Finance Score: 4

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 15

Good reserves management: +3
Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs low: +3

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +15

Overall GiG Score: 25

ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS

RSWT's objects are to promote the conservation and study of nature, the promotion of research into such conservation and to educate the public in understanding and appreciating nature, in the awareness of its value and in the need for conservation. The Society primarily does this by supporting the work of The Wildlife Trusts to restore 'A Living Landscape' and secure 'Living Seas'.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 62 years

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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
31/03/23		£26,648	£20,174	£6,474	£613	£17,927	£7,838	4.7	105	0
31/03/22		£18,577	£17,184	£1,393	£475	£11,645	£7,831	5.5	90	0
31/03/21		£18,058	£18,774	£-716	£429	£10,033	£7,189	4.6	69	2
31/03/20		£19,863	£17,700	£2,163	£372	£10,468	£7,306	5	65	3
31/03/19		£18,781	£19,440	£-659	£244	£7,542	£5,137	3.2	63	1
31/03/18		£19,963	£19,500	£463	£211	£8,168	£4,770	2.9	64	0
31/03/17		£14,918	£15,221	£-303	£141	£7,698	£4,121	3.2	58	0
31/03/16		£11,818	£11,319	£499	£191	£7,907	£4,118	4.4	58	0
31/03/15		£9,226	£12,711	£-3,485	£295	£8,676	£5,508	5.2	49	0
31/03/14		£15,754	£15,023	£731	£227	£12,069	£5,960	4.8	56	0
31/03/13		£23,082	£24,398	£-1,316	£206	£11,295	£6,135	3	64	0
31/03/12		£28,091	£26,270	£1,821	£222	£12,512	£5,739	2.6	63	0
31/03/11		£27,845	£26,547	£1,298	£166	£10,725	£5,380	2.4	58	0
31/03/10		£32,755	£34,459	£-1,704	£183	£9,382	£4,420	1.5	54	0
31/03/09		£19,189	£14,736	£4,453	£259	£10,770	£3,979	3.2	57	0
31/03/08		£16,787	£14,756	£2,031	£272	£6,604	£4,603	3.7	60	0
31/03/07		£16,093	£19,303	£-3,210	£322	£4,746	£4,391	2.7	53	0
31/03/06		£20,391	£21,653	£-1,262	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£26,241	£23,867	£2,374	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£16,370	£23,860	£-7,490	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 20%
Liabilities/Income: 17%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 44%
Reserves/Spending: 4.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 2.9

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Environment/Conservation/Heritage

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Isle Of Man, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

105 employees

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

National Lottery Heritage Fund	£5,301,326
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	£2,567,711
Esmee Fairbairn	£1,293,600
Samworth Foundation	£550,368

