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

Objects

1). TO PROMOTE AND UNDERTAKE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE CONSERVATION OF PLANTS AND THEIR HABITATS. 2). TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC SO AS TO INCREASE THEIR KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF PLANTS, AND THEIR AWARENESS OF THE VALUE OF PLANTS AND THE NEED FOR PLANT CONSERVATION. 3). TO PROMOTE AND UNDERTAKE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF PLACES OF BOTANICAL INTEREST FOR THE CULTIVATION AND PRESERVATION OF PLANTS. 4). TO PROMOTE, ORGANISE AND UNDERTAKE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF THE CONSERVATION OF PLANTS AND THEIR USES PROVIDED THAT ALL THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH SHALL BE PUBLISHED. 5). TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE CONDUCIVE TO THE AFORESAID OBJECTS AS THE BOARD MAY FROM TIME TO TIME IN ITS DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's free unrestricted reserves were £1,618,000, which represents 89% of its stated policy target of six months' core operating costs. Total income decreased to £8.17 million from £11.3 million in the prior year, while total expenditure fell to £7.67 million. The trustees 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 4 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.

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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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

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 TOTTLE WOODLAND AND WILDLIFE CHARITY.

• THE TOTTLE WOODLAND AND WILDLIFE CHARITY income £136k
• WILD TEAM CONSERVATION income £210k
• THE WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £5.3m
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £6.1m
• THE WILDLIFE FOR ALL TRUST income £47k

Side by side with its peers

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