BUMBLEBEE CONSERVATION TRUST

Registered charity 1115634 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4997249 · Wikipedia · also registered in Scotland as SC042830 (OSCR)

The Bumblebee Conservation Trust was founded with the aim of protecting bumblebees (Bombus) and their associated habitats through conservation and education

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION OF BUMBLEBEES.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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

Causes: Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £94,959 for the year, driven by rising costs and reduced income from individuals and businesses. Despite this deficit, the trustees consider the organization to be financially robust, noting that the balance sheet retained its strength and unrestricted funds remained in line with the reserves policy. The charity holds significant cash balances and designated reserves to meet future liabilities and project funding requirements.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

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

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

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 — Bumblebee Conservation Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Richard Comont — Science 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angela Stylechair
• Catriona Gardiner
• David McIntyre
• Dr Grace Deepa Senapathi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Georgia Romeril
• Sophie Theen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Theresa Dauncey · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BADGER TRUST.

• BADGER TRUST income £298k
• BEAVER TRUST income £949k
• BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION income £6.1m
• AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILE CONSERVATION TRUST income £2.3m
• BUGLIFE THE INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION TRUST income £3.7m
• THE BAT CONSERVATION TRUST income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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