TEES VALLEY WILDLIFE TRUST LTD

Registered charity 511068 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CLEVELAND NATURE CONSERVATION TRUST LIMITED, THE CLEVELAND WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED

Work with local authorities, businesses and others to protect, manage and enhance land for wildlife.Promote lifelong learning in environmental matters through a programme of education and training.Manage its nature reserves.Work with local partners to ensure that wildlife and natural places contribute to the environmental, social and economic regeneration of the Tees Valley.

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

Latest income
£708k
Latest spending
£666k
Registered
1981
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £827,035, which the trustees confirmed met their policy target of holding between 3 and 6 months of operational costs. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £42,411 for the year, with total income of £708,000 and total expenditure of £665,589.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income)
“Charitable activities 3 114,30 584,478 699,008 990,089” — page 14
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three to six months of operational costs (held: £827k)
“The trustees have agreed to establish a level of financial reserve that would support the operational costs of the charity for between 3 and 6 months.” — page 9
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

9 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (9 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)

Total income
£708k
Total spending
£666k
Reserves (reported)
£336k
Employees
15

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hartlepool · Middlesbrough · Redcar And Cleveland · Stockton-on-tees

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£708k£666k
31/03/2024£1.0m£614k
31/03/2023£617k£664k
31/03/2022£755k£604k
31/03/2021£403k£445k

Common questions

Is TEES VALLEY WILDLIFE TRUST LTD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £827,035, which the trustees confirmed met their policy target of holding between 3 and 6 months of operational costs. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £42,411 for the year, with total income of £708,000 and total expenditure of £665,589. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds TEES VALLEY WILDLIFE TRUST LTD?

Funders whose own accounts filings name TEES VALLEY WILDLIFE TRUST LTD as a grant recipient include ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS, TEES VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTSFY2022£10kStrategic Development Fund
ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTSFY2022£10kPeople's Postcode Lottery
ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTSFY2022£10kStrategic Development Fund
TEES VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2022£5k
TEES VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2023£1k
ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTSFY2024£0RSWT Grants

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund17/08/2020£27k"COVID19 Tees Valley Wildlife Trust"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund28/08/2019£67k"Wild@the edges"
The National Lottery Community Fund16/05/2019£281kTees Valley Nature Partnership
The National Lottery Community Fund16/08/2018£88kLife Skills
The National Lottery Heritage Fund31/05/2018£4k"Nestbox Network - Helping East Cleveland's Barn Owls"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund25/10/2017£10k"Tees Valley Nature Partnership building a resilient partnership to conserve and enhance our natural environment"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund21/03/2016£10k"Woodland diaries"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund17/12/2015£51k"Where the Wild Things Were 2"
The National Lottery Community Fund08/04/2015£100kLife Skills
The National Lottery Heritage Fund23/03/2015£10k"Cleveland Coast Wildflowers"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund30/10/2014£45k"East Cleveland Batscape"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund24/02/2014£24k"Hardwick Dene Interpreted"
Northern Rock Foundation12/06/2013£17kGrant awarded to Tees Valley Wildlife Trust (Tees Valley)
The National Lottery Heritage Fund15/03/2013£437k"Tees Valley Wild Green Places"
The National Lottery Community Fund08/11/2012£10kFrom Blue to Green - Nature-based Intervention for Mental Health
The National Lottery Heritage Fund25/10/2012£5k"Jurassic Plants at Marske Quarry"
Northern Rock Foundation13/12/2011£27kGrant awarded to Tees Valley Wildlife Trust (Tees Valley)
The National Lottery Community Fund04/03/2011£6kPortrack Wild Wetlands
The National Lottery Heritage Fund03/08/2009£46k"Alum, Alchemy and Ammonites"
The National Lottery Community Fund15/04/2009£5kWoodhill Meadows
The National Lottery Community Fund29/01/2007£9kpromise the earth
The National Lottery Heritage Fund29/01/2007£9k"This Project Is To Work With Schools In The Tees Valley Area And A Local Theatre Group To Produce A Performance To Make Environmental Issues"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund26/06/2006£50k"River Tees Natural Heritage"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund26/09/2005£23k"Wild Youth"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund01/09/2005£18k"Mammal Action - Tees Valley"

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 THE LANCASHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
TEES VALLEY WILDLIFE TRUST LTD£708k—0above—no doubt
THE LANCASHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST FY2025£9.2m——unclear—no doubt
GWENT WILDLIFE TRUST LTD FY2025£1.3m—0unclear—no doubt
TEESSIDE ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST FY2025£693k—0unclear—no doubt
SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST FY2025£5.3m——within15.1%no doubt
ESSEX WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED FY2024£10.0m——above—no doubt

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