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS
£697,000	09/11/2023	Towards core costs to transform The Wildlife Trusts’ impact for marine wildlife
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
£247,834	05/06/2023	Coronation Gardens
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
£6,600	27/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
£30,000	27/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
£60,000	27/02/2023	Towards core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
£25,000	15/12/2022	Explore: The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
John Ellerman Foundation - Towards the cost of a new senior, core post dedicated to transforming agriculture through influencing agriculture policy.
£100,000	24/11/2022	Towards the cost of a new senior, core post dedicated to transforming agriculture through influencing agriculture policy.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - NCF: Increasing Peatland Code Capacity and delivery
£38,500	13/09/2022	Funding for resource to support the capacity and delivery of the peatland code
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Wildlife Trusts
£300,000	26/04/2022 36	Towards unrestricted core costs to strengthen The Wildlife Trusts movement to take action for nature and climate, enable greater partnership working and support to communities across the UK
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
£4,999,992	14/02/2022	Nextdoor Nature
Samworth Foundation - Environment
£252,800	02/08/2021	To support the digital transformation of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT), which has been identified as critical to enabling them to achieve the next 10-year ambition to tackle the climate ....more To support the digital transformation of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT), which has been identified as critical to enabling them to achieve the next 10-year ambition to tackle the climate and nature crisis
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - ALB - Natural England - ALB-Natural England-Grant: Nature Friendly Schools Project
£1,040,180	01/04/2021	Aim: To demonstrate and understand how an increase in supported delivery of high quality activities in natural environments, for pupils in schools with the highest proportion of disadvantaged pupils, ....more Aim: To demonstrate and understand how an increase in supported delivery of high quality activities in natural environments, for pupils in schools with the highest proportion of disadvantaged pupils, contributes to improved mental health & wellbeing, engagement with school and other key programme outcomes. Objective 1: To support target schools to establish greener school grounds or to deliver a programme of progressive regular off-site visits in natural environments or both. Objective 2: To enable school staff to deliver the quality and range of activities needed to support delivery of benefits for childrens mental health & wellbeing, their engagement with learning and other programme outcomes. Objective 3: To gather evidence to complete project monitoring and project reporting and to support programme evaluation.
Samworth Foundation - Environment
£297,568	05/10/2020	Funding to support the employment of two additional roles to lead their Nature Based Solutions Campaign
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
£28,500	30/07/2020	COVID19: Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Wildlife Trusts
£200,000	17/06/2020 36	Towards core costs on offshore wind casework and policy to minimise harm to the marine environment.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - ALB - Natural England - ALB-Natural England-Grant: Nature Friendly Schools Project
£1,489,031	01/04/2020	Aim: To demonstrate and understand how an increase in supported delivery of high quality activities in natural environments, for pupils in schools with the highest proportion of disadvantaged pupils, ....more Aim: To demonstrate and understand how an increase in supported delivery of high quality activities in natural environments, for pupils in schools with the highest proportion of disadvantaged pupils, contributes to improved mental health & wellbeing, engagement with school and other key programme outcomes. Objective 1: To support target schools to establish greener school grounds or to deliver a programme of progressive regular off-site visits in natural environments or both. Objective 2: To enable school staff to deliver the quality and range of activities needed to support delivery of benefits for childrens mental health & wellbeing, their engagement with learning and other programme outcomes. Objective 3: To gather evidence to complete project monitoring and project reporting and to support programme evaluation.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - ALB - Natural England - ALB-Natural England-Grant: Nature Friendly Schools Project
£1,604,118	01/04/2019	Aim: To demonstrate and understand how an increase in supported delivery of high quality activities in natural environments, for pupils in schools with the highest proportion of disadvantaged pupils, ....more Aim: To demonstrate and understand how an increase in supported delivery of high quality activities in natural environments, for pupils in schools with the highest proportion of disadvantaged pupils, contributes to improved mental health & wellbeing, engagement with school and other key programme outcomes. Objective 1: To support target schools to establish greener school grounds or to deliver a programme of progressive regular off-site visits in natural environments or both. Objective 2: To enable school staff to deliver the quality and range of activities needed to support delivery of benefits for childrens mental health & wellbeing, their engagement with learning and other programme outcomes. Objective 3: To gather evidence to complete project monitoring and project reporting and to support programme evaluation.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - ALB - Natural England - ALB-Natural England-Grant: Nature Friendly Schools Project
£1,602,907	11/01/2019	Aim: To demonstrate and understand how an increase in supported delivery of high quality activities in natural environments, for pupils in schools with the highest proportion of disadvantaged pupils, ....more Aim: To demonstrate and understand how an increase in supported delivery of high quality activities in natural environments, for pupils in schools with the highest proportion of disadvantaged pupils, contributes to improved mental health & wellbeing, engagement with school and other key programme outcomes. Objective 1: To support target schools to establish greener school grounds or to deliver a programme of progressive regular off-site visits in natural environments or both. Objective 2: To enable school staff to deliver the quality and range of activities needed to support delivery of benefits for childrens mental health & wellbeing, their engagement with learning and other programme outcomes. Objective 3: To gather evidence to complete project monitoring and project reporting and to support programme evaluation.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
£1,514,600	21/07/2015	Red Squirrels United
National Lottery Community Fund - Our Environment Our Future: Empowering Young People
£33,254,467	03/07/2015 84	Our Environment Our Future: Empowering Young People
National Lottery Community Fund - Our Environment Our Future: Empowering Young People
£61,860	17/10/2014 91	Not Available

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How is it governed?

Trustees (12)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:

DUNCAN INGRAM Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Former Ftse100 Director, Other trusteeships: YMCA St Paul's Group, WEST LONDON YMCA, LIVABILITY,

DAVID ROBERT JORDAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Exceutive, Other trusteeship: Sand Dams Worldwide Limited,

DR ROBERT BROWN Appointed: 2023

JOANNA CLAIRE PIKE Appointed: 2019

JULIAN WOOLFORD Appointed: 2020

LARA BURCH Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeship: AVON WILDLIFE TRUST,

NICHOLAS SIMON PARSONS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Solicitor, Other trusteeship: NOTTINGHAMSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST,

NINA MA Appointed: 2022, Other trusteeships: LEAP CONFRONTING CONFLICT, Power2 Ltd, CAREER CONNECT,

PETER BATCHELOR Appointed: 2021

PRUDENCE ADDISON Appointed: 2023

ROSEMARY GRANDAGE Appointed: 2023

STEVE GARLAND Appointed: 2018

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 22/09/1962, number: 207238

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity 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; AR04: 1 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS WALES LIMITED on 24/08/2022

Main office

THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS
THE KILN
WATERSIDE
MATHER ROAD
NEWARK
NOTTINGH

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF NATURE FOR THE PURPOSES OF STUDY AND RESEARCH AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF NATURE, THE AWARENESS OF ITS VALUE AND THE NEED FOR ITS CONSERVATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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