RED SQUIRREL SOUTH WEST PROJECT LIMITED

Registered charity 1138484 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RSSW

Conservation & restoration of the red squirrel to the south west of England

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION OF THE RED SQUIRREL AND ITS HABITAT IN THE SOUTH WEST OF ENGLAND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL.

Area of benefit: THE SOUTH WEST OF ENGLAND

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

Causes: Education/training · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income

£18k

Latest spending

£37k

Registered

2010

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £37,888.42, resulting in free reserves of £37,888.42 at year-end. This amount is above the trustees' stated policy target of £15,000, which is equivalent to approximately three months of core operating costs. The trustees consider the current reserve level appropriate to support fundraising, development plans, and financial stability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of core operating costs and provision for an orderly wind-down if required (reserves figure: £38k)

“Our reserves policy sets a target of £15,000 (equivalent to approximately three months of core operating costs and provision for an orderly wind-down if required).”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Volunteer management

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/05/2026

Volunteers: 200

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/05/2025

Volunteers: 15
Government income: £89,097 — grants £89,097 (2); 65% of the £136,779 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/05/2024

Volunteers: 1
Government income: £71,311 — grants £71,311 (2); 85% of the £83,850 total gross income on the same return

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

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 07245643

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.

FANE TREFUSIS, Edward Charles Rolle — director, appointed 20/11/2024not on trustee list
EDGAR, Thomas Frederick — director, appointed 16/08/2022on trustee list
GANNON, Charlotte Katie Alice, Dr — director, appointed 05/01/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

Dr Charlotte Gannon
Edward Fane Trefusis
Thomas Frederick Edgar

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bournemouth · Cornwall · Devon · Dorset · Gloucestershire · North Somerset · Poole · Somerset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/05/2026	£18k	£37k
31/05/2025	£137k	£99k
31/05/2024	£84k	£114k
31/05/2023	£83k	£87k
31/05/2022	£27k	£24k

Common questions

Is RED SQUIRREL SOUTH WEST PROJECT LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £37,888.42, resulting in free reserves of £37,888.42 at year-end. This amount is above the trustees' stated policy target of £15,000, which is equivalent to approximately three months of core operating costs. The trustees consider the current reserve level appropriate to support fundraising, development plans, and financial stability.

Who funds RED SQUIRREL SOUTH WEST PROJECT LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name RED SQUIRREL SOUTH WEST PROJECT LIMITED as a grant recipient include MARJORIE COOTE ANIMAL CHARITY TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
MARJORIE COOTE ANIMAL CHARITY TRUST	FY2021	£2k	One-off grant

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
UK government	01/04/2024	£89k	RWR_04
UK government	01/04/2023	£63k	RWR_04 Red Squirrel South West
UK government	01/04/2022	£66k	Collaborative recovery of Exmoor's ancient Atlantic Oak woodlands, and reintroduction of native red squirrel
UK government	01/04/2021	£17k	Collaborative recovery of Exmoors ancient Atlantic Oak woodlands, and native red squirrel

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
WHITAKER CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£13k
THE SALISBURY POOL CHARITY COMPRISING THE FIRST MOIETY ESTABLISHED BY CLAUSE 2 OF THE DEED OF DECLARATION DATED 23RD MARCH 1976	2	£9k
THE THOMAS RAWCLIFFE CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£750
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION	1	£179k
MOONDANCE FOUNDATION	1	£123k
ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS	1	£93k
THE OFENHEIM CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£24k
THE CHARTLEY FOUNDATION	1	£20k

Charities like this

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

RED SQUIRREL SURVIVAL TRUST income £301k
EUROPEAN SQUIRREL INITIATIVE income £35k
THE SOUTHERN WILDLIFE CARE AND ADVISORY TRUST income £578k
THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED income £5.3m
SOUTHERN SIGHTHOUND RESCUE income £133k
SOUTH WEST GSD RESCUE income £36k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
RED SQUIRREL SOUTH WEST PROJECT LIMITED	£18k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
RED SQUIRREL SURVIVAL TRUST FY2025	£301k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
EUROPEAN SQUIRREL INITIATIVE FY2025	£35k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE SOUTHERN WILDLIFE CARE AND ADVISORY TRUST FY2025	£578k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED FY2025	£5.3m	£60,001 - £70,000	1	above	—	no doubt
SOUTHERN SIGHTHOUND RESCUE FY2025	£133k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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