SUSSEX WILDLIFE TRUST

Registered charity 207005 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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.

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 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 28.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Clinton
• Danielle Harvey
• David Alexander Plummer
• Emily Rudling
• Helen Marshall
• 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 THE SURREY WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED.

• THE SURREY WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £7.5m
• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m
• HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.9m
• SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £5.3m
• NORFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.4m
• THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED income £5.3m

Side by side with its peers

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