CONNECTED CONSERVATION FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1183328 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Connected Conservation Foundation works to protect wildlife and ecosystems through technology, for the public benefit.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE: (1) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF WILDLIFE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY; AND (2) SUCH OTHER PURPOSES DETERMINED BY THE TRUSTEES AT THEIR SOLE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

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 · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £70,538 for the year, reducing its unrestricted reserves from £157,317 to £84,975. The trustees report that adequate funds have been raised to cover core costs and planned activities, although some reserves were utilized to bridge a period of partnership changes. The financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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)

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 11632911

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Connected Conservation Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Airbus Foundation — “The Connected Conservation Foundation (CCF) and the Airbus Foundation have selected six projects to receive support through the fourth Satel…” (source page)
• UNDP — “CCF and UNDP have co-developed the Conservation Biodiversity Digital Readiness Assessments (CB-DRA) to help countries strengthen the digital…” (source page)

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.

• BAILLIE, Jonathan Edward Michener — director, appointed 11/07/2019on trustee list
• WARD, David Delano — director, appointed 19/10/2018on trustee list
• WATSON, Bruce — director, appointed 19/10/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRUCE WATSONchair
• DAVID DELANO WARD
• Jonathan Baillie · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kenya · Mozambique · South Africa · Zambia

Income and spending

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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 CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL UK.

• CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL UK income £1.3m
• WILD TEAM CONSERVATION income £210k
• AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION income £894k
• CONSERVATION WITHOUT BORDERS income £29k
• CHAGOS CONSERVATION TRUST income £40k
• ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION FUND income £345k

Side by side with its peers

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