Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

AVON WILDLIFE TRUST

Avon Wildlife Trust is the largest local charity working to protect wildlife in the West of England area. With the support of 18,000 members, 800 volunteers plus corporate support, we are the largest local charity working to protect wildlife and inspire people.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
  • Fundraising costs are 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£3,282£3,679£-396£652£8,942£2,9789.752800
31/03/22£3,521£2,820£702£454£9,338£3,18913.628800
31/03/21£3,383£2,418£965£510£8,519£2,60412.925800
31/03/20£2,682£2,726£-43£476£7,554£1,5416.839800
31/03/19£3,181£2,511£670£391£7,597£1,5697.536800
31/03/18£2,823£2,336£486£363£6,941£8304.3420
31/03/17£2,149£2,220£-71£419£6,411£7163.9400
31/03/16£2,258£2,275£-17£342£6,475£7303.9330
31/03/15£2,181£2,205£-24£630£6,544£1,0085.5340
31/03/14£2,384£2,046£338£585£6,580£9935.8310
31/03/13£1,936£1,752£184£504£6,215£9616.6320
31/03/12£1,788£1,670£117£490£6,051£7175.2290
31/03/11£1,647£1,619£28£502£5,944£6985.2330
31/03/10£1,452£1,560£-107£467£5,935£6685.1320
31/03/09£1,473£1,445£28£429£6,042£7256290
31/03/08£3,144£1,087£2,057£312£5,921£7858.7240
31/03/07£1,912£964£948£298£3,864£7769.7220
31/03/06£1,226£893£333n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£1,159£791£369n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£800£728£71n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 26.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 17.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 28%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 33%
Reserves/Spending: 9.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 2.9
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 44 years

www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk

mail@avonwildlifetrust.org.uk

01179177270

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Land or water management
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bath And North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire,
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£485,742
DCMS£250,000
Quartet Community Foundation£94,662
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs£52,554
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 23/10/2023
Team Wilder
Quartet Community Foundation - Wilder Waterways (Land Yeo)
£15,000 02/05/2023
This grant is from Wessex Water’s Partners programme, as directed by the donor towards river restoration in North Somerset, the Wilder Waterways (Land Yeo) project. It is Year 4 of 5 year funding.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Avon Wildlife Trust
£235,742 13/10/2022
Wildlife Champions
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Avon Wildlife Trust
£4,972 04/10/2022
To support residents near to Hengrove Mounds and Hawkfield Meadow Local Wildlife Sites, delivering events, training, mentoring, and resources, enabling them to manage the sites into the future.
Quartet Community Foundation - Wilder Waterways (Land Yeo)
£15,000 04/05/2022
As directed by the donor towards river restoration in North Somerset, the Wilder Waterways (Land Yeo) project. It is Year 3 of 5 year funding.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Avon Wildlife Trust
£5,000 25/03/2022
As requested by the donor towards promoting and protect wildlife in the West of England.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 05/11/2021
Wild Beavers in the Bristol Avon and Somerset Frome Catchments
DCMS - GRCF2021: The Bristol Avon Catchment Market Project
£250,000 02/08/2021
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 charities and their partners to deliver projects in England.The aim of ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Wilder Waterways (Land Yeo)
£15,000 15/04/2021
As directed by the donor towards river restoration in North Somerset
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Avon Wildlife Trust
£5,000 08/03/2021
As requested by the donor towards promoting and protect wildlife in the West of England.
Quartet Community Foundation - Wellbeing with Nature - Recovery and resilience
£14,690 17/02/2021
20
Toward the 'Wellbeing with Nature - Recovery and resilience' programme, providing structured green care interventions that support people to connect with nature and move on with the coping strategies they need to self-manage their own wellbeing.
Quartet Community Foundation - Wilder Waterways (Land Yeo)
£15,000 20/10/2020
Towards river restoration in North Somerset
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Avon Wildlife Trust
£250,000 09/07/2020
COVID19: Avon Wildlife Trust
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - PGW0639-CF1123 - North Somerset constructed Wetland
£52,554 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
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Avon Wildlife Trust
£5,000 04/02/2020
As requested by the donor towards promoting and protect wildlife in the West of England.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 24/07/2019
Development Year for community hub Feed Bristol
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - EAFRD - RD Measure 10 EXQ funded
£33,390 01/04/2019
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 - EAFRD - RD Measure 10
£14,940 01/04/2018
This measure covers Agri-environment-organic farming support.Payments are based on income foregone and, where relevant, additional costs resulting from converting to an organic farming system. There are 5 different conversion payments available for ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Folly Farm Volunteer Accommodation
£7,197 20/12/2017
12
The funding will be used by a Wildlife Trust to install accessible toilets and basic kitchen facilities in their community space, improving the places and spaces that matter to its volunteers and the wider community.
OVO Foundation - OVO Gives Back - 2017-2018
£20,000 01/08/2017
This grant was used to extend the opening hours of ‘Feed Bristol’ – a community food-growing project in Stapleton.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Avon Wildlife Trust
£494,600 20/06/2017
Bristol - My Wild City
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Avon Wildlife Trust
£15,000 10/08/2016
12
Towards the development of work that will showcase the unique role of urban Wildlife Trusts in addressing social and environmental problems.
National Lottery Community Fund - Wellbeing Through Nature
£499,330 16/06/2016
48
This project will support people with mental health issues and learning disabilities across Bristol, Bath and North and North East Somerset through exploring and taking care of nature. It will provide a structured programme of outdoor activities, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - CAN - Communities and Nature
£262,689 15/08/2012
36
Avon Wildlife Trust will engage more people in environmental projects to help improve their health and wellbeing, build social cohesion and improve the environment
National Lottery Community Fund - Bats for Bath
£10,000 08/11/2010
12
This project in Bristol will use funding to carry out a survey to track bats in the area, developing a bat trail and podcast and various bat walks throughout the city. This will improve access to various sites and enable people to explore local ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 34-61
  • DOMINIC FRANCIS HOGG Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director
  • KAREN HILLS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Environmental Consultant
  • KATY ELZABETH LEAHY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
  • LARA BURCH (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Law Firm Partner
  • MARK DANIEL STEER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Senior Lecturer
  • MARTIN JOHN LYNE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Company Director
  • NATHAN RUTTER Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Teacher
  • ROSS FAIRLEY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Solicitor
  • SUMITA HUTCHISON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Director
  • ZAC NICHOLSON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Architect
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/07/1980, number: 280422
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/05/1980, number: 01495108
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
20 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from SOUTH WEST WILDLIFE TRUSTS on 24/07/2024
Main office

Avon Wildlife Trust
17 Great George Street
BRISTOL
BS1 5QT

Objectives

TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT FOR WILDLIFE IN THE AREA FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE COUNTY OF AVON

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE FORMER COUNTY OF AVON AND THROUGHOUT ENGLAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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