DEVON BIRDS

Registered charity 1191647 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DBWPS, DEVON BIRD WATCHING AND PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Maintain nature reserves. Collect observation records. Provide bird report annually & bi annual journal. Organise indoor & outdoor meetings. Make grants and Contribute to the environmental debate to further our Objects.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE STUDY OF BIRDS AND TO PROMOTE THEIR CONSERVATION BY:- (I) PUBLISHING AN ANNUAL REPORT OF BIRD SPECIES WITHIN THE COUNTY OF DEVON;(II) PROMOTING A WIDER INTEREST IN BIRDS AND THEIR HABITATS, SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION; (III) ENCOURAGING AND PROMOTING AN INTEREST IN BIRDS; FOR PEOPLE OF ALL LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE;(IV) ORGANISING A PROGRAMME OF FIELD AND INDOOR MEETINGS TO EDUCATE AND INFORM MEMBERS AND THE WIDER PUBLIC;(V) PROMOTING A CONTINUING IMPROVEMENT IN THE SUBMISSION, COLLATION, PUBLICATION AND ACCESS TO ORNITHOLOGICAL RECORDS AND STUDIES;(VI) MANAGING A NETWORK OF RESERVES IN THE COUNTY FOR THE PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF BIRDS AND ASSOCIATED WILDLIFE; (VII) SUPPORTING RESEARCH AND MAKING GRANTS TO OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN FURTHERANCE OF THE PURPOSE. NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH [SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005] AND [SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008].

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 unrestricted reserves stood at £133,651, significantly exceeding the trustees' policy target of approximately £20,000 (three months' running costs). The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention regarding the accounts or accounting records for the year ended 31 December 2025.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

12 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (12 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Collick
• Anthony Richard Utting
• ELIZABETH HARRIS
• Fiona Freshney
• Martin Kenneth Overy
• Nicholas D'Agorne
• Thomas Henry Misselbrook

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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