ACTION FOR CONSERVATION
Registered charity 1157297 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Running workshops and events, providing learning materials, organising work experience placements, and building online networks to develop a proactive youth conservation movement in the UK with a culture of greater awareness and participation, and in the process grow the wider involvement and support of young adults, professionally, voluntarily or financially, for conservation in the future.
Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity achieved a total surplus of £35,416 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing by 32% to £1,153,404. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £224,099, which is below the stated policy target of £247,976, though total funds increased to £378,542. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Largest income source: Grants (52% of income)
“Funding from grants remained our main source of income, accounting for 91% of our revenue” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Edwards and Keeping Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Action for Conservation (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Hendrikus van Hensbergen — CEO (source)
- David Macdonald CBE — Chair (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.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- David Macdonald CBEchair
- ALEX MILLS
- Ayla Style
- Dr ROBERT MACFARLANE PHD, FRSL
- John Hew Fanshawe
- Joycelyn Yaa Koko Attlee
- Khadijat Yetunde Kikelomo Kehinde
- Malwina Szymanska
- Tamar Okunhon
- Yusra Motin
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is ACTION FOR CONSERVATION financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a total surplus of £35,416 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing by 32% to £1,153,404. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £224,099, which is below the stated policy target of £247,976, though total funds increased to £378,542. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Edwards and Keeping Limited.
Who funds ACTION FOR CONSERVATION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name ACTION FOR CONSERVATION as a grant recipient include THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION, THE DULVERTON TRUST, JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION, THE RETA LILA HOWARD FOUNDATION, THE OVO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).
Funders of similar charities
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