UGANDA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1087295 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UCF, UGANDAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION

Providing support and funding for projects designed to preserve, rescue and rehabilitate endangered species and habitats. Through research, educational and technical support UCF aims to help individual people and local communities in a practical way to practise and benefit from conservation efforts and to reduce human / wildlife conflict.

Objects

THE CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE FLORA AND FAUNA IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, IN UGANDA

Area of benefit: UGANDA

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

Causes: Education/training · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that revenue rose by 56.0% to UGX 8.48 billion, matching a 56.2% rise in expenditure, resulting in a small operating surplus of UGX 5.0 million. Total reserves stood at UGX 403.1 million, but the unrestricted balance was negative at UGX 784.7 million, indicating a reliance on restricted funds and capital funds. The trustees identify rebuilding unrestricted reserves as a priority to ensure long-term resilience.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Baker Tilly Hem LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Uganda Conservation Foundation (UCF) (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Global Humane Conservation Fund of Africa — “Global Humane Conservation Fund of Africa has made a decisive and bold commitment, not only funding vet operations and purchasing a dedicate…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 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 (98% 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: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUSAN MARIE FOXchair
• Jeremy Andrew Burley
• MICHAEL DOUGLAS KEIGWIN
• PATRICK JACKSON
• TIMOTHY PATRICK RENNIE CAME

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

Operates in: Uganda

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.

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 GBV UGANDA PROJECTS.

• GBV UGANDA PROJECTS income £20k
• CONNECTED CONSERVATION FOUNDATION income £81k
• AFRICAN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FUND (UK) income £205k
• UGANDA CONCERN UK income £31k
• Christian Development Uganda income £131k
• BUGANDA UK income £32k

Side by side with its peers

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