UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY

Registered charity 1185618 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CEH, CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY, UKCEH · also registered in Scotland as SC049849 (OSCR)

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is an independent, not-for-profit research institute carrying out excellent environmental science with impact. Our 500 scientists work to understand the environment, how it sustains life, and the human impact on it. We provide the data and insights that governments, businesses and researchers need to create a productive, resilient and healthy environment.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £3.9m for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income increasing to £76.7m. Per the trustees' report, general reserves stood at £11.3m, which is within the stated target range of £8m to £13m, indicating a robust financial position.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11314957
• Trading subsidiary: UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY ENTERPRISE LIMITED Companies House 12251749
• Trading subsidiary: UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED Companies House 15670898

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kathryn Brown OBE — Executive Director of Science (source)
• Prof. Harry Dixon — International Director (source)
• Gill Turner Lay — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Sam Bullen — Chief Financial Officer (source)
• Dr. Hazel Jackson — Science Director for Biodiversity and Land Use (source)
• Dr. Daniel Read — Science Director for Environmental Pressures & Responses (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• National Lottery Heritage Fund — “UKCEH have develop a citizen science app, Dynamic Dunescapes , with funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the EU LIFE programm…” (source page)
• EU LIFE programme — “UKCEH have develop a citizen science app, Dynamic Dunescapes , with funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the EU LIFE programm…” (source page)
• Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office — “The programme is funded by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and Darwin initiative, and managed by the RSPB” (source page)
• Darwin initiative — “The programme is funded by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and Darwin initiative, and managed by the RSPB” (source page)
• World Wildlife Fund — “With funding from the World Wildlife Fund, our scientists are measuring the full carbon balance of a saltmarsh habitat for the first time” (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.

• HANNAH, David Meldrum, Professor — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• CLARE, Philip Michael, Dr — director, appointed 10/12/2025on trustee list
• MONKS, Paul Steven, Professor — director, appointed 01/10/2025not on trustee list
• DAVISON, Ruth Kelly — director, appointed 02/07/2025on trustee list
• BATCHELAR, Judith Margaret — director, appointed 02/12/2024on trustee list
• MCMYN, Victoria Alexandra — director, appointed 26/06/2024on trustee list
• WAINWRIGHT, Stuart Anthony, Dr — director, appointed 28/06/2023on trustee list
• GODFRAY, Hugh Charles Jonathan, Professor Sir — director, appointed 19/08/2021on trustee list
• EASTMAN, Lynette Claire — director, appointed 11/01/2021on trustee list
• GALGEY, William James Hyde — director, appointed 01/12/2019on trustee list
• TYE, Alexia Wai-Chun — director, appointed 01/12/2019on trustee list
• NORTHCOTE, Alexander Benet Paul Hornby — director, appointed 10/07/2018on trustee list
• BULLEN, Samuel David — secretary, appointed 19/04/2021

Official officers record.

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• SoMMet - Metrology for multi-scale monitoring of soil moisture —
• MAMBO-Modern Approaches to the Monitoring of BiOdiversity —
• IR Laser based agricultural emissions monitoring system (IREMS) —
• Detecting the presence of invasive plant species: More quickly, cheaply and safely using AI and machine vision —
• Understanding the impact of agri-environment schemes on emerging infectious diseases in pollinators —
• Manipulating the chemosynthetic and photosynthetic support of river food webs —
• AgriFood4NetZero: Plausible Pathways, Practical and Open Science for Net Zero Agrifood —
• The velocity of evolutionary responses of species to ecological change; testing adaptive limits in time and space —
• Manufactured nanoparticle bioavailability and environmental exposure (nanoBEE) —
• Finding and fixing gas leaks: Using urban waterways to halt the global rise in methane emissions —

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £184k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (19,381 likes)

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Benet Paul Hornby Northcote · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexia Wai-Chun Tye · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Philip Michael Clare
• Dr Stuart Anthony Wainwright
• JUDITH MARGARET BATCHELAR
• Lynette Claire Eastman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor David Meldrum Hannah
• Professor Paul Steven Monks CB
• Professor Sir Hugh Charles Jonathan Godfray
• Ruth Kelly Davison
• Victoria Alexandra McMyn
• William James Hyde Galgey

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

Operates in: Argentina · Australia · Belgium · Belize · Botswana · Brazil · Burkina Faso · Cambodia · Canada · China · Colombia · Egypt

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ENVIRONMENT CENTRE LTD.

• THE ENVIRONMENT CENTRE LTD income £440k
• THE BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £6.3m
• ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY TRUST income £157k
• THE INSTITUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES LIMITED income £860k
• THE ENVIRONMENT CENTRE (TEC) income £1.6m
• THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION FOR UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES income £964k

Side by side with its peers

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