THE FROGLIFE TRUST

Registered charity 1093372 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC041854 (OSCR)

The Charity's primary objective is to promote the conservation and welfare of amphibians and reptiles in the UK and anywhere else in the world. This includes habitat reclamation, remediation and restoration.The Charity's secondary objective is to promote education amenity and research activities for the benefit of the public at large relevant to amphibians and reptiles.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves are £546,821, which equates to 19 months of operational costs, exceeding the charity's stated policy target of holding a minimum of 12 months of unrestricted funds. The charity reports a consolidated income of £1,548,094 and relies on its trading subsidiary, Froglife Ecological Services, to provide unrestricted gift-aided profits to support core functions.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from more than £60,000 (FY2024) to in excess of £60,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rich Yates — Chair of Trustees (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).

• BLB Bequest Fund — “Grant making trusts and organisations BLB Bequest Fund” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% 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: 12.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DR Philip Wheeler
• Dr CHARLOTTE REGAN
• Dr Silviu Petrovan
• Edward Gordon MacLellan
• FRANK CLARK
• INEZ SMITH
• Melissa Solly
• Richard Yates · trustee of 2 other charities
• Xavier Jonathan Max Mahele

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Peterborough City · Scotland · Somerset · Throughout London

Income and spending

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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 AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILE CONSERVATION TRUST.

• AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILE CONSERVATION TRUST income £2.3m
• THE HERPETOLOGICAL CONSERVATION TRUST income £383k
• FRESHWATER HABITATS TRUST income £2.8m
• FROGNAL TRUST income £104k
• SHALDON WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £293k
• SEA LIFE TRUST LIMITED income £6.8m

Side by side with its peers

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