REWILDING BRITAIN

Registered charity 1159373 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q20720734 · Wikipedia · also registered in Scotland as SC045685 (OSCR)

Rewilding Britain's vision is to see rewilding flourishing across Britain, reconnecting us with the natural world, sustaining communities and tackling the species extinction crisis and climate emergency. Rewilding Britain champions rewilding and shares its expertise, it influences policy and legislation, it helps get locally-led initiatives off the ground and it connects people and organisations.

Objects

To promote for the benefit of the public the improvement and conservation of the physical and natural environment in Britain by advancing the restoration of ecosystems and biological diversity.To advance the education of the public in the restoration, conservation and improvement of the physical and natural environment

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained a strong financial position despite a planned deficit, with free reserves of £763,876 at the end of the year. This figure is above the stated reserves policy target range of £519,000 to £736,000. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rewilding Britain (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rebecca Wrigley — Chief Executive (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 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (56% 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: 17.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Beth Collier
• DAVID THOMAS TUDOR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Francis Powell Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• HARRY BARTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Cook
• Nick Wilkinson
• Rachel Claire Evatt
• Rachel Solomon Williams

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WILDERNESS FOUNDATION UK.

• WILDERNESS FOUNDATION UK income £929k
• THE WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• LINKING ENVIRONMENT AND FARMING income £3.2m
• THE NATURE RECOVERY PROJECT income £661k
• WEST DORSET WILDING income £287k
• THE WOODLAND TRUST income £89.4m

Side by side with its peers

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