SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK TRUST

Registered charity 1174975 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We want to see more land managed for wildlife, more rare habitats protected, more local communities thriving and more people able to access and enjoy their National Park. This requires more investment and we want to secure and direct the substantial goodwill that exists for the South Downs to places where it can make a real difference.

Objects

1.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:1.1 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL, NATURAL AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT PRIMARILY WITHIN THE SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK AND SURROUNDING AREAS AND ALSO WITHIN SUCH OTHER NATIONAL PARKS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(1) CARRYING OUT WORK TO IMPROVE THE LANDSCAPE, ENVIRONMENT AND BUILT HERITAGE;(2) RECORDING LOCAL TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS, SUPPORTING TRADITIONAL SKILLS AND PROMOTING ALL ARTS INSPIRED BY THE SOUTH DOWNS; AND(3) SUPPORTING COMMUNITY GROUPS AND FACILITIES WHICH HELP ACHIEVE THESE AIMS;1.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR IN THE SUSTAINABILITY, CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL, NATURAL AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK.

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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Registered contact address: Chichester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £724,834 for the year ended 31 March 2025, an increase from £382,671 in the prior year. Total funds increased to £2,077,215, with unrestricted funds at £534,476 and restricted funds at £1,542,739. The charity maintains significant cash reserves of £1,180,529 and has a positive cash flow from operating activities of £46,417.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by none. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• James Winkworth — Head of Charity (source)
• Dean Orgill — Former 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• OSB Group — “The South Downs National Park has received an early Christmas present with a big funding boost from OSB Group.” (source page)
• Hydro Flask — “As part of their Parks for All program, US company Hydro Flask have donated over £10,000 in 2024 to the South Downs Trust to help more young…” (source page)
• Howdens — “UK National Parks has announced a new two year partnership with trade kitchen supplier Howdens to support nature recovery across some of the…” (source page)
• National Parks UK — “UK National Parks has announced a new two year partnership with trade kitchen supplier Howdens to support nature recovery across some of the…” (source page)

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 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 (92% 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: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Josephine Carrchair
• Ana Mundim Dr
• Christopher John Knell
• Eric Lhomond
• Jayasri Prasad · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Aubrey Potter
• Nicholas William Pink
• Paul Coffey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen McAuliffe

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Hampshire · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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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 FRIENDS OF THE SOUTH DOWNS.

• FRIENDS OF THE SOUTH DOWNS income £156k
• NORTH WESSEX DOWNS LANDSCAPE TRUST income £58k
• SUNDOWNS income £27k
• DOWNLANDS TRUST income £557k
• UK NATIONAL PARKS CHARITY FOUNDATION income £193k
• SUSSEX WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.2m

Side by side with its peers

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