PROTECT EARTH

Registered charity 1192453 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

(1) To promote the conservation and preservation of the environment by reforestation and afforestation; and(2) To advance education in climate change and the mitigation of its harmful effects on the environment by:(a) The provision of resources and guidance materials on mitigation methods; and(b) Directly supporting forestation projects taken on by other individuals and organisations

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT BY PROMOTING REFORESTATION AND AFFORESTATION.2. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE MITIGATION OF ITS HARMFUL EFFECTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT BY: A) THE PROVISION OF RESOURCES AND GUIDANCE MATERIALS ON MITIGATION METHODS; B) DIRECTLY SUPPORTING FORESTATION PROJECTS TAKEN ON BY OTHER INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS.

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: Cardiff, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total reserves of £887,450, with unrestricted funds of £33,676, against a policy target of approximately three months' normal expenditure. The trustees confirmed that free reserves were in excess of this requirement and adopted the going concern basis, noting no material uncertainties.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Protect Earth (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £460k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~51.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (84% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Philip Sturgeonchair
• Andrew Brynle Heald · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Herd
• Julian Aneurin Cheal
• Neill Aitken

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EARTH TRUST.

• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m
• FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CHARITABLE TRUST income £15.3m
• BALANCED EARTH income £37k
• THE ENERGY SAVING TRUST FOUNDATION income £211k
• COOL EARTH ACTION income £3.9m
• RESTORE OUR PLANET income £162k

Side by side with its peers

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