THE EXMOOR SOCIETY

Registered charity 1160912 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote the conservation and protection of Exmoor National Park for the public benefit.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF EXMOOR NATIONAL PARK FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.” FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: EXMOOR NATIONAL PARK

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £877,600, which significantly exceeds the charity's stated policy target of maintaining free reserves at a level of not less than £100,000. Total income for the year was £146,998, driven largely by a legacy of £51,451, while total expenditure was £108,232. The charity holds substantial fixed asset investments valued at £583,280 and cash of £219,737, indicating strong liquidity and asset backing.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £125k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/08/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alastair Bruce McIntosh
• Charles Roger Kennedy O'Connor
• Christopher Stephen Webber
• Darren Lee Sherwood
• Dr Steven Blake Emery
• Kate O'Sullivan
• Linda Margaret Tansley
• Lisa Eden
• Mark John Newall
• Mark Picton Ansell
• Nigel Hester
• Tara Rowena Castleton Wright
• Victoria Louise Irvine

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

Operates in: Devon · Somerset

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 BADGWORTHY TRUST FOR THE PRESERVATION OF EXMOOR.

• BADGWORTHY TRUST FOR THE PRESERVATION OF EXMOOR income £109k
• THE EXMOOR NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY income £29k
• MURMUR income £482k
• Great Torrington Commons Conservators income £128k
• THE OAKMOOR TRUST income £31k
• EXMOOR ZOOLOGICAL & CONSERVATION CENTRE income £987k

Side by side with its peers

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