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Turtle Dove Trust

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1186288
Status
Registered
Reporting
Up to date Last filed July 14, 2026. Filing history
Registered
Nov. 12, 2019
Legal form
Trust

Address

Address
Vine House Farm
Main Road
Deeping St. Nicholas
Spalding
Lincolnshire
PE11 3DG

Activities

The Turtle Dove is a homing migratory dove kept in captive pairs, very prolific breeders and after laying two eggs, will lay again. The young are fostered by other tamer doves, and the young are released into the wild in late summer. They spend a month in specially constructed release pens, in order to familiarise them with natural food and their wild habitat. They will return every year.

Objects: (1) To Advance The Conservation Of Wildlife For The Public Benefit Especially The Turtle Dove And Other Endangered Species, In Particular But Not Exclusively By:(a) Providing Them With A Safe Breeding Environment With The Object Of Encouraging The Recreation And Preservation Of Appropriate Ecological Conditions That They May Be Provided With The Means To Continue To Flourish In As Natural An Environment As Possible;(b) The Retention And Creation Of Suitable Nesting Habitats;(c) Breeding Turtle Doves In Captivity And Releasing Their Progeny Locally In East Anglia Or In Suitable Habitats;(2) To Promote The Study And Conservation Of Birds And Their Habitat, Particularly Endangered Farmland Birds.

Classification

How
Provides Other Finance
What
General Charitable Purposes, Environment/conservation/heritage
Who
The General Public/mankind

Geography

Local Authority
Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure
Sept. 30, 2025 July 14, 2026On time £19,031 £17,797
Sept. 30, 2024 Oct. 22, 202584 days late £39,824 £41,750
Sept. 30, 2023 July 16, 2024On time £17,830 £37,478
Sept. 30, 2022 July 1, 2024337 days late £33,524 £22,089
Sept. 30, 2021 Dec. 6, 2023494 days late £20,440 £16,424
Sept. 22, 2020 June 28, 2021 £39,012 £25,368

Trustees

Name Appointed
Nicholas Watts Jan. 17, 2023
Robert George Anderson-Brown April 2, 2024