THE HEREFORDSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 220173 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5738086 · Wikipedia · also known as HEREFORDSHIRE NATURE TRUST, THE HEREFORDSHIRE NATURE TRUST LIMITED

The Trust's vision is to make Herefordshire a place rich in wildlife. It seeks to achieve this through three principal programmes: Creating Wildlife Havens, Inspiring People and Fostering Sustainable Living and Acting as Wildlife Champions.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE CONSERVATION, MAINTENANCE AND PROTECTION OF:1) WILDLIFE CONSIDERED TO BE WORTHY OF PROTECTION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, AND ITS HABITATS;2)PLACES OF NATURAL BEAUTY;3)PLACES OF ZOOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST;4)FEATURES OF LANDSCAPE WITH GEOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOGRAPHICAL VALUE.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND BOIDIVERSITY CONSERVATION.TO PROMOTE RESEARCH IN ALL BRANCHES OF THE STUDY OF THE NATURAL WORLD WHICH WILL BE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TO RECORD AND/OR PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED - IN PRACTICE HEREFORDSHIRE

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

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Registered contact address: Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a consolidated surplus of £763,489 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by a significant increase in total income to £2,962,235. However, the trustees report that free reserves of £186,559 are below their stated policy target of 6-9 months' expenditure, representing under 3 months of unrestricted annual expenditure. The trustees intend to rebuild these reserves over the next 24 months through growth in membership, trading services, and cost control.

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 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
• 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.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Saul Herbert — Chief Executive Officer (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Wyevale Nurseries — “We welcome Wyevale Nurseries as our newest Investor in Wildlife” (source page)
• Westons Cider — “Westons joined us as Investors in Wildlife in 2019” (source page)
• Wye Valley Brewery — “We welcomed Wye valley Brewery as an Investor in Wildlife in 2022.” (source page)
• The Riverside at Aymestrey — “In a unique move, the Riverside Inn, Aymestrey is becoming a nature reserve guardian by funding the restoration of the The Goggin Nature…” (source page)
• Breedon Group — “We warmly welcome Breedon Group as Corporate Members” (source page)
• Jackson Property — “Jackson Property joined Herefordshire Wildlife Trust as a Corporate Member in April 2024” (source page)
• Orphans Press — “Creative, digital and marketing agency Orphans joined Herefordshire Wildlife Trust as a corporate member in July 2023.” (source page)
• Visit Herefordshire — “Visit Herefordshire joined as a Corporate Member in July 2023.” (source page)
• WCM+A — “WCM&A joined us as corporate partners in June 2023.” (source page)
• Severn Waste Services — “Many thanks to Severn Waste who have supported the Trust for many years. Their support has made a real difference to wildlife and nature in …” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

20 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (17 freehold); recorded price paid £376k. 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 ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (39% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 30.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/04/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Becca Hadaway
• Deborah Beaton
• Helen Jane Temple
• JAKE BHARIER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jacob Dowling
• Michael Dawson
• Richard Hugh Orme Boyes
• Robert Cannings
• Vivien Holland

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

Operates in: Herefordshire

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHESHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED.

• THE CHESHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £4.3m
• THE SURREY WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £7.5m
• NORFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.4m
• DORSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.3m
• SUSSEX WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.2m
• WILD OXFORDSHIRE income £680k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.