DORSET WILDLIFE TRUST

1. DORSET WILDLIFE TRUST 2017-12-14 → present
2. DORSET TRUST FOR NATURE CONSERVATION LIMITED(THE) 1985-11-25 → 2017-12-14
3. DORSET NATURALISTS' TRUST LIMITED(THE) 1961-03-30 → 1985-11-25

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Moore (South) LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis. The Trustees have carefully reviewed the future prospects of the charity and its future cash flows. Having assessed this, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future being at least the next 12 months from signing of these financial statements.”

Group structure

1. DORSET WILDLIFE TRUST · parent
   1. DWT Services Ltd 100% · England and Wales · Trading
   2. Dorset Ecology Limited 100% · England and Wales · Dormant
   3. The National Wildlife Garden Limited 100% · England and Wales · Dormant

Significant events

• “A major development was the opening of the stunning Fine Foundation Lookout on Brownsea Island, in partnership with the National Trust and Lottery funding.”
• “Land acquisitions enhanced our reserve network, notably at Tadnoll & Winfrith and Brackett's Coppice. These included a gift of buildings and land worth £175,000 with commercial letting potential.”
• “The National Lottery Heritage Funded Wild Brownsea project to build a new visitor facility overlooking the lagoon on Brownsea Island was completed in March 2025.”
• “The land at Lyscombe acquired in March 2024 funded by a grant of £5 million from Natural England has now been transferred to a Permanent Endowment fund as per the Deed of Agreement with Natural England to manage the land for 125 years as a Mitigation Site.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

7

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -43.2%

  £12,602,000 → £7,157,000

• Cash

  -39.3%

  £1,573,000 → £955,000

• Net assets

  +7.6%

  £25,145,000 → £27,047,000

• Employees

  +14.1%

  64 → 73

• Profit before tax

  -77.7%

  £8,529,000 → £1,898,000

• Wages

  +19.3%

  £1,939,000 → £2,313,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers