BLUE VENTURES CONSERVATION
Registered charity 1098893 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Blue Ventures is a science-led social enterprise that works with coastal communities to develop transformative approaches for nurturing and sustaining locally led marine conservation initiatives. We work in places where the ocean is vital to local people, cultures and economies, and where there is a fundamental need to support human development.
Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £6.8m for the year ended 30 June 2025, driven by a 37% reduction in income and increased expenditure on charitable activities. Despite this loss, the trustees confirm the organization has a strong balance sheet and sufficient reserves to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: 12 weeks total expenditure (£3m) (held: £6.6m)
“The trustees have set a target minimum reserve level of 12 weeks total expenditure(£3m).” — page 19
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by HW Fisher Audit. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
In the news
Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).
Corporate structure
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Ebrima Saidy — Chief Executive Officer (source)
- Hoyt Peckham — Chief Programmes Officer (source)
- Paula Laird — Chief Operating Officer (source)
- Kevin Moyes — Chief People Officer (source)
- Courtney Cox — Chief Impact Officer (source)
- Gildas Andriamalala — Regional Director Africa South (source)
- Nelly Otieno — East Africa Regional Director (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.
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.
- KENNEDY, Bridget Marie — director, appointed 11/02/2026on trustee list
- FOOKS, Karen Evelyn Twining — director, appointed 08/01/2026on trustee list
- STEPHENS, Samuel Clinton — director, appointed 25/12/2025on trustee list
- PILU, Maurizio — director, appointed 02/09/2025on trustee list
- GOOD, John William — director, appointed 21/11/2024on trustee list
- MANDAL, Ruma — director, appointed 13/06/2023on trustee list
- OTIENO, Meg — director, appointed 13/06/2023on trustee list
- JAMES, Philip, Dr — director, appointed 13/06/2023on trustee list
- PATEL, Rupen — director, appointed 27/03/2023on trustee list
- EVERETT, Peter — director, appointed 31/07/2021on trustee list
- AVERILL, Zoe — director, appointed 01/07/2021on trustee list
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£437k
Reserves (reported)
£15.3m
Reported reserves equal ~10.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 4.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (25/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Belize · Comoros · East Timor · Indonesia · Kenya · Madagascar · Mozambique · Philippines · Senegal · Tanzania
Income and spending
Common questions
Is BLUE VENTURES CONSERVATION financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £6.8m for the year ended 30 June 2025, driven by a 37% reduction in income and increased expenditure on charitable activities. Despite this loss, the trustees confirm the organization has a strong balance sheet and sufficient reserves to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by HW Fisher Audit.
Who funds BLUE VENTURES CONSERVATION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name BLUE VENTURES CONSERVATION as a grant recipient include Becht Foundation, LUCILLE FOUNDATION, LEVINE FAMILY FOUNDATION, THE PANTHEON CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
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