EARTH TRUST

Registered charity 1095057 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTHMOOR TRUST, NORTHMOOR TRUST FOR COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVATION

To advance public education in wildlife, countryside conservation, different farming and forestry methods and the effect of these on the environment and wildlife and to promote research into the same;To promote the sustainable conservation, restoration and protection of the environment, biodiversity and countryside heritage;For such other charitable purpose as the trustees may think fit.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year ended 31 December 2025 was £2.58 million against total expenditure of £2.35 million, resulting in a surplus for the period. The Trustees report that unrestricted general funds were in deficit by £95k, but overall reserves remain strong at £1.1m held in combined free and expendable endowment reserves, with the charity on track to move into surplus over the next three years.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wenn Townsend Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditor. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ian Barrett — CEO (source)
• Sarah Hendry — Co-Chair of Trustees (source)
• Frank Nigriello — Co-Chair of Trustees (source)
• Simon Atkinson — Director of Land Management (source)
• Stephen Huggett — Director of Finance (source)
• Dave Lewis — Director of Operations (source)
• Helen Shone — Director of Development (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)

17 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (16 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (71% 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: 12.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Frank Xavier Nigriellochair
• Adrian Hadley Downing
• Claire Louise Rogan
• Clare Louise Fairbrother
• Elizabeth Anne Buckle
• Jane Elizabeth Findlay
• Laura Catherine Holland
• Paula Joanna Pearson
• Robin Tucker
• Sarah Elizabeth Hendry · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sharon Lesley Bedford
• Stephen Dance
• Terence Ralph Hurley

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

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 SOIL ASSOCIATION LAND TRUST.

• THE SOIL ASSOCIATION LAND TRUST income £639k
• WORLD LAND TRUST income £9.7m
• EDEN WILDLIFE TRUST income £126k
• FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CHARITABLE TRUST income £15.3m
• THE LANCASHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.2m
• HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.9m

Side by side with its peers

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