## **Trustees Annual Report 2023-2024** - ## **Finances** Sadly, due to health reasons, we have lost our major sponsor who has been sponsoring us for over 15 years. Despite attempts to find a new sponsor to date we have not been successful. We have received two small legacies. ## **Expenses** We have invested in a lot of new equipment, as with changing environment we are having to adapt to new demands. Specialised equipment includes a new incubator and a large vivarium with infrared heat and humidity control for various baby animals and birds. Existing pens continue to be maintained and enriched and new environments to facilitate the care of increased numbers of swans, water birds. The expense of tree maintenance is now much less due to a stalwart group of professional volunteers. ## **Employees and Volunteers** We now have 2 full-time and 1 part-time employees. We also have excellent volunteers who help in the hospital, and a volunteer who helps us by doing vet collections and some small animal rescues. Another is helping with the maintenance and rebuild work on our pens, enclosures and grounds. We also have a working party volunteering every three months, comprising 4 professional environmentalists/conservationists and a professional tree surgeon who are helping remove dead and damaged trees and clearing areas that have become overgrown to create different habitats and biodiversity. ## **Admissions** There have been increased admissions again this year, specifically hedgehogs, swans and gulls. Hedgehogs are suffering from loss of habitat and climate change causing them to become stressed and compromising their immune systems. Hibernation patterns are being impacted by warmer winters with regular cold snaps causing them to repeatedly hibernate and wake, which is very damaging to their energy reserves. Swan admissions vary from fishing tackle incidents, lead poisoning from lead shot and discarded fishing weights, as well as water-borne diseases with sewage and agricultural run-off into our waterways. Gulls continue to lose their natural nesting places and are increasingly nesting on roofs, from which they are vulnerable to falling off into roads and habited areas. Cat attack birds and small mammals continue to be admitted in large numbers. The BTO now ring and tag all our gulls, birds of prey, water birds and rarer species. The tags can be read with binoculars thus increasing the amount of data available about movements while the birds are still alive. We continue to maintain strict biosecurity, not only to protect the staff from COVID and any other diseases, but in awareness of the ongoing problems with bird flu, although this year does seem to have seen fewer reported cases. ## **Education** We continue to issue monthly newsletter, which both carries updates on Wildlives’ work, but also gives advice on wildlife and conservation issues, giving publicity to the impact of human activity and increasing awareness, e.g. admissions with fishing hooks embedded, animals impacted by dumped rubbish, hedgehogs injured by strimmers and other garden equipment etc. This is distributed to thousands of homes via local magazines, our web site, and facebook. The local, and sometimes national, press often carry articles about our work and animals. In addition to the newsletter many articles are posted on facebook, showing releases as well as warning of the consequences of irresponsible behaviour. During opening hours our helpline gives advice to the public and vets nationwide. Rosie has done numerous interviews on local radio and TV this year to highlight the problems our wildlife is experiencing and how the public can help. We have increased our activity on lobbying on environmental issues. ## **Vets** We continue to use Colne Valley vets and are extremely happy with their support for all our sick and injured wild animals and birds. ## **Future plans** Our environmental team is looking forward to starting work to rejuvenate our wildlife lake. Wildlives intends to continue to provide the best possible care, treatment and eventual rehabilitation back into the wild to all the animals and birds admitted to the centre. We will continue to provide advice to the public and vets through our newsletter, helpline, facebook and public talks on how to help individual animals and how to protect our wildlife as a whole to preserve our animals and birds for future generations. Wildlives will provide our staff and volunteers with comprehensive training in the care and conservation of wildlife. We will continue our environmental lobbying and where possible increase it, and will publicise the fact that we are one of the worst countries in the world for loss of habitat and biodiversity. ## **Signature of the Trustees:** ## **Rosie Catford (Chairperson) _________________________________________** **Kathy Jinkings (Trustee) ______________________________________________** **Beverley Holben (Treasurer) ______________________________________________** ||**Charity Name**||||||**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Wildlives Rescue & Rehabilitation Centre**|**Wildlives Rescue & Rehabilitation Centre**|**Wildlives Rescue & Rehabilitation Centre**||||**1104167**|||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
**4/6/2023**
**4/5/2024**
**For the period**
**from**
~~a~~|||||||||**CC16a**| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**|||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||| |Bank receipts|**92,209**||**-**|||**-**||**92,209**||**45,806**| |Cash receipts|**2,245**||**-**|||**-**||**2,245**||**2,519**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**94,454**
_(Gross income for AR)_||**-**|||**-**||**94,454**||**48,325**| |**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 94,454**
**-**
**-**
**94,454**
**48,325**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
~~——————~~||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||| |Animal care|**10,494**||**-**|||**-**||**10,494**||**9,263**| |Administration &publicity|**48**||**-**|||**-**||**48**||**53**| |Insurance|**6,061**||**-**|||**-**||**6,061**||**6,061**| |Repairs & maintenace|**11,271**||**-**|||**-**||**11,271**||**5,100**| |Utilities|**2,290**||**-**|||**-**||**2,290**||**2,863**| |Volunteer subsidiies|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**54**| |Transport|**937**||**-**|||**-**||**937**||**814**| |HMRC|**3,510**||**-**|||**-**||**3,510**||**907**| |Nestpensions|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**209**| |Wages|**27,326**||**-**|||**-**||**27,326**||**12,725**| |Consumables/cleaning|**257**||**-**|||**-**||**257**||**127**| |**_Sub total_ 62,194**|||**-**|||**-**||**62,194**||**38,176**| |**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 62,194**
**-**
**-**
**62,194**
**38,176**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
~~———————~~||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_ **|**32,260**
**-**
**-**
**32,260**
**10,149**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**120,520**
**-**
**-**
**120,520**
**110,371**
**152,780**
**-**
**-**
**152,780**
**120,520**
~~=====>==>~~|||||||||| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
Lloyds bank account
Coop bank account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**137,780**
**15,000**
**-**
**152,780**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
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