Overall Score: 9 based on 10 data points
Finance: -5
Governance: 0
Support: 14
(no PartB)
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5,
No volunteer policy: -2, No conflicts policy: -1, Gender balanced board: +3,
Large volunteers +3, Supporters: +11

COETIR ANIAN 

Mission:

Restoring habitats and species, connecting people with wildlife and wild places
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

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
Comment by the Charity:
    Asset transfer refers to transition of charity from Charitable Trust to Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Two years of operating at deficit were due to incurring project costs which were covered by subsequent grant, hence large surplus in 2019-20.

How you can help

Established: 9 years

www.cambrianwildwood.org

post@coetiranian.org

01970 210352

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit		 Volun-
teers
31/03/22£141,941£165,221£-23,28037
31/03/21£247,401£163,369£84,03225
31/03/20£352,658£185,441£167,21753
31/03/19£33,123£45,561£-12,43850
31/03/18£7,376£18,057£-10,68147
31/03/17£13,223£2,971£10,2520
31/03/16£16,210£2,839£13,3710
31/03/15£15,349£2,289£13,0600
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What it does
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Restoring habitats and species, connecting people with wildlife and wild places.
Who works here?
  • 37 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Throughout Wales,

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.

Specific Donations

Amount When
Months		 To be used for
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
£206,300 29/08/2023
#COED2 Woodland connections in the Llyfnant catchment
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
£60,000 08/03/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs for landscape scale restoration of habitats and species with education and wellbeing activities in the northern Cambrian Mountains of Mid Wales
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
£249,995 19/12/2022
#NNF2 Nature Connections in the Llyfnant, Melindwr and Einion catchments

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How do they operate?

Habitat restoration

Objectives: Restore blanket bog and other peatland habitats. Increase area of native woodland and wood pasture.

Intervention period: Indefinite.

Beneficiaries: Local community, visitors to the area, the planet.

Location: Mid Wales

Description: Drainage ditches have been blocked, and grazing by horses and cattle introduced to restore the peatland habitats: blanket bog and upland heathland.
Natural regeneration of native trees is being supported by 'no fence' tree planting to increase the area of temperate rainforest and wood pasture.

Education and wellbeing

Objectives: To provide education and wellbeing benefits through contact with wild nature.

Intervention period: Indefinite.

Beneficiaries: Primary school children, teenagers, young carers, asylum seekers, people in addiction recovery, local community.

Location: Mid Wales

Description: We provide days on site and wild camps of several days for the beneficiary groups. Also run commercial wild living camps open to all. The wild nature of the land provides a unique setting for the activities, which include: nature art, bushcraft skills, foraging, mindfulness, nature connection, siiting round a camp fire, and more. The deep level of connection to nature that is developed during these prolonged stays provides real benefits to mental health, and an educational context that challenged youngsters respond to well.

Who works here?

  • SIMON AYRES
    Project Director
    Appointed: December 2018
Simon is a professional forester, specialising in the creation of new woodland areas and the management of native woodlands, including the restoration of plantations on ancient woodland sites. He has been advocating the restoration of large areas of native woodland in Britain for over 30 years, and has been involved in promoting more wildness in the landscape for almost 20 years. He is a founder member of Wales Wild Land Foundation and has ....more
  • CLARISSA RICHARDS
    Education Manager
    Appointed: April 2019
Clarissa lives on a small-holding near Tregaron. With her family she has enjoyed encouraging new life onto the land by planting trees, restoring hedgerows, managing the wildflower meadows and creating ponds and wet areas. They have been rewarded with many new plants and animals making their homes on the land, most recently glow worms! She taught in local education for 13 years, happiest when getting muddy outside with the pupils, involved in ....more
  • NIA HUW
    Communications and project manager
    Appointed: December 2019
Nia taught in local education for 20 years and saw first hand the importance and benefits of re-connecting young people with their environment. She is a volunteer with the Alzheimer’s Society and The Cinnamon Trust and appreciates the opportunity working with these charities has given her to build relationships with a diverse range of groups and individuals. Any spare time she has is spent outdoors – with her family she enjoys being able to ....more

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Jon is a researcher at Swansea University specialising in the restoration of peatlands. With his family, he runs a smallholding in the hills near Machynlleth.
Joe is a farmer and conservationist. He is very new to farming, having a professional background in ecology, particularly in woodland dynamics, landscape habitat restoration, and lichenology, but he is now enjoying the fervor of the converted, combining a rediscovery of a childhood fascination with a new passion for exploring how regenerative....more
Sophie is a researcher, writer and educationalist working in the fields of political-ecology; food and agriculture; governance and policy studies. Currently, she is Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Natural Resources, Environment and Geography at Bangor University. Previously she was at the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences,....more
Kara is a facilitator of all kinds of rewilding – landscapes, people, and society – offering educational courses in practical rewilding, nature connection, spiritual ecology and skills for social change. She is passionate about inspiring and empowering people to connect with and protect wild nature. Kara lectures and facilitates on short....more
Mat is a Chartered Surveyor who deals with land and buildings for public sector organisations and companies and used this expertise to help secure the charity’s first purchase of land. Having been brought up in a farming background Mat is keen to see traditional farming embrace alternative land uses which he hopes will improve the countryside....more
Milly is a storyteller and educator specialising in promoting appreciation for the natural world through performance, stories and workshops. She has a deep love of nature and animals and a belief in the importance of people maintaining a connection with nature. She has worked in schools and many outdoor venues engaging children with the natural....more
Peter leads the ecological consultancy Ethos, pioneering work on integrating renewable energy strategies with wildland, biodiversity and community objectives (www.ethos-uk.com). He is a council member of the British Association of Nature Conservationists and author of Beyond Conservation (Earthscan, 2005), and edited the volume: Rewilding (Ethos,....more
Wendy has studied, lived and worked in Wales for 30 years. She has experienced much of Wales’ landscapes through her employment in the heritage, nature conservation and renewable energy sectors. Wendy’s passion lies in promoting and delivering future proofing for the ecology and environment of Wales. Qualified in a range of heritage, rural....more
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/08/2014, number: 1158185
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Main office

Unit 6f
Cefn Llan Science Park
ABERYSTWYTH
SY23 3AH

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY PROMOTING BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC. AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, AND DEEPEN THEIR CONNECTION AND APPRECIATION OF IT.

Defined Area of Benefit: NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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