NORTH WALES WILDLIFE TRUST
Registered charity 230772 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q13132549 · Wikipedia · 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.
Objects
The objects for which the Charity is established are, for the benefit of the public:1) To advance, promote, and further the conservation, maintenance, restoration and protection of:(i) wildlife, their habitats and ecosystems.(ii) places of zoological, botanical, geological, ecological or scientific interest or of natural beauty or landscape value.2) To advance the education of the public in relation to all aspects of 1) above.3) To promote research and the dissemination of information in relation to all aspects of 1) above.
Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED
The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts
Registered contact address: Gwynedd, Wales (from the postcode on the register)
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
Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (reserves figure: £1.9m)
“The Trustees believe that the level of reserves required to maintain the necessary liquidity should take account of likely three months' future expenditure (restricted and unrestricted) which, for 2025/26 financial year, is budgeted at £787,319.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: N.W.W.T. Trading Limited, Enfys Ecology Limited
“The Trust has two trading subsidiaries and the activities of NWWT Trading Ltd (No. 2453752) and Enfys Ecology Ltd (No. 2535184) are highlighted on pages 14 & 15.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Williams Denton Cyf. 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
- 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
- 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.
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025
- Volunteers: 1,041
- Government income: £1,998,738 — contracts £84,236 (15), grants £1,914,502 (46); 50% of the £3,959,835 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)
- Has a trading subsidiary
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024
- Volunteers: 562
- Government income: £3,148,728 — contracts £99,956 (7), grants £3,048,772 (36); 69% of the £4,540,157 total gross income on the same return
- Has a trading subsidiary
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023
- Volunteers: 485
- Government income: £3,787,021 — contracts £29,504 (5), grants £3,757,517 (38); 61% of the £6,174,409 total gross income on the same return
- Has a trading subsidiary
Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.
In the news
Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).
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)
Cost of raising funds
£896k
Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (10/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- 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
- Megan Frances Tanner
- Urtha Felda
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is NORTH WALES WILDLIFE TRUST financially healthy?
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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Williams Denton Cyf.
Who funds NORTH WALES WILDLIFE TRUST?
Funders whose own accounts filings name NORTH WALES WILDLIFE TRUST as a grant recipient include ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS, WALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ACTION, GWENT WILDLIFE TRUST LTD, THE BANISTER CHARITABLE TRUST, COMMUNITY & VOLUNTARY SUPPORT CONWY.
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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