Wild Ground

Management and conservation of habitats and wildlife, especially amphibians and reptiles. Educational, and training activities and working with volunteers in communities to promote wildlife conservation.

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Wales and England

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £393,641 and spent £332,103.

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 59%, from £248,215 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £393,641 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 84% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

The National Lottery Heritage Fund gave £119,772 in the year to 31 March 2025, 30% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

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: £74,508 from 3 contracts.

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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 6 funders who gave £200,234 between them. £139,689 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 7 grants to this charity since 2006, worth at least £179,455.

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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Dr Stanley Victor MooreAppointed 1 December 2015
• Helen WrightAppointed 26 March 2019
• Nigel Frederick Reader CBEAppointed 24 November 2020
• Sarah OversonAppointed 3 December 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

1080838

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

23 May 2000

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06/12/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/07/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/11/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/12/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 NOV 2016AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 05 SEP 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 09 OCT 2017 as amended on 28 Feb 2019 as amended on 26 Oct 2021

Company number

03889382This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.wild-ground.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.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader 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
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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