SYNCHRONICITY EARTH

Registered charity 1132786 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Synchronicity Earth identifies the biggest priorities for conservation and brings charities, experts and philanthropists together to meet them. By nurturing collaborations, we help scale up environmental protection focusing both on entrenched and emerging problems. Our evidence base ensures that we support the right organisations and projects, enabling them to have the greatest impact.

Objects

3.1 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY PROMOTING BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY;3.2 TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES AND THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION;3.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUBJECTS RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROTECTION, ENHANCEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND TO PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN SUCH SUBJECTS PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY ARE DISSEMINATED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE; AND3.4 SUCH OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

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

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income grew by 22% to £12m, driven by increased donations and endowment contributions. The charity holds £18.8m in total funds, with unrestricted free reserves of £1.7m exceeding its stated target of £1m. The Trustees consider the freely expendable funds to be appropriate and adequate for the organisation's strategic plans.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. 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
• 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Atmos and Synchronicity Earth Celebrate the Chrysalis Youth Fund atmos.earth · 19/09/2023
• ‘There are no silver bullets’ in conservation: Synchronicity Earth’s Jessica Sweidan - news news.mongabay.com · 02/03/2021
• ‘There are no silver bullets’ in conservation: An interview with Synchronicity Earth’s Jessica Sweidan butlernature.com · 02/03/2021

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06952204

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Adam Sweidan — Co-Chair of Trustees (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).

• Mabuwaya Foundation — “With thanks to our partners: Mabuwaya Foundation (Philippines); Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (Vietnam); Mbou Mon Tour and Dynamique des Groupes d…” (source page)
• Save Vietnam’s Wildlife — “With thanks to our partners: Mabuwaya Foundation (Philippines); Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (Vietnam); Mbou Mon Tour and Dynamique des Groupes d…” (source page)
• Mbou Mon Tour — “With thanks to our partners: Mabuwaya Foundation (Philippines); Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (Vietnam); Mbou Mon Tour and Dynamique des Groupes d…” (source page)
• Dynamique des Groupes des Peuples Autochtones — “With thanks to our partners: Mabuwaya Foundation (Philippines); Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (Vietnam); Mbou Mon Tour and Dynamique des Groupes d…” (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.

• BARCLAY, Michael George William — director, appointed 01/05/2026on trustee list
• CHANDRA, Salisha — director, appointed 01/05/2026on trustee list
• WALKER, Kristen Marie — director, appointed 01/05/2026on trustee list
• STUART, Simon Nicolas, Dr — director, appointed 24/10/2025on trustee list
• ECCLES, William David — director, appointed 21/09/2018on trustee list
• BRYAN, Catherine Susan — director, appointed 27/05/2016on trustee list
• FERNANDEZ, Thomas Edward — director, appointed 03/07/2009on trustee list
• SWEIDAN, Adam David — director, appointed 03/07/2009on trustee list
• SWEIDAN, Jessica — director, appointed 03/07/2009on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Barrie — secretary, appointed 21/09/2018

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADAM DAVID SWEIDAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Susan Bryan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jessica Sweidan
• Kristen Marie Walker
• Michael George William Barclay
• Salisha Chandra
• Simon Nicolas Stuart
• THOMAS EDWARD FERNANDEZ
• William David Eccles

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

Operates in: Argentina · Bhutan · Bolivia · Brunei · Burma · Cambodia · Cameroon · Chile · China · Colombia · Congo (Democratic Republic) · East Timor

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 BE THE EARTH FOUNDATION.

• BE THE EARTH FOUNDATION income £60k
• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m
• FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CHARITABLE TRUST income £15.3m
• GREENPEACE ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST income £14.5m
• ARTISTS' PROJECT EARTH income £64k
• BALANCED EARTH income £37k

Side by side with its peers

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