Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 0
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • No PartB
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Large volunteers +5
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

LUNDY FIELD SOCIETY 

The charity provides funding for study, information and conservation work on the island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

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 recently but spending has been maintained

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
31/12/23£26£27£-1n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/12/22£34£17£17n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/12/21£70£10£59n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/12/20£16£21£-5n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/19£16£10£7n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/12/18£23£19£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/17£18£20£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£28£25£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£26£14£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£9£10£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£13£10£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£26£27£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£15£6£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£18£10£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09*£12£6£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08*£6£9£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£5£13£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06*£17£7£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£5£5£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£5£4£1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 54 years

www.lundy.org.uk

secretary@lundy.org.uk

07968 598846

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Financial or material assistance
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Devon,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 23/03/1970, number: 258294
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
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR09: 110 days late, AR08: 1311 days late, AR06: 13 days late,
Main office

10 Nutholt Lane
ELY
Cambridgeshire
CB7 4PL

Objectives

A) TO FURTHER THE STUDY OF LUNDY AND IN PARTICULAR ITS HISTORY, NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY;B) TO UNDERTAKE INVESTIGATIONS IN THESE FIELDS;C) TO FURTHER THE CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE ISLAND.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LUNDY ISLAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase
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