THE BRITISH CHELONIA GROUP — grant history

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Latest income

£299k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£58k

Accounts grants total

£61k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

What they fund: The British Chelonia Group supports keepers and funds conservation projects for tortoises, terrapins and turtles worldwide.

Summarised from www.britishcheloniagroup.org.uk on 18/10/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Animals (2 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (2 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
Education/training (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Cape Verde (1 grantee)
City Of Westminster (1 grantee)
Ecuador (1 grantee)
Indonesia (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2023 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2023	FY2025
new	SENCKENBURG MUSEUM, Germany	—	£13k
new	TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE	—	£10k
new	Local Ocean	—	£8k
new	MEDASSET	—	£5k
new	BROZ, Slovakia	—	£5k
new	ARCHELON	—	£5k
new	Appeal 2024	—	£4k
new	Brian Waswala	—	£3k
not listed	GALAPAGOS CONSERVATION TRUST	£9k	—
not listed	SOPTOM, France	£5k	—
not listed	Sekenberg Gesellshaft	£5k	—
not listed	Research Project Giant tortoises	£4k	—
not listed	Wildlife Vets Int.	£2k	—
not listed	ART – Rescue Centre	£2k	—
not listed	Archelon – Sea Turtle Hospital	£2k	—
not listed	Turtle Foundation-Loggerhead Turtles	£1k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
SENCKENBURG MUSEUM, Germany	FY2025	£13k	African Congo Project
TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE	FY2025	£10k	Lavavolo Project in Madagascar
Local Ocean	FY2025	£8k	sea turtle project (Appeal 25: KENYA PROJECT)
MEDASSET	FY2025	£5k	Sea turtle protection, Greece
BROZ, Slovakia	FY2025	£5k	Terrapin Project (Emys orbicularis)
ARCHELON	FY2025	£5k	Sea Turtle Project Greece
Appeal 2024	FY2025	£4k	Prior year appeal balance
Brian Waswala	FY2025	£3k	Leopard tortoise project (Appeal 25: KENYA PROJECT)
TURTLE FOUNDATION (UK)	FY2025	£3k	Boa vista Sea Turtle project
Prof. J E and Mrs M E Cooper	FY2025	£2k	Annual Grant
Leicester	FY2025	£1k	Donation to the Madagascar Appeal
Galapagos Conservation Trust	FY2023	£9k	Conservation Budget
SOPTOM, France	FY2023	£5k	Veterinary Hospital
Sekenberg Gesellshaft	FY2023	£5k	Museum Rwanda Tortoise Project
Research Project Giant tortoises	FY2023	£4k	Conservation Budget
Wildlife Vets Int.	FY2023	£2k	Machine repair in sea turtle hospital
ART – Rescue Centre	FY2023	£2k	Conservation Budget
Archelon – Sea Turtle Hospital	FY2023	£2k	Conservation Budget
Prof. J E and Mrs M E Cooper	FY2023	£2k	General donation
Turtle Foundation-Loggerhead Turtles	FY2023	£1k	Conservation Budget
Gilbert White Museum	FY2023	£250	General donation
ARCHELON	FY2022	£2k	Sea Turtle Hospital, in Greece
ART	FY2022	£2k	towards the extra construction costs of the Rescue Centre for saving the Endangered Spanish Pond Terrapin in Bessieres, France
Veterinary Clinic of SOPTOM	FY2022	£2k	conservation Centre in France for the Hermann’s Tortoise
Tortoise Village in Ifaty	FY2022	£2k	for the Radiated Tortoise
Tortoise Village of the Giant Sulcata Tortoises	FY2022	£2k	in Senegal
Soptom	FY2022	£2k	Sulcata Village
Soptom	FY2022	£2k	Vet Hospital
Soptom	FY2022	£2k	Toroise Village
Ms S. Bull	FY2022	£2k	Seychelles Re-wilding Project (2)
MEDASSET	FY2022	£2k	Greece, Conservation Assessment in Turkey
Alan Rees	FY2022	£1k	Int Sea turtle Symposium
Dr J.Gerlach, Cambridge University, Peterhouse	FY2022	£600	Seychelles Project 1: Update

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 58420 vs reference 61120 (4.4% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].