BUGLIFE THE INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION TRUST

Registered charity 1092293 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BUGLIFE · also registered in Scotland as SC040004 (OSCR)

We aim to conserve invertebrates and their habitats, with current emphasis on surveys to assess the status of species in specific habitat-types, such as brownfields, soft rock cliffs and freshwater. Dissemination of our survey data, public education and the raising of awareness of the need to conserve invertebrates are also key activities. We also work to protect sites of special importance.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income exceeded total expenditure by £537,781, resulting in a surplus for the year. Free reserves stood at £1,103,854, which the trustees report equates to approximately 4.7 months of cover against their policy target of 3 to 6 months of core expenditure. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by GMP Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2023) to "within" (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Buglife (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sarah Dawkins — Chair (source)
• Nina Seale — Vice Chair (source)
• Katharine Szamuely — Treasurer (source)
• Paul Hetherington — Director of Fundraising and Communications (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Garfield Weston Foundation” (source page)
• The Golden Bottle Trust — “The Golden Bottle Trust” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Hart
• Dave Hedges
• Emma Wood
• Katharine Szamuely
• Nina Seale
• Rebecca Grattage
• Sarah Dawkins

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Saint Helena · Scotland

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

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Charities like this

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

• DORSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.3m
• BRITISH LICHEN SOCIETY income £144k
• BUMBLEBEE CONSERVATION TRUST income £2.5m
• ROYAL ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON income £1.5m
• RADNORSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £696k
• HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.9m

Side by side with its peers

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