# TURTLE DOVE TRUST

## Details

- **Country:** England &amp; Wales
- **Charity number:** 1186288
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Trust
- **Registered:** Nov. 12, 2019
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1186288


## Contact

- **Address:** Vine House Farm, Main Road, Deeping St. Nicholas, SPALDING, Lincolnshire
- **Postcode:** PE11 3DG
- **Phone:** 07860 390068
- **Email:** nicholas@vinehousefarm.co.uk
- **Website:** https://turtledovetrust.org.uk/



## Activities

**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.

**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.




## Classification

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



## Geography

- Cambridgeshire
- Norfolk
- Suffolk





## Trustees

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




