AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILE CONSERVATION TRUST

Registered charity 1130188 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC044097 (OSCR)

To further the conservation of the UKs native amphibians and reptiles via conservation management, advocacy, research and education throughout the British Isles, Europe and elsewhere in the world.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £156,483 for the year, with total incoming resources of £2,347,538 against total expenditure of £2,230,693. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £2,097,880, which the trustees confirmed were within their stated target range of 6 to 9 months of budgeted expenditure. The auditors confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified 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 PKF Francis Clark. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06932972
• Trading subsidiary: ARC ECOLOGICAL SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 07817747

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Tony Gent — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Jim Foster — Conservation Director (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Natural England — “Amphibian and Reptile Conservation is proud to be a partner in the latest round of Natural England Species Recovery Programme grants, which …” (source page)
• Heritage Lottery Fund — “Heritage Lottery Fund” (source page)
• People's Postcode Lottery — “People's Postcode Lottery” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Garfield Weston Foundation” (source page)
• Gwynt y Môr Community Fund — “Gwynt y Môr Community Fund” (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.

• ELLIOTT, David Jonathan — director, appointed 26/11/2022on trustee list
• TURNER, Rebecca — director, appointed 26/11/2022not on trustee list
• JEHLE, Robert Kaspar Alois, Dr — director, appointed 11/07/2017on trustee list
• BRUCE, Jeremy Larick — director, appointed 21/03/2016on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS, Richard, Professor — director, appointed 01/10/2011on trustee list
• WEBSTER, Jonathan — director, appointed 12/06/2009on trustee list
• INNS, Howard George — director, appointed 12/06/2009on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Roger, Dr — director, appointed 12/06/2009not on trustee list
• GENT, Antony Hugh — secretary, appointed 22/03/2010

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

15 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (10 freehold); recorded price paid £400k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (60% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JONATHAN WEBSTERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DR ROBERT JEHLE · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Elliott · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr ROGER MITCHELL CBiol FRSB · trustee of 3 other charities
• HOWARD INNS · trustee of 1 other charity
• JEREMY LARICK BRUCE · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROFESSOR RICHARD GRIFFITHS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rebecca Turner BSc, MSc · 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.

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 THE HERPETOLOGICAL CONSERVATION TRUST.

• THE HERPETOLOGICAL CONSERVATION TRUST income £383k
• THE FROGLIFE TRUST income £1.5m
• HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.9m
• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m
• GALAPAGOS CONSERVATION TRUST income £2.1m
• THE LANCASHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.2m

Side by side with its peers

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