GLOBAL CANOPY

Registered charity 1089110 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q59536646 · also known as GLOBAL CANOPY FOUNDATION, GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME (GCP)

Global Canopy is an innovative environmental organisation that targets the market forces destroying tropical forests. Since 2001, we have been testing new approaches to tackling deforestation, and guiding companies, investors and governments worldwide to think differently about our planet's forests.

Objects

2.1 TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY: 2.1.1 THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, BIODIVERSITY, AND THE PRUDENT USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES; 2.1.2 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES; 2.1.3 THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION.2.2 TO PROMOTE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL AND ANY MATTERS RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROTECTION, ENHANCEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) THE TROPICAL AND TEMPERATE FORESTS OF THE WORLD, AND TO PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN SUCH SUBJECTS PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY ARE DISSEMINATED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE. 2.3 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) THE TROPICAL AND TEMPERATE FORESTS OF THE WORLD. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS “DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.”

Area of benefit: IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) THE TROPICAL AND TEMPERATE FORESTS OF THE WORLD.

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 · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves stood at £896,000, which is within the trustees' target range and equivalent to eight months of core costs. The charity reported a decrease in total income to £4.62 million and a net movement in funds of £42,000 for unrestricted funds. The trustees confirmed the organization is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Oxford 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04293417

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Global Canopy (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.

• ALLEN, James Rupert Anthony — director, appointed 24/03/2026on trustee list
• CLEARY, David Michael — director, appointed 15/07/2025on trustee list
• CHANTREY, Justin Nigel — director, appointed 15/07/2025on trustee list
• SALVI, Greta Gogiel — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
• GOLDMAN, Talia Desiree Lucia — director, appointed 25/01/2023on trustee list
• VON BRAUN, Johanna — director, appointed 12/10/2021not on trustee list
• HEYBROOK, Rose Catherine — director, appointed 14/07/2020not on trustee list
• BECK, Sara Ruth — director, appointed 28/01/2020on trustee list
• BIBLE, Thomas William — director, appointed 26/03/2019not on trustee list
• KANSERE, Ronald Bwanika — secretary, appointed 13/07/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (78% 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: 5.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Michael Cleary
• Fitrian Ardiansyah
• Greta Gogiel Salvi
• JUSTIN CHANTREY
• James Rupert Anthony Allen
• Johan Maarten Loth
• Johanna Von Braun
• Rose Dale
• Sara Beck
• Talia Desiree Lucia Goldman

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

Operates in: Austria · Brazil · China · Colombia · France · Germany · Indonesia · Italy · Paraguay · Peru · Scotland · South Africa

Income and spending

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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 WASTE AND RESOURCES ACTION PROGRAMME.

• THE WASTE AND RESOURCES ACTION PROGRAMME income £28.7m
• The Global Returns Project Limited income £1.9m
• GLOBAL GIVING UK income £2.9m
• CANOPI FOUNDATION 1 income £1.7m
• GLOBAL COMPACT NETWORK UK income £3.8m
• CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL UK income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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