CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND

Registered charity 1089685 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5027853 · Wikipedia · also known as CPRE, THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND

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

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION THE IMPROVEMENT AND PROTECTION OF THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE AND ITS TOWNS AND VILLAGES AND THE BETTER DEVELOPMENT OF THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT

Area of benefit: ENGLAND

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: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit for the year, with total expenditure of £5.3m against total income of £4.3m. Despite this underlying deficit, unrestricted free reserves stood at £5.3m, which is above the board's target range of £1.9m to £3.6m, a position attributed to generous one-off legacies. The trustees remain satisfied that the charity can continue as a going concern, though they plan to bring reserves back toward the target range over the next two to three years.

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 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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)

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 — 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.

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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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 24.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (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
• Dr Safia Laila Minney
• 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

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 AVON AND BRISTOL BRANCH OF THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND.

• THE AVON AND BRISTOL BRANCH OF THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND income £77k
• THE HEREFORDSHIRE BRANCH OF THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND income £100k
• THE OXFORDSHIRE BRANCH OF THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND income £905k
• CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND - DORSET BRANCH income £64k
• PEAK DISTRICT AND SOUTH YORKSHIRE BRANCH OF THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND income £107k
• THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND WILTSHIRE income £131k

Side by side with its peers

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