NORTH WALES WILDLIFE TRUST

Registered charity 230772 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NWWT, THE NORTH WALES NATURALISTS' TRUST LIMITED, YMDDIRIEDOLAETH NATUR GOGLEDD CYMRU

Conserving and protecting wildlife in North Wales including by owning and/or managing nature reserves, educational activities with children and adults, and generally promoting awareness of wildlife. Publishing magazines and arranging educational meetings for our members. Liaising and co-operating with other wildlife trusts including Wildlife Trusts Wales and the Royal Society of Wildife Trusts.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net deficit of £8,508 for the year, with unrestricted funds decreasing to £1,888,691. However, the trustees report that cash reserves of £1.8m provide more than two times the coverage of the forecast three-month expenditure, which is deemed sufficient to maintain liquidity. The auditors 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 Williams Denton Cyf. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lindsay Thomas — CEO (source)
• Howard Davies — Chairperson (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).

• People's Postcode Lottery — “The Wildlife Trusts as a whole are especially grateful to players of People's Postcode Lottery : a charity lottery which raises vital fundin…” (source page)

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

39 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (32 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 ~5.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Howard Colin Davieschair
• Alexandra Lord
• Bridget Virginia Osborne · trustee of 2 other charities
• Catherine Anne Duigan
• Christopher Kenrick Brown
• Daniel William Bos
• David Wynn Davies · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ffion Lucy Mitchell-Langford
• Gina Elizabeth Mills
• Ian Malcolm Dunsire
• Megan Frances Tanner
• Urtha Felda

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED.

• THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED income £5.3m
• NORTHUMBERLAND WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £5.5m
• WORCESTERSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £2.8m
• THE LANCASHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.2m
• LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £2.9m
• GWENT WILDLIFE TRUST LTD income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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