THE SURREY WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 208123 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SURREY TRUST FOR NATURE CONSERVATION LIMITED, SURREY WILDLIFE TRUST, THE SURREY NATURALISTS TRUST LIMITED

Working to protect and conserve wild places and wildlife across Surrey with the help of members and volunteers. Our vision is for a living landscape in Surrey that is rich in wildlife and valued by all.

Objects

(1) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, IMPROVEMENT AND ACCESSIBILITY OF:(A) WILDLIFE AND ITS HABITATS(B) PLACES OF NATURAL BEAUTY(C) PLACES OF ZOOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, GEOLOGICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST(D) FEATURES OF LANDSCAPE WITH GEOLOGICAL, PHYSIOGRAPHICAL, OR AMENITY VALUE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN WAYS THAT FURTHER BIODIVERSITY;(2) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN:(A) THE STUDY OF NATURE(B) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION(C) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;(3) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND NATURAL HERITAGE:(A) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH IN ALL BRANCHES OF NATURE STUDY(B) TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF SURREY

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: Guildford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus with total income of £7,466k and total expenditure of £6,843k for the year ended 31 March 2026. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £2,557k, which is above the stated policy target of two months of average unrestricted operating costs.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00645176
• Trading subsidiary: SWT ECOLOGY SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 11034197 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Surrey 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).

• Naturcontact — “We welcome Naturcontact as a new Business Supporter, helping to fund heathland restoration through their 1% for Nature commitment.” (source page)
• Premier Miton — “Premier Miton, an investment management company with offices in Surrey and London, has reaffirmed its commitment to nature through a renewed…” (source page)

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.

• SINCLAIR, James Walter — director, appointed 24/03/2025on trustee list
• LOVELACE, Caroline Louise — director, appointed 24/03/2025on trustee list
• SELLERS, Amy Joanne — director, appointed 16/11/2024on trustee list
• HUMPHREYS, Simon John — director, appointed 16/11/2024on trustee list
• PEARCE, Matthew William — director, appointed 16/11/2024on trustee list
• POWELL, Nina Clare — director, appointed 16/11/2024on trustee list
• WALLACE, Adam Edward — director, appointed 12/11/2022on trustee list
• URQUHART, Peter Douglas — director, appointed 12/09/2022on trustee list
• CHICKEN, Abigail — director, appointed 28/09/2021on trustee list
• SUTTON, Peter Bernard — director, appointed 04/11/2019on trustee list
• SWARBRICK, Angela — director, appointed 29/01/2018on trustee list
• GLASSPOOL, Sarah Margaret — secretary, appointed 06/03/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

119 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (46 freehold); recorded price paid £60k. 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 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angela Swarbrickchair
• Abigail Chicken
• Adam Edward Wallace
• Amy Joanne Sellers
• Caroline Louise Lovelace
• James Walter Sinclair
• Matthew William Pearce
• Nina Clare Powell
• Pamela Whyman
• Peter Bernard Sutton
• Peter Douglas Urquhart
• Simon John Humphreys

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

Operates in: Surrey

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

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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 DURHAM WILDLIFE TRUST.

• DURHAM WILDLIFE TRUST income £2.8m
• SUSSEX WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.2m
• SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £5.3m
• THE HEREFORDSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £3.0m
• THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED income £5.3m
• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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