GLOUCESTERSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST

Registered charity 232580 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5572125 · Wikipedia

Wildlife Conservation

Objects

(1) TO RECORD & STUDY PLACES AND OBJECTS OF ORNITHOLOGICAL, ENTOMOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, ECOLOGICAL, ZOOLOGICAL, GEOLOGICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST, OR OF NATURAL BEAUTY, AND TO PROTECT THESE FROM INJURY, ILL TREATMENT OR DESTRUCTION. (2) TO ESTABLISH, FORM, OWN, MAINTAIN AND MANAGE SANCTUARIES OR NATURE RESERVES FOR THE CONSERVATION AND CONTROL OF WILD PLANTS AND OTHER VEGETATION AND OF THE WILD CREATURES OF ANY DESCRIPTION LIVING NATURALLY THEREIN. (3) TO ENCOURAGE THE BREEDING AND PRESERVATION OF WILD BIRDS, ANIMALS, PLANTS OR INSECTS WHICH ARE HARMLESS, USEFUL BEAUTIFUL, OR RARE. TO PROMOTE, ORGANIZE, CARRY ON AND ENCOURAGE STUDY AND RESEARCH FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES, AND TO MAKE GRANTS OR DONATIONS FOR SUCH PURPOSES.(5) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN (A) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTISE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, (B) THE PRINCIPLE AND PRACTISE OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION (5) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC CONCERNING RECYCLING AND WASTE MANAGEMENT INCLUDING THOROUGH PROGRAMS OF TEACHING, TRAINING, PUBLISHING, EXHIBITIONS, AND SEMINARS AND OTHER MEANS FOR PROVIDING PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION (6) TO PROMOTE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, PRESERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY THE PRODUCTION OF SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, RECYCLING AND REUSE OF GOODS, INCLUDING PROMOTING THE EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY OF RECYCLING WASTE PRODUCTS

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND ELSEWHERE

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: Gloucester, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 12% to £6,119,607, while expenditure reached a record £6,418,508, resulting in a net decrease in funds of £287,051. The charity holds unrestricted general funds of £3,886,518 and free reserves of £243,499 after designated funds, which the Trustees consider sufficient to maintain operations for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. 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
• 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)

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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).

• Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust’s ambitious Mission Wild appeal greatbritishlife.co.uk · 18/09/2026
• Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust’s annual photo competition is underway greatbritishlife.co.uk · 05/06/2026
• Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust slammed over unpaid UK conservation 'career' role business-live.co.uk · 26/05/2026
• Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust launches £3 million appeal - Punchline-Gloucester.com punchline-gloucester.com · 08/05/2026
• A new season of nature surveying at Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust greatbritishlife.co.uk · 06/05/2026
• Gloucestershire wildlife trust urges people to be aware of warm weather fire risk stroudtimes.com · 18/04/2025
• Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust: Twelve birds of Christmas greatbritishlife.co.uk · 12/12/2024
• Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust needs volunteers to help it track the Forest of Dean's pine martens soglos.com · 11/01/2023

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00708575

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (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.

• MAJHUTIAK, Joshua Ivan — director, appointed 20/11/2025on trustee list
• WRAY, Stephanie, Dr — director, appointed 20/11/2025on trustee list
• COTTERELL, Caroline Jane — director, appointed 20/11/2025on trustee list
• HOOPER, Paul — director, appointed 20/11/2025on trustee list
• MONK, Kathryn Anne, Professor — director, appointed 21/11/2024on trustee list
• WYATT, Barry Trevor — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
• WALSH, Amy Rose — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
• SPENCER, Elizabeth Nicola — director, appointed 05/12/2020on trustee list
• WHITE, Richard Peter — director, appointed 05/12/2020on trustee list
• BLUETT, Andrew James — director, appointed 29/09/2018on trustee list
• FURZE, Jane — director, appointed 25/11/2017on trustee list
• PARKER, Elizabeth Anne — secretary, appointed 24/04/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

60 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (56 freehold); recorded price paid £4.2m. 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 ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 19.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/12/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW JAMES BLUETT · trustee of 2 other charities
• Amy Rose Walsh
• Barry Trevor Wyatt
• Caroline Jane Cotterell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Stephanie Wray · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jane Furze
• Joshua Ivan Majhutiak
• Paul Hooper · trustee of 3 other charities
• Professor Kathryn Anne Monk
• Richard White

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• THE WILDLIFE FOR ALL TRUST income £47k
• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m
• THE TOTTLE WOODLAND AND WILDLIFE CHARITY income £136k
• LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £2.9m
• DERBYSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £5.5m
• THE WARWICKSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £13.5m

Side by side with its peers

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