YORKSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST

Registered charity 210807 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS TRUST LIMITED, THE YORKSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST, THE YORKSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust works for a Yorkshire rich in wildlife, valued and enjoyed by people. Through the support of our members and volunteers we remain a local charity working for local communities and wildlife.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROTECT PLACES AND OBJECTS OF NATURAL BEAUTY OR OF ORNITHOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, GEOLOGICAL, ZOOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST FROM INJURY, ILL-TREATMENT OR DESTRUCTION. TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN SANCTUARIES OR RESERVES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF BIRDS OR OTHER ANIMALS ETC. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF BIODIVERSITY 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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity delivered a financially stable organisation with a turnover of £13.35m and total income of £13,346,373 against expenditure of £12,436,293. Per the trustees' report, general unrestricted reserves stood at £1.38m, which is above the stated policy target of £1.23m, and the auditor confirmed no material uncertainties regarding the going concern basis of accounting.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited. 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
• 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

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00409650
• Trading subsidiary: YORKSHIRE WILDLIFE SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 09922108

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

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.

• DIMITROPOULOU, Anna — director, appointed 27/10/2024on trustee list
• ROCKETT, Suzannah — director, appointed 27/10/2024on trustee list
• BRAMLEY, Neil Robert — director, appointed 27/10/2024on trustee list
• MEADOWS, Peter — director, appointed 27/10/2022on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Ceri Jane, Dr — director, appointed 27/10/2022on trustee list
• ABBAS, Nabil — director, appointed 27/10/2022on trustee list
• GRAHAM, Michael — director, appointed 27/10/2022on trustee list
• SMART, Penelope Jane, Dr — director, appointed 27/10/2022on trustee list
• ARMITAGE, Michael — director, appointed 08/12/2020on trustee list
• PERKS, Nicholas Graham Alaric — director, appointed 08/12/2020not on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Ceri Jane — secretary, appointed 17/12/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

128 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (100 freehold); recorded price paid £675k. 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

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Director of Communities, Campaigns and Fundraising — Within the range £61,828 - £65,026 per annum (pro rata if part-time). · Multiple Locations (Hybrid) · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 07/10/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Dimitropoulou
• Ceri Williams
• Michael Graham
• Nabil Abbas
• Neil Bramley
• Nick Perks
• Penelope Smart
• Peter Meadows
• Suzannah Rockett

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 DERBYSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED.

• DERBYSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £5.5m
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £8.7m
• THE WILDLIFE FOR ALL TRUST income £47k
• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m
• LINCOLNSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £8.9m
• THE CHESHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £4.3m

Side by side with its peers

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