BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION

Registered charity 254937 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE BRITISH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION SOCIETY LIMITED · also registered in Scotland as SC039268 (OSCR)

Latest income

£6.1m

Latest spending

£6.9m

Registered

1968

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income

£6.1m

Total spending

£6.9m

Cost of raising funds

£446k

Reserves (reported)

£4k

Employees

109

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (06/06/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

Carrie Anne Hume
Catrin Jayne Evans
Dr Elaine King
Dr Ruth Waters · trustee of 1 other charity
Lynnette Leeson
Professor Laurence Harwood
Shaun Thomas
Simon Saville · trustee of 1 other charity
Steve Almond

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

Operates in: Austria · Belarus · Belgium · Bulgaria · Croatia · Czech Republic · Denmark · Estonia · Finland · France · Germany · Hungary

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£6.1m	£6.9m
31/03/2024	£6.6m	£6.8m
31/03/2023	£6.2m	£5.6m
31/03/2022	£4.3m	£4.3m
31/03/2021	£4.5m	£4.3m

Common questions

Who funds BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION as a grant recipient include THE HISCOX FOUNDATION, KATHLEEN BERYL SLEIGH CHARITABLE TRUST, THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITED, THE BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST, THE HDH WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
THE HISCOX FOUNDATION	FY2023	£37k
KATHLEEN BERYL SLEIGH CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£20k
THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITED	FY2024	£15k
THE BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST	FY2024	£10k
THE HDH WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£10k
THE LAWSON TRUST CIO	FY2024	£8k
TOWER HILL TRUST	FY2022	£6k
THE MICHAEL MARKS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£2k
CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£2k
THE LESLIE MARY CARTER CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£2k
CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£2k
THE EDWARD AND DOROTHY CADBURY TRUST	FY2022	£1k
THE IAN ASKEW CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£500
THE PHILIP J MILTON AND COMPANY PLC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2024	—

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	20/08/2025	£222k	"Glasgow Wild Spaces"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	11/10/2024	£183k	"#Grow – Growing Butterfly Conservation’s Youth Workforce"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	04/09/2023	£138k	"Bristol & Weston Wild Spaces Â– Transforming Habitat for People & Pollinators in Schools"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	17/07/2023	£62k	"#Innovate: Butterfly Conservation Test Phase Project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	12/12/2022	£24k	"Explore: Butterfly Conservation"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	27/09/2022	£80k	"Perth and Stirling Wild Spaces"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	31/07/2019	£74k	"Helping Hands for Butterflies"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	29/05/2019	£10k	"Saving the Northern Brown Argus in the Scottish Borders"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	21/03/2019	£62k	"Limestone Lepidoptera"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	20/03/2019	£94k	"Saving the Wood White butterfly in the South East"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	13/03/2019	£10k	"Conserving the Duke of Burgundy and the Marsh Fritillary in Wiltshire"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	20/11/2018	£10k	"Small Blue butterfly wildflower bank creation at St JulianÂ’s Meadow, Greenwood Park, Chiswell Green"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	11/09/2018	£472k	"Big City Butterflies: Discovering London's Butterflies and Moths"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	12/06/2018	£10k	"Returning the Chalk Hill Blue to Warwickshire"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	29/05/2018	£10k	"Duke of Burgundy Stepping Stones"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/05/2018	£57k	"Munching Caterpillars Scotland"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/02/2018	£250k	"KentÂ’s Magnificent Moths"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	22/08/2017	£75k	"Woodland Wings: Conserving the rare butterflies and moths of the East Midlands"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	17/07/2017	£10k	"Wild in Winchester: Getting Winchester's Children Out on the Downs"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	08/02/2017	£68k	"The Blues and Browns of Polden Hills: Saving two of the UKÂ’s most threatened butterflies"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	30/11/2015	£98k	"Making a stand for the Wood White: Conserving the West Midlands' most threatened butterfly"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	26/10/2015	£47k	"The Butterfly Flies: Creating opportunities for a greater understanding of Northern IrelandÂ’s butterflies and moths"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	31/08/2015	£57k	"The Urban Butterfly Net: building sustainable volunteer networks to conserve the butterflies of Central Scotland"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	12/12/2014	£87k	"Fritillaries for the Future"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	25/11/2014	£341k	"All the Moor Butterflies - Conserving the South WestÂ’s threatened moorland butterflies and moths"