Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 15
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 25 ?

BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION 

The conservation of butterflies, moths and our environment
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 56 years

www.butterfly-conservation.org

info@butterfly-conservation.org

01929400209

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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
31/03/23£6,248£5,557£691£276£12,696£6,69514.59110,558
31/03/22£4,345£4,266£79£224£12,307£5,54315.66810,558
31/03/21£4,479£4,270£209£224£11,941£5,41115.27918,000
31/03/20£4,502£4,881£-379£200£11,082£5,31113.19218,000
31/03/19£4,338£4,495£-157£159£12,269£5,66715.18918,000
31/03/18£4,107£3,924£183£112£12,304£5,37616.4780
31/03/17£3,692£3,550£142£162£12,212£5,23417.7730
31/03/16£3,724£3,586£138£208£11,377£5,00616.8720
31/03/15£3,733£3,455£277£353£11,332£5,08317.7680
31/03/14£3,542£3,098£444£280£10,732£4,58417.8620
31/03/13£3,066£2,826£240£208£10,118£3,90616.6570
31/03/12£3,288£2,603£686£164£9,410£3,87617.9450
31/03/11£2,708£2,800£-92£164£8,680£3,28614.1460
31/03/10£3,266£2,700£566£144£6,525£2,97413.2480
31/03/09£3,271£2,484£787£185£5,526£2,54712.3510
31/03/08£3,067£2,397£671£126£5,175£2,26111.3480
31/03/07£2,656£2,034£623£123£4,652£1,74110.3490
31/03/06£2,009£1,824£185£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£1,936£1,667£269£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£1,643£1,485£158£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 53%
Reserves/Spending: 14.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 13 months
Quick Ratio: 8.3
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Throughout England And Wales, Turkey,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 91 employees
  • 10,558 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Heritage Fund£479,259
DCMS£235,450
Dulverton Trust£35,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£99,993 04/09/2023
Bristol & Weston Wild Spaces – Transforming Habitat for People & Pollinators in Schools
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£76,450 17/07/2023
#Innovate: Butterfly Conservation Test Phase Project
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£23,813 20/12/2022
Explore: Butterfly Conservation
Dulverton Trust - Core funding 22/23
£35,000 19/10/2022
Core funding 22/23
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£79,803 28/09/2022
Perth and Stirling Wild Spaces
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£115,000 07/04/2021
#Digital7 Supporting Science Project
DCMS - Digital 7 Supporting Science Project
£115,000 18/03/2021
The theme of our Supporting Science proposal is improving the efficiency of dataflow in relation to butterfly/moth records across the UK, through collaboration with County Recorders, New Entrant ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 04/12/2020
Kent's Magnificent Moths
DCMS - GRCF2020: Green Recovery for Morecambe Bay's Woodlands
£120,450 11/11/2020
Green Recovery Challenge Fund 2020-21. The wider aim of the scheme is: The Green Recovery Challenge Fund is a short-term competitive fund to kick-start environmental renewal whilst creating and ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£74,200 31/07/2019
Helping Hands for Butterflies
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£10,000 29/05/2019
Saving the Northern Brown Argus in the Scottish Borders
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£61,800 21/03/2019
Limestone Lepidoptera
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£93,600 20/03/2019
Saving the Wood White butterfly in the South East
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£10,000 13/03/2019
Conserving the Duke of Burgundy and the Marsh Fritillary in Wiltshire
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£9,500 20/11/2018
Small Blue butterfly wildflower bank creation at St Julian’s Meadow, Greenwood Park, Chiswell Green
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£471,800 11/09/2018
Big City Butterflies: Discovering London's Butterflies and Moths
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£10,000 12/06/2018
Returning the Chalk Hill Blue to Warwickshire
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£10,000 29/05/2018
Duke of Burgundy Stepping Stones
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£57,300 28/05/2018
Munching Caterpillars Scotland
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£249,700 28/02/2018
Kent’s Magnificent Moths – Conserving the rare moths of East Kent’s Weald, coast and Downs
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£75,000 22/08/2017
Woodland Wings: Conserving the rare butterflies and moths of the East Midlands
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£10,000 17/07/2017
Wild in Winchester: Getting Winchester's Children Out on the Downs
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£67,800 08/02/2017
The Blues and Browns of Polden Hills: Saving two of the UK’s most threatened butterflies
Dulverton Trust - habitat conservation in the New Forest
£11,214 11/02/2016
habitat conservation in the New Forest
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£98,400 30/11/2015
Making a stand for the Wood White: Conserving the West Midlands' most threatened butterfly
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£47,400 26/10/2015
The Butterfly Flies: Creating opportunities for a greater understanding of Northern Ireland’s butterflies and moths
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£57,000 31/08/2015
The Urban Butterfly Net: building sustainable volunteer networks to conserve the butterflies of Central Scotland
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£87,100 12/12/2014
Fritillaries for the Future
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£340,800 25/11/2014
All the Moor Butterflies - Conserving the South West’s threatened moorland butterflies and moths
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£150,511 18/09/2013
Towards the costs of a key staff member to develop landscape scale projects in six target areas across the country.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Butterfly Conservation
£123,167 01/07/2009
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Towards Core costs Towards the salary of the head of regions to co-ordinate and expand landscape scale projects across the UK.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 30-75
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/03/1968, number: 254937
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/12/1987, number: 02206468
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 ESSEX NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY on 06/06/2019
Main office

BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION
MANOR YARD
SHAGGS
EAST LULWORTH
WAREHAM
BH20 5QP

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY;1. THE STUDY, CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF NATURAL FAUNA AND FLORA PARTICULARLY SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE, BY CONSERVING THEM IN THE WILD BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE AVAILABLE INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THROUGH THE CREATION AND CONSERVATION OF NATURAL, SEMI-NATURAL OR OTHER HABITATS.2. TO PROMOTE, UNDERTAKE AND SPONSOR SCIENTIFIC STUDY AND RESEARCH INTO THE HABITS, DISEASES AND LIFE-CYCLES OF SUCH FLORA AND FAUNA AND PARTICULARLY BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS AND THEIR LIFE-CYCLES IN RELATION TO AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL AND HUMAN PRACTICES AND ACTIVITIES AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE.3. TO PROMOTE OR UNDERTAKE CONSERVATION AND SOUND MANAGEMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY OF LANDS OF ECOLOGICAL OR OTHER SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE.4. TO FOSTER INTEREST IN GOVERNMENTAL AND VOLUNTARY BODIES, EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY IN PROBLEMS CONCERNING THE CONSERVATION OF NATURAL FLORA AND FAUNA AND PARTICULARLY BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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