The Cecil King Memorial Foundation

Analysis

The Cecil King Memorial Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newtownards. It was registered in March 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Cecil King Memorial Foundation reported income of £103k and spending of £264k, spending 255% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £66k to £103k (+57%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 284% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, The Cecil King Memorial Foundation sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Northumberland National Park Foundation (£103k), Long Mead Foundation (£104k) and Friends of Paxton Pits Nature Reserve (£103k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.