THE CHILTERN SOCIETY

Registered charity 1085163 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Chiltern Society aims to conserve and protect the natural beauty, environment, and heritage of the 650 square miles of the Chiltern landscape

Objects

1) ENCOURAGE CONSERVATION, DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE AMENITIES, AREAS OF TRANQUILLITY AND FEATURES OF HISTORIC INTEREST IN THE CHILTERNS; 2) RAISE THE AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHARACTER AND HISTORY OF THE CHILTERNS AMONG THE PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO ENJOY AND CARE FOR ITS NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND BEAUTY;3) ENCOURAGE HIGH STANDARDS OF TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING AND DESIGN IN THE CHILTERNS; AND4) PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.

Area of benefit: THE CHILTERNS

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net operating deficit of £9,171 for the year ended 30 June 2025, a reversal from the previous year's surplus. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds total £924,487, comprising designated funds of £631,372 and general funds of £293,115, while restricted funds stood at £269,838. The charity maintains a reserves policy requiring liquid funds sufficient to ensure continuity, with no specific monetary target stated.

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 6 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
• 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 — The Chiltern Society (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

14 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~19.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/11/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/10/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Wilson
• Chandreyee Banerjee
• Dr Wendy Ann Morrison
• Grahame David Smith
• James Russell Wheatcroft
• John Charles Nicholls
• Luke Jefferys
• MARIA SPINK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Gardiner
• Peter Phippen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rose Lewis

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

Operates in: Bedford · Buckinghamshire · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire · Oxfordshire

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 The Chiltern Centre Limited.

• The Chiltern Centre Limited income £1.3m
• THE THERFIELD REGULATION TRUST income £125k
• CHILTERN CHURCH income £276k
• THE OTTER TRUST income £62k
• SHALDON WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £293k
• CHILTERN OPEN AIR MUSEUM LIMITED income £952k

Side by side with its peers

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