WILDWOOD TRUST

Registered charity 1093702 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Nature ConservationHabitat RestorationRare Species ReintroductionWildlife Education and research

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, INCLUDING BY PROMOTING BIODVERSITY, AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) TO ACQUIRE, PROTECT, PRESERVE AND IMPROVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE BUILDINGS, WOODLAND AND OTHER LAND SITUATE AT WILDWOOD, HERNE COMMON, HERNE BAY, KENT ("WILDWOOD") AND ITS ASSOCIATED FLORA AND FAUNA. (PLEASE SEE COPY OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION ON FILE FOR DETAILS).

Area of benefit: KENT

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

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

Registered contact address: Canterbury, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Investment
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 23/03/2026, 51 days after the 31/01/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 4.7 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 5.3%) (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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WOODLAND TRUST.

• THE WOODLAND TRUST income £89.4m
• THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED income £5.3m
• DEVON WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.5m
• THE WILDLIFE FOR ALL TRUST income £47k
• THE WILDHEART TRUST income £3.0m
• NORFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.4m

Side by side with its peers

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