FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

Registered charity 1148274 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FEE

FEE acts as an umbrella organisation for NGOs in different countries that are implementing the FEE programmes nationally. FEE is mainly active through its five environmental education programmes: Blue Flag, Eco-Schools, Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE), Learning about Forests (LEAF) and Green Key. FEE operates worldwide and currently has 92 member organisations (NGOs) in 76 countries.

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net profit for the year, with total funds increasing to €2,134,824. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves are sufficient to meet liabilities as they fall due, maintaining a going concern basis. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed trading subsidiaries or pension deficits.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BW Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from €110,001 - €120,000 (FY2023) to €70,001 - €80,000 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

What the charity says about itself (2025)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Daniel Schaffer — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Pramod Kumar Sharma — Senior Director of Education (source)
• Rikke Florager — HR & Administrative Director (source)
• Finn Bolding Thomsen — International Green Key Director (source)
• Susan Fischer — Finance Director (source)
• Carol Forster — Relations and Fundraising Director (source)
• Johann Durand — International Blue Flag Director (source)
• Lee Wray-Davies — Director of Education (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).

• Mars Wrigley Foundation — “The Mars Wrigley Foundation has supported the FEE Eco-Schools and YRE Litter Less Campaign since 2011.” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• IAN CLIVE HUMPHREYS
• Joaquin Arturo Diaz Rios
• Kathy Ann Young
• Masaru Takayama
• NIKOS PETROU
• Petra Lambhera Maria Schut
• Sanskriti Ravi Menon
• Sasha Karajovic

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

Operates in: Abu Dhabi · Aland Islands · Argentina · Australia · Austria · Bahrain · Belgium · Bermuda · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Brazil · Brunei · Bulgaria

Income and spending

Common questions

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 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND UK.

• ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND UK income £1.4m
• THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION FOR UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES income £964k
• THE LITTLE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION FOUNDATION income £131k
• NATURE VIBEZZZ income £119k
• FIELD STUDIES COUNCIL income £18.4m
• ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY UK income £6.6m

Side by side with its peers

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