ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION FUND

Registered charity 1199692 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q135738683

Support organisations that protect biodiverse hotspots, rejuvenate degraded landscapes and promote environmental activism.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE

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

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased significantly from £19,709,738 to £2,855,075 due to charitable expenditure of £17.2 million against incoming resources of £345,458. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no defined benefit pension deficits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bright Grahame Murray. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 13871372 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Daniel Hotz — Chair & Founder (source)
• Lenke Bálint — Executive Director (source)
• Olivia Couchman — Grants Director (source)
• Francis Shaw — Director of Chair’s Grants (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HOTZ, Daniel Jakob Anders — director, appointed 25/01/2022on trustee list
• RAUSING, Anna Lisbet Kristina, Dr — director, appointed 25/01/2022on trustee list
• RAUSING, Sigrid Maria Elisabet — director, appointed 25/01/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~15.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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

• Daniel Hotzchair
• Dr Anna Lisbet Kristina Rausing
• SIGRID RAUSING

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RESTORE OUR PLANET.

• RESTORE OUR PLANET income £162k
• THE ECOLOGY TRUST income £2.0m
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• BALMAIN ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION TRUST income £32k
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Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.