EAST DEVON PEBBLEBED HEATHS CONSERVATION TRUST

Registered charity 1109514 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote, for the benefit of the public, the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment within the area of the East Devon Pebblebed Heaths and the Otter Estuary.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT WITHIN THE AREA OF THE EAST DEVON PEBBLEBED HEATHS AND THE OTTER ESTUARY.

Area of benefit: THE AREA OF THE EAST DEVON PEBBLEBED HEATHS AND THE OTTER ESTUARY.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased to £2,189,113 from £2,350,524 in the prior year, driven by a net expenditure of £161,411 against total income of £162,773. The Trustees confirm that free unrestricted reserves of £1,893,487 are sufficient to meet financial obligations and are in line with the stated policy target of three to five years of operational expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Pebblebed Heaths Conservation Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~84.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (48% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN CHRISTIAN VARLEY OBE TDchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDREW CHARLES JOHN COOPER BSC · trustee of 3 other charities
• Charlotte Ashburner Walliker · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID JAMES ROPER ROBINSON
• Ian Monks
• James Bevan
• Lord Clinton DL
• Michael Charles Williams MBE
• NOEL GEORGE HERBERT MANNS
• Peter Nixon

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PEMBROKESHIRE COAST NATIONAL PARK TRUST.

• PEMBROKESHIRE COAST NATIONAL PARK TRUST income £206k
• DEVON WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.5m
• WEST WALES RIVERS TRUST income £884k
• EAST DORSET HERITAGE TRUST income £201k
• THE PENSTHORPE CONSERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £145k
• THANET COUNTRYSIDE TRUST FUND income £195k

Side by side with its peers

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