KENT WILDLIFE TRUST

Registered charity 239992 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KENT TRUST FOR NATURE CONSERVATION LIMITED, KWT

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the Group reported a surplus of £561k for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total income of £8.4m and total expenditure of £8.0m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves are £2.2m, which the trustees consider to provide stability for managing projects and landholdings in a challenging environment.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BHP LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00633098

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jane Ibbotson — Chair of the Board of Trustees (source)
• Nick Barter — Vice Chairman (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).

• Wildwood Trust — “Partners & Funders Wildwood Trust” (source page)

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.

• STEEL, Gregory Kent — director, appointed 11/07/2026on trustee list
• KIRKPATRICK, Jon Bruce, Dr — director, appointed 18/10/2024on trustee list
• RAYNER, Kiran — director, appointed 20/07/2024on trustee list
• BARTER, Darren Nicholas — director, appointed 11/11/2022on trustee list
• HOEY, Rachel Marie — director, appointed 09/09/2021on trustee list
• WOOLGAR, Thomas Michael — director, appointed 27/05/2021on trustee list
• IBBOTSON, Catherine Jane — director, appointed 27/05/2021on trustee list
• LOWE, Elizabeth — director, appointed 27/05/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

153 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (127 freehold); recorded price paid £540k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~14.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 15.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Jane Ibbotsonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Darren Nicholas Barter
• Dr Jon Kirkpatrick
• Elizabeth Lowe
• Gregory Steel
• Kiran Rayner
• Rachel Hoey
• Thomas Michael Woolgar

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 GLOUCESTERSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST.

• GLOUCESTERSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £6.1m
• THE WARWICKSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £12.4m
• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m
• SUSSEX WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.2m
• THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED income £5.3m
• NORFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.4m

Side by side with its peers

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