DERBYSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 222212 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5261712 · Wikipedia

Protecting and enhancing biodiversityInspiring and involving peopleInfluencing policy and practicePartnership and relationship buildingOrganisational management and resources

Objects

1) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE CONSERVATION, MAINTENANCE AND PROTECTION OF:I. WILDLIFE AND ITS HABITATS;II. PLACES OF NATURAL BEAUTY;III. PLACES OF ZOOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST;IV. FEATURES OF LANDSCAPE WITH GEOLOGICAL, PHYSIOGRAPHICAL OR AMENITY VALUE IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN WAYS THAT FURTHER BIODIVERSITY. 2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN;I. THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;II. THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION.3) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH IN ALL BRANCHES OF STUDY WHICH ADVANCE THE OBJECTS SPECIFIED PREVIOUSLY AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

Area of benefit: DERBYSHIRE

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: Derbyshire Dales, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a deficit of £455,000 for the year, with total income of £5,468,000 and expenditure of £5,976,000. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted general funds decreased to £730,000, which is below the stated policy target of three months' core expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BHP LLP. Discloses 5 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 01/02/2022, 1 day after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

51 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (36 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 ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% 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: 42.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cara Turton-Chambers
• David Renwick
• Dr Patricia Mary Rice
• Dr Richard James Cuthbert
• Edward George Bowler
• Patricia Dawn Asher
• Professor Lynn Crowe
• Stephanie Leigh Gradwell
• Wendy Anne Furness

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

Operates in: Derby City · Derbyshire

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

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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 WILTSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED.

• WILTSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £6.3m
• THE WARWICKSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £13.5m
• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m
• THE LANCASHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.2m
• DURHAM WILDLIFE TRUST income £2.8m
• SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £5.3m

Side by side with its peers

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