MASS EXTINCTION MONITORING OBSERVATORY

Registered charity 1122701 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MASS EXTINCTION MEMORIAL OBSERVATORY, MASS EXTINCTION MEMORIAL OBSERVATORY LTD, MEMO, MEMO PROJECT

To advance the education of the public, including the promotion of study and research for the public benefit into the extinction of animals, flora and fauna;To promote the preservation and protection of the environment and of endangered species;Provision and maintenance of the Mass Extinction Monitoring Observatory.Contributing to social, environmental and economic regeneration of Portland

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds were in surplus by £33,667, bringing total net assets to £168,539. The trustees report that the charity is supported by private donors and is negotiating future grant funding to maintain going concern status. No reserves policy has been developed as the charity awaits the achievement of its envisaged project.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06087344

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.

• JENNINGS, Joanne, Dr — director, appointed 24/06/2025on trustee list
• MARSH, Mary, Dame — director, appointed 10/08/2022on trustee list
• MURPHY, Michael — director, appointed 10/07/2022on trustee list
• SUMMERSON, Raina — director, appointed 11/08/2020on trustee list
• MOORE, Matthew Warren Roman — director, appointed 18/01/2019on trustee list
• SMIT, Tim, Sir — director, appointed 07/12/2013on trustee list
• LYONS, Susan Winifred — director, appointed 11/09/2012not on trustee list
• MATTHEWS, Andrew Clive — director, appointed 26/01/2012on trustee list
• PRANCE, Ghillean Tolmie, Sir — director, appointed 31/03/2008not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dame Mary Marshchair
• ANDREW CLIVE MATTHEWS
• Dr Joanne Jennings
• Matthew Moore
• Michael Murphy
• Raina Summerson
• SIR GHILLEAN PRANCE FRS VMH
• SUE LYONS
• Tim Smit

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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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 THE BARDSEY BIRD AND FIELD OBSERVATORY.

• THE BARDSEY BIRD AND FIELD OBSERVATORY income £104k
• GROUNDWORK NORTH EAST income £8.2m
• ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION FUND income £32.3m
• THE EXETER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION income £352k
• KENT & MEDWAY BIOLOGICAL RECORDS CENTRE income £198k
• MANSFIELD AND SUTTON ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY CIO income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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