Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 3

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1

Gov Income
Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: -3

THE ECOLOGICAL SEQUESTRATION TRUST

Speed up and scale up transformative urban development towards a resilient, low carbon, resource efficient way of living. Bring together:1 - World-leading modellers & sector experts to design and create tools; and2 - Public, private, community & knowledge sectors to enable them to make collaborative decisions on policies that lead to improved resilience & attract private sector investments.

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The charity has received Government grants

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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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
31/03/23	£101	£90	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22	£267	£319	£-53	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21	£214	£116	£98	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20	£266	£133	£132	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19	£144	£166	£-22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18	£188	£247	£-59	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/17	£238	£410	£-172	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/16	£791	£1,050	£-259	£0	£-620	£-620	-7.1	2
31/03/15	£959	£908	£50	£15	£-361	£-361	-4.8	3
31/03/14	£162	£170	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/13	£9	£216	£-206	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/12	£0	£197	£-197	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 13 years

www.ecosequestrust.org

info@ecosequestrust.org

07983451550

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Environment/Conservation/Heritage

GiG Classification

Poverty relief

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Dorset, Scotland,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 58-81

PROFESSOR NILAY SHAH Appointed: 2011, Occupation: University Professor

BARBARA RYAN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Trustee

ROBIN STOTT Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Trustee, Other trusteeship: SOPHIA POINT RAINFOREST PROJECT,

PROFESSOR PETER HEAD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Consulting Engineer, Other trusteeship: THE GROUNDWORK SOUTH TRUST LIMITED,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/08/2011, number: 1143397
Registered at Companies House on 21/04/2011, number: 07611969

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

12 returns made; all on time

Main office

86-90 Paul Street
London
EC2A 4NE

Objectives

OBJECT 1: THE CONSERVATION OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING THE REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GASES, PARTICULARLY (WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY DEVELOPING AND ADVANCING CARBON SEQUESTRATION METHODS TO REDUCE CARBON DIOXIDE LEVELS IN THE ATMOSPHERE.OBJECT 2: TO PROMOTE AND CARRY OUT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT RESEARCH INTO CLIMATE CHANGE AND METHODS TO REDUCE CLIMATE CHANGE, AND TO PUBLISH AND WIDELY DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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