Sea Watch Foundation, the Cetacean Monitoring Unit

In partnership with the public, Sea Watch studies and protects whales, dolphins and porpoises, particularly in U.K. waters, and promotes awareness of cetacean and marine conservation. This benefits all communities and provides essential information for EU and UK Governments, NGOs and researchers seeking to study and protect cetaceans and the marine environment.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales
• Scotland
• Northern Ireland
• Guernsey
• Isle of Man
• Jersey

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £472,453 and spent £384,390.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 311%, from £115,025 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £472,453 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 81% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 2 grants to this charity since 2002, worth at least £233,500.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

11 trustees run the charity.

• Antony Neil Osborn
• Craig MillerAppointed 6 May 2017
• Dr JAMES JEFFREY WAGGITTAppointed 2 November 2024
• Dr JAMES ROBERT BORANAppointed 11 December 2021
• George Samuel BoyerAppointed 11 December 2021
• Hannah Mary ParkinsonAppointed 11 December 2021
• Jamie Robert Mark SmithAppointed 30 October 2022
• Katherine Elizabeth BakerAppointed 2 November 2024
• Michael Edward BainesAppointed 30 October 2022
• Professor Graham John Pierce BSC PhDAppointed 29 January 2012
• Professor John Russell Turner BSc DPhilAppointed 6 May 2017

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1013002

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

20 July 1992

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 16 DECEMBER 1991 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 14 JULY 1992

Company number

02671621This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.seawatchfoundation.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Isle of Anglesey

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Isle of Anglesey Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Isle of Anglesey's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Bangor Conwy Môn