Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 5

Strong growth: +2
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

12+ Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3

Overall weighted support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 7

ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY TRUST

Our aim is to establish long-term experimental sites for ecological research to imcrease understanding of the biological effects of climate change and other environmental changes.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Why are there 13 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
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
31/12/23		£83	£110	£-27	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/22		£89	£98	£-8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/21		£46	£76	£-30	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/20		£154	£88	£65	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/19		£71	£90	£-18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/18		£36	£30	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/17		£63	£44	£19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/16?		£13	£16	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/15		£22	£33	£-11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/14		£58	£74	£-16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/13		£42	£69	£-28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/12		£79	£79	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/11		£109	£74	£35	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/10		£57	£8	£49	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/09	*	£9	£0	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 16 years

www.ecologicalcontinuitytrust.org

robin.buxton2015@gmail.com

07784 638269

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

GiG Classification

Environment conservation & animal welfare advocacy

How it operates

Makes grants to organisations
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Grocers' Charity - 2024 Grant - Ecological Continuity Trust
£5,000	26/04/2024	To support the creation of Virtual Reality (VR) Communication experiences, which enable ecologists and anyone to explore selected Climate-nature-related long-term Land Experiments without travelling to them.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Ecological Continuity Trust
£45,000	06/08/2020 24	Towards Core costs to preserve and sustain vulnerable long-term ecological experiments and monitoring studies and demonstrate their value in biodiversity recovery and on climate change impacts.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Ecological Continuity Trust
£131,818	30/09/2009 36	Towards Core costs Towards the salary and costs of the director.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 12/13 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 45-80

CHARLES ANTHONY HOLT Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Ecologist

DAVID ANDREW STONE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Deputy Chief Scientist

DR ALISON JANE BIRKETT BSC, MSC Appointed: 2018

DR CARLY JOANNE STEVENS Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Scientist

DR JEFFREY GRAHAM DUCKETT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired

DR KADMIEL MASEYK Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Ecologist

DR KEITH WALTER THOMAS GOULDING Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Agricultural Research Scientist

DR ROBIN DAVID BUXTON MBE DL

DR STEWART JONATHON CLARKE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Ecologist, Ngo

JEREMY ROBIN BISCOE TALLOWIN (Chair) Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Research Biologist

PROFESSOR JONATHAN WENDELL SILVERTOWN, Occupation: University Teacher

PROFESSOR BRIDGET ANNE EMMETT Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Ecologist

PROFESSOR KENNETH THOMPSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: University Lecturer

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/10/2008, number: 1126122
Registered at Companies House on 21/07/2008, number: 06652160

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
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

Filing Record

15 returns made; AR09: 69 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from THE PATSY WOOD TRUST on 29/10/2024

Main office

The Manor House
Little Wittenham
ABINGDON
OX14 4RA

Objectives

3.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION THROUGH THE PROMOTION AND CONDUCT OF ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH FOR THE PURPOSES OF UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE CHANGE AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; AND3.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF CURRENT AND FUTURE GENERATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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