THE LANCASHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST

Registered charity 229325 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LANCASHIRE NATURALISTS TRUST LIMITED, THE LANCASHIRE TRUST FOR NATURE CONSERVATION WITH GREATER MANCHESTER AND MERSEYSIDE LTD, THE WILDLIFE TRUST (LANCASHIRE, MANCHESTER, N MERSEYSIDE)

To promote the conservation of nature for purposes of study and research and to educate the public in the understanding and appreciation of nature, the awareness of its value and the need for conservation

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted net expenditure was £147,000, resulting in a deficit in unrestricted funds. The charity's unrestricted reserves of £783,000 are below the stated policy target of three months' core operating expenditure, which is calculated to be approximately £832,000. Despite these pressures, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with sufficient resources to continue operating for at least twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00731548
• Trading subsidiary: LANCASHIRE WILDLIFE ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 07248427

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside (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.

• BROWN, Andrew Neil — director, appointed 09/02/2026on trustee list
• MEEK, Andrew James — director, appointed 19/01/2026on trustee list
• DAVIES, Paul Arthur — director, appointed 27/03/2025on trustee list
• SLEE, Sarie Mairs — director, appointed 20/08/2024on trustee list
• UNSWORTH, Lucie Ann — director, appointed 20/08/2024on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Jimmy — director, appointed 21/10/2023on trustee list
• STOCKER, James Robert Stanley — director, appointed 21/10/2023on trustee list
• BETTS, Richard Trevor — director, appointed 21/10/2023on trustee list
• DAVIES, Christopher Graham — director, appointed 21/10/2023on trustee list
• PANKHURST, Sheila Janet, Professor — director, appointed 14/07/2022on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Nicholas Matthew — director, appointed 13/08/2021on trustee list
• HASAN, Iqbal — director, appointed 20/01/2021on trustee list
• HUNTER, Joan Margaret — director, appointed 16/07/2020on trustee list
• SHACKLETON, Deborah Frances — director, appointed 07/10/2018on trustee list
• JAMES, Philip, Professor — director, appointed 07/10/2018on trustee list
• ATHERTON PATEL, Monica Unka — secretary, appointed 25/11/2021

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

40 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (34 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (64% 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: 25.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/08/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew James Meek
• Andrew Neil Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Graham Davies · trustee of 1 other charity
• Deborah Frances Shackleton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Iqbal Hasan
• James Robert Stanley Stocker
• Jimmy Thompson
• Joan Margaret Hunter
• Lucie Ann Unsworth
• Nicholas Williams
• Paul Arthur Davies
• Professor Philip James
• Professor Sheila Pankhurst
• Richard Trevor Betts
• Sarie Mairs Slee

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• SHALDON WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £293k
• NORTH WALES WILDLIFE TRUST income £4.0m
• ESSEX WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £10.0m
• DERBYSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £5.5m
• GWENT WILDLIFE TRUST LTD income £1.3m
• THE WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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