ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDERS NETWORK

Registered charity 1181318 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC050579 (OSCR)

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £797,876 from £922,785 in the prior year, primarily due to a drop in income from charitable activities. The charity reported a net expenditure of £54,018, resulting in free unrestricted reserves of £427,788, which remain above the trustees' stated target of £275,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC BSN Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 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: 2.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amy Bray
• Ashley Elizabeth Erdman
• CATHERINE SUSAN BRYAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Hilary Gadd · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fiona Almyrie Napier
• Helen Kersley
• Hugh Mehta
• James Walters
• Nicholas James Addington
• Richard Ian Elliott
• Venetia Cooper · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Catherine Susan Bryan — trustee here and at SYNCHRONICITY EARTH

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 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND UK.

• ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND UK income £1.4m
• THE FUNDING NETWORK income £778k
• ENVIRONMENTAL LAW FOUNDATION income £171k
• NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION income £5.0m
• ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST income £7.8m
• THE NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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