PROJECT SEAGRASS

Registered charity 1162824 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q49284532 · also registered in Scotland as SC046788 (OSCR)

Project Seagrass is committed to saving the worlds seagrass. Project Seagrass works towards the conservation of seagrass ecosystems through community, research, and action, both in the UK and globally.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO ADVANCE THE CONSERVATION OF SEAGRASS ECOSYSTEMS THROUGH EDUCATION, INFLUENCE, RESEARCH AND ACTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WIDER PUBLIC BOTH NOW AND FOR THE FUTURE.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bridgend, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total income of £1.82m, a 41% increase from the previous year, with unrestricted reserves rising to £281,381. This figure is above the stated policy target of three months' operating costs, indicating a comfortable liquidity position relative to the minimum reserve requirement. The auditor confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Streets Audit LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £50,000 - £60,000 (FY2024) to £50,000 to £60,000 (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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 04/04/2022, 63 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Project Seagrass (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Leanne Cullen-Unsworth — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Dr Richard Unsworth — Chief Scientific Officer (source)
• Dr Benjamin Jones — Chief Conservation Officer (source)
• Dr Celia Marlowe — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Rosslyn Barr — Chair of Trustees (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.

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (77% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rosslyn Barrchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David King · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Sarah Pilgrim-Morrison
• Laura Audrey Evans
• Michael David Furness
• Robert Christian Raimes

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

Operates in: Australia · France · Indonesia · Malaysia · Netherlands · Philippines · Portugal · Scotland · Spain · Thailand · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

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

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 SEA-CHANGERS.

• SEA-CHANGERS income £303k
• GREENSEAS TRUST income £29k
• The Global Returns Project Limited income £1.9m
• GREENPEACE ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST income £14.5m
• LINKING ENVIRONMENT AND FARMING income £3.2m
• MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY income £5.3m

Side by side with its peers

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