SUSSEX WILDLIFE TRUST

Registered charity 207005 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7649498 · Wikipedia · also known as THE SUSSEX TRUST FOR NATURE CONSERVATION LIMITED

Leading the conservation agenda for SussexWildlife biodiversity monitoring and recordingPromoting achievement of biodiversity targets by othersDelivering progress towards biodiversity targets ourselvesEnhancing the desire in people for a healthy, wildlife rich environment Building support, membership and funding to enable the Trust to excel

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF BOTH WILDLIFE AND THE PUBLIC:TO CONSERVE, RESTORE AND ENHANCE THE WILDLIFE OF SUSSEX INCLUDING THAT IN ITS COASTAL WATERS. IN PARTICULAR, TO CONSERVE SPECIES AND THE HABITATS AND LANDSCAPES IN WHICH THEY OCCUR, INCLUDING THE RESTORATION, CREATION AND INTERCONNECTION OF SUCH HABITATS;TO PROMOTE THE PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT; ANDTO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ABOUT, UNDERSTANDING OF, CONNECTION TO, AND ACTION IN SUPPORT OF, THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND ITS BENEFITS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED - IN PRACTICE SUSSEX

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £558k for the year ending March 2025, with total income increasing to £7.23m. The Trustees consider the charity to be a going concern, noting sufficient financial resources to continue trading for the foreseeable future. Unrestricted reserves stood at £10.8m, with £2.6m in readily usable funds.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

In the news

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

• Sussex Wildlife Trust raises concerns over marina dredging plan sussexexpress.co.uk · 18/09/2026
• New collection will support Sussex Wildlife Trust sussexexpress.co.uk · 12/09/2026
• Sussex Wildlife Trust appoints new chief executive prolandscapermagazine.com · 03/02/2026
• Sussex Wildlife Trust claim over Beachy Head waste dumping leighday.co.uk · 09/09/2025
• Gateway to South Downs National Park earmarked for Sussex Wildlife Trust project sussexexpress.co.uk · 03/09/2025
• Sussex Wildlife Trust voices concern over Gatwick Airport expansion birdguides.com · 18/03/2025
• Urban wildlife to look out for according to Sussex Wildlife Trust theargus.co.uk · 15/03/2025
• Lake ‘primed for disaster’ at Woods Mill in Henfield: do not feed the ducks warns Sussex Wildlife Trust sussexexpress.co.uk · 12/04/2022

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00698851
• Trading subsidiary: SUSSEX WILDLIFE ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 04537139

What the charity says about itself (2024–2030)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sussex Wildlife Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Nic Scothern — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Henri Brocklebank — Director – Conservation (source)
• Angela Croucher — Director – Finance and Operations (source)
• Polly Kitson — Director – Communities (source)
• Caroline Pearce — Director – Fundraising & Communications (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.

• HUGHES, Kathy Anne — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• TREVENA, Morwenna — director, appointed 17/09/2025on trustee list
• BRIGHT, Stephanie — director, appointed 17/09/2025on trustee list
• RUDLING, Emily May — director, appointed 17/09/2025on trustee list
• MALLALIEU, Mark — director, appointed 06/03/2024on trustee list
• MCLOUGHLIN, Louise Faye — director, appointed 06/03/2024on trustee list
• PLUMMER, David Alexander — director, appointed 06/03/2024on trustee list
• HARVEY, Danielle — director, appointed 07/06/2023on trustee list
• CLINTON, Andrew John — director, appointed 08/03/2023on trustee list
• BRAITHWAITE, Mark William — director, appointed 30/06/2022on trustee list
• KYNDT, Martin Peter — director, appointed 18/09/2020on trustee list
• MARSHALL, Helen — director, appointed 16/09/2020on trustee list
• PASRICHA, Nitin — director, appointed 07/05/2019on trustee list
• CLINTON, Andrew — secretary, appointed 04/11/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

78 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (65 freehold); recorded price paid £533k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 28.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Clinton
• Danielle Harvey
• David Alexander Plummer
• Emily Rudling
• Helen Marshall · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathy Hughes
• Louise Faye McLoughlin
• Mark Mallalieu
• Mark William Braithwaite
• Martin Kyndt
• Morwenna Trevena
• Nitin Pasricha · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephanie Bright

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUFFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST.

• SUFFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.7m
• SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £5.3m
• DEVON WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.5m
• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m
• NORFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.4m
• SUSSEX ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £60k

Side by side with its peers

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