THE GLOBAL DIVERSITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1080731 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity develops applied research, international training and community projects on biocultural diversity, globally and in the Mediterranean region.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE MAINTENANCE OF AGRICULTURAL, AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY) THROUGH APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGOICAL, ECOLOGICAL, ETHNOBIOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE; AND 2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC INTO AND PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO ETHNOBIOLOGY, BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION AND CULTURAL CONTINUITY, MAKING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH PUBLICLY AVAILABLE; AND 3. TO RELIEVE HARDSHIP IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN PARTICULAR WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY) THROUGH ETHNOBIOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, AND CULTURAL CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT, AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES..

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: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £18,204 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £1,122,948 and total expenditure of £1,104,744. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties affecting its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 05/02/2024, 5 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (92% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefelchair
• Belaynesh Hailemariam · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Janelle Marie Baker
• Dr Rachel Carmenta
• Dr Wolde Gossa Tadesse
• Rosebell Celestine Adhiambo Abwonji

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

Operates in: Morocco · Switzerland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GLOBAL SOURCENET.

• GLOBAL SOURCENET income £49k
• GLOBAL GENERATION income £1.9m
• GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH ASSOCIATION income £766k
• GLOBAL RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AND INVESTMENT income £155k
• RURAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION GLOBAL LTD income £105k
• THE GENERAL CHARITY FUND income £59k

Side by side with its peers

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