LION LANDSCAPES

Registered charity 1190168 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Lion Landscapes is the largest grassroots lion conservation project in the world, operating in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. We work in partnership with local stakeholders to develop programmes that support people, lions, their prey and habitat in order to build a better future for people and wildlife, Our aim is to stop the loss, reduce the cost and unlock the value of living with wild carnivores.

Objects

To promote, for the benefit of the public, the conservation and protection of wild carnivores, their prey, and their natural habitat, in particular by protecting and improving the lives and livelihoods of people sharing the landscape with wild carnivores and their prey and building the capacity of in-country organisations, projects and people who do, or may, influence the conservation of wild carnivores, their prey and their natural habitat, to better ensure the achievement of these objects.

Area of benefit: OVERSEAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources were £1,458,083 against total expenditure of £1,184,083, resulting in a net movement in funds of £274,000. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,089,736, which the trustees note equates to just over 10 months of operational expenditure, against a policy target of holding at least 12 months. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is in a strong position to continue its activities with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Prydis Accounts Limited. 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alayne Cotterill — Joint CEO (source)
• Amy Dickman — Joint CEO (source)
• Martin Fuller — Chief Operating Officer (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 ~11.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRIAN ARTHUR CHARLES MAYHEW · trustee of 1 other charity
• Maureen Meeng
• Prof Adam George Hart
• Prof. Dr. David Whyte Macdonald

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

Operates in: Kenya · Tanzania · Zambia

Income and spending

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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 LIFESCAPE PROJECT LIMITED income £1.1m
• CONSERVE GLOBAL income £4.2m
• THE LEWA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY UK income £181k
• BIG LIFE UK income £129k
• CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND - UK income £202k

Side by side with its peers

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