## **Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Statements for the period**
**From** 06 April 2022 **Period start date To** 05 April 2023 **Period end date**
**Charity name:** Tigers4Ever **Charity registration number:** 1160528
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Objectives and Activities
Summary of the purposes of 1. To promote the preservation of the tiger species in its natural habitat,
the charity as set out in its its value to the forest and eco-systems, and its protection from
governing document extinction for the benefit of the environment and public;
2. To assist in the relief of poverty, sickness and in the advancement of
education in the Bandhavgarh district of Madhya Pradesh, and in
other rural and forest communities in India.
Summary of the main activities To Give Wild Tigers a Wild Future: our ultimate goal is to prevent the
in relation to those purposes extinction of wild tigers.
for the public benefit, in
particular, the activities, With India home to more than two thirds of the global wild tiger
projects or services identified population; it is vital that we eliminate wild tiger deaths due to poaching
in the accounts. and retaliatory poisonings to ensure that wild tigers will be around for
future generations.
We achieve this by:
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Providing Anti-Poaching Patrols and equipping them so that they can
keep wild tigers safe from poachers’ snares and traps.
•
Working with the communities who live with wild tigers to ensure they
have a vested interest in wild tiger survival.
•
Educating future generations so they know the value of an apex
predator and its habitat to the ecology and sustainability of the
landscape.
•
Providing safety advice to ensure that people living with wild tigers
keep themselves, their families and livestock safe.
•
Reducing human-animal conflict to help stabilise both prey and
predator numbers through the provision of sustainable
environmentally focused permanent wildlife waterhole solutions and
schemes to reverse habitat destruction.
Statement confirming whether In setting objectives and planning for activities, the Trustees have given
the trustees have had regard due consideration to general guidance published by the Charity
to the guidance issued by the Commission relating to public benefit, including the guidance 'Public
Charity Commission on public benefit: running a charity (PB2)'.
benefit
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|Policy on grant making|Tigers4Ever Trustees consider how to use donations to further the
charity’s objectives on a project-by-project basis, in line with individual
project objectives. This could include making grants, for example to other
charities with similar objectives to meet our aims. Trustees made no
grants to other bodies during 2022-23.|
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|Contribution made by
volunteers|Tigers4Ever is entirely staffed by volunteers in the UK, who give their
time and expertise freely. In addition, Tigers4Ever has two appointed|
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volunteer full-time representatives in India who co-ordinate project
activities at ground level in accordance with the instructions of the
Tigers4Ever Board of Trustees. Tigers4Ever also has three appointed
volunteer patrons, who donate their time and expertise to assist our
fundraising activities. Tigers4Ever has also relied on assistance from UK
based volunteers for fundraising activities; and volunteers in India for
distribution of educational resources and future project community
research activities.
Brief statement of the Tigers4Ever holds reserves to ensure that it can meet its future financial
charity's policy on reserves obligations.
Other The economic impact of the post pandemic era and global cost of living
crisis has affected and influenced the activities of Tigers4Ever
throughout the whole of the financial year, both from a fundraising and
project delivery perspective.
We identified at our Board of Trustees meeting in April 2021 that the
economic impact of the pandemic in India was likely to prolong the
increased risk of human-wildlife conflict and poaching activities for more
than one year. The reality of this risk continued during 2022/23 and was
felt in both the forest and villages where we work in India and has
worsened as wild tiger numbers have increased leading to more
poaching and more conflict. Furthermore, we decided against resuming
face to face fundraising activities during the financial year, focussing our
efforts on our digital fundraising and our anti-poaching patrols plus
reduction of human-wildlife conflict projects to mitigate the risks.
We had previously changed our activities to focus on what we could
deliver throughout the COVID19 pandemic in the 2020-2021 financial
year, so we were well prepared to deal with its ongoing impact and the
new challenge of the cost-of-living crisis in 2022-2023. We considered
the possible effects on the charity and updated our Risk Register
accordingly.
The Trustees are confident that the Charity has adequate resources to
continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this
reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the
financial statements.
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|The Trustees are confident that the Charity has adequate resources to
continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this
reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the
financial statements.|The Trustees are confident that the Charity has adequate resources to
continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this
reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the
financial statements.|
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|**Achievements and Performance**||
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to the
circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a whole.|We planned to increase our anti-poaching patrols by 10% compared with
our 2021-22 levels as part of our 5-year strategy to increase at 10%
annually. The increased risk of poaching and human-wildlife conflict had
meant that we undertook 154% of the targeted patrolling during 2021-
2022 so we increased our target for 2022-2023 to 10% beyond the level
delivered in 2021-22. In reality we completed patrolling in 2022-23 at
177% of planned levels which we believe to be the maximum level
achievable with current logistical resources.
