HAWK CONSERVANCY TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1092349 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q47092617 · Wikipedia · also known as THE HAWK CONSERVANCY

The relief of suffering of birds of prey in the South of England particularly Hampshire and Wiltshire, South Africa and the reintroduction of white backed vultures in Pakistan educating the public in the conservation of the birds and their habitat

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF BIRDS OF PREY AND OTHER WILDLIFE WHO ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION AND TO CONSERVE THEM AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC CONCERNING BIRD CONSERVATION AND BIRDS OF PREY GENERALLY

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE HAMPSHIRE

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: Test Valley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £232,556 for the year ended 31 January 2026, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £2,549,121. The trustees have set a reserves policy to maintain sufficient funds to continue charitable activities for at least one year, a target which the current unrestricted reserves exceed. The auditors confirmed that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fletcher & Partners. Discloses 5 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
• Complaints handling
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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 — Hawk Conservancy Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Matt Stevens — Conservation Biologist (source)
• Dr Campbell Murn — Head of Conservation, Research and Education (source)
• Dr Jamie McKaughan — Conservation and Research Coordinator (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)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £335k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 32.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SCOTT JONESchair
• ADAM RICHARD JOHNSON
• Anthony Richard O'Hagan · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr John Rogers Chitty · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr MATTHEW DRYDEN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gail Elizabeth Khan
• Gary John Wyles
• Julia Ann Hughes

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

Operates in: Botswana · Hampshire · Italy · Mozambique · Pakistan · South Africa

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HAWK AND OWL TRUST LTD.

• THE HAWK AND OWL TRUST LTD income £725k
• THE HERPETOLOGICAL CONSERVATION TRUST income £383k
• THE MANFRED HORSTMANN VULTURE CONSERVATION TRUST income £75k
• CONSERVATION WITHOUT BORDERS income £29k
• HULL ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST income £837k
• HART Wildlife Rescue income £241k

Side by side with its peers

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