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.

Objects

1. THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:1.1 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE WORLD, INCLUDING ITS PLANTS, ANIMALS, NATURAL COMMUNITIES AND BIODIVERSITY, PARTICULARLY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) BY THE WORLDWIDE PROTECTION OF LANDS AND WATERS THAT ALL LIFE DEPENDS ON; 1.2 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THAT SUPPORTS THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND ITS BIODIVERSITY;1.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSERVATION ISSUES INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO):1.3.1 BIODIVERSITY; 1.3.2 CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT; AND1.3.3 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; AND1.4 TO PROMOTE AND CARRY OUT RESEARCH AND, WHERE APPROPRIATE, DISSEMINATE ITS RESULTS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, INTO ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) BIODIVERSITY, CONVERSATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.IN THESE OBJECTS "SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT" IS DEFINED AS "DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS".

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

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

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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

Accounts audited by Grant Thornton UK LLP. Discloses 5 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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08960834

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jennifer Morris — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• James Bond — Chief Finance Officer (source)
• David Banks — Chief Conservation Officer (source)
• James E. Page, Jr. — Chief Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer (source)
• Becky Marshall — Chief of Staff (source)
• Jan Glendening — Executive Vice President (source)
• Frank Rijsberman — Head of Policy and Public Funding (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.

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.

• ADAMS, Rupert Christian Rigbye — director, appointed 21/08/2024on trustee list
• ADYE, Alan, Mr. — director, appointed 21/08/2024on trustee list
• ELCHAHAL, Roni — director, appointed 26/10/2021on trustee list
• LEJKOWSKI, Marta Magdalena — director, appointed 08/07/2019on trustee list
• ROBSON, Lianne Emma Dee — secretary, appointed 23/04/2025

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Adye
• Marta Magdalena Lejkowski
• Roni Elchahal
• Rupert Adams

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

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL UK income £1.3m
• TIOC income £645k
• GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND UK income £4.9m
• THE TC FOUNDATION income £229k
• CLIMATE RESPONSE LIMITED income £545k
• NATUREWATCH FOUNDATION income £389k

Side by side with its peers

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