WILDWOOD TRUST

Registered charity 1093702 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Nature ConservationHabitat RestorationRare Species ReintroductionWildlife Education and research

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Wildwood Trust achieved a financial surplus of £145,714 for the year ended 31 March 2025, marking a significant turnaround from previous losses. The charity holds total unrestricted reserves of £1,757,877, which includes a designated contingency fund of £1,250,000. The trustees confirm that adequate resources exist to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Pete Burgess — Director of Conservation (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)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £780k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (67% 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: 40.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW PRICE
• Alastair Kenneth West
• Dr Simon Andrew Black
• Glenda Marchant
• Lisa Whiffen
• RICHARD ALUN GRIFFITHS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Jonathan Murray OBE

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

Operates in: Devon · Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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