KNEPP WILDLAND FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1190335 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Activities include: Land management for nature conservation; Habitat restoration; Species reintroduction and reinforcement; Supporting wildlife education; Wildlife survey, recording and research projects.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND/ORTO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY PROMOTING BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds totalled £197,681 against a policy target of six months of core operating costs, indicating reserves are above the stated policy. The charity reported a net income increase to £157,563 and total funds carried forward of £398,288, reflecting sustainable organisational growth. The trustees and auditors confirmed the going concern basis is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Auguste + Auguste. Discloses 5 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Knepp Wildland Foundation leads bid to return extinct black-veined white butterfly to Britain thedirt.news · 03/08/2026

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Knepp Wildland Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tristan Price — Interim Director (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir Charles Raymond Burrell Btchair
• DUNCAN FINCH
• David Anthony Green
• Dr ANTHONY MALCOLM WHITBREAD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Chapman
• India-Rose May
• Isabella Elizabeth Nancy Tree

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WILD GROUND.

• WILD GROUND income £394k
• THE WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• WILD WELFARE income £283k
• THE WILDLIFE FOR ALL TRUST income £47k
• THE WILDLIFE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION income £5.1m
• DURHAM WILDLIFE TRUST income £2.8m

Side by side with its peers

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