BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1042125 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q210108 · Wikipedia

BirdLife International is a Partnership acting for birds, for priority sites, for the environment and for people. Over ten million people support the BirdLife International Partnership of non-governmental conservation organisations (Partners) and local networks. The BirdLife International Partners work together on shared priorities, programmes, and policies to deliver real conservation results.

Objects

TO CONSERVE ALL WILD BIRD SPECIES AND THEIR HABITATS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND ALL OTHER THINGS AS ARE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THESE OBJECTS

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that BirdLife International reported a total income of £37.0 million and total expenditure of £38.2 million for the year ended 31 December 2025. The charity holds free reserves of £3.1 million, which the Trustees consider to be within their stated policy target of 8-16 weeks of unrestricted expenditure. The Trustees confirm that the organisation has sufficient resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 27 (FY2024) → 35 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Martin Harper — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Peter Eerdmans — Chair (source)
• Mahima Sukhdev — Chair (source)
• Dr Stuart Butchart — Chief Scientist (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).

• Aage V Jensen Charity Foundation — “Aage V Jensen Charity Foundation “The vision of our Foundation is to give everybody the chance to experience a rich and varied nature – toda…” (source page)
• Ecological Restoration Fund (ERF) — “Ecological Restoration Fund (ERF) The Ecological Restoration Fund (ERF) supports work that protects biodiverse hotspots, rejuvenates degrade…” (source page)
• Heidelberg Materials — “Corporate sponsors Heidelberg Materials “As one of the world’s largest manufacturers of building materials Heidelberg Materials acknowledges…” (source page)

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 (334,946 followers) · instagram (72K followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 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 (89% 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: 5.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ASSAD SERHAL
• Alejandro Quecedo del Val
• Christie Constantine
• Cristi Marie Nozawa
• Dian Agista Prihanggalasari
• Dr Hanneline Smit-Robinson
• Dr Michael Russell Wheldon Rands
• Dr Rodrigo Wilber Soria Auza
• Dr Sheku Kamara
• Dr Tiwonge Gawa
• Fadi Naseer
• Ishana Thapa
• JOHN GREGORY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kate Millar
• Kjetil Aadne Solbakken
• Lieven de Schamphelaere
• Mahima Sukhdev
• Martin Philip Birch
• Nunia Teresa Thomas
• Rebecca Susan Speight
• Rosa Maria Vidal Rodriguez
• Yenifer Diaz

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

Operates in: Belgium · Cambodia · Cambridgeshire · Ecuador · Fiji · Ghana · Japan · Jordan · Kenya · Rwanda · Senegal · Singapore

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 ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS.

• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS income £195.0m
• WILDLIFE VETS INTERNATIONAL income £103k
• The Bird of Prey Project income £123k
• INTERNATIONAL ECO FUND income £138k
• WILDLIFE AND WELFARE income £119k
• LIPU-UK income £58k

Side by side with its peers

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