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2025

Annual Review 2024-2025

93 nature reserves managed across Lincolnshire; 1,987 planning applications reviewed with 58 full responses covering 536 hectares
Key Metric 1
5,000+ young people and families visited education centres at Gibraltar Point, Far Ings and Whisby Nature Park, including 3,109 schoolchildren and 200 university and college students
Key Metric 2
Agri-environment scheme payments uplifted from £147,000 to £501,000 per year following renewal of four Countryside Stewardship agreements across 43 reserves
Key Metric 3
Little terns at Gibraltar Point had their best year in a decade (14 nests, 23 fledged young); bitterns set a new county record with 5 booming males and 10 fledged young at Far Ings
2025

Annual Report and Accounts 2025

3,256 members in 2025, including 383 new members (164 new Fellows, 85 new Associates, 134 new Student Associates); members span continents, disciplines and fields of natural history
Key Metric 1
Naturalists' Notebooks exhibition achieved highest attendance to date in 2025; education team exceeded school workshop targets with strong 2026 bookings
Key Metric 2
Linnean Online digital collections platform relaunched on Preservica following migration, opening up access to heritage collections of Carl Linnaeus and other naturalists
Key Metric 3
HRH The Princess Royal accepted Patronage of the Linnean Society in early 2025; Green Careers Conference co-hosted with British Ecological Society welcomed around 70 attendees
2025

Impact Report 2025

6,890 people met face-to-face across all projects and events
Key Metric 1
5,800 people in food poverty supported each week through the 50-project Emergency Food Network
Key Metric 2
3,270 people cooked at the Community Kitchen across 80 topics including low-energy cooking, baking and world flavours
Key Metric 3
5,800 people supported each week through the Emergency Food Network of 50 food projects across 60+ locations
2025

Impact Report 2024-25

50,000+ freshwater pearl mussels reared and 5,100 juveniles released into 3 Cumbrian rivers in 2024/25
Key Metric 1
10,443 Riverfly survey records uploaded in 2025 — the first time the initiative has broken 10,000; 1,905 sites monitored across 820 rivers and 240 catchments
Key Metric 2
Big Windermere Survey 2-year report reached an estimated 35–45 million audience through national and international media coverage
Key Metric 3
First LD-CHARM Arctic Charr Symposium convened in Newcastle; £200,000 research funding secured for Lake District charr conservation
2023

Annual Review 2023

612,441 people reached across Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and DR Congo in 2023
Key Metric 1
188,921 farmers supported to enhance their production practices across 12 projects
Key Metric 2
319,101 people supported to improve their resilience to climate change across 19 projects
Key Metric 3
Three largest-ever programmes launched in 2023: $20m aquaculture and mariculture project with Mastercard Foundation in Kenya; four-year forest conservation programme in Ethiopia with Sida; four-year food security programme in Tanzania with SNV targeting 168,000 households
2023

Impact Report 2023

1 million+ visitors welcomed to Nature Discovery Centres in 2023
Key Metric 1
40,000 children and families engaged through Wilder Learning education programmes
Key Metric 2
50,000+ citizen science wildlife observations recorded in 2023
Key Metric 3
93% of Nature Discovery Centre visitors rated their experience 5/5
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2024

Annual Report and Accounts 2023-2024

42,311 members and 1,609 volunteers giving 52,761 volunteer hours in 2023/24
Key Metric 1
4,084 hectares of peatland brought into restoration in 2023/24; 42,868 hectares restored cumulatively
Key Metric 2
15,000+ seagrass seed bags planted in Humber estuary, covering 10 hectares
Key Metric 3
111 nature reserves managed across Yorkshire
2025

Friends of Animals Impact Report 2025

Nearly 400 households received free spay/neuter certificates worth over $35,000 across Maine, North Carolina and New York; 15,000+ pounds of trash removed from Denver parks and waterways in single July event
Key Metric 1
4 chimpanzees, 3 spider monkeys and 1 lemur rescued to Primarily Primates sanctuary in 2025; 300+ animals in residence at 78-acre Texas sanctuary; 7,251 gallons of debris removed from Colorado waterways
Key Metric 2
Lawsuits filed against US Fish & Wildlife Service over silverspot butterflies, barred owls and cetaceans; BLM cancelled planned roundup of nearly 2,000 Wyoming wild horses following FoA lawsuit
Key Metric 3
Following FoA's Connecticut horseshoe crab ban, New York, Massachusetts and Delaware are pursuing equivalent legislation — demonstrating national policy ripple effect
2025

Annual Report & Accounts 2024/25

Over 5,000 hectares of nature reserves managed across 60-plus sites in Surrey
Key Metric 1
Almost 500 volunteers contributed more than 27,000 hours of practical conservation work
Key Metric 2
4,300 young people welcomed to Nower Wood education centre; 25 schools partnered through Wilder Schools programme
Key Metric 3
Heathland Connections project engaged over 50 landowners and administered £35,500 in habitat improvement grants to improve fragmented lowland heathland connectivity