THE ENVIRONMENT CENTRE LTD

Registered charity 1039378 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ENVIRONMENT CENTRE

The Environment Centre provides a focus for environmental information, education and activities as well as having a visitor facility to promote environmental & sustainable principles.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND RESTORATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED-IN PRACTICE SOUTH WEST WALES

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

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

Registered contact address: Swansea, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £6,817 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted fund reserves from £37,922 to £31,105. Per the trustees' report, the charity secured £391,370 in new funding during the year despite a challenging funding environment. The trustees maintain that the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue its operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 12/04/2024, 72 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 03/02/2023, 3 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02929729

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.

• MANBY, Hannah Grace — director, appointed 01/12/2025on trustee list
• ELLSWORTH, Frances Hazel — director, appointed 01/12/2025on trustee list
• LYTTON-ANDERSON, Peter Colin Stuart — director, appointed 11/11/2024not on trustee list
• TOWNSEND JONES, Carrie — director, appointed 28/11/2022not on trustee list
• KEETON, Sara Elizabeth — director, appointed 28/11/2022not on trustee list
• ISHERWOOD, Noel — director, appointed 29/11/2021on trustee list
• OWEN, Reena May — director, appointed 06/10/2014on trustee list
• HILL, Deborah Jayne — director, appointed 04/12/2006not on trustee list
• BOLCHOVER, Stephen Philip — director, appointed 11/03/1999not on trustee list
• PAWSON, Brian Robert — director, appointed 18/05/1994on trustee list
• KREPPEL, Alan David — director, appointed 17/05/1994on trustee list
• JENKINS, Sian Eleri — secretary, appointed 14/09/2015

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Steve Bolchoverchair
• Alan Kreppel
• Brian Pawson
• Carrie Townsend Jones
• DEB HILL
• Frances Ellsworth
• Hannah Manby
• Noel Isherwood
• Peter Jones
• Peter Lytton Anderson
• Reena Owen

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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).

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 THE ENVIRONMENT CENTRE (TEC).

• THE ENVIRONMENT CENTRE (TEC) income £1.6m
• THE CENTRE FOR ENVIROMENTAL INITIATIVES income £337k
• GREATER MANCHESTER ENVIRONMENT TRUST income £1.1m
• ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE FOUNDATION income £100k
• ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY TRUST income £244k
• LONDON ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS income £88k

Side by side with its peers

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