PLANTLIFE INTERNATIONAL-THE WILD PLANT CONSERVATION CHARITY

Registered charity 1059559 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PLANTLIFE, PLANTLIFE INTERNATIONAL, PLANTLIFE THE WILD PLANT CONSERVATION CHARITY · also registered in Scotland as SC038951 (OSCR)

Wild plant conservation

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £8.17m from £11.3m in the prior year, while total expenditure was £7.67m, resulting in a net movement in funds of £498,832. The charity maintains free unrestricted reserves of £1,618k, which represents 89% of its stated policy target of six months' core operating costs. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Plantlife - The Wild-Plant Conservation Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Daniels — Chair (source)
• Vickie Wood — Director of Fundraising, Marketing and Communications (source)
• Peter Dorans — Director of Business Development (source)
• Lizi Moorcraft — Director of Finance and Resource (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.

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)

12 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony John Payne · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Llewelyn Daniels
• Dr Jill Kowal
• Dr Julia Suzanna Knights · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hien Vi Luong
• James Jansen
• Philip Wilson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Prof Sallie Bailey
• Sally Louise Thomas
• Timothy William Jones

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · 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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GLOUCESTERSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST.

• GLOUCESTERSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £6.1m
• THE WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• THE LANCASHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.2m
• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m
• YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM income £834k
• CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL UK income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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