PEOPLE'S TRUST FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES

Registered charity 274206 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q17017542 · Wikipedia · also known as MAMMALS TRUST UK, MTUK, P T E S

People's Trust for Endangered Species is a conservation charity working to ensure a future for endangered species worldwide. We offer conservation research grants and internships, protect nature reserves, carry out monitoring and surveying and engage in educational activity including wildlife watching events.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THOSE ENDANGERED SPECIES WHICH ARE RARE, OR THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION. A) TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF SUCH SPECIES IN ANY OF ITS FORMS, AND IN ANY PART OR PARTS OF THE WORLD, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SPECIES AND THE PUBLIC. B) TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INTO RARE OR ENDANGERED SPECIES BY THE SUPPORT OF STUDIES AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES, AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF ALL SUCH STUDY AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.

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: Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure for the year, with total income of £1,818,901 and total expenditure of £1,957,926. Despite the deficit, the charity maintains unrestricted free reserves of £2,196,246, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet its policy target of six months of unrestricted charitable expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the trustees or the independent auditor.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PEM Audit Limited. 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
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Peoples Trust For Endangered Species (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~18.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 26.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr ANDREW KITCHENERchair
• Dr ANTHONY MITCHELL-JONES
• Dr David Bullock
• Emily Mary Pringle
• SYLVIA KAHN FREUND

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

Operates in: Colombia · India · Indonesia · Iran · Kenya · Madagascar · Mongolia · Peru · Tanzania · Throughout England And Wales · Turks And Caicos Islands · Uganda

Income and spending

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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 ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION AGENCY.

• ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION AGENCY income £332k
• ENDANGERED ASIAN SPECIES TRUST income £179k
• PEOPLE FOR NATURE AND PEACE income £27k
• THE SPECIES RECOVERY TRUST income £301k
• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m
• THE COTSWOLD WILDLIFE PARK CONSERVATION TRUST income £239k

Side by side with its peers

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