ESSEX WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 210065 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The three main areas of activity are the management of nature reserves, conservation, and people and wildlife. All these activities aim to promote conservation and encourage sustainability in a wide audience.

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an overall surplus of £1.3m for the year ended 31 December 2024, driven by a £1.4m operating surplus in restricted funds which offset a £1.2m unrestricted operating loss. Free/unrestricted reserves stood at £11m, significantly above the stated policy minimum of £1.5m, though the Trustees note that the underlying unrestricted deficit requires corrective action and anticipate further losses in the short term to maintain strategic momentum.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Andy Ray — Finance Director (source)
• Richard Yates — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Jeremy Dagley — Director of Conservation (source)
• Samantha Quill — Director of People and Culture (source)
• Ben Campion — Commercial Director (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)

124 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (95 freehold); recorded price paid £188k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~6.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 38.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carl Moxley
• Catherine Hawkins
• Charles Andrew Joynson
• Elin Maria Simonsson
• James Wren · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michelle Wall
• Paul Roberts · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sarah Balser
• Timothy Young

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 £4.3m
• THE LANCASHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.2m
• WORCESTERSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £2.8m
• THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED income £5.3m
• SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £5.3m
• THE WILDLIFE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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