BASC Wildlife Fund Charity

The main object of the charity is to establish, support and maintain special protection areas for the conservation and control of wildlife and their habitat. It is also concerned with wildlife educational studies, the promotion of conservation and associated research both in the UK and abroad.

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales
• Scotland
• Northern Ireland

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £267,826 and spent £61,303.

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 144%, from £109,705 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £267,826 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 23% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 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 December 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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

9 trustees run the charity.

• Brian JohnsonAppointed 20 March 2018
• David George Hovenden StewartAppointed 17 March 2021
• David Mansel Thomas ReesAppointed 25 March 2025
• Dr Colin Buchanan SheddenAppointed 25 March 2025
• Dr Matthew Bradley EllisAppointed 25 March 2025
• John Andrew HarlowAppointed 22 March 2023
• John Michael FurbisherAppointed 21 November 2024
• John Richard BishopAppointed 1 January 2024
• Tim Richard FurbankAppointed 8 July 2025

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

1013816

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

20 August 1992

Governing document

TRUST DEED DATED 16 JULY 1992 as amended on 23 Aug 2019 as amended on 01 May 2024

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Wrexham

• 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

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

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