BIOREGIONAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP

Registered charity 1041486 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Bioregional Development Group helps to advance education for the public benefit, in particular concerning the practice of sustainable living including the conduct of community life and economic activity and to promote the preservation, conservation and restoration of the natural resources, animal and plant life, and habitats of the world.

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £63,825 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £2.53m and expenditure of £2.59m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £0.65m, which is slightly below the stated policy target of three months' unrestricted expenditure. The trustees and auditors confirm the group remains a going concern based on secured income and the income pipeline.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02973226

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sue Riddlestone OBE — Chief Executive (source)
• Tom Schuurman — Director (source)
• Debbie Luffman — Director (source)
• Lewis Knight — Director (source)
• Dorothy Mackenzie — Chair (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.

• WILLIAMS, John Robert, Dr — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• ANDERSON, Owen — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• BROOKS, Dorothy Anne — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• WIREDU, Vivian Yeboaa — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• MARX, Simon Nicholas — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• THANAWALLA, Rutang Kirit, Dr — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• GOLDING, Benjamin Joseph — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• HAMILTON, Karen — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• DATTA, Munish Balbir — director, appointed 28/06/2022on trustee list
• SAUVEN, Robert Hugh — director, appointed 07/07/2021on trustee list
• VAN DYKE RODRIGUEZ, Johann Benjamin — director, appointed 07/07/2021not on trustee list
• KEMMITT, Sarah Jane, Dr — director, appointed 26/09/2018on trustee list
• SCHUURMAN, Tom — secretary, appointed 02/12/2020

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dorothy Ann Brookschair
• Benjamin Joseph Golding
• Dr John Williams
• Dr Rutang Thanawalla · trustee of 1 other charity
• Johann Benjamin Van Dyke Rodriguez
• Karen Hamilton
• Munish Balbir Datta
• Owen Anderson
• Robert Hugh Sauven
• Simon Nicholas Marx

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · South Africa · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRITISH SOCIETY FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY.

• BRITISH SOCIETY FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY income £150k
• B LAB (UK) income £11.7m
• BIOCAP LIMITED income £125k
• THE GLOBAL DIVERSITY FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• RESTORE OUR PLANET income £162k
• QUAGGY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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