TNC UK FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1167674 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE NATURE CONSERVANCY; THE NATURE CONSERVANCY UNITED KINGDOM, THE NATURE CONSERVANCY UK; TNC UK

Our focus is on non-confrontational, pragmatic, science-based programmes & solutions to build a world where biodiversity thrives & people conserve nature both for its own sake and for its ability to enrich human lives. The programmes TNC-UK supports will focus on globally significant lands, rivers, lakes, oceans and strategies to create more sustainable cities and stabilise the climate.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£3.0m
Latest spending
£3.0m
Registered
2016
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained unrestricted reserves of £1,281 at year-end, which the trustees describe as a minimal level of retained reserves. The charity received £2,998,652 in donations and passed on £2,844,877 in grants, with operational expenses covered by the parent company. The trustees and auditors confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: minimal level of retained reserves (held: £1k)
“The Foundation has chosen to maintain a minimal level of retained reserves.” — page 7
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Grant Thornton UK LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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.

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Total income
£3.0m
Total spending
£3.0m
Reserves (reported)
£1k
Employees
0

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Akrotiri · Albania · Algeria · American Samoa · Andorra · Angola · Anguilla · Antarctica · Antigua And Barbuda · Argentina · Armenia

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£3.0m£3.0m
30/06/2024£3.4m£3.4m
30/06/2023£2.6m£2.6m
30/06/2022£1.9m£1.9m
30/06/2021£1.2m£1.2m

Common questions

Is TNC UK FOUNDATION LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity maintained unrestricted reserves of £1,281 at year-end, which the trustees describe as a minimal level of retained reserves. The charity received £2,998,652 in donations and passed on £2,844,877 in grants, with operational expenses covered by the parent company. The trustees and auditors confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Grant Thornton UK LLP.

Who funds TNC UK FOUNDATION LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name TNC UK FOUNDATION LIMITED as a grant recipient include AKO FOUNDATION, UBS UK Donor-Advised Foundation.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
AKO FOUNDATIONFY2024£1.8mClimate
AKO FOUNDATIONFY2022£258kNatural Climate Solutions
AKO FOUNDATIONFY2022£258kNatural Climate Solutions
UBS UK Donor-Advised FoundationFY2021£12k

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 THE TRUELL CONSERVATION FOUNDATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
TNC UK FOUNDATION LIMITED£3.0m—0unclear—no doubt
THE TRUELL CONSERVATION FOUNDATION FY2024£0—0unclear—no doubt
WORLD LAND TRUST FY2025£9.7m—0unclear—no doubt
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL UK FY2025£1.3m£200,000 - £250,000—unclear—no doubt
THE PERIVOLI FOUNDATION FY2023£3.5m—0unclear—no doubt
GLOBAL COMPACT NETWORK UK FY2024£3.7m—0below—no doubt

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