FRESHWATER HABITATS TRUST

Registered charity 1107708 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as POND CONSERVATION, POND CONSERVATION THE WATER HABITATS TRUST

Our mission is to excel in the understanding and conservation of ponds and all freshwater wildlife, securing their future for people to enjoy.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £2,751,087 against total expenditure of £2,746,403, resulting in a small surplus. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £954,762, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet operational requirements and cover unexpected expenditure, maintaining a going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wenn Townsend. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Jeremy Biggs — CEO (source)
• Sarah Hoyle — Communications and Media Manager (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Aspects Holidays — “That’s why we’re so excited to support Freshwater Habitats Trust as corporate sponsors!” (source page)
• Habitat Aid Ltd — “Habitat Aid also has a giving programme, through which they donate 2%+ of sales to UK Conservation NGOs.” (source page)
• Heidelberg Materials — “Heidelberg Materials is a leading supplier of heavy building materials to the construction industry and is part of the Heidelberg Cement Gro…” (source page)
• Shanly Homes — “At Shanly Homes we are dedicated to making life easier for the wildlife living within our natural habitats which is why we have chosen to be…” (source page)
• Smith & Sons (Bletchington) Ltd — “We have a long-standing relationship with Freshwater Habitats Trust through their work at our Gill Mill quarry and in partnership with the L…” (source page)
• South Bucks Tree Surgeons Ltd — “Freshwater Habitats Trust struck a chord for us as a local charity that had a mutual passion for the conservation of important wildlife habi…” (source page)
• Vesper Conservation & Ecology Limited — “We are very proud to be supporting the great work carried out by Freshwater Habitats Trust.” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (50% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sonia Shahchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Colin Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Michael James Jeffries
• Kathryn Ingham
• Luen Thompson
• Neil Williams
• Sally Hayns

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRESHWATER BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.

• FRESHWATER BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION income £1.0m
• SEA LIFE TRUST LIMITED income £6.8m
• THAMES RIVERS TRUST income £136k
• WEST WALES RIVERS TRUST income £884k
• HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.9m
• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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