ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY TRUST

Registered charity 1126122 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q59536372

Our aim is to establish long-term experimental sites for ecological research to increase understanding of the biological effects of climate change and other environmental changes.

Objects

3.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION THROUGH THE PROMOTION AND CONDUCT OF ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH FOR THE PURPOSES OF UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE CHANGE AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; AND3.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF CURRENT AND FUTURE GENERATION.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stroud, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £77,716 for the year, with total income of £243,526 against expenditure of £165,810. Unrestricted reserves stood at £42,531, which the trustees note is larger than their stated policy target of three months' operating reserves. The accounts were subject to independent examination rather than audit, with the examiner confirming no matters caused concern regarding the true and fair view of the accounts.

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.

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
• 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
• 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

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 06652160

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Resilient Landscapes and Seas (RLAS) Partnership — “The partnership is coordinated by the Ecological Continuity Trust (ECT) in association with the British Ecological Society (BES) and funded …” (source page)

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.

• ATKINSON, Lindsey Jane, Dr — director, appointed 22/07/2026on trustee list
• DWYER, Ciara Marie, Dr — director, appointed 30/01/2025on trustee list
• CLARKE, Stewart Jonathon, Dr — director, appointed 01/01/2021on trustee list
• STONE, David Andrew — director, appointed 13/05/2020on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Kenneth, Dr — director, appointed 13/05/2020on trustee list
• EMMETT, Bridget Anne, Professor — director, appointed 27/06/2019on trustee list
• MASEYK, Kadmiel, Dr — director, appointed 27/06/2019on trustee list
• BIRKETT, Alison Jane, Dr — director, appointed 24/07/2018not on trustee list
• STEVENS, Carly Joanne, Dr — director, appointed 22/03/2016on trustee list
• GOULDING, Keith Walter Thomas, Prof. — director, appointed 01/08/2013on trustee list
• SILVERTOWN, Jonathan Wendell, Professor — director, appointed 25/07/2008on trustee list
• TALLOWIN, Jeremy Robin Biscoe — director, appointed 25/07/2008on trustee list
• ATKINSON, Lindsey Jane, Dr — secretary, appointed 22/07/2026

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JEREMY ROBIN BISCOE TALLOWINchair
• David Andrew Stone
• Dr ALISON JANE BIRKETT BSC, MSC
• Dr Carly Joanne STevens
• Dr Ciara Marie Dwyer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Kadmiel Maseyk
• Dr Keith Walter Thomas Goulding
• Dr Lindsey Jane Atkinson
• Dr Stewart Jonathon Clarke
• PROFESSOR JONATHAN WENDELL SILVERTOWN
• Professor Bridget Anne Emmett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Kenneth Thompson
• Rebecca Jana Beer Roberts

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m
• THE ECOLOGY TRUST income £2.0m
• THE SAYERS CROFT ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £107k
• THE ENVIRONMENT CENTRE (TEC) income £1.6m
• ECOACTIVE income £235k
• CLIMATE RESPONSE LIMITED income £545k

Side by side with its peers

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