DEVON WILDLIFE TRUST

Registered charity 213224 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5267777 · Wikipedia · also known as THE DEVON TRUST FOR NATURE CONSERVATION LIMITED, THE DEVON WILDLIFE TRUST, THE DEVON WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED

Devon Wildlife Trust works to achieve its charitable purpose of a Devon rich in wildlife by:securing wildlife rich habitat under sound management, challenging thinking and practices which have a negative impact on species and habitats andencouraging people to understand and value wildlife.

Objects

1) TO CONSERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF DEVON AND OTHER PLACES OBJECTS AND CREATURES OF ORNITHOLOGICAL, ENTOMOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, ZOOLOGICAL, GEOLOGICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC INTEREST, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROMOTING THE BIODIVERSITY OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHERE IT SHALL BE CHARITABLE TO DO SO;2) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR TO INCREASE KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS OF BIODIVERSITY.

Area of benefit: DEVON

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: Exeter, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £57,770 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing by 24% to £7,527,235. The charity holds total funds of £11,244,287, including unrestricted free reserves of £1,401,471 and designated funds of £305,312. The trustees confirm that the charity remains financially resilient and intends to continue growing unrestricted reserves in line with its revised policy.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming Audit Limited. 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.

• 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
• 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 00733321

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Devon 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.

• WILLS, Annie Elsbeth — director, appointed 20/04/2026on trustee list
• WALFORD, Wendy Sylvia — director, appointed 20/04/2026on trustee list
• WILKIN, Abigail Maisie Anne — director, appointed 20/04/2026on trustee list
• HARRISON, Anna Fay — director, appointed 20/04/2026on trustee list
• CALLOW, Martin John — director, appointed 01/12/2024on trustee list
• COTTINGTON, John Paul — director, appointed 01/12/2024on trustee list
• FOX, Lorna Rachel Elisabeth — director, appointed 01/12/2024on trustee list
• KOOT, Martha Beatrijs, Dr — director, appointed 30/04/2024on trustee list
• THOMSON, Charles Howard — director, appointed 30/04/2024on trustee list
• FILEMAN-WRIGHT, Catherine Fiona — director, appointed 10/03/2023on trustee list
• GREZO, Charlotte Anne, Dr — director, appointed 10/03/2023on trustee list
• PAPWORTH, Sara Jane — director, appointed 01/04/2021on trustee list
• POPE, Victoria Denise, Professor — director, appointed 10/04/2018on trustee list
• BRUCE-WHITE, Nicholas Richard — secretary, appointed 07/10/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

94 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (70 freehold). 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 ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Maisie Anne Wilkin
• Anna Fay Harrison
• Annie Elsbeth Wills
• Catherine Fiona Fileman-Wright
• Charles Howard Thomson
• Dr Charlotte Anne Brereton Grezo · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Martha Beatrijs Koot
• John Paul Cottington
• Lorna Rachel Elisabeth Fox
• Martin John Callow
• Sara Jane Papworth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Victoria Denise Pope · trustee of 1 other charity
• Wendy Sylvia Walford

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 SUSSEX WILDLIFE TRUST.

• SUSSEX WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.2m
• NORFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.4m
• DURHAM WILDLIFE TRUST income £2.8m
• AVON WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.5m
• THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED income £5.3m
• WILDWOOD TRUST income £4.4m

Side by side with its peers

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