FRIENDS OF HOLT ISLAND NATURE RESERVE

Registered charity 1198894 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Friends are instrumental in preserving a unique natural habitat that has developed from an area that formerly provided employment and prosperity for the town of St Ives for centuries.It achieves this by providing finance and support to enhance access, habitat management, species monitoring, infrastructure improvement, publicity and education on the Island

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF HOLT ISLAND NATURERESERVE, AND ASSOCIATED SITES INCLUDING THE THICKET AND WILHORN MEADOW, BY PROMOTING BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £1,278 for the year, with total receipts of £26,916 and total payments of £25,638. Per the treasurer's report, free reserves (total current assets) stood at £32,433.26 at the end of the financial year. The filing notes that the accounts have been submitted to the Independent Examiner for checking and approval.

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 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Keith Victor Grimwadechair
• BASIL JAMES BELCHER FCInstCES
• David George Street
• Dr Timothy Michael Reed
• Helen Amanda Cripps
• Ian Norman Jackson
• JULIAN DAVID LIMENTANI
• Jeremy James Knight
• Jill Elizabeth Burt
• Nigel John Sprowell
• Samuel Dobson

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.