NORFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST

Registered charity 208734 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE NORFOLK NATURALISTS TRUST

To advance the conservation of wildlife and wild places in Norfolk for the public benefit and to advance the education of the public in the principles and practices of sustainable development.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £583,630 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income rising to £9,369,195. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds total funds of £26,104,711, including £4,036,770 in free reserves, which exceeds its stated policy target of £2,108,942. The auditor confirmed that no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lovewell Blake LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Eliot Lyne — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Natalie Bailey — Director of Engagement (source)
• Kevin Hart — Director of Nature Conservation (source)
• Rachel Savage — Director of Development and Partnerships (source)
• Helen Hebditch — Director of Nature Recovery (source)
• Clare Sisson — Director of Finance and Support Services (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

113 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (106 freehold); recorded price paid £1.3m. 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 36.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bailey Tait
• Catherine Louise Docherty
• Glenn Peter Houchell
• Gregory Nicholas Beeton
• Harry Charles Buscall · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN SHARPE
• Katherine Anne Gill · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mandy Elizabeth Loadman
• Matthew Bradbury · trustee of 1 other charity
• Naomi Ruth Palmer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Charles Powell
• Richard James Carter
• Robert Stephen Lucking
• SCOTT BARRY PINCHING · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST.

• HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.9m
• DURHAM WILDLIFE TRUST income £4.3m
• NORTHUMBERLAND WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £5.5m
• SUSSEX WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.2m
• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m
• DEVON WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.5m

Side by side with its peers

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