THE WILD EAST CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1193252 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WILD EAST, WILD EAST

The activities of WildEast include; building multi-sector partnerships and broad demographic public sector engagement in order to secure land pledges to a digital mapping system; identifying areas pledged to nature and subsequently identifying physical networking opportunities; delivering a regionwide, national curriculum aligned education program.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF REWILDING, RESTORATION, CONSERVATION, AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IN NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK.TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE REWILDING, CONSERVATION, RESTORATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY PROMOTING THE RESTORATION OF ECOSYSTEMS AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY.TO PROMOTE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT

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 income increased significantly to £260,393 from £79,441 in the prior year, resulting in a net surplus of £1,510. Free/unrestricted reserves stood at £3,222, which is below the charity's stated policy target of £5,000. The charity remains in a strong liquidity position with net current assets of £13,222 and no disclosed material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Argus Edward Gathorne-Hardy · trustee of 1 other charity
• LORD HUGH FRANCIS SAVILE SOMERLEYTON
• Oliver Benjamin Birkbeck · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Tim O'Riordan OBE

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Essex · Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

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