Finance Score: 4

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 5

Liabilities <10%: +3
Excess reserves: -2
Fundraising costs low: +3

No volunteer policy: -2
12+ Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 15

THE BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The British Ecological Society is a scientific society for all those interested in ecology. Our vision is to advance ecology and make it count. We achieve this by developing ecological science and scientists; improving the quality of education and capacity building; promoting the use of ecological science and building collaborative partnerships.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
This charity has a robust balance sheet
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
There are 14 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £9,413,000 available, equivalent to 25 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding

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
31/12/22		£5,390	£4,521	£869	£0	£16,404	£9,413	25	39	700
31/12/21		£5,353	£4,298	£1,055	£51	£16,712	£8,692	24.3	35	300
31/12/20		£4,625	£3,989	£636	£0	£14,709	£7,972	24	33	60
31/12/19		£6,527	£4,768	£1,759	£0	£14,047	£7,398	18.6	33	53
31/12/18		£4,590	£4,059	£531	£0	£11,385	£11,383	33.7	26	53
31/12/17		£5,345	£4,119	£1,226	£0	£11,286	£11,284	32.9	24	0
31/12/16		£3,918	£3,444	£474	£0	£9,577	£9,575	33.4	21	0
31/12/15		£3,595	£3,045	£550	£0	£8,594	£8,592	33.9	20	0
31/12/14		£3,357	£2,874	£483	£48	£8,042	£8,040	33.6	20	0
31/12/13		£4,008	£3,781	£227	£45	£7,456	£7,454	23.7	23	0
31/12/12		£3,273	£2,710	£563	£51	£6,974	£6,962	30.8	19	0
31/12/11		£2,957	£2,394	£564	£52	£6,271	£6,269	31.4	18	0
31/12/10		£2,748	£2,284	£464	£51	£5,842	£5,840	30.7	17	0
31/12/09		£2,867	£2,297	£570	£32	£5,229	£5,228	27.3	18	0
31/12/08		£2,455	£2,057	£398	£23	£3,983	£3,967	23.1	17	0
31/12/07		£2,339	£2,649	£-310	£23	£4,301	£2,298	10.4	16	0
31/12/06		£2,254	£2,369	£-115	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05		£2,359	£2,016	£344	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04	*	£1,919	£1,808	£111	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £110,000-£120,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 30%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 57%
Reserves/Spending: 25 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 1.8

Asset Split ?

Established: 43 years

www.britishecologicalsociety.org

hello@britishecologicalsociety.org

02039948282

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

GiG Classification

Environment conservation & animal welfare advocacy

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

39 employees
700 volunteers

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
County Durham Community Foundation - Green Dreams - Connecting Schools With Nature in the North East
£9,320	28/07/2022	To support the Green Dreams project - Connecting Schools With Nature in the North East.
DCMS - GRCF2021: Connecting schools to nature in North East England
£124,350	21/06/2021	We will increase young peoples connection to nature through an engaging workshop programme, resulting in the green transformation of 50 schools, benefiting local wildlife and connecting schools to ....more We will increase young peoples connection to nature through an engaging workshop programme, resulting in the green transformation of 50 schools, benefiting local wildlife and connecting schools to nature through the programme and co-created digital hub.The programme will be based in disadvantaged areas of the northeast of England, working through hands-on interventions. We will work with primary school pupils, teachers, and early career ecologists to co-design and deliver the workshop approach, associated curriculum, resources and digital hub.To enable the programme we will create 6 new fixed-term jobs, provide training to teachers at 50 partner schools, upskill 50 early career ecologists as Environmental Educators in Residence, and engage over 10,000 primary school pupils.The programme will be structured as a series of repeat-intervention participatory school workshops developing and implementing wildlife-friendly initiatives. The digital hub will adapt and extend the current MammalWeb website, bringing together the existing citizen-led mammal monitoring programme with the new curriculum, resources and engagement approaches developed within the project. The hub and resources will then form the interactive infrastructure, and schools and community connection mechanism for post-project UK-wide roll-out and ongoing legacy.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (14)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 12/14 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 31-68

PROFESSOR ZENOBIA LEWIS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Academic

DR CIARA MARIE DWYER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Postdoctoral Fellow

DR LAURA JANE EILEEN GRAHAM Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Academic

DR MARKUS PETER EICHHORN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Lecturer

DR THORUNN HELGASON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Senior Lecturer, Ecology, University Of York, Dept

PAM VICK Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Founder And Company Director

PROFESSOR ROBERT PETER FRECKLETON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Professor Of Population Biology

PROFESSOR ROBIN BROOKER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Research Scientist

PROFESSOR TIMOTHY NEAL COULSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Professor

PROFESSOR YADVINDER SINGH MALHI (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Professor

PROFESSOR MARK CHARLES EMMERSON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Professor Of Biodiversity

PROFESSOR RICHARD STAFFORD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Academic (Prof Of Marine Biology And Conservation)

DR STEWART JONATHON CLARKE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Ecologist, Ngo, Other trusteeship: ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY TRUST,

PROFESSOR BRIDGET ANNE EMMETT Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Ecologist, Other trusteeships: ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH LIMITED, ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/01/1981, number: 281213
Registered at Companies House on 16/10/1980, number: 01522897

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR04: 60 days late,

Main office

British Ecological Society
42 Wharf Road
LONDON
N1 7GS

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF ECOLOGY AS A BRANCH OF NATURAL SCIENCE AND TO ADVANCE AND SUPPORT RESEARCH IN THAT FIELD, AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH USEFUL RESEARCH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED.

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