Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 12
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -4
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

STAFFORDSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED 

Mission Statement: To protect and enhance the wildlife and wild places of Staffordshire and to promote understanding, enjoyment and involvement in the natural world
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 55 years

www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk

info@staffs-wildlife.org.uk

01889880100

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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£5,034£5,604£-570£1,598£8,157£2,5715.5143700
31/03/22£4,402£4,016£386£1,403£8,780£2,9628.9131700
31/03/21?£5,810£5,409£401£1,570£8,364£3,2117.1139700
31/12/19£4,207£3,670£537£1,320£7,908£3,46311.3120700
31/12/18£4,635£2,961£1,674£809£7,262£3,14012.776700
31/12/17£2,496£2,483£13£832£5,642£1,5967.7630
31/12/16£2,484£2,387£97£797£5,568£1,4787.4650
31/12/15£2,704£2,710£-5£1,104£5,471£1,5226.7640
31/12/14£2,544£2,732£-188£760£5,482£1,6347.2550
31/12/13£2,798£2,560£238£809£5,657£1,9038.9590
31/12/12£2,817£2,510£306£780£5,324£1,8158.7520
31/12/11£2,513£2,397£117£798£4,968£1,0675.3540
31/12/10£2,684£2,435£249£744£4,884£9024.4540
31/12/09£2,988£2,200£788£693£4,609£8324.5470
31/12/08£2,306£2,040£266£650£3,809£5493.2390
31/12/07£1,666£1,566£100£564£3,533£5013.8350
31/12/06£1,276£1,323£-46£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£1,010£1,123£-113£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£1,300£1,310£-10£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 40.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 28.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 15%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 32%
Reserves/Spending: 5.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.6
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Staffordshire, Stoke-on-trent City,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 143 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£226,649
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs£163,000
Esmee Fairbairn£75,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£60,000
Masonic Trust£57,812
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£57,812 20/09/2023
Wildplay - outdoor nature sessions for disadvantaged CYP under 18.
DCMS - Transforming the Trent Valley Landscape Partnership Scheme Historic Environments Projects, Staffordshire
£13,874 01/04/2022
Various historic environment projects Inc. surveys and use of volunteers
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - WEIF6901 22/23-Trent Valley Staffordshire
£15,000 01/04/2022
The Water Environment Improvement Fund (WEIF) grant is to support the maintenance of partnerships across Englands catchments, primarily to deliver a catchment based approach to water, land and flood ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
£918 23/10/2021
We would like to buy equipment to help us with our work with local community groups, including toddlers' groups and after school clubs, enhancing people's mental health, fitness and wellbeing.
DCMS - GRCF2021 Wilder Stoke, Wilder Newcastle: connecting nature, connecting people
£212,775 16/07/2021
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 ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - PEA0021-CF1456 - Restoring North west Staffordshire peatlands extended into 21/22
£23,140 01/04/2021
The purpose of the funding is to achieve 1,756.75ha of peat restoration in 2020/21 as a contribution towards the delivery of the Nature for Climate Funds target for 35,000 ha of peat restoration by ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - PEA0021-CF1098 - Restoring North west Staffordshire peatlands
£69,860 16/11/2020
The purpose of the funding is to achieve 1,756.75ha of peat restoration in 2020/21 as a contribution towards the delivery of the Nature for Climate Funds target for 35,000 ha of peat restoration by ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Social investment Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
£75,000 26/08/2020
24
Land Purchase of Craddocks Moss
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
£2,968 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant is for staffing, training and nature packs to enable the organisation to deliver online and face to face nature sessions with children living in deprived areas that are impacted ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - WEIF6901-20/21 - Trent Valley Staffordshire
£15,000 15/05/2020
Defras Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) Policy published in June 2013, defined a framework to encourage the adaptation of an integrated catchment based approach to improving the quality of our water ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Staffordshire Wildlife Trust Ltd
£60,000 15/05/2020
COVID19: Staffordshire Wildlife Trust Ltd
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - PGW0546-CF820 - NFM Plus trent & Dove trib
£10,000 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
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - PGW0546-CF871 - NFM Plus trent & Dove trib
£15,000 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
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - PGW0546-CF987 - NFM Plus trent & Dove trib
£15,000 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
National Lottery Community Fund - Learning Hub
£9,950 13/03/2020
4
This funding will be used to refurbish the classrooms. The group hopes to facilitate learning about the natural world and integrate technology by equipping the rooms with a smartboard, high quality ....more
