THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED

Registered charity 1091562 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales works to protect all forms of wildlife and its habitats on its nature reserves and in the wider countryside, working at local and national level.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state a group surplus of £1,806,233 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven largely by grant funding for nature reserve acquisitions. Total income increased to £5.3m, while unrestricted reserves stood at £5.8m, which the trustees report meets their policy to maintain 3-6 months of running costs. The auditors confirmed no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bevan Buckland LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sarah Kessell — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

94 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (85 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (67% 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: 4.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jenny Hughes · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Hugh Alexander Tusa · trustee of 1 other charity
• Leonora Hope Thomson
• Lucy Anne Griffiths
• Michail John Davies
• Paul Culyer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Raoul Evelyn Bhambral
• Rosey Grandage
• Stuart Bain · trustee of 6 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTH WALES WILDLIFE TRUST.

• NORTH WALES WILDLIFE TRUST income £4.0m
• HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.9m
• GWENT WILDLIFE TRUST LTD income £1.3m
• SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £5.3m
• DURHAM WILDLIFE TRUST income £4.3m
• THE SURREY WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £7.5m

Side by side with its peers

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