CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND

Registered charity 1089685 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CPRE, THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND

TO CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE THE IMPROVEMENT AND PROTECTION OF THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £961k for the year, driven largely by a £3m drop in legacy income. However, unrestricted free reserves stood at £5.3m, which is above the Board's stated target range of £1.9m to £3.6m, providing a strong financial base despite the underlying deficit.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Campaign to Protect Rural England (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).

• CAF — “We also actively work with Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) including CAF and the National Philanthropic Trust .” (source page)
• National Philanthropic Trust — “We also actively work with Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) including CAF and the National Philanthropic Trust .” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 24.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Charles Stuart Murraychair · trustee of 3 other charities
• ANTHONY JAMES HARRIS BURTON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Emily Sarah Tate
• Hayley Simone Tocknell
• Janette Rose Ward
• Lucy Annabel Turvill
• Martin Collett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Reema Stephenson

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND WILTSHIRE.

• THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND WILTSHIRE income £131k
• THE OXFORDSHIRE BRANCH OF THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND income £371k
• THE KENT BRANCH OF THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND income £232k
• ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND income £1.9m
• THE ROYAL COUNTRYSIDE FUND income £4.1m
• THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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