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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)

Latest income
£3.4m
Latest spending
£2.8m
Registered
2002

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

Total income
£3.4m
Total spending
£2.8m
Cost of raising funds
£212k
Reserves (reported)
£1.1m
Employees
41

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

Register events

Trustees

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Saint Helena · Scotland

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£3.4m£2.8m
31/12/2023£2.3m£2.1m
31/12/2022£1.6m£1.6m
31/12/2021£1.4m£1.2m
31/12/2020£1.6m£1.2m

Common questions

Who funds BUGLIFE THE INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BUGLIFE THE INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION TRUST as a grant recipient include THE EUREKA CHARITABLE TRUST, KUSUMA TRUST UK, AURUM KALEIDOSCOPE FOUNDATION, THE CHARLES RUSSELL SPEECHLYS FOUNDATION, THE HDH WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmount
THE EUREKA CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£451k
KUSUMA TRUST UKFY2024£90k
KUSUMA TRUST UKFY2025£90k
THE EUREKA CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£80k
AURUM KALEIDOSCOPE FOUNDATIONFY2024£50k
AURUM KALEIDOSCOPE FOUNDATIONFY2023£50k
AURUM KALEIDOSCOPE FOUNDATIONFY2025£50k
THE CHARLES RUSSELL SPEECHLYS FOUNDATIONFY2025£40k
THE HDH WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£30k
THE HDH WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£20k
CHK FoundationFY2024£20k
CONSERVATION COLLECTIVEFY2025£10k
THE FALCONER FAMILY TRUSTFY2024£7k
THE FALCONER FAMILY TRUSTFY2025£5k
THE MILLICHOPE FOUNDATIONFY2023£5k
CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£2k
MARJORIE COOTE ANIMAL CHARITY TRUSTFY2025£2k
CECIL PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£2k
MARJORIE COOTE ANIMAL CHARITY TRUSTFY2024£2k
CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£2k
CECIL PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£2k
CECIL PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£2k
ROSCA TRUSTFY2023£2k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund03/06/2026£250k"Save our Spiders: Kernow"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund05/03/2026£64k"Moor Invertebrates"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund12/11/2025£250k"Chalk Lines: Linking habitats and species across Surrey Hills"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund26/11/2024£157k"Carse of Gowrie Orchards: People for Pollinators"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund28/08/2024£228k"Guardians of Our Rivers: Next Steps"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund24/05/2024£210k"The Midlands Crayfish Partnership"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund13/12/2023£248k"Kernow Wyls - People for Pollinators"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund14/09/2022£197k"Get The Marches Buzzing!"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund28/02/2022£109k"BelfastÂ’s Buzzing! Creating B-Lines for pollinators and people"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund25/01/2022£137k"People and Pollinators in Strathmore"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund27/07/2020£50k"COVID19: Buglife"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund04/03/2020£159k"Neath Port Talbot B-Lines - Connecting habitats for Pollinators and People"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund25/03/2019£41k"West Lothian B-Lines"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund22/03/2018£36k"Blue ground beetle project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund21/06/2017£37k"Urban Buzz Leicester"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund14/06/2017£37k"Urban Buzz Leeds"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund28/11/2016£49k"Marvellous Mud Snails"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund30/11/2015£23k"Urban Buzz - Birmingham"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund29/10/2015£30k"Urban Buzz - Cardiff"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund05/08/2015£29k"Torbay's Buzzing!"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund11/02/2015£54k"Tansy Beetle Champions"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund06/08/2014£51k"Peterborough's Buzzing"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund27/06/2014£50k"Fife Buzzing"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund12/12/2013£59k"Thurrock Stepping Stones for Nature"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund07/06/2013£10k"Implementing good ideas at Buglife"