THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR BIRDS OF PREY

Registered charity 1159749 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ICBP

See Trustees Report and Accounts

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR BIRDS OF PREY ARE TO:4.1.1 PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF ALL SPECIES OF RAPTORS (BIRDS OF PREY AND OWLS) TOGETHER WITH THEIR VARYING HABITATS WORLDWIDE THROUGH, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY, CONSERVATION BREEDING PROGRAMMES, AND RESEARCH INTO THE BREEDING, HABITAT, HEALTH AND CONSERVATION OF ALL BIRDS OF PREY4.1.2 ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY IN THE CONSERVATION. PRESERVATION AND WELFARE OF RAPTORS WORLDWIDE THROUGH EXTERNAL LECTURES, PAPERS AT CONFERENCES AND THROUGH THE WEBSITE, TO INSTIL, AMONGST OTHE THINGS, THE IMPORTANCE OF SPECIES OF RAPTORS AND THEIR DIVERSE HABITATS IN THE WILD; AND4.1.3 ADVANCE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY BE CONDUCIVE TO THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF RAPTORS AS THE DIRECTORS MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity intends to close and transfer its remaining funds to a similar charity, meaning the financial statements are prepared on a basis other than going concern. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £925,796 are held against a policy target of eight months of unrestricted expenditure, while total reserves have decreased from £1,032,107 in the prior year.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09314933

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.

• SYMONDS, Paul Thomas Ernest — director, appointed 31/01/2025on trustee list
• WADLEY, Ruth — director, appointed 31/01/2025on trustee list
• GILCHRIST, James — director, appointed 31/01/2025on trustee list
• ASPINALL, Richard George Ronald — director, appointed 12/01/2023on trustee list
• MADELIN, Philip John — director, appointed 13/09/2021on trustee list
• RICE, Timothy Julian — director, appointed 24/08/2021on trustee list
• BALDWIN, Andrew William — director, appointed 24/08/2021on trustee list
• KERR-WILSON, Richard Henry James — director, appointed 31/07/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~35.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew William Baldwin
• James Gilchrist · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Thomas Ernest Symonds
• Philip John Madelin
• Richard Aspinall
• Richard Henry James Kerr-Wilson · trustee of 2 other charities
• TIMOTHY JULIAN RICE

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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