Overall GiG Score: 20 ?
Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 12
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12

WWF - UK 

WWF-UK's mission is to prevent and reverse the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature by conserving the world's biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable and reducing pollution and wasteful consumption.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 24 years

www.wwf.org.uk

info@wwf.org.uk

01483426444

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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
30/06/22£91,037£92,140£-1,103£22,618£66,723£33,0804.3438460
30/06/21£84,359£82,613£1,746£20,469£68,846£40,1915.8413158
30/06/20£80,843£78,280£2,563£18,252£64,174£43,3106.6364109
30/06/19£66,259£69,587£-3,328£14,666£61,223£40,500735425
30/06/18£67,631£62,373£5,258£12,828£63,660£41,709834925
30/06/17£60,795£63,205£-2,410£12,109£57,762£40,2007.63330
30/06/16£71,088£63,015£8,073£13,185£58,415£38,6057.43320
30/06/15£63,203£61,151£2,052£15,206£50,907£29,2545.72930
30/06/14£62,952£62,225£727£16,379£47,883£27,3715.32950
30/06/13£59,980£58,622£1,358£15,690£46,516£26,2275.42990
30/06/12£66,177£59,136£7,041£16,554£43,911£25,8475.23120
30/06/11£57,756£58,419£-663£15,343£37,186£24,47453050
30/06/10£56,714£50,512£6,202£14,803£36,156£23,0455.52880
30/06/09£46,430£27,886£18,544£13,716£28,287£17,3177.53060
30/06/08£44,169£52,630£-8,461£10,973£11,125£19,2004.42890
30/06/07£45,404£48,653£-3,249£11,729£21,076£18,3074.52950
30/06/06£40,546£41,152£-606£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05£38,263£37,297£966£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/04£35,023£33,224£1,799£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 27.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 24.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 14%
Liabilities/Income: 12%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 50%
Reserves/Spending: 4.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.5
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Who works here?
  • 438 employees
  • 460 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Australia, Belgium, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, China, Colombia, Estonia, Fiji, France, Gabon, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Russia, Rwanda, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Throughout England And Wales, Uganda, United States, Vietnam, Zambia,

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
Garfield Weston Foundation£952,000
Esmee Fairbairn£401,500
Samworth Foundation£140,000
National Lottery Community Fund£125,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Op Foundation - WWF-UK CIF project
£105,000 15/06/2023
WWF-UK is conducting trials to replace synthetic fertiliser with seaweed fertiliser on arable farms, to understand whether seaweed fertiliser could become a commercially viable and environmentally ....more
The Shears Foundation - WWF-UK
£10,000 06/04/2023
Wild Ingleborough: Access to Nature Fund
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to WWF - UK
£36,500 27/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to WWF - UK
£365,000 15/09/2022
Towards project costs for developing a People's Plan for Nature
The Shears Foundation - WWF-UK
£10,000 27/10/2021
Wild Ingleborough For All
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to World Wide Fund for Nature
£108 11/08/2021
To support the world's leading independent conservation organisation
Department for Work and Pensions - AMORI LONDON
£3,522 01/04/2021
To support customers aged 18-24 to be ready to take up kickstart vacancies.
National Lottery Community Fund - Mobilising UK Communities to Tackle the Climate and Nature Crisis
£125,500 26/11/2020
12
WWF-UK will work with cultural partners local grassroots organisations and identified communities to recruit empower and support at least 250 local community leaders from diverse backgrounds in five ....more
Samworth Foundation - Environment
£140,000 28/09/2020
Funding to scale up a pilot seagrass restoration project in Wales and to assess potential sites around the UK for further expansion
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£952,000 11/09/2020
Seeds of Hope – Our Vision to Restoring the UK’s Seagrass Meadows
The Shears Foundation - WWF-UK
£10,000 29/01/2020
Re-Establishing Seagrass in the UK’s coastal waters
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - WWF - UK
£25,000 19/12/2018
Portuguese translation of educational resources developed to accompany Our Planet, a global Netflix nature series to be launched in 2019, aiming to reach one billion viewers. This will enable ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£250,000 22/02/2018
Saving Our Planet
Nesta - AC00307
£156,910 11/03/2013
Innovation in Giving programme grant to WWF UK Grant Ref AC00307
Friends Provident Foundation - WWF-UK-Finance Innovation Lab
£50,000 19/09/2012
To enable a more resilient finance system by promoting policy change to support new alternative finance models
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-63
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/06/2000, number: 1081247
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/06/2000, number: 04016725
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
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 IRIS DARNTON FOUNDATION on 01/12/2019
  • Asset transfer in from THE GUTHRIE ESSAME CHARITABLE TRUST on 14/05/2021
  • Asset transfer in from THE JOAN TANNER CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT on 01/09/2022
  • Asset transfer in from MRS S L CHAMBERS' CHARITABLE TRUST on 24/01/2024
Main office

W W F-UK
The Living Planet Centre
Rufford House
Brewery Road
WOKING
GU21 4LL

Objectives

1. THE PROMOTION OF CONSERVATION OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE SUSTAINABLE USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES, TO INCLUDE WITHOUT LIMITATION, FAUNA AND FLORA, WATER, SOILS AND OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES; AND2. THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION IN NATURE CONSERVATION, THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE SUSTAINABLE USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES; AND3. THE PROMOTION AND SUPPORT OF SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, RESEARCH AND PROJECTS AND PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL WORKS.IN EACH CASE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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