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UK OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CONSERVATION FORUM
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES '
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023
Leigh's career began in horticuliure, gaining qualifications in commercial crop production and an MS¢ in Int¢mational
HortiCul￿re. H¢ managed plant nurseries, before becoming a le¢lur¢r and subsequently a Division H¢ad at the Welsh
College of Horticulture. He joined the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh IRBGE) in 2004. as Head of the School of
Horti¢ulture, becomins AsgOCiate Director of Horticulture. His role included internatsonal botanic garden development
and capacity building in several COLMtries including 3 prolonged period in Oman. He also completed a short-terni
placement for Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), delivering trdining to Ethtopian famiers. Leigh chaired the Grow
Careers initiativ¢, and served a5 PrestdeTtt of the Lharrered Institute of Horticulwre, a period when they were dwarded
Royal Chart¢r.
Inspired at RBGE, Leigh's career developed a wider conserv*ion focus. becoming a Trustee of the UK Marine
Conservation Society. and Director of Community Conservatton at the Royal Zoological Society of Stotland. and was
the first CEO of the National Land Based College. Leigh spent 2 years (2018-19) on the UKOT of St Helena delivering
a training needs analysis of the island's agriculture for the St Helena Government and a 5ub5equent up-skilling
programme. Leigh helped guide the establishment of the Marine Team in the St Helena National Tnjst. and joined their
CoLU]cil as Vice.President. Leigh additionally undertook consultancy on both St Helena and Ascension Islands,
supporting the waste manag¢Tnent plan on Ascension, reviewing theiT hydroponic farni. and dev¢loping proposals to
enhance recycling OD St Helena. A keen scuba diver in his spare time, Leigh volunteered as a diver for the SHG on their
annual reef surveys and a Darwin Project on lobsters.
Awareness raising and inform¥tion m2nagerneTrt
Forum News 56 wds published and c1￿Ulated in July and Forum News 57 was published in November.
Edition 12 of Save Our Speciul Naitsre ofmonlserrat was published online and circulated in May 2022, and edilion 13
in September, using mat¢rial from a trip to Mont5errat in July. Edition 14 was produced in March 2023. Currently it is
circulated to around 2(K) people in Montserrnt and beyond. but 50m¢ of these circulate fvrther.
An annual Christmas card was sent out io UKOTCF'S circulation list in December with a review of the y¢ar and
looking ohead to 2023.
A series of videos on Adopl a Homefor Wildlife sites ("Wildlife Homes") and ihe"Adopt¢rs" have been produced by
Honomy Environmental Ed￿catiOn OtTicer- thes¢ w¢re filmed in the D¢¢ernber visit. These ar¢ PLtblished on YouTube
(https.'l/www.youtube.conV@ukotcf46761videos aT2d website (https-/lwww.ukotcf.org.ukJkey-
project￿adOplahomefOftw1Idllfe) with links from UKOTCF'S webslte. The Communications Officer in Montserrdt for
the project (and for Montserrat Naiional Trust) is linking io the vid¢0 on social media. Several other videos on Wildlife
Homes will be r¢ady and released as 500n as the Adopters for thal site have had chance tt) check them. Others on other
Wildlife Hom¢s will follow over coming months.
As part of the proje¢t mentioned above, UKOTCF has develo￿ a framework for Tes¢arch to support conservation
efforts in UKOTS. It is hoped that this can be used io build a case for greater support for them as funded researchers in
their owi right. Ecos had recently published a paper by severnl in the team. coordinated by Mike Pienkowski, on part of
this- https.'Ilwww.¢cos.org.uklecos43-3-2-1-the-uk-overseas-teryitories-rnoving-away-from-colonialism-in-the-
environmenv
The NatureBLweau. a long-eStablished environmentsl consultancy. wilh bogk publishing arni, Pisces Publications.
tobiether witb Sara Oldfield, the author of Fragme4ts ofPapadise (in many ways. UKOTCF'S establishing document)
and UKDTCF'S {as ¢all¢d ihen) fwsi C￿rdinator and later Chair, mad¢ Contact wilh UKOTCF and asked if they would
be interested in working with them on a new publi¢2tion- a sort of re-visiting of that book but in a style combining
coffee-table phoiographs with referenced scsentsfic content. UKOTCF, working with Sara, is making a start on this.
