PELORUS FOUNDATION
Charity number: 1189966
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
Our mission is to champion innovation and act as a catalyst, empowering individuals and local communities to preserve and protect the world's wildlife and wild places. We act as a catalyst to a network of individuals and organisations who are on the front lines of conservation and environmental protection, providing crucial support in their fight to protect and defend species and habitats.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 December 2024
Total income: £183,039
Total expenditure: £154,836
People
5 Trustee(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
- Animals
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Economic/community Development/employment
Who the charity helps:
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Services
- Other Charitable Activities
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England And Wales
- Antarctica
- Botswana
- East Timor
- Iceland
- Indonesia
- Kenya
- Mongolia
- Namibia
- Nicaragua
- Scotland
- South Africa
- United States
Governance
Registration history:
- 16 June 2020: CIO registration
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:
No other names
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
5 Trustee(s)
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| George Mungo Pyne Mackay-Lewis | Chair | 01 June 2020 |
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| Elisabeth Laura Lewis-Jones | Trustee | 20 August 2025 |
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| Mark Call | Trustee | 13 February 2024 |
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| Duncan Howard Grossart | Trustee | 01 June 2020 |
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| Lord Hemeage James Daniel Guernsey | Trustee | 01 June 2020 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/12/2020 | 31/12/2021 | 31/12/2022 | 31/12/2023 | 31/12/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £920 | £63.67k | £35.53k | £255.28k | £183.04k | |
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Total expenditure | £240 | £14.00k | £81.81k | £257.15k | £154.84k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 December 2024 | 28 October 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2024 | 28 October 2025 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2023 | 25 October 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2023 | 25 October 2024 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2022 | 30 October 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2022 | 30 October 2023 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2021 | 16 August 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2021 | 16 August 2022 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2020 | 28 October 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2020 | 21 January 2022 | 82 days late | Download Open in new window |