Sport England - Woodland Workouts
£7,645 31/10/2019
11
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Woodland Workouts. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - WEIF6901-19/20 STAFFORDSHIRE TRENT VALLEY WFD CRF GRANT PAYMENTS TO CHARITIES
£15,000 01/04/2019
Water Environment Improvement Fund - Catchment Partnership Action Fund (CPAF) 2019/20
DCMS - Transforming The Trent Valley Landscape
£11,023 01/04/2019
Various historic environment projects inc. surveys and use of volunteers
DCMS - Regional Capacity Building
£14,162 20/11/2018
Various historic environment projects inc. surveys and use of volunteers
Esmee Fairbairn - Social investment Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
£148,500 08/11/2018
24
An investment in the purchase of Gun Hill, a moorland habitat, as part of our Land Purchase Facility.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
£25,816 30/07/2018
36
The project will deliver afterschool clubs for children and young people affected by poverty. The project will support children to have fun, improve communication skills and increase confidence.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
£106,386 27/06/2018
36
This project will provide wild play and outdoor adventure to children living in a deprived area. Outcomes include improved communication skills, increased confidence and increased ability to play and ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - ALB - Environment Agency - STAFFORDSHIRE TRENT VALLEY WFD CRF GRANT PAYMENTS TO CHARITIES
£15,000 01/04/2018
Water Envronment Improvement Fund Hosting for Catchment Partnership for 1819
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - EAFRD - RD Measure 10
£23,340 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 ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - ALB - Environment Agency - Scotch Brooks Staffs NFM - 18/19
£40,000 01/04/2018
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 ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Skills Builder
£81,843 01/11/2017
18
This project will enable high-risk adult offenders from Nottingham and Derby to work on countryside sites to help develop work and life skills and reduce their risk of re-offending. Participating in ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Staffordshire Wildlife Trust Ltd
£26,000 23/10/2017
Youth Rangers
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
£57,300 30/08/2017
Protecting Upland Wading Birds
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Restoring the Penk (Whiston Brook)
£10,000 01/04/2017
To provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations to deliver projects to protect and enhance the water environment and deliver other EA objectives
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Natural Flood Management Scotch Brook
£10,000 01/04/2017
To provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations to deliver projects to protect and enhance the water environment and deliver other EA objectives
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Staffordshire Trent Valley
£15,000 01/04/2017
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Natural Flood Management Scotch Brook
£20,000 01/04/2017
To provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations to deliver projects to protect and enhance the water environment and deliver other EA objectives
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Restoring the Penk (Whiston Brook)
£30,000 01/04/2017
To provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations to deliver projects to protect and enhance the water environment and deliver other EA objectives
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
£2,915,100 25/10/2016
Transforming the Trent Valley
Esmee Fairbairn - Social investment Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
£97,200 26/07/2016
24
An investment in the purchase of grassland in the Staffordshire Moorlands, as part of our land purchase facility.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
£75,292 13/06/2012
Towards the costs of a grassland conservation officer and work to protect, enhance, restore and connect grassland habitats of the Churnet Valley, Staffordshire.
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How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 24-77
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/09/1969, number: 259558
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/08/1969, number: 00959609
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
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

THE WOLSELEY CENTRE
WOLSELEY BRIDGE
STAFFORD
ST17 0WT

Objectives

1) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE CONSERVATION MAINTENANCE, RESTORATION, REGENERATION AND PROTECTION OF: WILDLIFE AND ITS HABITATS; PLACES OF NATURAL BEAUTY; PLACES OF ZOOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST; FEATURES OF LANDSCAPE WITH GEOLOGICAL, PHYSIOGRAPHICAL OR AMENITY VALUE IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN WAYS THAT FURTHER BIODIVERSITY. 2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN: THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION. 3) TO PROMOTE AND UNDERTAKE RESEARCH IN ALL AREAS OF THE NATURAL WORLD AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IS PRIMARILY DEFINED AS DEVELOPMENT THAT MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS. (BRUNDTLAND COMMISSION).

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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