THE DAVID SHEPHERD WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1106893 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Foundation is currently focusing on raising funds and actively working for the survival of tigers, elephants, rhinos and other critically endangered mammals in the wild. The Foundation concentrates its focus on field projects where even limited funding makes a real difference to the survival of wildlife and their habitat. It also runs active enforcement, training and education projects.

Objects

3.1 THE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF RARE OR ENDANGERED SPECIES OF MAMMALS IN THE WILD AND THEIR HABITATS IN ANY PART OR PARTS OF THE WORLD; AND3.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF ADULTS AND CHILDREN IN THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES OF MAMMALS IN THE WILD AND OF THEIR HABITATS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year ended 31 March 2026 was £2,192,844, a significant increase from the previous year, resulting in a net income available for charitable application of £1,751,930. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £637,316, which the Trustees consider to be in line with their policy of covering four to six months of core costs plus cessation expenses. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Georgina 'Peanut' Lamb — Chief Executive (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Melanie Shepherdchair
• Andrew Gordon Brown
• Barry Timothy Page · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHRISTOPHER CHARLES BLANCHARD COWDRAY
• Fiona Elizabeth Luck
• Rodney Birrell

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

Operates in: China · India · Kenya · Mongolia · Namibia · Russia · Thailand · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda · Zambia · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION.

• THE WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m
• WILD WELFARE income £283k
• DURHAM WILDLIFE TRUST income £2.8m
• WILDLIFE RESCUE income £48k
• Wild Life Foundation income £187k

Side by side with its peers

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