Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 24 ?

BUGLIFE THE INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION TRUST

We aim to conserve invertebrates and their habitats, with current emphasis on surveys to assess the status of species in specific habitat-types, such as brownfields, soft rock cliffs and freshwater. Dissemination of our survey data, public education and the raising of awareness of the need to conserve invertebrates are also key activities. We also work to protect sites of special importance.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£2,335£2,092£244£128£1,378£8054.63310
31/12/22£1,569£1,592£-23£195£1,134£7725.82710
31/12/21£1,369£1,173£195£150£1,157£8338.52110
31/12/20*£1,573£1,223£350£119£962£7387.21910
31/12/19£1,364£1,165£199£98£611£4965.11820
31/12/18£1,148£1,322£-173£43£413£3413.1210
31/12/17£1,330£1,314£16£111£586£4233.9210
31/12/16£1,572£1,532£41£27£571£4243.3230
31/12/15£1,131£1,304£-173£97£530£3703.4220
31/12/14£1,176£1,354£-178£136£703£5024.5230
31/12/13£1,199£1,403£-205£249£881£6515.6230
31/12/12£1,640£1,135£504£186£1,086£7067.5190
31/12/11£1,011£819£192£94£581£2724170
31/12/10£680£605£75£34£390£2645.2130
31/12/09£546£540£7£17£314£2325.2100
31/12/08£594£462£132£22£307£2526.580
31/12/07£447£448£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/06£284£332£-48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/05£222£319£-97n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/04£284£191£93n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 6.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 23%
Liabilities/Income: 17%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 58%
Reserves/Spending: 4.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 3
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 23 years

www.buglife.org.uk

info@buglife.org.uk

0300 102 7275

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Animal welfare
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Saint Helena, Scotland,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Heritage Fund£761,234
DCMS£177,100
Garfield Weston Foundation£65,000
City Bridge Trust£44,460
Esmee Fairbairn£40,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£247,567 13/12/2023
Kernow Wyls - People for Pollinators
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£44,460 15/03/2023
£44,460 for two years (£21,900; £22,560), contributing to the Engagement Officer’s salary, the demonstration site costs, seeds, materials and artists fees for engagement activities and project oncosts.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£196,773 22/09/2022
Get The Marches Buzzing!
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£7,000 21/07/2022
Funding was provided for project costs associated with improving Sussex landscapes for wild pollinators.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£108,694 28/02/2022
Belfast’s Buzzing! Creating B-Lines for pollinators and people
DCMS - GRCF2021: North Cornwall B-Lines creating pathways for pollinators
£85,100 21/06/2021
Our project will address the urgent need to restore threatened bee species in North Cornwall. Our focus is the Large Scabious bee and Brown-banded carder bee, however, project activities will increase the abundance and diversity of pollinators and ....more
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Buglife
£15,000 30/12/2020
12
Safe from Light Pollution
DCMS - GRCF2020: Severn B-Lines - restoring Shropshires pollinator pathways
£92,000 11/11/2020
Green Recovery Challenge Fund 2020-21. The wider aim of the scheme is: The Green Recovery Challenge Fund is a short-term competitive fund to kick-start environmental renewal whilst creating and retaining a range of jobs. It is open to environmental ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£49,500 07/08/2020
COVID19: Buglife
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Buglife
£40,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£65,000 01/05/2020
24
Growing B-Lines
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£158,700 04/03/2020
Neath Port Talbot B-Lines - Connecting habitats for Pollinators and People
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Buglife
£160,000 28/08/2019
24
Towards core costs in making B-Lines the foundation and framework for the restoration of the UK's populations of pollinating insects.
John Ellerman Foundation - Growing our Countries initiative
£118,619 28/03/2019
36
Towards the salaries of Country Managers in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to drive forward their conservation of invertebrates
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife Scotland
£40,600 25/03/2019
West Lothian B-Lines
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife - the Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£35,600 22/03/2018
Blue ground beetle project
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£37,400 21/06/2017
Urban Buzz Leicester
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£37,400 14/06/2017
Urban Buzz Leeds
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife Scotland
£48,900 28/11/2016
Marvellous Mud Snails
Dulverton Trust - Projects for pollinators and freshwater bugs
£58,000 25/10/2016
Projects for pollinators and freshwater bugs
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£22,700 30/11/2015
Urban Buzz - Birmingham
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£29,900 29/10/2015
Urban Buzz - Cardiff
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife - the Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£28,800 05/08/2015
Torbay's Buzzing!
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Buglife
£180,000 05/03/2015
36
Towards a project to ensure that invertebrates are given due consideration as part of the planning process and to take practical steps towards reversing their loss from new development.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife - the Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£54,200 11/02/2015
Tansy Beetle Champions
Dulverton Trust - Freshwater Invertebrate Conservation Strategy
£29,000 22/10/2014
Freshwater Invertebrate Conservation Strategy
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£51,300 06/08/2014
Peterborough's Buzzing
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife Scotland
£50,000 27/06/2014
Fife Buzzing
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£58,800 12/12/2013
Thurrock Stepping Stones for Nature
Dulverton Trust - B-Lines Wales
£5,000 19/06/2013
B-Lines Wales
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
£10,000 07/06/2013
Implementing good ideas at Buglife
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 31-58
  • CHRISTOPHER SPREADBURY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Accountant
  • DR RACHEL HOOPER Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Manager
  • EUGENIE REGAN (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Vice President Research Solutions (Springer Nature
  • NINA SEALE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Communications And Engagement Officer
  • RICHARD FORSTER Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Banker
  • SARAH DAWKINS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Head Of Spending Review And Green Recovery Program
  • WENDY BROOKS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Civil Servant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/05/2002, number: 1092293
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/12/2000, number: 04132695
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Fundraising Regulator
First registered: 09/01/2023, current status: Large charity (levy paid)
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR20: 8 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE FRANCIS WILDLIFE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION on 18/11/2022
Main office

G.06 The Future Business Centre
London Road
Peterborough
PE2 8AN

Objectives

(A) THE STUDY, PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION FROM EXTINCTION OF NATURAL INVERTEBRATE FAUNA BY CONSERVING THEM IN THE WILD BU SUCH MEANS AS ARE AVAILABLE(B) TO PROMOTE AND SPONSOR SCIENTIFIC STUDY AND RESEARCH INTO THE HABITS DISEASES AND LIFE-CYCLES OF SUCH INVERTEBRATE FAUNA AND IN RELATION TO MODERN AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL AND HUMAN PRACTICES AND ACTIVITIES, AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE(C) TO PROMOTE THE PERMANENT PRESERVATION AND SOUND MANAGEMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY OF LANDS OF ECOLOGICAL OR OTHER SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO INVERTEBRATE FAUNA(D) TO FOSTER INTEREST IN GOVERNMENTAL AND VOLUNTARY BODIES, EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY CONCERNING THE CONSERVATION OR NATURAL INVERTEBRATE FAUNA

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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