OSPREY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1176199 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Inspiring and engaging people with nature and creating the conservation leaders of the future through a programme of innovative and exciting opportunities.

Objects

(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF NATURE AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION NATURE CONSERVATION.(2) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING) OF PEOPLE ENGAGED IN OR WISHING TO BECOME ENGAGED IN NATURE CONSERVATION OR ANY RELATED TRADE OR PROFESSION IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CIO THINKS FIT, INCLUDING BY:A. AWARDING TO SUCH PERSONS SCHOLARSHIPS, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES OR GRANTS TENABLE AT ANY UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OR INSTITUTION OF HIGHER OR FURTHER EDUCATION.B. PROVIDING THEIR EDUCATION (INCLUDING THE STUDY OF MUSIC OR OTHER ARTS), TO UNDERTAKE TRAVEL IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT EDUCATION OR TO PREPARE FOR ENTRY TO ANY OCCUPATION IN NATURE CONSERVATION OR A RELATED TRADE OR PROFESSION ON LEAVING ANY EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT.(3) TO ASSIST IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CIO THINKS FIT ANY CHARITY WHOSE CHARITABLE PURPOSES ARE THE SAME AS OR SIMILAR TO THOSE OF THE CIO.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted income significantly exceeded the previous year, resulting in a net surplus of £702 for unrestricted funds. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £10,711, though the trustees note that a reserves policy will be implemented in due course. The principal risk identified is insufficient funding, which the trustees intend to address through further fundraising and grant seeking.

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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Linda Mary Joneschair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Andrew Clarke
• Marcia Henson
• NAOMI JANE ATKIN
• Olivia Frances Cooper
• Victoria June Mander

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

Operates in: The Gambia · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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