WILD SPACES FUND

Registered charity 1147022 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WSF

Conservation of nature and wildlife at our reserves in Kent, including at Cooling, Isle of Grain, Iwade, Halling, Motney Hill and Westbere.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY PROMOTING AND USING TRADITIONAL LAND MANAGEMENT METHODS AND PROMOTING BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY.2) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £20,886, driven by a net income of £19,533 from donations. The trustees report a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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.

• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID NIGEL THORPEchair
• ALAN GRAHAM RUSH
• ALAN LESLIE JARRETT · trustee of 1 other charity
• BERNARD ADRIAN CONNOLLY
• JOHN ANTHONY NOTTAGE
• LEE DUNCAN FREESTON
• RICHARD PLOWDEN THOMAS
• ROBERT EDWARD BURGESS
• ROBERT SYDNEY STEAD

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

Operates in: Kent · Medway · Norfolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KENT WILDLIFE RESCUE SERVICE.

• KENT WILDLIFE RESCUE SERVICE income £98k
• WILD GROUND income £394k
• THE TOTTLE WOODLAND AND WILDLIFE CHARITY income £136k
• THE WHITLEY FUND FOR NATURE income £2.6m
• THE WILDLIFE FOR ALL TRUST income £47k
• CARE FOR WILD RHINO SANCTUARY (UK) income £215k

Side by side with its peers

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