BEAVER TRUST

Registered charity 1185451 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q106997937 · also known as NATURAL TRUST

Beaver Trust educates, informs and enthuses people about the benefits of wetlands created by beavers. We operate across the UK and overseas in informal alliance with those who aims are aligned with ours. We use the beaver as an example of how multiple benefits to our planet can result from working alongside and in harmony with nature and wildlife.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH THE RE-INTRODUCTION OF BEAVERS WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING BIODIVERSITY.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, FOCUSSING ON THE ROLE OF BEAVERS AND THEIR IMPACT ON ECOSYSTEMS.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £133,267 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £511,029 to £377,762. The trustees' report indicates that general reserves of £375,762 equate to 4.7 months of operating costs, which is below the stated policy target of 3 to 6 months. Despite the deficit, the trustees consider it appropriate to prepare the accounts on a going concern basis, asserting the charity will continue for at least 12 months.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Beaver Trust (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).

• The European Nature Trust — ““It’s been a wonderful journey over the years to work with and support Beaver Trust – a formidable powerhouse of a charity, at the forefront…” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (73% 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: 7.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Gilchrist
• James Bliss
• James Byrne
• KEITH SHEPHERD
• Katharine Barke · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martyn Vitty
• Richard Allan
• Victoria Patty Heffer
• Zara Reid

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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).

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 BEAVER COMMUNITY TRUST LTD.

• BEAVER COMMUNITY TRUST LTD income £633k
• BADGER TRUST income £298k
• GWENT WILDLIFE TRUST LTD income £1.3m
• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m
• THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT TRUST income £2.7m
• BEAVERS ARTS LIMITED income £683k

Side by side with its peers

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