THE SELBORNE SOCIETY LIMITED

Registered charity 267635 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote public education and research in natural history and antiquities and to publish the results of that education and research. To preserve and maintain, for the benefit of the public, places of natural beauty, scientific value and antiquarian interest.

Objects

TO PROMOTE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND REASEARCH IN NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AND TO PRESERVE AND MAINTAIN FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC PLACES OF NATURAL BEAUTY, SCIENTIFIC VALUE AND ANTIQUARIAN INTEREST.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds substantial unrestricted reserves of £146,005, which the trustees consider sufficient to continue as a going concern. The charity reported a net expenditure for the year, reducing total funds from £312,328 to £310,453, but maintains a strong financial position with significant cash and short-term deposits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00149247 · Financial health read from its filings

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Colin Bibra Estate Agents — “The Selborne Society wishes to acknowledge the generous support of the following organisations who have sponsored its work: Commercial Group…” (source page)
• John Lyon’s Charity — “The Selborne Society wishes to acknowledge the generous support of the following organisations who have sponsored its work: Commercial Group…” (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.

• MOSS, Richard Lawrence — director, appointed 14/05/2025on trustee list
• PICKERING, Juliet Clare — director, appointed 14/05/2025on trustee list
• ADAMS, Craig — director, appointed 15/05/2024on trustee list
• NUSEIBEH, Amira — director, appointed 15/05/2024on trustee list
• PEACOCK, Emma Jane — director, appointed 24/05/2023on trustee list
• WORSLEY, Deborah Sarah — director, appointed 04/04/2017not on trustee list
• GODDARD, Richard James, Mr. — director, appointed 07/01/2017on trustee list
• RUTHERFORD, Mary Caroline — director, appointed 12/04/2016on trustee list
• HADLAND, Sarah — director, appointed 12/04/2016on trustee list
• GODDARD, Nicola Elizabeth Jennifer — director, appointed 07/04/2015on trustee list
• WAKEHAM, Camessa Jane — director, appointed 07/04/2015not on trustee list
• MORRELL, John William — director, appointed 01/04/2014on trustee list
• FERRIDAY, Nicholas Peter — directoron trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amira Nuseibeh
• Craig Jonathan Adams
• Debora Worsley
• Emma Peacock
• JOhn Morrell
• Juliet Clare Pickering
• Kim Wakeham
• Mary Caroline Rutherford
• NICHOLAS PETER FERRIDAY
• Nicola Elizabeth Jennifer Goddard
• Richard James Goddard
• Richard Lawrence Moss
• Sarah Hadland

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

Operates in: Ealing

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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