Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 15
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +15
Overall GiG Score: 27 ?

FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL 

Fauna & Flora's shared purpose is to protect the diversity of life on Earth, for the survival of the planet and its people. We work closely with local conservation partners around the world to save nature, together. We harness this collective expertise to inspire positive change globally.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 19 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12
Established: 32 years

www.fauna-flora.org

info@fauna-flora.org

01223571000

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UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22£33,166£30,403£2,762£3,161£33,621£7,3022.95050
31/12/21£36,485£25,596£10,889£3,165£30,141£7,8223.74790
31/12/20£26,469£24,043£2,426£1,903£19,286£6,5013.247511
31/12/19£23,256£22,733£523£1,321£16,756£4,7222.53668
31/12/18£19,100£18,863£236£1,200£16,246£3,3692.133717
31/12/17£23,186£18,898£4,288£981£15,581£3,6632.33280
31/12/16£15,783£15,688£95£884£10,753£6710.53410
31/12/15£20,729£16,574£4,155£1,031£10,284£6500.53580
31/12/14£15,801£16,536£-735£987£6,249£7060.53560
31/12/13£16,410£17,520£-1,110£805£6,896£1,2380.81300
31/12/12£18,286£17,310£975£1,621£7,522£2,2501.61260
31/12/11£17,388£15,892£1,496£1,086£6,742£9470.71080
31/12/10£12,811£14,154£-1,342£679£4,780£2180.2910
31/12/09£12,797£12,000£797£565£5,889£1280.1830
31/12/08£10,376£9,677£699£544£5,505£-135-0.2840
31/12/07£9,631£8,231£1,400£514£4,369£-304-0.4520
31/12/06£8,953£8,945£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£11,544£9,947£1,597£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£13,929£14,236£-307£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 9.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 10.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £450,000-£500,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 22%
Reserves/Spending: 2.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 3.7
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Animals
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Belize, Burma, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Congo, Congo (Democratic Republic), Dominica, Ecuador, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea, Honduras, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Vincent, São Tomé And Principe, Scotland, South Africa, South Sudan, St Lucia, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, United States, Uzbekistan, ....more
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 505 employees

