RECORD, THE BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR CHESHIRE, HALTON, WARRINGTON AND WIRRAL

Registered charity 1095859 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RECORD

Various tasks and facilities pertaining to the collection, verification, management, storage and dissemination of biological/biodiversity data within the Cheshire region, including training in the identification of species, information on recording via a website which also delivers data and species mapping to the public and the education sector and beyond.

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

Latest income
£220k
Latest spending
£235k
Registered
2003
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that outgoing resources exceeded incoming resources by £14,839, resulting in a net decrease in total funds. However, unrestricted reserves remain at £98,951, and the trustees report being satisfied with the results, expecting a return to surplus in the current year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £99k; policy: to provide working capital to enable the activities of the charity to continue in the event of a significant drop in funding and to enable contracted commitments to be met)
Unrestricted reserves have decreased from the previous year.
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Halton · Warrington · Wirral

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£220k£235k
31/03/2024£155k£186k
31/03/2023£133k£139k
31/03/2022£136k£114k
31/03/2021£98k£102k

Common questions

Is RECORD, THE BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR CHESHIRE, HALTON, WARRINGTON AND WIRRAL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that outgoing resources exceeded incoming resources by £14,839, resulting in a net decrease in total funds. However, unrestricted reserves remain at £98,951, and the trustees report being satisfied with the results, expecting a return to surplus in the current year. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund30/11/2010£9kDot to Dot Ladybird Project
The National Lottery Heritage Fund22/06/2007£46k"Bringing Geology to Life in Halton"
The National Lottery Community Fund24/05/2006£5kAnnual Conference and Quarterly Newsletter
The National Lottery Heritage Fund02/03/2005£45k"Recording Cheshire's Biodiversity Heritage: Unlocking the past"
The National Lottery Community Fund17/02/2005£1krECOrd
The National Lottery Community Fund20/12/2004£4kRecording conference

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KENT & MEDWAY BIOLOGICAL RECORDS CENTRE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
RECORD, THE BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR CHESHIRE, HALTON, WARRINGTON AND WIRRAL£220k0belowno doubt
KENT & MEDWAY BIOLOGICAL RECORDS CENTRE FY2024£198k0aboveno doubt
BUGLIFE THE INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION TRUST FY2024£3.4mwithin6.3%no doubt
RADNORSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED FY2025£696k0belowno doubt
VISCOUNTESS BARRINGTON'S MEMORIAL HALL AND RECREATION GROUND FY2025£197k0unclearno doubt
MERSEYSIDE PLAY ACTION COUNCIL FY2024£728k0aboveno doubt

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