There has been a significant increase in tiger poaching and human-
wildlife conflict across India, in each of the last 3 years. This was partly
due to unemployment and people returning to rural living during the
pandemic; the economic impact of the cost-of-living crisis and an
increased demand for wildlife body parts in China and the far east. Many
rural people were forced to plunder scarce forest resources for food and
products to sell for survival due to these impacts. The risk of wild tiger
deaths due to poaching and human-wildlife conflict increased as a result
so again we focussed our fundraising efforts to maintain our patrolling at
quadrupled levels (compared to pre-pandemic levels). Plans were put in|
place in February 2022 to increase our patrolling in 2022-23 to a minimum of 290% of pre-pandemic standard patrolling throughout the year. In spite of our increased patrolling, poachers struck during the first quarter of 2023 killing two sub-adult tigers who had migrated outside the protected area in search of new territories. Without additional resources and funding, it is currently impossible to expand the range of our current patrolling to include areas outside the core and buffer forest. Such incidents highlight the need for protected wildlife corridors to link more than one tiger reserve, however, the burgeoning human population and political landscapes make such projects more challenging than planting trees and increasing the patrolling area. It is an area we hope to address in time, but in the interim our focus is on restoring lost habitat within the confines of the existing forest boundaries. On a more positive note, more than 25 tiger cubs were born during the 2022-23 financial year bringing the total number of tigers protected by our patrols to more than quadruple the number when Tigers4Ever was established in June 2010. The increased number of wild tigers brings further challenges to our success with an increase in tiger-tiger conflict which resulted in the deaths of 10 tigers (5 adults, 2 sub-adults and 3 cubs). This increase in tiger-tiger conflict heightens the need for both habitat restoration and habitat expansion projects as tiger numbers will continue to increase due to an increase in the number of breeding age tigers.
Wild elephants have continued to cause problems in Bandhavgarh via destruction of property, equipment and crops. They have also attacked three Tigers4Ever solar-powered borewell waterhole sites leaving thousands of pounds of damage behind. We carried out repairs and replaced damaged solar panels at four Tigers4Ever waterholes during 2021-22 to address damage by wild elephants and will complete work to repair the damage at the three sites damaged in 2022-2023 during the 2023-2024 financial year.
From July 2022 to March 2023, we attempted to provide solar powered borewell pump systems for two waterholes in the Birulhi buffer forest, however, instability of the underground strata and several collapses including damage to drilling equipment forced us to change our strategy in the Panpatha-Birulhi buffer forest. In March 2023, we installed a solarpowered borewell pump system to provide year-round water for wildlife at six locations in the Palijha zone including a major waterhole and small pond at the Palijha site and four smaller man-made waterholes in areas devoid of natural water sources bringing the total number of Tigers4Ever permanent wildlife waterholes to nineteen. By providing permanent wildlife water at these nineteen locations, we help to reduce humanwildlife conflict in the surrounding areas. Work will commence on the twentieth and twenty-first Tigers4Ever waterholes during the 2023-2024 financial year. All new Tigers4Ever waterholes are built with elephant proof measures appropriate to the location, and work is underway to elephant proof the solar structures and pump systems at our existing waterholes, where this hasn’t been done at the time of repair.
