THE LEWA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY UK

Registered charity 1069800 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote, for the benefit of the public, the preservation and protection of endangered wildlife species, in particular species of rhinoceros and their habitat living within the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya and (b) to promote the preservation and protection of the habitat of such animals through the education of those local to and living with endangered species in sympathetic land use.

Objects

1. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES, AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE FOREGOING, SPECIES OF RHINOCEROS LIVING WITHIN THE LEWA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY IN KENYA. 2. TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE HABITANT OF SUCH ANIMALS THROUGH THE EDUCATION OF THOSE LOCAL TO, AND LIVING WITH, ENDANGERED SPECIES IN SYMPATHETIC LAND USE.

Area of benefit: KENYA

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £65,932 satisfy the charity's policy of maintaining a six-month working capital reserve. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to support on-going activities 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 independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03470186 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• LEWIS, Suzy Zuleika — director, appointed 13/05/2026on trustee list
• DRYER, Joseph Frederic — director, appointed 03/12/2015on trustee list
• MULHOLLAND, Paul Edward — director, appointed 03/12/2015on trustee list
• CROOK, Kathleen Ann — director, appointed 20/10/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (71% 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: 5.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOESEPH FREDERIC DRYER
• KATHLEEN CROOK
• PAUL EDWARD MULHOLLAND · trustee of 3 other charities
• Suzy Zuleika Lewis

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

Operates in: Kenya

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 KENYA WILDLIFE TRUST UK.

• KENYA WILDLIFE TRUST UK income £42k
• WATERBERG RHINO UK income £145k
• CARE FOR WILD RHINO SANCTUARY (UK) income £215k
• OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY UK income £1.3m
• CONSERVATION SOUTH LUANGWA UK income £40k
• EDEN WILDLIFE TRUST income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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