THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND WILTSHIRE

Registered charity 1134677 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CPRE Wiltshire

To promote and encourage the improvement and protection of the English countryside and its towns and villages. To stimulate public awareness and enjoyment of the countryside. To act as a centre of advice and information on matters affecting the planning and protection of the countryside. To undertake and commission research to provide better understanding of the issues affecting the countryside.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE IMPROVEMENT AND PROTECTION OF THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE AND IN PARTICULAR THE AREA WITHIN WILTSHIRE COUNTY BOUNDARIES AND ITS TOWNS AND VILLAGES AND THE BETTER DEVELOPMENT OF THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT.

Area of benefit: WILTSHIRE

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a significant surplus of £107,333, driven largely by non-recurring donations and legacies, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £170,873. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a strong financial position with significant cash balances and low liabilities, though it acknowledges the need to monitor income sustainability.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Campaign to Protect Rural England - Wiltshire (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/06/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNE VICTORIA HELEN HENSHAWchair
• Edward Marks
• Heidi Poole
• MICHAEL JEREMY HODGES · trustee of 4 other charities
• Nicholas John Stokes
• Philippa Gay Gray
• Roberta Mary Gillmore

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND.

• CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND income £4.3m
• THE KENT BRANCH OF THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND income £232k
• CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND, HAMPSHIRE BRANCH income £224k
• THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND (CPRE) LEICESTERSHIRE income £286k
• THE OXFORDSHIRE BRANCH OF THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND income £371k
• LINKING ENVIRONMENT AND FARMING income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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