From July 2022 to April 2023, we increased our education project support thanks to support from our CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) and grant partners. We provided 450 education packs including 150 ecology books for children in three age groups living in the remotest villages which have suffered the greatest impacts from wild animals including elephants which destroyed crops and predators which killed livestock. We also provided 120 backpacks, which included
education packs, to enable the school children to carry their books and writing materials more easily. In March 2023 we provided desks and seating for 100 children at the school in Damna village where previously children had to sit on the floor for their lessons. We have been unable to resurrect the pop-up schools during 2022-23 due to the continued shortage of volunteer teachers. In 2022-23, we collaborated with state schools in remote villages by holding open days where our education packs were distributed at the school so children could meet others and to boost their willingness to attend in future. We also worked with the wider tiger community throughout the year, in Bandhavgarh, to devise practical and workable solutions to help alleviate the impact of human-wildlife conflict including advice on the construction of elephant-proof fencing (chilli pepper fencing, beehive fencing, elephant proof moats) which can also provide much needed income and foodstuffs for the villagers, and the use of lemon grass as an elephant deterrent where the fencing options are unsuitable. Much of the patrolling equipment had worn out during the pandemic and post pandemic economic crisis and as a consequence clothing and kit needed urgent replacement. Colder winters meant that the warm winter jackets were no longer adequate when the temperatures plummeted towards 0°C (32F) overnight and in the early morning patrols. Thus, thicker warmer jackets were also needed to combat these unusually low temperatures. During 2022-23 we started the process of replacing and renewing equipment for more than 1,000 anti-poaching patrollers. During the monsoon period (July – October) our priority was the provision of 400 pairs of waterproof trousers, 400 waterproof jackets and caps, 200 pairs of waterproof boots, 50 high-powered waterproof flashlights and a snake rescue kit. At the end of September our focus turned towards winter with the provision of 355 warm winter jackets. We plan to continue the programme to replace and renew worn out or inadequate equipment and clothing during 2023-24. We used local suppliers to supply the clothing and equipment for antipoaching patrollers, food for our anti-poaching patrols, education packs, backpacks, desks and seating for the school, labour and equipment for our waterholes, which provided employment and support for a community decimated by the economic impact of the COVID19 pandemic. The examples above show how we have continued to protect the wild tiger in its natural habitat, whilst working with the wider tiger community in times of extreme hardship. We assisted with the relief of extreme poverty with the provision of hardship assistance; and in the alleviation of sickness and injury by providing nutritious food and safe clean drinking water for our anti-poaching patrols together with vital equipment to prevent fatal snake bites (snake capture kit, knee length waterproof boots and waterproof clothing which is impervious to mosquito bites, leeches, and snakes. Powerful waterproof flashlights protect loan patrollers in remote patrolling camps from sudden attacks by wild animals and help to deter poaching activity.
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|Achievements against
objectives set|•We review our specific core project outcome objectives annually for a
three-year period within the Charity’s Funding Strategy and 5 year
strategic plan.|
`o` In November 2022, the trustees met for a strategy day away day following which we decided to revert to a 3-year strategic plan with quarterly monitoring to ensure that our strategies are aligned with rapidly changing needs and environments. The Board of Trustees formally approved this process on 18 February 2023. • Trustees link fundraising targets required to meet the core objectives, Trustees link fundraising targets required to meet the core objectives, project needs and also identify targets by source of funding. Targets are dynamic and are influenced by national and international economic conditions, trends in tiger poaching and trade, increased risks, and the environment on the ground in our operating area in India. • Projects are dependent on the necessary funding having been raised; Projects are dependent on the necessary funding having been raised; the implication of this ‘golden rule’ means that the charity does not have known commitments which cannot be met from resources already raised. Where necessary project start dates are delayed or modified to ensure adequate funding is in place to enable Tigers4Ever to meet its financial and project obligations. • Trustees regularly review project and financial performance against Trustees regularly review project and financial performance against targets so that both fundraising and project impact is maximised. As shown above, we adapted our anti-poaching patrols delivery to meet the increased need due to an amplified risk of poaching and human encroachment into wild tiger territory so that we patrolled at 290% of our pre-pandemic levels and at 77% above our intended target. By doing this we were able to eliminate wild tiger deaths due to poaching and retaliatory poisoning throughout the year (save for the two poaching incidents highlight above which occurred outside our patrolling area). In the same period over 25 new tiger cubs were born. We intended to install at least one new permanent wildlife waterhole in 2022-23 to provide water for at least eight wild tigers and countless other wild animals and were able to complete work at one large waterholes with supporting feeds to five smaller waterholes which are supporting at least 20 wild tigers. We were able to use local labour and installation expertise for waterhole construction and elephant proofing the solar pump system. As highlighted above, our attempts to provide solar powered pump systems at two waterhole sites in the Birulhi buffer zone were hampered by instability of the underground terrain. We hope to revisit these sites to explore their suitability for rainwater harvesting projects at a later date. Wild elephants and adverse weather conditions also caused significant damage to four of our existing solar pump systems substantially reducing their output and in one case disabling them, so emergency repairs and replacement solar panels were needed at the existing waterhole sites to ensure that permanent water sources would be available for the 38 wild tigers and countless other wild animals which depend on them throughout the drought period (which is getting longer each year): from the end of January – to the beginning of July. We were able to raise sufficient funds to address this need via regular donations and an emergency appeal. Due to unseasonable rainfall in the months of March repairs were hampered by flooded road access so will be completed in the 2023-24 financial year. We discovered that more patrollers in remote patrolling camps were living in challenging conditions with worn out and inadequate equipment and clothing, and thus raised funds for and provided essential clothing and equipment as outlined above. This will reduce both the health risks for the patrollers (malaria and other fevers) and the risk of injury or death from snakebites and nighttime wild animal attacks at the patrolling camps.
