THE CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS

Registered charity 261009 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRITISH TRUST FOR CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS, BTCV, THE BRITISH TRUST FOR CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS · also registered in Scotland as SC039302 (OSCR)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £81k for the year, improving its overall financial position. Reserves are held within the stated policy target, representing 9 weeks of unrestricted expenditure against a policy range of 7-14 weeks. The trustees confirm the charity can meet its liabilities as they fall due through to March 2027.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2022) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2022 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rebecca Kennelly — Chief Executive (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).

• OVO Energy
• Nature Scot
• Scottish Government
• NatWest Group
• Postcode Lottery
• The Land Trust
• Public Health Agency
• The National Lottery

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Trustees

• Andrea Lambert
• Andrew Paul Dalton Walker
• Dermot Toberty
• Dr Joanne Gilbert
• Emma Aspinall · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jon Towler
• Shannon Russell
• Shipra Gupta
• Tanvi Desai Graham
• Timothy Vaughan
• Uilani Dines

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HULL COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES LTD.

• HULL COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES LTD income £2.2m
• HELPFORCE COMMUNITY income £1.6m
• TENDRING COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £1.2m
• CONSERVATION COLLECTIVE income £4.0m
• CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL UK income £1.3m
• THE RICHMOND UPON THAMES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £335k