Balmain Environment Conservation Trust

Analysis

Balmain Environment Conservation Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kent. It was registered in January 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Balmain Environment Conservation Trust reported income of £32k and spending of £83k, spending 257% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £38k to £32k (-16%), an average of -4.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 204% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Balmain Environment Conservation Trust 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 The Bedfordshire Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (£32k), The Conservation Trust for St Laurence Ludlow (£32k) and Association of Lighthouse Keepers (£32k).

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.