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)

Latest income
£8.1m
Latest spending
£7.7m
Registered
1996

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

Total income
£8.1m
Total spending
£7.7m
Cost of raising funds
£1.2m
Reserves (reported)
£1.6m
Employees
97

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

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Trustees

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£8.1m£7.7m
31/03/2024£11.3m£9.1m
31/03/2023£5.5m£5.0m
31/03/2022£4.5m£4.3m
31/03/2021£4.1m£3.1m

Common questions

Who funds PLANTLIFE INTERNATIONAL-THE WILD PLANT CONSERVATION CHARITY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name PLANTLIFE INTERNATIONAL-THE WILD PLANT CONSERVATION CHARITY as a grant recipient include THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION, JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION, THE EUREKA CHARITABLE TRUST, NEWBY TRUST LIMITED, SWIRE 2765.

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund12/12/2025£250k"Pathways to Nature"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund08/10/2025£100k"Ranscombe Connect: Community Participation for Wild Plants and Fungi"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund04/09/2024£106k"Plantlife Ryewater Farm Nature Reserve extension - Land purchase and establishment for conservation"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund30/08/2023£10k"Equality Diversity and Inclusion – Plantlife Organisational Resilience Project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund27/02/2023£81k"#NNF2 Grassland Networks Wales"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund11/11/2021£108k"#Digital8: Vibrant Volunteering Virtually Everywhere"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund28/11/2019£224k"Cairngorms Rare Plants and Wild Connections"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund28/11/2017£88k"Looking out for small things: Discover and conserve lower plants of the Lake District"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund08/11/2017£56k"Greena Moor: Restoring and re-connecting rare Culm grassland habitat in an ancient Cornish landscape"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund14/03/2017£504k"Building Resilience in South West Woodlands"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund24/11/2014£45k"Secrets of the Celtic rainforest: a journey of discovery and conservation"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund31/03/2014£8k"(No Title)"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund04/09/2013£62k"Make the Small Things Count: Learning about and conserving lower plants across the South West"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund27/03/2012£2.3m"Saving our Magnificent Meadows"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund30/01/2012£34k"Wild and Wonderful: Celebrating Scotland's wild plants and fungi"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund29/03/2010£551k"Ranscombe Nature Reserve Community Heritage Project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund28/09/2009£40k"Places for Plants and People"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund26/02/2008£50k"Building Capacity for Wild Plant Heritage in the South West"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund07/06/2005£121k"Living Roots"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund05/02/2002£308k"Making it Count for People and Plants"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund25/11/1998£52k"Munsary Peatlands, Caithness"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund22/07/1997£69k"Joanshill Farm, Checkley"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund24/09/1996£44k"Ryewater Farm, Corscombe, Dorset"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund20/02/1996£126k"Winskill Stones Langcliffe, Nr Settle"