The Conservation Trust for St Laurence Ludlow

Analysis

The Conservation Trust for St Laurence Ludlow is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ludlow. It was registered in June 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Conservation Trust for St Laurence Ludlow reported income of £32k and spending of £20k, leaving 38% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £75k to £32k (-57%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 26% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, The Conservation Trust for St Laurence Ludlow sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Balmain Environment Conservation Trust (£32k), The Friends of St Matthias (£32k) and The Bedfordshire Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (£32k).