THE GAME AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST

Registered charity 1112023 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE GAME CONSERVANCY TRUST LIMITED · also registered in Scotland as SC038868 (OSCR)

Latest income

£11.6m

Latest spending

£11.8m

Registered

2005

We have not yet analysed this charity’s accounts. Register data shown below.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income

£11.6m

Total spending

£11.8m

Cost of raising funds

£3.7m

Reserves (reported)

£2.2m

Employees

146

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (10/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (17/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (02/11/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

Alexandra Emily Henton · trustee of 1 other charity
Andrew James Palmer Knott
Andrew Laurence Reed
Bernard Taylor CBE DL
Isobel Evelyn Channing
James Corbett
Jeremy Paul Godsmark Finnis
Jeremy Simon Young
John Shields · trustee of 1 other charity
Owen Roderick Miles Williams
Robert Moore
STEPHEN JOHN OAKLEY CATLIN
Stephen Peter Morant
Thomas Peter Algar Orde-Powlett
Zoe Jane Henderson

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£11.6m	£11.8m
31/12/2023	£11.0m	£11.1m
31/12/2022	£11.1m	£9.6m
31/12/2021	£9.3m	£7.9m
31/12/2020	£7.7m	£7.1m

Common questions

Who funds THE GAME AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE GAME AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST as a grant recipient include THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION, THE ROTHERMERE FOUNDATION, THE PRIVY PURSE CHARITABLE TRUST, THE OFENHEIM CHARITABLE TRUST, THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S CHARITY.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION	FY2024	£225k
THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION	FY2022	£75k
THE ROTHERMERE FOUNDATION	FY2023	£50k
THE PRIVY PURSE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£35k
THE OFENHEIM CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£12k
THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S CHARITY	FY2023	£7k
THE ALICE ELLEN COOPER-DEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2025	£5k
THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S CHARITY	FY2024	£5k
ROCKCLIFFE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£5k
THE OFENHEIM CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£5k
THE ROTHERMERE FOUNDATION	FY2024	£3k
THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S CHARITY	FY2025	£3k

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	11/07/2024	£100k	"Swaledale & Wensleydale Evironmental Farmers - SWEF"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	07/12/2023	£99k	"Peakland Environmental Farmers (PEF)"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	27/02/2023	£76k	"#NNF2 Wales Curlew Connections, Cysylltu Gylfinir Cymru"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	17/08/2020	£47k	"COVID19: Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	26/11/2018	£50k	"Conserving Black Grouse in Scotland - a volunteer based count scheme"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	12/03/2018	£65k	"The UK Lowland Curlew Recovery Project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	10/05/2017	£9k	"Learning about bats on arable farmland in Hampshire and Dorset"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/02/2011	£32k	"Woodlands for black grouse"