Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust Limited

Since 1982, the Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust has been the leading voluntary organisation promoting wildlife conservation in Montgomeryshire.The Trust currently manages and cares for 19 Nature Reserves within the county, totalling some 500ha in area. These reserves are a showcase of some of Montgomeryshire's finest remnants of prime wildlife habitat.

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

In Wales

• Powys

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 £1,159,994 and spent £1,226,608.

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.

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Income over time

Up 34%, from £867,248 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,159,994 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 106% 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 Community Fund gave £213,847 in the year to 31 March 2025, 18% 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: £250,159 from 7 grants. 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 17 funders who gave £593,578 between them. £326,872 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 9 grants to this charity since 1998, worth at least £2,495,890.

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 22 payments to this charity worth £1,084,199 between 10 March 2021 and 9 October 2025.

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.

• 5 December 2024, Powys

  Named in an agenda item or minute of County Council

  Question to the Cabinet Member for a Greener Powys and the Cabinet Member for a More Prosperous Powys from Iolo Williams

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

• 26 January 2022

  Named by Russell George in the Senedd

  …canal are also at the heart of the ethos of all those involved in the delivery of this exciting project, and I'm very pleased that the Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, of which I’m also a member, has actively contributed to this project, and will continue to do so. Ambition for the area for progressi…

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• 20 September 2021

  Named in a written question from Darren Millar

  Addressed to the Minister for Economy.

  …n Valley Cycle Hub Brecon & Radnorshire £128,000 Elan Valley Trust, Excellent Visitor Facilities at Elan Brecon & Radnorshire £124,000 Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, EV charging and Car Park Infrastructure Montgomeryshire £120,000 Conwy CBC, Dwygyfylchi Beach Access Improvements Aberconwy £91,700 C…

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8 trustees run the charity.

• Nicola Suzanne BerryChairAppointed 26 March 2024
• Bernard McEwanAppointed 23 September 2025
• Dr Elizabeth Anne Lewis-ReddyAppointed 28 September 2026
• Graham Charles BakerAppointed 25 November 2025
• Helen AndertonAppointed 26 March 2026
• Nicholas Julian BurtonAppointed 13 August 2023
• Susan Terese MorleyAppointed 1 December 2022
• Timothy Michael WardAppointed 26 January 2021

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

512390

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

1 March 1982

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/02/1982AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 14/12/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/10/1996NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 16/10/2012

Company number

01612249This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.montwt.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Powys

• 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: Powys Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Powys's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Gwynedd Maldwyn