OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY UK

Registered charity 1185926 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote, for the benefit of the public, the preservation, conservation and protection of Africa's wildlife and natural heritage at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, and in Laikipia county, Kenya including by undertaking related local development activities.

Objects

3.1 To promote, for the benefit of the public, the preservation, conservation and protection of Africa’s wildlife and natural heritage at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, and in Laikipia county, Kenya including by undertaking related local development activities.3.2. To advance, for the benefit of the public, the education of the public in the preservation, conservation and protection of Africa’s wildlife and natural heritage at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, and in Laikipia county, Kenya including by undertaking related local development activities.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cherwell, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £1,285,840 in 2025, resulting in a net surplus of £8,252. Unrestricted reserves stood at £366,009, which the trustees confirm meets their policy requirement of maintaining a minimum of three months of core operational costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ellacotts Audit Services Limited. Discloses 6 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ol Pejeta Conservancy (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Philip Coulson — Chairman of the Board (source)
• Hon. Francis Ole Kaparo — Board Member (source)
• Dr. Helen Gichohi — Board Member (source)
• Vijay Gidoomal — Board Member (source)
• Major General (Rtd) Michael Gichangi — Board Member (source)
• Tim Hobbs — Board Member (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (86% 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: 31.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Ian MacGregor Grahamchair
• Alison Louise Mollon
• Annette Lanjouw · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christophe Gailly de Taurines
• Dougal Adam Freeman
• Joseph Robert Palombo Jr · trustee of 1 other charity
• Justin Heath
• Mark Rose Dr

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Sheldrick Wildlife Trust UK.

• Sheldrick Wildlife Trust UK income £10.4m
• THE LEWA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY UK income £181k
• KENYA WILDLIFE TRUST UK income £42k
• SEEKENYA income £92k
• AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION income £894k
• THE GORILLA ORGANIZATION income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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