INTERNATIONAL ECO FUND

Registered charity 1198988 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IEF

To promote and support the conservation, protection and improvement of natural habitats. To advance the conservation of all wild birds and other wildlife. To advance the education of the public in the conservation, protection and improvement of the natural environment to encourage others to practise the conservation of these natural habitats, wild birds and other wildlife.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF NATURAL HABITATS AND SUPPORT THE LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY OF SUCH HABITATS; (B) TO ADVANCE THE CONSERVATION OF ALL WILD BIRDS AND OTHER WILDLIFE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD; PARTICULARLY THOSE AT HIGHEST RISK OF DECLINE OR EXTINCTION; (C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO PRACTISE THE CONSERVATION OF THESE NATURAL HABITATS, WILD BIRDS AND OTHER WILDLIFE; AND (D) TO UNDERTAKE ANY OTHER ACTION AS IS INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Central Bedfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total unrestricted reserves of £16,978,000, derived from restricted and endowment funds. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue its activities for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. 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 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (100% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Timothy John Stowe
• Kalwant Singh Grewal · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas John Prentice · trustee of 1 other charity
• RUSSELL HOLLINSHEAD
• Richard Francis Ashley Grimmett

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE COTSWOLD WILDLIFE PARK CONSERVATION TRUST.

• THE COTSWOLD WILDLIFE PARK CONSERVATION TRUST income £239k
• THE NATURE RECOVERY PROJECT income £661k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS income £195.0m
• CONSERVATION WITHOUT BORDERS income £29k
• ECOFLIX FOUNDATION UK income £26k
• INTERNATIONAL AID FOR THE PROTECTION AND WELFARE OF ANIMALS income £340k

Side by side with its peers

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