KENT WILDLIFE TRUST

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

Latest income

£8.4m

Latest spending

£8.0m

Registered

1965

We have not yet analysed this charity’s accounts. Register data shown below.

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

Total income

£8.4m

Total spending

£8.0m

Cost of raising funds

£1.3m

Reserves (reported)

£9.4m

Employees

118

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

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

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£8.4m	£8.0m
31/12/2023	£6.7m	£7.9m
31/12/2022	£8.3m	£6.6m
31/12/2021	£8.0m	£7.3m
31/12/2020	£6.4m	£5.4m

Common questions

Who funds KENT WILDLIFE TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name KENT WILDLIFE TRUST as a grant recipient include THE MICHAEL UREN FOUNDATION, CO-OPERATIVE COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FOUNDATION, THE PENNIES FOUNDATION, CONSERVATION COLLECTIVE, ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
THE MICHAEL UREN FOUNDATION	FY2023	£394k
CO-OPERATIVE COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FOUNDATION	FY2023	£105k
THE PENNIES FOUNDATION	FY2022	£80k
CONSERVATION COLLECTIVE	FY2025	£75k
ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS	FY2024	£72k
THE MICHAEL UREN FOUNDATION	FY2025	£50k
THE MICHAEL UREN FOUNDATION	FY2024	£50k
SWIRE 2765	FY2023	£25k
THE GODINTON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£1k
THE GODINTON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£1k
ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS	FY2024	£0

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	18/01/2024	£246k	"Bison Bridges"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	17/08/2020	£250k	"COVID19: Kent Wildlife Trust"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	24/07/2018	£168k	"Nature's Future"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	11/10/2016	£91k	""Wooden it be Crafty""
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	16/06/2015	£510k	"Guardians Of The Deep"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	27/04/2015	£48k	"Young Roots Leaves and Shoots - Food Heritage on Romney Marsh"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/10/2014	£2.0m	"The Fifth Continent - Romney Marsh Landscape Partnership"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	21/10/2013	£10k	"Kent Wildlife Trust - Project ten thousand"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	14/06/2007	£998k	"Blean Conservation Complex"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	20/08/2003	£1.5m	"Blean Woods - Nature Reserve Purchase/Extension, Nr Canterbury, Kent"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	04/12/2002	£241k	"Queendown Warren Nature Reserve - Extension II"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	11/06/2001	£146k	"South Blean Woods Nature Reserve Extension - Acquisition"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	06/12/2000	£65k	"Queendown Warren Nature Reserve Extension, Kent - Acquisition"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	14/08/2000	£27k	"Spuckles Wood Nature Reserve, Faversham - Acquisition"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	12/07/2000	£20k	"East Blean Wood Nature Reserve, Alwyn Land - Acquisition"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	14/09/1999	£5k	"Lydden Temple Ewell NNR Land (TE1-B) - Acquisition"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	14/09/1999	£6k	"Lydden Temple Ewell NNR Land (TE5) - Acquisition"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	04/12/1998	£22k	"Marden Meadow Nature Reserve Extension"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	21/05/1998	£12k	"Marden Meadow Nature Reserve Extension"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	23/03/1998	£880k	"Kent Wildlife Trust Bid"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	21/10/1997	£56k	"Temple Ewell Reserve - Acquisition"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	22/10/1996	£43k	"Quarry Wood Nature Reserve"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	11/09/1996	£17k	"Lydden Temple Ewell Reserve, Lydden"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	03/04/1996	£153k	"Tyland Barn, Sandling, Maidstone"
ARCADIA	—	£500k	Living Landscape Scheme