AVON WILDLIFE TRUST

Registered charity 280422 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Avon Wildlife Trust is the largest local charity working to protect wildlife in the West of England area. With the support of 18,000 members, 800 volunteers plus corporate support, we are the largest local charity working to protect wildlife and inspire people.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total deficit of £568k for the year, primarily due to expenditure on designated fund projects and reduced grant income. However, the trustees confirm that cash reserves remain healthy and the net current assets are £1,663k, indicating the charity is well-placed to continue its work.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Burnside Chartered Accountants. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01495108
• Trading subsidiary: FOLLY FARM CENTRE LIMITED Companies House 06538712

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Avon Wildlife Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• The National Lottery Heritage Fund — “With a generous grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Avon Wildlife Trust will create climate resilient wetlands and a…” (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.

• JEFFS, Kathryn Morag — director, appointed 15/11/2025on trustee list
• ROSE, Judith Sara — director, appointed 15/11/2025on trustee list
• HILLS, Karen — director, appointed 08/11/2023on trustee list
• HUTCHISON, Sumita — director, appointed 08/11/2023on trustee list
• BURCH, Lara Frances Michelle — director, appointed 10/11/2022on trustee list
• LYNE, Martin John — director, appointed 10/11/2022on trustee list
• FAIRLEY, Ross — director, appointed 13/11/2019on trustee list
• RUTTER, Nathan Chares — director, appointed 14/11/2018on trustee list
• NICHOLSON, John Zac — director, appointed 05/03/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

35 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (29 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lara Burchchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Judith Rose
• Karen Hills
• Kathryn Jeffs
• Martin John Lyne
• Nathan Rutter
• Ross Fairley
• Sumita Hutchison · trustee of 1 other charity
• Zac Nicholson

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Lara Burch — trustee here and at ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS

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 GWENT WILDLIFE TRUST LTD.

• GWENT WILDLIFE TRUST LTD income £1.3m
• SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST income £5.3m
• THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED income £5.3m
• DEVON WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.5m
• THE LONDON WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.3m
• THE WILDLIFE TRUST FOR BIRMINGHAM AND THE BLACK COUNTRY LTD income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.