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.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('THE OBJECTS') ARE:TO PROMOTE (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY) THE CONSERVATION AND WELFARE OF AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES, IN THE UK AND ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, HABITAT RECLAMATION, REMEDIATION AND RESTORATION, AND TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AMENITY AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE RELEVANT TO AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Peterborough, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: FROGLIFE LIMITED Companies House 02348393
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04382714

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)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• YATES, Richard Michael — director, appointed 14/12/2023on trustee list
• REGAN, Charlotte Louise, Dr — director, appointed 14/12/2023on trustee list
• SOLLY, Melissa Jane — director, appointed 14/12/2023on trustee list
• MAHELE, Xavier Jonathan Max — director, appointed 16/12/2021on trustee list
• PETROVAN, Silviu, Dr — director, appointed 18/01/2017on trustee list
• MACLELLAN, Edward Gordon — director, appointed 07/10/2015on trustee list
• WHEELER, Philip, Dr — director, appointed 07/10/2015on trustee list
• SMITH, Inez Lesley — director, appointed 16/07/2010on trustee list
• CLARK, Frank — director, appointed 16/07/2010on trustee list
• WORMALD, Kathryn — secretary, appointed 15/01/2008

Official officers record.

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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• THE WILDLIFE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION income £5.1m
• THE COTSWOLD WILDLIFE PARK CONSERVATION TRUST income £239k
• THE THOMAS RAWCLIFFE CHARITABLE TRUST income £270k
• SAVE THE ELEPHANTS income £5.3m

Side by side with its peers

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