`o` In November 2022, the trustees met for a strategy day away day following which we decided to revert to a 3-year strategic plan with quarterly monitoring to ensure that our strategies are aligned with rapidly changing needs and environments. The Board of Trustees formally approved this process on 18 February 2023. • Trustees link fundraising targets required to meet the core objectives, Trustees link fundraising targets required to meet the core objectives, project needs and also identify targets by source of funding. Targets are dynamic and are influenced by national and international economic conditions, trends in tiger poaching and trade, increased risks, and the environment on the ground in our operating area in India. • Projects are dependent on the necessary funding having been raised; Projects are dependent on the necessary funding having been raised; the implication of this ‘golden rule’ means that the charity does not have known commitments which cannot be met from resources already raised. Where necessary project start dates are delayed or modified to ensure adequate funding is in place to enable Tigers4Ever to meet its financial and project obligations. • Trustees regularly review project and financial performance against Trustees regularly review project and financial performance against targets so that both fundraising and project impact is maximised. As shown above, we adapted our anti-poaching patrols delivery to meet the increased need due to an amplified risk of poaching and human encroachment into wild tiger territory so that we patrolled at 290% of our pre-pandemic levels and at 77% above our intended target. By doing this we were able to eliminate wild tiger deaths due to poaching and retaliatory poisoning throughout the year (save for the two poaching incidents highlight above which occurred outside our patrolling area). In the same period over 25 new tiger cubs were born.
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We had a target to provide at least 250 education packs to enable the
poorest children in the villages most impacted by human-wildlife conflict
to go to school. The pop-up nature schools which we had previously
delivered in conjunction with GTCS (a local NGO in Bandhavgarh) were
unable to restart due to a lack of volunteer teachers making delivery
impossible. We were able to distribute 450 education packs to remote
villages in the Dhamokhar, Panpatha and Manpur buffer zones which
was at 180% of our 2022-23 target. We were also able to provide
backpacks for 120 children and desks and seating for 100 children at a
school in Damna (Manpur buffer) thanks to CSR and Grant funding
received in 2022-23. The provision of the desks and seating enabled
children who had previously sat on the floor for lessons to learn in a
safer environment with a reduced risk of potentially fatal snakebites.
We continued discussions with the Forest Department in Madhya
Pradesh, including the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests in Bhopal,
to deliver a forest rehabilitation project to plant trees and other
vegetation to aid the recovery of the forest after several years’
devastation due to forest fires and illegal logging. The objective of this
exercise will be to reduce human-wildlife conflict, tiger-tiger conflict and
to alleviate some of the impacts of climate change – in particular water
evaporation due to lack of canopy and soil degradation. Discussions for
this initiative were still ongoing throughout the financial year and due to
staff changes at senior levels in the forest department had not concluded
at the year end. We hope to progress this project further in 2023-24 and
2024-25 subject to raising appropriate funding.
Performance of fundraising To fund our strategic objectives for 2022-23 we needed to raise at least
activities against objectives £37,600 to cover our baseline project costs. We actually raised £57,236
set during the 2022-23 financial year, which was 152% of our initial annual
target but enabled us to manage the additional costs associated with the
increased anti-poaching patrols at 177% of target, which were critical to
address the elevated risk of wild tiger deaths; waterhole repairs; one plus
five new waterholes (instead of one); and 180% of target for our
education project.
In addition, we raised funds for the patrolling equipment, waterproof
clothing, waterproof boots, warm winter jackets, school desks and
seating, above what we had targeted for the financial year.
Investment performance We do not hold investments.
against objectives
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|**Financial Review**||
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|Review of the charity’s financial
position at the end of the period|•Tigers4Ever is a cash-based organisation. We operate on a receipts
and payments account basis and as such our financial statements are
factual.
