Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 8
  • Positive trading contribution: +2;Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST

Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust is the leading wildlife conservation charity working to protect and enhance the wildlife and habitats of Nottinghamshire by managing nature reserves, engaging, advising, inspiring and educating people to create a richer natural world for present and future generations.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • More than half of total income was derived from trading and fees in the latest year
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there 14 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12?

Financial issues to consider:

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

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
31/03/23£4,036£4,589£-553£2,364£5,676£2,2325.881400
31/03/22£4,904£4,738£166£2,722£6,360£2,8737.374500
31/03/21£6,277£5,046£1,231£3,438£6,188£2,6416.396480
31/03/20£3,735£3,148£587£1,848£4,712£1,319584435
31/03/19£3,178£3,313£-135£1,890£4,507£6572.487422
31/03/18£3,259£3,540£-281£1,753£4,664£5661.9770
31/03/17£3,118£3,018£100£1,696£4,976£5502.2680
31/03/16£2,954£3,153£-199£1,499£4,849£2961.1720
31/03/15*£3,144£3,190£-46£1,425£5,198£3071.2660
31/03/14£3,345£2,848£497£293£5,190£8183.4650
31/03/13£2,443£2,726£-283£289£4,757£1,0484.6630
31/03/12£2,499£2,676£-177£308£4,892£1,2175.5580
31/03/11£2,596£2,672£-77£282£5,006£1,3306680
31/03/10£2,205£2,223£-19£300£5,047£1,3037630
31/03/09£2,170£2,198£-28£267£4,892£1,3447.3680
31/03/08£1,703£1,559£144£278£5,117£1,36910.5340
31/03/07£1,169£1,500£-331£221£5,240£7576.1460
31/03/06?£2,152£1,875£278n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/04£2,887£1,001£1,887n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 123%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 51.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 16%
Liabilities/Income: 27%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 39%
Reserves/Spending: 5.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 0.9
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 61 years

www.nottinghamshirewildlife.org

finance@nottswt.co.uk

01159588242

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Animal sanctuaries and shelters
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Nottinghamshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • 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£285,549
Garfield Weston Foundation£100,000
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs£53,173
Co-Operative Group£2,866
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 15/12/2023
Wetlands Recovery
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
£100,649 16/02/2023
Attenborough for All
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - WEIF2902 22/23-Idle & Torne 22/23 CaBa Host
£7,500 01/04/2022
The Water Environment Improvement Fund (WEIF) grant is to support the maintenance of partnerships across Englands catchments, primarily to deliver a catchment based approach to water, land and flood management. Partnerships need to consider the ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Keeping It Wild and Young Rangers
£2,866 23/10/2021
We aim to inspire the young people of Nottingham to be environmental leaders through our Keeping It Wild and Young Rangers programmes.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 23/07/2021
Bringing beavers back to Nottinghamshire to unlock hidden habitat and increase biodiversity.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
£184,900 18/06/2020
COVID19: Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - WEIF2902-20/21 - Idle & Torne
£7,500 15/05/2020
Defras Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) Policy published in June 2013, defined a framework to encourage the adaptation of an integrated catchment based approach to improving the quality of our water environment. Defra has supported civil society ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - M10 - Agri-environment- Climate Exchq
£8,173 01/04/2020
This measure is the primary Agri-environment-climate funding for England in delivering the Rural Development programme environmental land management priorities and builds on the agri-environment Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - PGW0621-CF1142 - linking the levels-Idle washlands 30K (2021)+45k (2122)
£30,000 01/04/2020
Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 14/02/2020
Attenborough Nature Reserve land purchase and management costs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Idle Valley Rural Learning Centre
£3,463 15/11/2019
We want funding to replace worn-out tools and safety equipment for volunteers to improve and maintain our nature reserve.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Badger Edge Vaccination Scheme 2 (BEVS 2)
£29,818 01/04/2019
48
The aim of BEVS 2 is to create locally protected badger populations which can act as a barrier between areas where bovine TB is present in cattle and areas without bovine TB.Taking forward the commitment in the TB Strategy, BEVS 2 provides funding ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - WEIF2902-19/20 (IDLE & TORNE) WFD CRF GRANT PAYMENTS TO CHARITIES
£7,500 01/04/2019
Water Environment Improvement Fund - Catchment Partnership Action Fund (CPAF) 2019/20
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Gedling Local Group (Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust)
£3,696 19/11/2018
We require funds to build infrastructure in Foxcovert Nature Reserve to enable conservation grazing by Herdwick & Hebridean sheep.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Keeping It Wild Youth Group (Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust)
£3,001 19/11/2018
We're raising funds to provide teenagers and young adults with practical skills and experience in wildlife habitat conservation.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
£5,798 19/11/2018
We're raising funds to assist The Vale of Belvoir's local farming community by vaccinating badgers against Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB).
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - ALB - Environment Agency - IDLE AND TORNE - IDLE WFD CRF GRANT PAYMENTS TO CHARITIES
£7,500 01/04/2018
Water Envronment Improvement Fund Hosting for Catchment Partnership for 1819
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Badger Edge Vaccination Scheme 2 (BEVS 2)
£29,644 19/02/2018
48
The aim of BEVS 2 is to create locally protected badger populations which can act as a barrier between areas where bovine TB is present in cattle and areas without bovine TB.Taking forward the commitment in the TB Strategy, BEVS 2 provides funding ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Idle & Torne
£7,500 01/04/2017
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National Lottery Community Fund - The WILD-Web Project (phase1): Connecting and inspiring
£10,000 22/02/2017
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The funding will be used by a charity to form a local committee and run a consultation process about plans to transform an inaccessible local nature reserve so it best meets the needs of the community.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
£607,000 10/06/2014
Not a Blott on the landscape: creating a haven for wildlife in a historic river corridor - Nottingham
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
£49,700 19/03/2014
Wildlife in the City - Young Roots
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
£10,000 07/06/2013
Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust: Building fundraising capacity
Esmee Fairbairn - Social investment Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
£200,000 09/10/2012
An investment in the purchase of 36 hectares of disused gravel pits to extend the adjacent 11 hectare Skylarks nature reserve, adding open water, species-rich wet grassland, hedges and wet woodland.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (14)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 26-74
  • ALEXANDER FLINT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • COLIN GIBSON Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Retired
  • DR LAUREN JOANNE MOORE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • ELLIE BRODIE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Consultant
  • EMMA SHERBURN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Student
  • GRAHAM OSBORN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • KATHERINE HART Appointed: 2022
  • KATHERINE WILSON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Marketing Consultant
  • MR NICK PARSONS, Occupation: Solicitor
  • MARK THOMAS HYDE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • RUBEN MAARTEN BORSJE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • SHILPA SHAH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Barrister
  • STEVEN JAMES CLIFTON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Public Servant
  • WILLIAM HOWARD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/03/1964, number: 224168
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/02/1963, number: 00748865
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
  • Investing charity funds 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
19 returns made; AR15: 21 days late,
Main office

The Old Ragged School
Brook Street
Nottingham
NG1 1EA

Objectives

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE CONSERVATION MAINTENANCE AND PROTECTION OF: WILDLIFE AND ITS HABITATS; PLACES OF NATURAL BEAUTY; PLACES OF ZOOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHICAL, OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST; FEATURES OF LANDSCAPE WITH GEOLOGICAL, PHYSIOGRAPHICAL, OR AMENITY VALUE IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN WAYS THAT FURTHER BIODIVERSITY

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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