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
ARCADIA£9,039,316
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs£3,915,705
Greenwood Place£3,080,000
Esmee Fairbairn£214,233
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
William Grant Foundation - Strengthening community-led conservation in Scotland
£110,338 12/10/2023
3-year support for FFI’ s work to empower and connect Scottish community-based conservation groups and organisations.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Fauna & Flora International
£19,476 27/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Fauna & Flora International
£194,757 21/09/2022
Towards core costs expanding community-led nature restoration across land and sea in Scotland
Greenwood Place - Grant to Fauna & Flora International
£1,000,000 01/07/2022
Unrestricted funding
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - IWTEV002 Understanding wild meat demand, supply and trade in Western Equatoria
£71,000 01/07/2022
Providing support to projects around the world that are tackling the illegal wildlife trade
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - IWTEV005 Building evidence-based situational crime prevention to curb IWT
£79,688 01/07/2022
Providing support to projects around the world that are tackling the illegal wildlife trade
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 29-002 Conserving and restoring orangutan habitat and ecosystems, Gunung Palung, Indonesia
£113,473 01/06/2022
A UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment through locally based projects worldwide.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 29-008 Community-led conservation and fisheries development in North coast, Kenya
£207,184 01/06/2022
A UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment through locally based projects worldwide.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - DARNV001 Incentivising responsible fisheries in Central America: testing novel intermediary models
£65,999 01/06/2022
The Darwin Initiative is a UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment through locally based projects worldwide.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Biodiversity Conservation to Mitigate the risks of emerging infectious diseases
£9,669 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10053299
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - DPLUS158 Piloting a new solution for invasive species in UKOTs
£269,165 01/04/2022
Darwin Plus is a UK government grants scheme that funds projects that aim to protect the unique biodiversity and improve resilience to climate change within the UK Overseas Territories
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - DAREX005 Ridge to Reef Conservation in West Papua, Indonesia
£550,828 01/04/2022
A UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment through locally based projects worldwide.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - DARNV003 Locally-owned enterprise development for resilient communities and sustainable primate conservation
£71,400 01/04/2022
The Darwin Initiative is a UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment through locally based projects worldwide.
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Fauna and Flora International
£10,000 12/02/2022
Funding would support the fundraising event ‘One Giant Night*’ which aims to raise funds for conservation and animal welfare projects overseas and in the UK.
Tedworth Charitable Trust - A donation towards its work
£1,000 10/12/2021
A donation towards its work.
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£20,000 01/12/2021
unrestricted, to further the Charitable Objects
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 28-014: Gibbon biodiversity conservation through coffee-based agroforestry
£73,189 19/11/2021
The biologically diverse Mann Reserved Forest is globally important, but under threat from unsustainableagriculture. With a private-sector partner, FFI will enable farmers from 11 villages to develop ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 28-020: Safeguarding globally important forests by improving livelihoods and strengthening governance
£84,773 19/11/2021
The second-largest forest block in the countys northern region is home to Vietnams last population ofCritically Endangered western black gibbon, alongside other threatened species. Land ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 28-027: Strengthened livelihoods and conservation management in Virachey National Park, Cambodia
£50,679 19/11/2021
Virachey National Park (VNP) forms the core of one of the most biologically-important and endangered tropicalforests in the world, supporting northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbon, clouded leopard, ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - IWT089: Building effective responses to illegal wildlife trade across Central Asia
£113,992 19/11/2021
In Central Asia, wildlife is smuggled across vast international borders, but law enforcement agencies lacksufficient data, resources and trained personnel to mount an effective response. This project ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 28:002: Pioneering sustainable grazing for plants and livelihoods in Cape Verde
£102,128 28/10/2021
Cape Verdes Brava island hosts 21 endangered and/or vulnerable endemic plant species. Overgrazing is aprimary threat to its biodiversity, causing erosion and desertification, exacerbated by droughts ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£50,000 01/10/2021
Tackling Microplastic Pollution in the UK
Greenwood Place - Grant to Fauna & Flora International
£80,000 27/09/2021
Unrestricted funding
Greenwood Place - Grant to Fauna & Flora International
£1,000,000 01/07/2021
Unrestricted funding
ARCADIA - FFI Conservation Resilience Fund
£2,000,000 01/06/2021
To enable FFI to establish the Conservation Resilience Fund, to help local conservation organisations adopt new operational models to adapt to a post-COVID-19 future.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Grant:IWT072:Reducing Demand for Marine Turtle Products in Nicaragua
£112,644 01/04/2021
This project will reduce national and international consumer demand for marine turtle eggs and shell in Nicaragua, reducing incentives for poaching of Hawksbill, Leatherback and Olive Ridley turtle ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Grant:IWT065:Strengthening Liberia’s response to illegal wildlife trade
£114,894 01/04/2021
Liberia functions as a source, market and transit hub for Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT), which threatens the viability of Liberia’s pangolin, parrot, African elephant, pygmy hippo and chimpanzee ....more
William Grant Foundation - Extending Community Led Nature Conservation
£65,000 08/03/2021
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Contribution to the costs over two years of establishing a wide-ranging network of environmental community organisations in Scotland, based upon the Coastal Communities Network model.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - (Darwin Initiative (ODA)): CV19RR26, Sustainable finance for chimpanzee conservation and green-recovery in Hoima, Uganda
£54,033 01/01/2021
Green economic recovery in the wake of Covid-19, rapidly enhanced by improved governance andsustainable financing for three community-based institutions for conservation, within a critical ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£50,000 24/07/2020
Tackling Microplastic Pollution in the UK
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - IWT081: Enabling and promoting communities to tackle IWT in Southern Myanmar
£75,932 01/07/2020
Southern Tanintharyi, on the Myanmar-Thailand border, is one of Myanmar’s last strongholds for globally threatened species including tiger, Asian elephant and Sunda pangolin. All are threatened by ....more
Greenwood Place - Grant to Flora and Fauna International
£1,000,000 01/06/2020
Unrestricted funding
ARCADIA - Crisis Support Fund
£1,039,316 14/05/2020
To establish an emergency response fund to support their partners on the ground most affected by COVID19.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - GRANT: DPLUS086 Future-proofing endangered species conservation in Anguilla
£102,023 01/04/2020
