OUR ONLY WORLD

Registered charity 1182056 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote, for the benefit of the public, the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural marine environment by the provision of grants, liaising and encouraging schools, local businesses and other groups to support marine conservation and by any other means as the trustees see fit.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL MARINE ENVIRONMENT BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, LIAISING AND ENCOURAGING SCHOOLS, LOCAL BUSINESSES AND OTHER GROUPS TO SUPPORT MARINE CONSERVATION AND BY ANY OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT.

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£22k
Latest spending
£38k
Registered
2019

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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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2025

  • Volunteers: 10

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2024

  • Volunteers: 10
  • Government income: £5,024 — grants £5,024 (1); 5% of the £95,564 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2023

  • Volunteers: 15
  • Government income: £33,858 — grants £33,858 (1); 30% of the £111,168 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£22k£38k
30/06/2024£96k£64k
30/06/2023£111k£111k
30/06/2022£37k£28k
30/06/2021£38k£6k

Common questions

Who funds OUR ONLY WORLD?

Funders whose own accounts filings name OUR ONLY WORLD as a grant recipient include MATTHEW GOOD FOUNDATION, LORD BARNBY'S FOUNDATION, THE S M B TRUST, THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE BANISTER CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2021Unverified read£100kYr1 2020
THE BANISTER CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022Unverified read£48k
MATTHEW GOOD FOUNDATIONFY2022£3k
LORD BARNBY'S FOUNDATIONFY2022£2k
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2023Unverified read£2k
THE S M B TRUSTFY2025£2k
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2022amount not stated

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.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund25/06/2026£5kPeople Plastic & Coastal Recovery
Postcode Lottery29/03/2024£7kUnrestricted Funding