TUSK TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1186533 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TUSK

TUSK'S MISSION IS TO AMPLIFY THE IMPACT OF PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATION INITIATIVES ACROSS AFRICA. WE PARTNER WITH THE MOST EFFECTIVE LOCAL ORGANISATIONS, INVESTING IN THEIR IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE, TO PROTECT ENDANGERED SPECIES, REDUCE HUMAN-WILDLIFE CONFLICT, FIND SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS TO PRESERVE CRITICAL HABITATS AND COMBAT THE GLOBAL DEMAND FOR ILLEGAL WILDLIFE PRODUCTS.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND SUSTAINABILITY OF AFRICA'S WILDLIFE, ITS NATURAL HABITATS AND MARINE ENVIRONMENT.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income reached £15.6m, resulting in a net expenditure of £0.2m for the year. Free reserves and working capital total £586k, which is below the Board's stated policy target of £1m (covering six months of costs). The charity remains a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Tusk Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/02/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Luke Rhodeschair
• Beatrice Wanjiru Karanja
• Dr Susan Canney
• Jason Matthew Knauf LVO
• Jessica Ann Robinson
• Jill Miranda May
• Nicholas Peter Collingwood Maughan
• Stuart Oliver Graham
• Yamina Karitanyi

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

Operates in: Angola · Botswana · Cameroon · Comoros · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Gabon · Ghana · Guinea · Kenya · Liberia · Madagascar · Malawi

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.

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 DUKE UK TRUST LIMITED.

• DUKE UK TRUST LIMITED income £298k
• SUSSEX WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.2m
• TNC UK FOUNDATION LIMITED income £3.0m
• ANIMAL AID CHARITABLE TRUST income £200k
• BENEFACT TRUST LIMITED income £33.3m
• THE TMC TRUST LIMITED income £472k

Side by side with its peers

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