In additlgn and marking World Wildlife Day in March 2023, UKOTCF Cbairnjan, Mike Pienkowski lauD¢hed his book
'When the Kite builds... Wlry andHoiv we resiored RedKiies acr055 Briiain"
which h&8 a Foreword by UKOTCF
Council member Lord (John) Randall. UKOTCF ha5 published the book and, in turn. will benefit frorn the proceeds of
lh¢ book and so has been a5SiSting with promoting and selling it on the UKOTCF'S website se¢..
https=IIMww.ukotcf.org.ukll)ooks-for-salelkit¢-bookl. where also a 35-minute video on aspects of ihe project can be
viewed. This was prepared for the laun¢h of the book in March at Wormsley in the Chiltern$, one of the homes of the
Getry family. The late Mr JohD-Palll Getty Jr {later Sir Paul) had allowed the use of hts estatr for the r¢aring release
of th¢ first kites in England for over 100 years. At the launch, Mike presented a copy of the book io Sir Paul's grdnd50n,
Mr Alexander Getty. UKOTCF Council member Mts Joan Walley drew attention to how the booK Éogether with ihe
vid¢o, provides an opportunity to promote fvrther UKOTS, work across the UK as an example of ¢ili2en-science best
practice.
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|INCOME||||||||||
|Income and endowments||from:||||||||
|Donations,<br>legacies and|subscriptions||2|202,893|64,854|267,747|116,129|98,734|214,863|
|Investment<br>income|||3|508||508|7||7|
|laeome from charitable||activities||||||||
|Project Income||||3,555||3,555|149||149|
|Government<br>grants|||4|-|90,568|90,568||50,591|50,591|
|Total Income||||206,956|155,422|362,378|116,285|149,325|265,610|
|EXPENDITURE ON:||||||||||
|Charitable<br>Activities|||5|158,844|1714244|330,088|120,696|134,848|255,544|
|Governance<br>costs|||5|8,026|376|8,402|6,540||6,540|
|Total Expenditure||||166,870|171,620|338,490|127,236|134,848|262,084|
|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)||||40,086|(16,198)|23,888|(10,951)|14,477|3,526|
|TRANSFERS BETWEEN FUNDS||||||||||
|NET MOVEMENT IN||FUNDS||40086|~6, 98|23.88II|7096|14477|3,626|
|RECONCILIATION|OF FUNDS|||||||||
|Total funds brought forward||||72,405|17,124|89,529|83,356|2,647|86,003|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED||||112,491|926|113,417|72,405|17,124|89,529|
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|FIXEDASSETS|||||
|Tangible fixed assets||||690|
|CURRENT ASSETS|||||
|Debtors||10|18,639|28,006|
|Cash at bank and in hand|||109,557|77,796|
|Total Current<br>Assets|||128,196|105,802|
|CREDITORS|||||
|Amounts<br>falling due within|one year||14,779|16,963|
|NET ASSETS|||113,417|89,529|
|FUNDS||12|||
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||112,491|72,405|
|Restricted funds|||926|17,124|
|TOTALFUNDS|||113,417|89,529|






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|Donated time and|expenses|197,222||197,222|203,438||203,438|
|Grants Payable||1,995||1,995|1,500||1,500|
|Travel and subsistence||2,148||2,148|1,295||1,295|
|Consultancy||11,583||11,583|4,938||4,938|
|Project implementation||94,789||94,789|36,786||36,786|
|Meetings<br>and conferences||2,602|376|2,978||||
|Subscriptions,<br>publications||9,972||9,972|743||743|
|and reference materials||||||||
|Storage and general||207||207||||
|expenses||||||||
|Bank charges||471||471|561||561|
|Accountancy|||4,988|4,988||3,809|3,809|
|The audit ofthe charity's|||2,966|2,966||2,696|2,696|
|accounts||||||||
|Bad debts||1,135||1,135||||
|Legal fees|||72|72||35|35|
|Postage, stationery,||7,245||7,245|5,593||5,593|
|telecoms k.ITcosts||||||||
|Small equipment,|small|29||29||||
|equipment<br>repairs|and|||||||
|materials||||||||
|Depreciation||690||690|690||690|
