DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST - UK

Registered charity 1121989 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST- UK

Durrell strives to save the most threatened species in the most threatened places around the world. Biodiversity is essential for human survival and our aim is to ensure we can persist alongside the myriad of plants and animals that inhabit our planet. Our wildlife park, field programmes and academy come together to deliver a unique approach to tackling today's conservation problems.

Objects

3. OBJECTSTHE OBJECTS ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC:3.1 TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE;3.2 TO ADVANCE RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND TRAINING ABOUT WILDLIFE AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF;3.3 TO ASSIST THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF BREEDING POPULATIONS OF WILDLIFE, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) THOSE ESTABLISHED BY THE DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST (BEING THE ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED IN JERSEY UNDER THAT NAME) WHETHER AT ITS HEADQUARTERS IN JERSEY OR ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD;4.4 TO ASSIST PROGRAMMES FOR THE CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) THOSE ESTABLISHED BY THE SAID DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST.

Area of benefit: IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD. IN PRACTICE: WORLDWIDE.

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

Causes: Education/training · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated £2.2m in income for the year, primarily from legacies, and awarded £2.6m in grants to its related party, the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. The charity holds free reserves of £142,000, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover operational costs for 12 to 18 months, aligning with their stated reserves policy. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Grant Thornton Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06448493

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

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ARTHUR, Gillian Mary — director, appointed 21/05/2026on trustee list
• NICHOLSON, Sean Kelvin — director, appointed 06/11/2025on trustee list
• REGAN, John Dominick — director, appointed 25/09/2025on trustee list
• FAIRBAIRN, Amy Louise — director, appointed 04/10/2021on trustee list
• BARTY-KING, Sam Baxter — director, appointed 28/05/2020on trustee list
• TONGE, Simon Jonathan — director, appointed 26/11/2019on trustee list
• LANGLOIS, Nicole-Louise Maeve — director, appointed 28/03/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amy Louise Fairbairn
• Gillian Mary Arthur
• John Dominick Regan
• Nicole-Louise Maeve Langlois
• Sam Baxter Barty-King
• Sean Kelvin Nicholson
• Simon Jonathan Tonge

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

Operates in: Antigua And Barbuda · Brazil · Cayman Islands · Colombia · Comoros · Dominican Republic · Ecuador · India · Indonesia · Jersey · Madagascar · Mauritius

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 DORSET WILDLIFE TRUST.

• DORSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.3m
• DURHAM WILDLIFE TRUST income £2.8m
• THE COTSWOLD WILDLIFE PARK CONSERVATION TRUST income £239k
• THE HERTFORDSHIRE AND MIDDLESEX WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £3.8m
• SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £5.3m
• DOWDESWELL CONSERVATION LIMITED income £72k

Side by side with its peers

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