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Company description
THE WILDFOWL & WETLANDS TRUST is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)”. Incorporated on 16 December 1993; registered for 32 years. Its primary declared activity is 91040 · Botanical and zoological gardens and nature reserves activities.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 3 trade marks, 1 charity record. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- THE WILDFOWL & WETLANDS TRUST
- Company number
- 02882729
- Company type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 1 total · 0 outstanding · 1 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
16 December 2025Next statement due
30 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Mean bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Women receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 58.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 65.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 68.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 66.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 9994.9% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9995.2% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99913.7% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49911.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4991.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99911.6% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9998.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9999.1% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 29 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 April 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £4,581,155
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £823,036
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £178,697
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £1,538,113
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 10.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 1.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The standard payment terms are 30 days from the date of invoice.
- Dispute resolution process
WWT makes every effort to resolve queries as quickly as possible. Where an issue cannot be resolved within the Accounts Team, it is escalated to the Head of Finance and the Legal Officer as appropriate.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 21.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay40.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay40.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay47.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay78.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay54.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
THE WILDFOWL & WETLANDS TRUST
LEI 213800XFJAFET4VZA853 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- 4GJI
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- Not supplied
- Initial LEI registration
- 5 October 2017
- LEI last updated
- 13 March 2026
- Next renewal
- 18 October 2019
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- BOWDITCH, SLIMBRIDGE, GB-GLS, GL2 7BT, GB
- Headquarters address
- BOWDITCH, SLIMBRIDGE, GB-GLS, GL2 7BT, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
06 Environmental regulation
Environment Agency records
BOWDITCH VISITORS CENTRE
MI/EPRNB3098AE/001 · GL2 7BT
- Permit or record holder
- THE WILDFOWL & WETLANDS TRUST
- Record date
- 1 July 2020
- Local authority
- Stroud
- Regulated site or public record address
- BOWDITCH VISITORS CENTRE, BOWDITCH, SLIMBRIDGE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, GL2 7BT
- Activity
- Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities · Trade - Site Drainage
- Grid reference
- SO7240204969
- Easting
- 372402.000
- Northing
- 204969.000
- All populated source fields
- Permit Number: MI/EPRNB3098AE/001; Permit Holder Name: THE WILDFOWL & WETLANDS TRUST; Site Name: BOWDITCH VISITORS CENTRE; Site Type: Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities; Effluent Type: Trade - Site Drainage; Site Address: BOWDITCH VISITORS CENTRE, BOWDITCH, SLIMBRIDGE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, GL2 7BT; Site Postcode: GL2 7BT; Site Grid Reference: SO7240204969; Easting: 372402; Northing: 204969; Local Authority: Stroud; Start Date: 2020-07-01
These are candidate company associations. The public-register downloads do not supply Companies House numbers. BritDB requires one unique exact holder-name and postcode match; the regulated site may differ from the registered office, so verify the record at source.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
Figurative mark
Owner The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust · classes 6,9,14,16,18,20,21,24,25,26,28,29,30,31,32,33,35,36,37,39,41,42,43,45
- Filed / designated
- 7 May 2009
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 May 2019
WWT
Owner The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust · classes 6,9,14,16,18,20,21,24,25,26,28,29,30,31,32,33,35,36,37,39,41,42,43,45
- Filed / designated
- 7 May 2009
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 May 2019
WWT
Owner The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust · classes 6,9,14,16,18,20,21,24,25,26,28,29,30,31,32,33,35,36,37,39,41,42,43,45
- Filed / designated
- 7 May 2009
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 May 2019
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 16 December 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 23 December 1993
- Latest income
- £46,756,455
- Latest expenditure
- £32,118,704
- Education/training
- Children/young People
- The General Public/mankind
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Animals
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
WWT works to save wetlands for wildlife and for people by inspiring people to connect with and value wetlands and their wildlife, by demonstrating and promoting the importance and benefits of wetlands, by countering threats to wetlands and their wildlife, by creating and restoring wetlands and protecting key wetland sites and by savings threatened wetlands species.
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09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
12 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
1 exact company-number link.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
15 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Candidate permit and enforcement associations based on a unique exact holder-name and postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
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