•We transfer risk, for example to suppliers of merchandise; we ensure
that ownership and future maintenance of assets such as water holes
rests with Indian authorities; we do not commit to expenditure until the
necessary income has been collected to cover known costs.
•Consequently, our only material asset is the cash held in our current
account; we are not committed to any known material future payments
for which we have not already raised funding.
•The financial position at 5 April 2023, including movements on the
various funds, is shown in the table below.|
|||•We have sufficient funds to meet known costs; we expect to meet our
administrative costs beyond the forthcoming year. Of our principal
current projects, we have sufficient funds to complete at least two more
waterholes in 2023-24; we have sufficient funds to continue an
enhanced anti-poaching patrol programme in 2023-24.
•We also have sufficient funds to provide waterproof clothing for at least
170 more anti-poaching patrollers; and the launch of a new initiative to
improve forest safety and reduce human-wildlife conflict in 2023-24.|•We have sufficient funds to meet known costs; we expect to meet our
administrative costs beyond the forthcoming year. Of our principal
current projects, we have sufficient funds to complete at least two more
waterholes in 2023-24; we have sufficient funds to continue an
enhanced anti-poaching patrol programme in 2023-24.
•We also have sufficient funds to provide waterproof clothing for at least
170 more anti-poaching patrollers; and the launch of a new initiative to
improve forest safety and reduce human-wildlife conflict in 2023-24.|•We have sufficient funds to meet known costs; we expect to meet our
administrative costs beyond the forthcoming year. Of our principal
current projects, we have sufficient funds to complete at least two more
waterholes in 2023-24; we have sufficient funds to continue an
enhanced anti-poaching patrol programme in 2023-24.
•We also have sufficient funds to provide waterproof clothing for at least
170 more anti-poaching patrollers; and the launch of a new initiative to
improve forest safety and reduce human-wildlife conflict in 2023-24.|•We have sufficient funds to meet known costs; we expect to meet our
administrative costs beyond the forthcoming year. Of our principal
current projects, we have sufficient funds to complete at least two more
waterholes in 2023-24; we have sufficient funds to continue an
enhanced anti-poaching patrol programme in 2023-24.
•We also have sufficient funds to provide waterproof clothing for at least
170 more anti-poaching patrollers; and the launch of a new initiative to
improve forest safety and reduce human-wildlife conflict in 2023-24.|•We have sufficient funds to meet known costs; we expect to meet our
administrative costs beyond the forthcoming year. Of our principal
current projects, we have sufficient funds to complete at least two more
waterholes in 2023-24; we have sufficient funds to continue an
enhanced anti-poaching patrol programme in 2023-24.
•We also have sufficient funds to provide waterproof clothing for at least
170 more anti-poaching patrollers; and the launch of a new initiative to
improve forest safety and reduce human-wildlife conflict in 2023-24.|•We have sufficient funds to meet known costs; we expect to meet our
administrative costs beyond the forthcoming year. Of our principal
current projects, we have sufficient funds to complete at least two more
waterholes in 2023-24; we have sufficient funds to continue an
enhanced anti-poaching patrol programme in 2023-24.
•We also have sufficient funds to provide waterproof clothing for at least
170 more anti-poaching patrollers; and the launch of a new initiative to
improve forest safety and reduce human-wildlife conflict in 2023-24.|
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|Statement explaining the policy
for holding reserves stating why
they are held||•We hold reserves only to fulfil our obligations.
•Although we operate only one bank account, we maintain reserved
funds for our major projects, so that there is transparency for donors
and clarity in income and expenditure for trustees. This approach also
reflects the policy of our major fundraising platform which enables
fundraising only for clearly defined projects.
