SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST

Registered charity 212744 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7504279 · Wikipedia · also known as THE SHROPSHIRE CONSERVATION TRUST LIMITED, THE SHROPSHIRE TRUST FOR NATURE CONSERVATION LIMITED

For the public benefit to safeguard and enhance biodiversity and sustainability and in particular1. to undertake and promote the conservation of wildlife species and their habitats including the maintenance, restoration and creation of such habitats;0001

Objects

2. OBJECTS2.1 The Charity's objects ("Objects") are specifically restricted to the following:2.2 To advance, promote and further the conservation and protection of nature reserves which shall be owned, maintained or managed by the Charity.2.3 For the benefit of the public, to advance, promote and further the conservation, protection and enhancement of:(a) wildlife and its habitats (including terrestrial, marine and aquatic habitats); (b) areas of natural beauty or heritage;(c) areas of zoological, botanical, mycological or other biological scientific interest; (d) areas with geological, geographical, geomorphological, archaeological, physiographical or amenity value in particular, but not exclusively, in ways that further biodiversity.2.4 To advance education and engagement, of both the general public and businesses, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs in: (a) the principles and practice of biodiversity and geodiversity conservation; (b) the principles and practice of sustainable development;(c) Nature based health and wellbeing initiatives;(d) Natural capital, and its protection, restoration and value to society; and(e) Natural solutions for climate change. 2.5 To promote, encourage and carry out study and research for the advancement of knowledge in the natural sciences, to make grants or donations for such purposes and to encourage and support the recording and publication of the useful results thereof.

Area of benefit: SHROPSHIRE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Shropshire, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £95k for the year, with total funds decreasing from £4.153m to £4.058m. Free reserves stood at a surplus of £250k, which is at the lower end of the stated policy target of £250k-£500k. The trustees confirmed the organisation is a going concern based on reviewed budgets and funding pipelines.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Thorne Widgery Accountancy Ltd. Discloses 3 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)

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 00729746
• Trading subsidiary: SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRADING COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 02452421

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Shropshire 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).

• Ecological Restoration Fund — “Ecological Restoration Fund” (source page)
• Edward and Dorothy Cadbury Trust — “Edward and Dorothy Cadbury Trust” (source page)
• Potter Group Environmental Fund — “Potter Group Environmental Fund” (source page)
• Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts — “Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts” (source page)
• Alan and Karen Grieve Charitable Trust — “Alan and Karen Grieve Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Brian D Newman Foundation for the Environment — “Brian D Newman Foundation for the Environment” (source page)
• Campaign to Protect Rural England — “Campaign to Protect Rural England” (source page)
• Charities Aid Foundation — “Charities Aid Foundation” (source page)
• David James Wilson Memorial Fund — “David James Wilson Memorial Fund” (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.

• LARNER, James David — director, appointed 15/10/2025on trustee list
• SCORER, John Gordon — director, appointed 12/10/2024on trustee list
• LAY, Rory — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• TOW, Amanda Denise — director, appointed 14/10/2023on trustee list
• CRAIG, Amanda — director, appointed 14/10/2023on trustee list
• PAUL, Robert James — director, appointed 14/10/2023on trustee list
• RICHARDSON, Jacqueline Lara — director, appointed 14/10/2023on trustee list
• KINNERSLEY, Laurence David — director, appointed 15/10/2022on trustee list
• DIACK, Iain — director, appointed 15/10/2022on trustee list
• MARSH, Stephen George — director, appointed 14/10/2020on trustee list
• MONIE, Malcolm Seaforth — director, appointed 14/10/2020on trustee list
• HEARLE, Andrew Christopher — director, appointed 23/10/2019on trustee list
• GRANT, Alexander — director, appointed 20/10/2018not on trustee list
• DREVER, James Gerrard, Dr — director, appointed 20/10/2018on trustee list
• ROBERTS, Michelle Sylvia — secretary, appointed 22/06/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

50 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (43 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Gordon Scorerchair
• Amanda Craig · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amanda Denise Tow
• Andrew Hearle
• Iain Diack
• James David Larner · trustee of 3 other charities
• Laurence David Kinnersley
• MALCOLM SEAFORTH MONIE
• Neil Warwick Daly
• Robert Paul
• Rory Lay
• STEPHEN GEORGE MARSH

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

Operates in: Shropshire · Telford & Wrekin

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 SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST.

• SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £5.3m
• HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.9m
• STAFFORDSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £8.5m
• WILTSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £6.3m
• DERBYSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £5.5m
• THE WARWICKSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £13.5m

Side by side with its peers

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