CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL UK

Registered charity 1200955 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Conservation International UK continues to work to attract voluntary donations to assist projects around the world and to preserve global biodiversity.

Objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO:3.1.1 ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUBJECTS RELATING TO THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE EARTH?S PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) TO ITS NATURAL RESOURCES AND HERITAGE, FLORA AND FAUNA, AND LAND OF ECOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC VALUE; AND3.1.2 PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.3.2 THE OBJECTS IN CLAUSE 3.1 WILL BE ACHIEVED IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT, WHICH MAY INCLUDE (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY:3.2.1 CONSERVING AND PROTECTING LAND WHICH IS OF ECOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC VALUE; 3.2.2 PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE FLORA AND FAUNA OF THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; 3.2.3 PROMOTING STUDY AND RESEARCH IN THE STUDY OF, RESEARCH INTO AND CONSERVATION OF THE EARTH?S NATURAL RESOURCES AND HERITAGE PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY ARE DISSEMINATED TO THE PUBLIC; 3.2.4 ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE IMPORTANCE AND VALUE OF HUMAN SOCIETIES LIVING HARMONIOUSLY WITH NATURE; 3.2.5 SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS WHOSE AIMS INCLUDE PROVIDING ASSISTANCE, TRAINING AND FUNDING TO INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES IN THOSE PARTS OF THE WORLD WHO LIVE OR WORK IN AREAS THAT ARE OF ECOLOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC VALUE; AND3.2.6 SUPPORTING CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL IN SUCH WAYS AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE. 3.3 NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £71,930 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £92,216 to £20,286. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves were £14,036 at year-end, which is described as a surplus sufficient to finance working capital under their policy of distributing income as soon as possible. The going concern basis is supported by a letter of support from the parent foundation, Conservation International Foundation.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Calders (1883) LLP. 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
• Investment
• 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

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lisa P. Jackson — Chairman of the Board (source)
• Mark S. Bezos — Interim Chairman of the Board / Chairman of Executive Committee (source)
• Sebastian Tröeng — CEO, Conservation International (source)
• Harrison Ford — Vice Chair (source)
• Kristina Brittenham — Board Member (source)
• Wes Bush — Board Member (source)
• Iván Duque — Board Member (source)
• Anders Holch Povlsen — Board Member (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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 32.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr SIMON LYSTERchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Anders Sebastian Troeng
• Lawrence Daniel Conrad Brenninkmeyer
• Marisa Danielle Drew
• Oliver James Graham
• Rohini Finch · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sabrina Hibo Elba

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

Operates in: Albania · Algeria · Angola · Antarctica · Antigua And Barbuda · Argentina · Barbados · Belize · Benin · Bermuda · Bhutan · Bosnia And Herzegovina

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• BALMAIN ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION TRUST income £32k
• ISLAND CONSERVATION SOCIETY UK income £113k
• LOWER URE CONSERVATION TRUST income £157k
• CONSERVE GLOBAL income £4.2m
• WILDLIFE VETS INTERNATIONAL income £103k
• KEMERTON CONSERVATION TRUST income £41k

Side by side with its peers

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