•We operate an unreserved fund; we have identified minimal
administration costs (including insurance and IT/communications). If we
did not have funds to meet these costs, the charity would cease to
operate.||||||
|Amount of reservesheld||The current cashposition is stated below.||||||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit||At 5 April 2023 we have no funds in deficit.||||||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the charity
continuing as a going concern||Trustees believe we shall be able
foreseeable future.|||to continue our programmes for the|||
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|**2022-23**|**Unrestricted**||**Waterholes**|**Poaching**
**Patrols**|**Poaching**
**Patrol**
**Equipment**|**Education**|**Totals**|
||**£**||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Balance 06/04/22**|546||14,408|33,714|84|770|49,522|
|**Income**|2,321||16,951|15,225|14,293|8,446|57,236|
|**Expenditure(-)**|-1,665||-5,347|-18,705|-12,695|-4,443|-42,855|
|**Net Movement**|656||11,604|-3,480|1,598|4,003|14,381|
|**Closing Balance at:**
**05/04/2023**|1,202||26,012|30,234|1,682|4,773|63,903|
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|Explanation of any||Trustees believe we shall be able to continue our programmes for the|Trustees believe we shall be able to continue our programmes for the|Trustees believe we shall be able to continue our programmes for the|Trustees believe we shall be able to continue our programmes for the|Trustees believe we shall be able to continue our programmes for the|Trustees believe we shall be able to continue our programmes for the|Trustees believe we shall be able to continue our programmes for the||
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|uncertainties about the charity||foreseeable future.||||||||
|continuing as a going concern||||||||||
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|**2022-23**|**Unrestricted**|||**Waterholes**|**Poaching**
**Patrols**|**Poaching**
**Patrol**
**Equipment**|**Education**|**Totals**||
||**£**|||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**||
|**Balance 06/04/22**||546||14,408|33,714|84|770|49,522||
|**Income**|2,321|||16,951|15,225|14,293|8,446|57,236||
|**Expenditure(-)**|-1,665|||-5,347|-18,705|-12,695|-4,443|-42,855||
|**Net Movement**||656||11,604|-3,480|1,598|4,003|14,381||
|**Closing Balance at:**
**05/04/2023**|1,202|||26,012|30,234|1,682|4,773|63,903||
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The charity’s principal sources We raise funds from a variety of sources and these are taken into of funds (including any account when assessing how we will meet our income targets. These fundraising) sources are primarily (and are not necessarily mutually exclusive):
- Digital platforms (GlobalGiving, Facebook, PayPal etc.);
- Direct donations (corporate donations, individual donations, collection tubs);
- • Grants, Trusts, Foundations; • Legacies; • Income from third parties (Amazon Smile, EasyFundraising, GiveAsYouLive, eBay);
In 2022-2023 we raised £57,236 from the following sources:
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Category Sub-Category % of Income raised % of Income raised
2021-22 2022-23
Digital Platform PayPal 1% 1%
Facebook 1% <1%
GlobalGiving 78% 49%
Digital Platforms Total 80% 51%
Third Party Income 1% 1%
Direct Donations* 9% 22%
Direct Grants, Trusts, Foundations 10% 26%
• The largest contributors in Direct Donations were corporate, the largest
contributor, Fable and Mane, donating £7,500. No individual donor
contributed more than £300.
• There were a number of grant funding body contributors: the largest,
BC Mehta Trust, made three donations, in total £7,500; the second
largest donor, The Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust contributed
£5,192.
Investment policy and We do not hold any investments; our principle is to commit donations to
objectives including any social approved projects as quickly and appropriately as possible.
investment policy adopted
A description of the principal We operate a risk register which is reviewed regularly by trustees. Risks
risks facing the charity are managed in accordance with a traffic light system which requires the
trustees to agree mitigating measures as and where appropriate and to
accept and manage the risks where mitigation is not possible or
appropriate. The following are key risks which are closely monitored and
managed by the trustees:
• Reduction in tiger numbers in Bandhavgarh due to reduced
poaching patrols/increased poaching and human encroachment
issues.
• The economic impact of the pandemic and other factors on our
ability to carry out our work in Bandhavgarh
• Reduction in tiger numbers due to catastrophic forest fires and
resultant tiger-tiger or human-tiger conflict in Bandhavgarh
• Reduction in donations due to the economic impact of the
Pandemic and cost of living crisis. Corporate, Grant and individual
donations can be affected
• Increasing need for data protection
•
Policies and Codes of Conduct - ensuring that we as trustees or
any representatives of our charity, conduct ourselves in an ethical
manner & adhere to relevant laws
•
Critical points of failure in our operations
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Trust Deed|
|How is the charity constituted?
(e.g., unincorporated
association, CIO)|
Charitable Trust|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.,
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled to
appoint one or more trustees|Appointment by the Board of Trustees|
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|All trustees have completed a skills audit which is regularly updated so that
we can identify any skills gaps on the board and fill these via recruitment of
volunteers or trustees as appropriate. Prior to the pandemic we held
physical away day sessions at least once per year, we returned to this in
November 2022 with our first post-pandemic away day. We also continued
the series of online orientation sessions which we started in 2021-22 and
have conducted one to one/two digital training sessions to familiarise
trustees with the learning opportunities via the GlobalGiving platform.
