HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST

Registered charity 201081 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT NATURALISTS' TRUST LIMITED, HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED, HAMPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST

The Trust exists to advance, promote and further conservation maintenance and protection of wildlife and its habitats, places of natural beauty, places of zoological, botanical, geographical, archaeological or scientific interest and features of landscape with geological, physiographical or amenity value in particular, but not exclusively in ways that further biodiversity.

Objects

3.1.1 FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE CONSERVATION AND MAINTENANCE AND PROTECTION OF;(I) WILDLIFE AND ITS HABITATS;(II) PLACES OF NATURAL BEAUTY;(III) PLACES OF ZOOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST;(IV) FEATURES OF LANDSCAPE WITH GEOLOGICAL, PHYSIOGRAPHICAL, OR AMENITY VALUE IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN WAYS THAT FURTHER BIODIVERSITY.3.1.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN;(I) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;(II) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION.3.1.3 TO PROMOTE RESEARCH IN ALL BRANCHES OF NATURE STUDY AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IS PRIMARILY DEFINED AS 'DEVELOPMENT THAT MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS' (BRUNTLAND COMMISSION).

Area of benefit: COUNTIES OF HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT

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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Registered contact address: Winchester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus for the year, with total incoming resources of £9.9m against total expenditure of £8.0m. Free reserves stood at £4.5m, which the trustees note exceeds their stated policy target of four months of unrestricted expenditure, although they anticipate this level may decrease in the near future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 3 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Hampshire Wildlife Trust column- ‘Woodcock pilots’ make astonishing autumn journey hampshirechronicle.co.uk · 15/10/2026
• Hampshire Wildlife Trust column - The bird that laughs through summer hampshirechronicle.co.uk · 28/08/2026
• Hampshire Wildlife Trust column - Summer skies and a clouded yellow encounter hampshirechronicle.co.uk · 21/08/2026
• Hampshire wildlife trust backs responsible Portchester crabbing event bbc.co.uk · 06/07/2026

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Abri — “The following companies are all funding partners and/or corporate members of the Trust and as such are standing up for local wildlife. Fundi…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

73 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (50 freehold); recorded price paid £2.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Oliver Coxchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charlotte Rose
• Christopher Harwood
• Edward Henry David Densham
• Helen Cox
• Henry George Le Vaillant Gardener
• Oliver Cooper
• Rachel Coyle MBE
• Richard Lumley Green-Wilkinson · trustee of 3 other charities
• Victoria Thorp
• William Vine

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Isle Of Wight

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.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST.

• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m
• THE WHITLEY FUND FOR NATURE income £2.6m
• SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £5.3m
• DURHAM WILDLIFE TRUST income £2.8m
• THE COTSWOLD WILDLIFE PARK CONSERVATION TRUST income £239k
• EAST KESWICK WILDLIFE TRUST income £38k

Side by side with its peers

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