The Great Bustard Group

Analysis

The Great Bustard Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Salisbury. It was registered in June 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animals and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under animals. It says it provides human resources, sponsors or undertakes research and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Great Bustard Group reported income of £192k and spending of £196k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £121k to £192k (+59%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 2,161 England and Wales charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, The Great Bustard Group sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Saving Abandoned Fly-Grazing Equines (£192k), Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Nottingham and Notts Branch (£192k) and Providing Animal Welfare Support (Paws) (£191k).