In addition, all new Trustees receive a personalised Induction Pack and
are encouraged to complete online training as needed from the digital
resources at our and their disposal. This standard induction process which
includes the individual trustees acquiring a knowledge of the Tigers4Ever
current policies, procedures and strategies, listed below (a mix of bespoke
and sector standard); and familiarising themselves with the Charity
Commission Guidance “the Essential Trustee”.
These policies and procedures are constantly available to trustees via our
Microsoft Teams workgroup and underpin how we work.
Trustee responsibilities
•Ethical Policy
•Environmental Policy
•Safeguarding Policy
•Safeguarding Code of Conduct
•Privacy Policy
•CC3 and Jigsaw; the Essential Trustee
•Charity Commission Public Benefit; Running a Charity
•Good Governance – full code
•Insurance, including Public Liability insurance
•The 12 essential roles of a Board
Strategic
•Strategic Plan 2022-2025 (and beyond)
•Risk Register
•Digital Fundraising Strategy
•Funding Strategy
•Fundraising Strategy
•Tigers4Ever Strategic Fundraising Groups
•Theory of Change
•Theory of Change Digital
Operational-Internal
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The charity’s organisational The Tigers4Ever Board of Trustees meets 4 – 5 times per year for full
structure and any wider board meetings and subgroups meet in the interim to address particular
network with which the charity project, fundraising, marketing, digital, governance, and financial needs as
works appropriate. Tigers4Ever has no paid staff in the UK and is entirely
volunteer run.
In India, Tigers4Ever has two full-time volunteer appointed representatives
who co-ordinate project activity and delivery in India in accordance with the
directives of the Board of Trustees (UK).
Tigers4Ever has an established collaboration with the Global Tiger
Conservation Society (GTCS) in India for the delivery of our education
projects via pop-up nature schools, however, the lack of volunteer
teachers prevented project delivery during 2022-23, however, we
maintained a dialogue with GTCS representatives throughout the financial
year.
Tigers4Ever works closely with the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department to
ensure that projects such as our anti-poaching patrols and waterhole
projects can be conducted within forest department protected areas and
on government land.
Tigers4Ever has fundraising partnerships with the third parties listed above
and has not taken any financial or operational risks with any of its
collaborators or partners.
In addition, at the start of 2022-23 Tigers4Ever had three appointed
patrons: Martin Clowes (since 2013), Lauren Maddox and Susan Fisher-
Kaufman (both since 2017).
Relationship with any related • There are no related party interests either exercised by us or exercised
parties over us.
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We do use third-party fund-raising sites (principally GlobalGiving); sites
deduct a fee from donations made to us from some donations, and we
receive the donation net of fees. We receive grants and matched funding
during specific campaigns from some of the sites, if donations meet
criteria laid down by the sites. Our third-party fundraising sites are
available globally and we do not exercise any control over the
management of these sites.
•
We have been recognised as a Top Ranked and Effective Charity by
GlobalGiving following their rigorous due diligence process and site visits
to our projects in India.
•
We have also been recognised as a Charity partner by Benevity
following their rigorous due diligence process.
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Tigers4Ever|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|N/A|
|Registered charity number|1160528|
|Charity’s principal address|c/o 43 Ranworth Drive
Lowton
Warrington
WA3 2SY
Cheshire. UK.|
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
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||Corinne Taylor-Smith|Chair||
||David Leslie HandleyTaylor-Smith|Treasurer||
||Naomi Ditchfield||06 – 22 April 2022|
||Sean Alexander Axon|Data Protection Officer||
||Georgia Adele Turner||22 September 2022|
||Laura Lupton||06 April – 28 December 2022|
||Jamieson Alexander Copsey||06 April – 02 October 2022|
||Daniel Moldovan|||
||Lyndon Roberts||06 April – 03 May2022|
||Jonathan Graham Greenwood|||
||Thomas Barrie Littler|||
||Guna Freivalde|||
||Martin Robert Urch|||
||Christian Martin Andrew Bell|||
||Donna Marie Sheridan||28 December 2022|
||Andrew Kenneth Ross||11 January2023|
||Valeria Sali||11 March 2023|
||Helen Frances Sawyer||11 March 2023|
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## **Other optional information**
Tigers4Ever does not source goods or services or materials used in the production of goods from China
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
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Signature(s)
Full name(s) Corinne Taylor-Smith
Position (e.g., Secretary, Chair
Chair, etc)
Date
14 October 2023
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I CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR INfjLAND ANO YIALES
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mA/i i 11
14 litrj23
To the Trustees of the fi8ers4Ever Charity
I report to the Trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Tigers4Ever charity for the year
ended 5 April 2023.
