DURHAM WILDLIFE TRUST

Registered charity 501038 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Protection of wildlife and natural features and promotion of nature conservation within our area. Acting as a main focus for nature conservation within our area and providing means by which communities and individuals can become involved.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted net current asset funds were £720,335 at the year end, providing 8 months of cover against the stated policy target of six months of unrestricted expenditure. The charity reported a total surplus of £947,728 for the year, with total income of £4,285,760 and total expenditure of £3,338,032. The Trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Robson Laidler Accountants Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jim Cokill — CEO (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

63 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (39 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clare June Butcher
• Dr Vivien Kent · trustee of 1 other charity
• Harvey Neve · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Robert Cole
• Michael Andrew Coates
• Nigel Bell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul William Davidson
• Professor Stephen Geoffrey Willis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor William Mark Oxbury
• Richard Francis Joseph Arrowsmith
• Simon David Bell
• Stephen Kumar Bhowmick · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Darlington · Durham · Gateshead · South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ESSEX WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED.

• ESSEX WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £10.0m
• THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED income £5.3m
• NORFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.4m
• HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT WILDLIFE TRUST income £9.9m
• NORTHUMBERLAND WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £5.5m
• DEVON WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.5m

Side by side with its peers

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