Anguilla’s biodiversity has declined due to invasive aliens and other pressures, and the changing climate could be the final straw. Focusing on critically threatened plants and reptiles and ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Grant Darwin Main 25-010:A sustainable landscape for Critically Endangered primates and marginalised communities
£107,640 01/04/2020
Through a pioneering landscape planning framework - a first for Vietnam - that includes zoning plans (multiple scales), a new, collaborative PA and improvements to local livelihoods, this project ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 24-004 Darwin Initiative Round 23 Main
£88,362 01/04/2020
This funding will fund projects in developing countries aiming to protect Biodiversity. Applications received Ministerial approval following an open application round under the Darwin Initiative and ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 24-006 Darwin Initiative Round 23 Main
£80,924 01/04/2020
This funding will fund projects in developing countries aiming to protect Biodiversity. Applications received Ministerial approval following an open application round under the Darwin Initiative and ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 24-007 Darwin Initiative Round 23 Main
£96,354 01/04/2020
This funding will fund projects in developing countries aiming to protect Biodiversity. Applications received Ministerial approval following an open application round under the Darwin Initiative and ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 24-020 Darwin Initiative Round 23 Main
£79,977 01/04/2020
This funding will fund projects in developing countries aiming to protect Biodiversity. Applications received Ministerial approval following an open application round under the Darwin Initiative and ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Grant:Darwin Main 25-002:A model for conservation, stabilisation and development in South Sudan
£107,161 01/04/2020
This project will bring 430km2 of critically threatened forest, including habitat for endangered species - particularly elephant and chimpanzee - under more effective management. A holistic landscape ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 24-002 Darwin Initiative Round 23 Main
£99,229 01/04/2020
This funding will fund projects in developing countries aiming to protect Biodiversity. Applications received Ministerial approval following an open application round under the Darwin Initiative and ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 24-008 Darwin Initiative Round 23 Main
£111,362 01/04/2020
This funding will fund projects in developing countries aiming to protect Biodiversity. Applications received Ministerial approval following an open application round under the Darwin Initiative and ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - IWT082: Combating poaching and trafficking of Critically Endangered sturgeon
£70,384 01/04/2020
To combat trafficking of Critically Endangered sturgeon in the eastern Black Sea region, this project takes a multi-faceted approach that is delivered in partnership with local and national ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Grant:IWT072:Reducing Demand for Marine Turtle Products in Nicaragua
£100,346 01/04/2020
This project will reduce national and international consumer demand for marine turtle eggs and shell in Nicaragua, reducing incentives for poaching of Hawksbill, Leatherback and Olive Ridley turtle ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Grant:IWT065:Strengthening Liberia’s response to illegal wildlife trade
£128,680 01/04/2020
Liberia functions as a source, market and transit hub for Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT), which threatens the viability of Liberia’s pangolin, parrot, African elephant, pygmy hippo and chimpanzee ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - IWT044 Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund Round 3
£76,101 01/04/2020
Critical evidence to drive a reduction in Cambodias ivory trade
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Grant: Illegal Wildlife Trade IWT049 Reducing IWT in Sumatra across two globally important tiger landscapes
£137,648 01/04/2020
This project will stem IWT across Sumatra, focusing on two priority Tiger Conservation Landscapes (Kerinci-Seblat, Ulu Masen) protecting >60% of all Sumatran tigers. It will disrupt organised IWT ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - GRANT: Darwin Main - 27-017: Community-led approaches to reforestation benefitting chimpanzees and livelihoods in Uganda
£116,523 01/04/2020
Ugandas endangered eastern chimpanzees live in forests fragmented by agriculture, exacerbated by extractives development. Smallholders lack food security due to marginal yields and high levels of ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - GRANT: Darwin Main - 27-010: Community-led stewardship and conservation of the Ometepe Island Biosphere Reserve
£94,348 01/04/2020
Building on substantial grassroots commitment to conservation within Nicaraguas Ometepe Island Biosphere Reserve, the project aims to reverse the loss of biodiversity and protect ecosystem services ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 25-005:Enabling ecosystems to deliver sustainable development goals at Lake Indawgyi
£107,642 01/04/2020
The project will protect forest and wetland biodiversity including habitat for >20,000 birds and numerous threatened species in the globally important Indawgyi Lake Biosphere Reserve. It takes an ....more
ARCADIA - Core support to Conservation Leadership Programme
£6,000,000 01/06/2019
To increase the overall impact and ensure the long-term sustainability of the Conservation Leadership Programme
John Ellerman Foundation - Empowering Scottish communities to conserve their seas
£149,964 24/01/2019
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Towards the core costs of the Coastal Communities Network in Scotland to enable community groups to actively collaborate, share experiences and create a united voice on sustainable marine issues
John Ellerman Foundation - to develop and implement management plans in two UKOT marine parks
£128,000 26/07/2018
36
Towards the costs of a programme to restore and manage two marine parks in Anguilla to protect their important coastal biodiversity
ARCADIA - Halcyon Programmes and core institutional support
£25,960,684 01/10/2017
To consolidate and expand the success of both the Halcyon Land & Sea Fund and the Halcyon Marine Programme to date, increasing their focus on long-term sustainability, and addressing the ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£60,000 31/05/2017
Plastic Programme
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Fauna & Flora International
£20,000 21/12/2016
To support participation in the Marine CoLABoration in phase two of the initiative (2017-18).
Dulverton Trust - the Conservation of Lake Wamala
£47,200 19/06/2013
the Conservation of Lake Wamala
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How is it governed?

Trustees (19)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 16/19 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 40-69
  • CHRISTINE LLOYD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Leadership And Change Consultant
  • MIGUEL NOGALES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Co-Chief Investment Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/05/1992, number: 1011102
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/01/1992, number: 02677068
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE FRANCIS WILDLIFE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION on 18/11/2022
Main office

GOVERNANCE & RISK MANAGER
Fauna & Flora International
The David Attenborough Building
Pembroke Street
CAMBRIDGE
CB2 3QZ

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT BY THE PROTECTION OF BIODIVERSITY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING GLOBALLY APPLICABLE SOLUTIONS THAT ARE EFFECTIVE LOCALLY; TO ADVANCE THE AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OF ALL SECTORS OF SOCIETY WORLDWIDE IN THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF BIODIVERSITY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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