North Wales Wildlife Trust

Conserving and protecting wildlife in North Wales including by owning and/or managing nature reserves, educational activities with children and adults, and generally promoting awareness of wildlife. Publishing magazines and arranging educational meetings for our members. Liaising and co-operating with other wildlife trusts including Wildlife Trusts Wales and the Royal Society of Wildife Trusts.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

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 £3,959,835 and spent £3,968,343.

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 27%, from £3,122,499 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £3,959,835 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 100% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

50% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£1,998,738).

Largest funder

Welsh Government gave £829,783 in the year to 31 March 2025, 21% 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: £1,914,502 from 46 grants. Government contracts: £84,236 from 15 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 9 funders who gave £1,593,789 between them. £1,342,420 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 28 grants to this charity since 1998, worth at least £4,997,787.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 62 payments to this charity worth £3,193,803 between 1 February 2021 and 1 July 2026.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 28 November 2025, Gwynedd

  Named in a document for a council meeting

  Appendix 2B - ANW Response to North Wales Wildlife Trust

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• 6 October 2025, Gwynedd

  Named in a decision of North Wales CJC Strategic Transport Sub-committee

  THE STRATEGIC TRANSPORT SUB-COMMITTEE QUARTERLY REPORT

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• 6 October 2025, Gwynedd

  Named in a document for a council meeting

  Appendix B - ANW Response to North Wales Wildlife Trust

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• 18 July 2025, Gwynedd

  Named in a document for a council meeting

  Appendix 10 - North Wales CJC Letter to North Wales Wildlife Trust dated 09 July 2025

  Read the meeting recordOpen the document

• 30 June 2025, Gwynedd

  Named in a decision of North Wales CJC Strategic Transport Sub-committee

  REGIONAL TRANSPORT PLAN FOR NORTH WALES - POST CONSULTATION

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• 15 February 2023, Denbighshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Planning Committee

Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 11 December 2025

  Named by Carolyn Thomas in the Senedd

  …, which is about the introduction of swift bricks? I led a petition regarding the introduction of swift bricks. I'm also a member of the North Wales Wildlife Trust, and it's something that was supported right across the Senedd. We've also got the swift champion here—the species champion here. So, it…

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• 8 December 2025

  Named by Carolyn Thomas in the Senedd

  …I did meet some in Bangor—and perhaps research what's happening in Bangor, and direct them that way. I was also discussing this with the North Wales Wildlife Trust, who are doing a lot of great work regarding continuous cover forestry, rather then clear felling, which impacts on flooding. There's th…

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• 1 October 2025

  Named by Janet Finch-Saunders in the Senedd

  …p in the Welsh population of swifts since 1995. They're on the red list of bird species in the most serious decline. That's according to North Wales Wildlife Trust. This is the fastest-declining species in Wales. The average lifespan of a swift is nine years, but there is a record of one that lived…

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• 10 July 2025

  Named in a written question from Siân Gwenllian

  Addressed to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs.

  …ne by improving fish spawning sites in the Bala river, Llanberis? A number of organisations including Natural Resources Wales (NRW), The North Wales Wildlife Trust and Gwynedd Council have been undertaking work to help save the Arctic Char in Llyn Padarn. Work to improve fish spawning sites has been…

12 trustees run the charity.

• Howard Colin DaviesChairAppointed 23 October 2021
• Alexandra LordAppointed 22 October 2022
• Bridget Virginia OsborneAppointed 27 September 2023
• Catherine Anne DuiganAppointed 18 March 2024
• Christopher Kenrick BrownAppointed 27 September 2023
• Daniel William BosAppointed 24 February 2023
• David Wynn DaviesAppointed 2 November 2019
• Ffion Lucy Mitchell-LangfordAppointed 1 May 2023
• Gina Elizabeth MillsAppointed 23 October 2021
• Ian Malcolm DunsireAppointed 4 October 2014
• Megan Frances TannerAppointed 13 February 2025
• Urtha FeldaAppointed 13 February 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

230772

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

4 February 1964

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29 AUG 1963AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 29 DEC 1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 APR 1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04 MAR 1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 NOV 2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 SEP 2013 as amended on 08 Nov 2025

Company number

00773995This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Gwynedd

• 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 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 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

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Gwynedd Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Gwynedd's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Gwynedd Maldwyn
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Bangor Conwy Môn