all parts of the world.

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

Registered contact address: Stroud, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £46.8 million, driven largely by a £16.8 million restricted donation from Aviva, while total expenditure rose 7% to £32.1 million. The charity reports unrestricted funds totaling £38.5 million and notes that the Council has reviewed its reserves policy to adopt a more risk-based approach, with £8.4 million held within the desired range.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• 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.

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).

• The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust | Wildlife, Conservation, Education britannica.com · 18/08/2026
• Warblers’ Meadow at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge greatbritishlife.co.uk · 12/09/2025
• Gloucestershire-based Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust scoops £20k grant bbc.com · 21/10/2023
• When Tony Hart visited the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust stroudtimes.com · 23/02/2023
• Digging deep – Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust help with pond makeover stroudtimes.com · 17/11/2022
• Martin Mere Wetland Centre: Sir Peter Scott's Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) marks 75 years of saving birds from extinction lep.co.uk · 10/11/2021
• Llanelli's Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust nature reserve marks 30th anniversary inyourarea.co.uk · 23/04/2021
• Sir Peter Scott's legacy lives on at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust theguardian.com · 10/11/2011

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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Natural England — “Rare British waders one step closer to recovery with £650k of Natural England funding” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 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 (27,817 followers) · instagram (47K followers)

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.

• General Manager — £61,400 per annum · GL2, Gloucester (Hybrid) · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 02/09/2026)
• General Manager — £61,400 per annum · L40, Ormskirk (On-site) · posted 3 weeks ago (seen 02/09/2026)

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 16.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/07/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW DAVID BEER
• Alan Bahadur Law
• Alexander Daniel Mawer
• BARNABY BRIGGS
• Fraser Stewart Montgomery
• Philip Wilson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor Christian Dunn · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Flint · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Pearson

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

Operates in: Bulgaria · Cambodia · China · Kuwait · Madagascar · Northern Ireland · Russia · Scotland · Seychelles · South Korea · Sri Lanka · Throughout England And Wales

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 ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS.

• ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS income £43.7m
• THE WHITLEY FUND FOR NATURE income £2.6m
• HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.9m
• THE TOTTLE WOODLAND AND WILDLIFE CHARITY income £136k
• WILDLIFE AND WELFARE income £119k
• DEVON WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.5m

Side by side with its peers

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