ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS

Registered charity 207076 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as R S P B, THE RSPB · also registered in Scotland as SC037654 (OSCR)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a record total income of £195.0 million and a net movement in funds of £29.9 million for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, free financial reserves stood at £40.3 million, representing 12 weeks' expenditure cover, which is within the stated policy range of 8 to 16 weeks. The charity confirmed it has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Beccy Speight — CEO (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 2.7 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• Sir Andrew Thomas Cahnchair
• Catherine Thea Dugmore
• Dr Benjamin Lian Caldecott
• Dr Grace Deepa Senapathi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emyr Lloyd Williams
• James Nicholas Lowther
• Jane Elizabeth Reeves
• John Kenneth Mason
• Simon Patrick Loftus Butcher
• Stephen Peers Aston
• Susanna Clare Dinnage
• William James Sutherland · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Anguilla · Argentina · Ascension · Bangladesh · Brazil · British Virgin Islands · Cayman Islands · Chile · China · Cyprus · Falkland Islands · Ghana

Income and spending

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