Respertlve responslbllltles of charlty truslees and examlner
The Charity Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The Trustees consider that
an audlt Is not required for this year under section 144121 of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Artl and
that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
examine the financlal statements under section 145 of the 2011 Act,.
follow the procedures laid down in the general Directionsgiven by the Charity Commlssion
under section 1451Sllbl of the 2011 Act,. and
state whether particular matters have come to my attentlon.
Basls of Independent examlnerfs rep(xt
My examination was carried out in accordance with the general Directions glven by the Charity
Commlsslon. An examination includes a review of the accountlng records kept by the charlty and a
comparison of the accounts presented wrth those records. It also Includes conslderation of any
unusual Stems or dlsclosures in the accovnts, and seeklng explanatlons from you as members of the
Charity concernlng any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that
would be requlred In an audit and consequently no opinlon is glven as to whether the accounts present
a 'true and fair Vie and the report is limkted to those matters set out in the next statement.
Independent examlner's ststemenl
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attentlon:
lal whlch glves me reasonable cause to believe thot in any materlal respect the requlrements..
lil to keep accountlng records In accordance with settion 130 of the 2011 Act.. and
lill to prepare financial statements which accord wlth the accounting records and comply with
the accountin£ requirements of the 2011 Act,. have not been met or
Ibl to which, In my oplnlon, attentlon should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of
the flnancSal statements to be reached.
Jeremy R Valentine Bsc IHons). CPFA
34 Fountalns Road, Cheadle Hulme. Cheadle. Cheshire. SK8 7PY
Dated.. 13 october 2023
I CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR INfjLAND ANO YIALES
Recei
sand
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CC16a
Forthe perfod
To
Section A Receipts and payments
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Restricted
fvnd*
Endowrnent
nds
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A1 R¢e•l
DLth*lunS
Gqnw81
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pwoIEqu*nwt
2J21
2tsZ1
11.633
•oJJ
13.2•>
24.740
13293
5*6
15x110
0,560
47AIg
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2Jti
51,01
57,231
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Sub tot•1
47.
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230
0.731
13.779
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261
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Date of approval
bLIJ Io
' JAVi.ty IlYLoC.SMi i
mA/i i 11
14 litrj23
To the Trustees of the fi8ers4Ever Charity
I report to the Trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Tigers4Ever charity for the year
ended 5 April 2023.
Respertlve responslbllltles of charlty truslees and examlner
The Charity Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The Trustees consider that
an audlt Is not required for this year under section 144121 of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Artl and
that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
examine the financlal statements under section 145 of the 2011 Act,.
follow the procedures laid down in the general Directionsgiven by the Charity Commlssion
under section 1451Sllbl of the 2011 Act,. and
state whether particular matters have come to my attentlon.
Basls of Independent examlnerfs rep(xt
My examination was carried out in accordance with the general Directions glven by the Charity
Commlsslon. An examination includes a review of the accountlng records kept by the charlty and a
comparison of the accounts presented wrth those records. It also Includes conslderation of any
unusual Stems or dlsclosures in the accovnts, and seeklng explanatlons from you as members of the
Charity concernlng any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that
would be requlred In an audit and consequently no opinlon is glven as to whether the accounts present
a 'true and fair Vie and the report is limkted to those matters set out in the next statement.
Independent examlner's ststemenl
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attentlon:
lal whlch glves me reasonable cause to believe thot in any materlal respect the requlrements..
lil to keep accountlng records In accordance with settion 130 of the 2011 Act.. and
lill to prepare financial statements which accord wlth the accounting records and comply with
the accountin£ requirements of the 2011 Act,. have not been met or
Ibl to which, In my oplnlon, attentlon should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of
the flnancSal statements to be reached.
Jeremy R Valentine Bsc IHons). CPFA
34 Fountalns Road, Cheadle Hulme. Cheadle. Cheshire. SK8 7PY
Dated.. 13 october 2023