ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS

Registered charity 207238 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7774963 · Wikipedia · also known as RSWT, THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS

RSWT's objects are to promote the conservation and study of nature, the promotion of research into such conservation and to educate the public in understanding and appreciating nature, in the awareness of its value and in the need for conservation. The Society primarily does this by supporting the work of The Wildlife Trusts to restore 'A Living Landscape' and secure 'Living Seas'.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF NATURE FOR THE PURPOSES OF STUDY AND RESEARCH AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF NATURE, THE AWARENESS OF ITS VALUE AND THE NEED FOR ITS CONSERVATION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £43.7m, driven largely by restricted donations for the Rothbury Estate acquisition and Aviva funding. Free reserves stood at £2.4m, which the Trustees confirm falls within their target policy range of three to six months of core costs. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern, supported by strong cash levels and net assets.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 02540956

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Wildlife Trusts (matched by registered charity number).

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: The Wildlife Trusts scores 3.0/5 from 26 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (207,879 followers) · instagram (384K followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charlie Dixon
• DUNCAN INGRAM · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Robert Jordan
• Dr Kenny Taylor
• Dr Robert Brown
• Estelle Bailey
• Gillian Fawcett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Barry
• Julian Woolford
• Lara Burch · trustee of 1 other charity
• NICHOLAS SIMON PARSONS
• Nanret Senok
• Rosemary Grandage
• Sarah Jane Chimbwandira

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

Operates in: Isle Of Man · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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 WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST.

• WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST income £46.8m
• HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.9m
• THE COTSWOLD WILDLIFE PARK CONSERVATION TRUST income £239k
• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m
• SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £5.3m
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS income £195.0m

Side by side with its peers

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