|Exchange losses||||||||
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|COSTOR VALUATION|||
|At 1"April 2022|2,070|2,070|
|Additions|||
|Disposals|||
|At 31u March 2023|2,070|2,070|
|DEPRECIATION|||
|At 1"April 2022|1,380|1,380|
|Charge for the year|690|690|
|Eliminated<br>on disposal|||
|At31"March 2023|2,070|2,070|
|NET BOOK VALUE|||
|At 31"March 2023|||
|At 31"March 2022|690|690|



|10.|DEBTORS|||
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||Debtors and accrued income|15,639|13,039|
||Prepayments|3,000|14,967|
|||18,639|28,006|
|11.|CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR|||
|||2023|'2022|
||Other creditors|||
||Accrued expenses|14,779|16,963|
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|||Uarestricted||Restricted|Total|Unrestricted||Restricted|Total|
|||Funds||Fuads|Funds|Funds||Funds|Funds|
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||Fixed assets||||||690||,690|
||Current assets||121,077|7,119|128,196|79,265||26,537|105,802|
||Current||8,586|6,193|14,779|7,550||9,413<br>16,963||
||liabilities|||||||||
||||112,491|926|113,417|72,405||17,124<br>89,529||
||MOVEMENT|IN FUNDS||||||||
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|||||2022|Resources|Used||Funds|2023|
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||Data Base and Dissemination|||2,197|||||2,197|
||Turks and Caicos|Development||450|523|(523)|||450|
||Montserrat|||97|||||97|
||Darwin Montserrat|||13,805|146,990|(162,208)|||(1,413)|
||Montserrat<br>Ecoplay||||2,150|(1,995)|||155|
||Conference|||575|5,759|(6,894)|||(560)|
||Total Restricted|Funds||17,124|155,422|(171,620)|||926|
||UNRESTRICTED|General|Fund|72,405|206,956|(166,870)|||112,491|
||TOTAL FUNDS|||89,529|362,378|~338,4903|||113,417|
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|||||2021|Resources|Used||Funds|2022|
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||Data Base and Dissemination|||2,197|||||2,197|
||Turks and Caicos|Development||450|935|(935)|||450|
||Montserrat||||5,499|(5,402)|||97|
||Darwin Montserrat||||110,256|(96,451)|||13,805|
||Montserrat<br>Ecoplay|||||||||
||Conference||||32,635|(32,060)|||575|
||Total Restricted|Funds||2,647|149,325|(134,848)|||17,124|
||UNRESTRICTED General||Fund|83,356|116,285|(127,236)|||72,405|
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|INCOMING RESOURCES||||||
|Voluntary<br>income<br>Subscriptions<br>and donations|ofmoney||and time|241,139|214,363|
|Investment<br>income||||||
|Interest received||||508||
|Incoming<br>resources from charitable|||activities|||
|Core||||20,948||
|Database<br>and Dissemination||||||
|Conference (inc. exchange rate gains)||||||
|Darwin Montserrat||||90,568|50,591|
|Montserrat||||||
|Montserrat<br>Ecoplay||||||
|Turks and Caicos Development||||||
|||||111,516|50,591|
|Other incoming resources||||||
|Sales||||3,555|149|
|Tax refund||||5,660|500|
|||||9,215|649|
|Total incoming<br>resources||||362,378|265,610|
|RESOURCES EXPENDED||||||
|Consultancy||||208,805|208,376|
|Grants Payable||||1,995|1,500|
|Project implementation<br>Travel and subsistence||||94,789<br>2,148|36,786<br>1,295|
|Meetings<br>and conferences||||2,978||
|Post, stationery,<br>telecoms and||computer costs||7,245|5,593|
|Subscriptions,<br>publications|and reference materials|||9,972|743|
|Storage and general expenses||||207||
|Bank charges||||471|561|
|Accountancy<br>and audit||||7,954|6,505|
|Small equipment,<br>equipment||repairs and materials||29||
|Depreciation||||690|690|
|Bad debts||||1,135||
|Legal fees||||72|35|
|Exchange rate losses||||||
|||||338,490|262,084|
|Net incoming I(outgoing)|resources|||23,888|3,526|