## **Annual Report** & **Consolidated Accounts Year end 31st December 2023.**
**Orca Rescues Foundation A Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)**
**Registered Charity No 1161804**
## **Trustees Jo-Blaise Martin (UK) Rebecca Belleni (UK) Lucie Armstrong (UK)**
## **Technical Consultant Roger Mann (Portugal)**
**Principal and Registered Office 21 Southernhay Road Verwood Dorset U.K. BH317AN**
**Bankers Barclays Bank PLC 61 Old Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH31 1ER**
**Registered Charity No 1161804**
## **Mission Statement**
**“Our mission is to establish a global fund to facilitate the release and rehabilitation back to the wild or near-wild of orca in captivity and to give support to specialists, scientists and organisations working to achieve this”.**
## **Orca Rescues Foundation’s Vision**
**We hope that Orca, 0rcinus orca, otherwise known as killer whale will not be subjected to captivity in the hands of organisations that abuse them to “entertain” human beings and for profit. We see a Planet Earth with its’ people respecting the right of these animals to live a free and natural life in un-polluted oceans.**
**Orca currently held captive should be released and rehabilitated in sea sanctuaries that exist or can be created to enable rehabilitation prior to return to the wild ocean. This can be done .**
## **Charitable Objectives of Orca Rescue Foundation**
**The Charities objectives as set out in the Articles of association.**
**1) For the benefit of the public to relieve the suffering of orcas in need of care and attention who are currently captive by the provision of funding and research to determine whether the orca’s release to a sea sanctuary or the wild is in its best interests and if so, to help in its’ release and with its’ continued care and support.**
**2) To advance the education of the general public on wild and captive orcas, their ecology and familial traits and the effect of captivity on Orcas.**
**Registered Charity No 1161804**
## Trustee Report
The year 2023 saw Lolita finally freed from her Captivity but not in the way anyone wanted. She gave up the will to live any longer in her fishbowl prison. August 18[th] 2023
This was devastating for the people who had come so close to having her release agreed.
Those are the people and organisations that we want to be giving grants to. Laws and trends are changing but all these things need funding.
We do have regular funds in from Paypal and Just Giving but will be focusing on generating other donations which can then be used to support and help other organisations.
We remain in touch with the Aegean Sea Sanctuary and will have further news on a Grant to them.
Facebook continues to have a great following The comments on most educational post are positive and encouraging as the trends continue to change from seeing Orca in the Wild to joining Responsible Whale Watching trips and seeing Orca, aswell as other cetaceans swimming wild and free.
## **Statement of Financial Activities**
## **for the Year Ended 31 December 2023**
|**INCOMING RESOURCES**
**Donations**
**Bank income received**
**Income from charitable activities:**
**Grants**
**Activities for generating funds:**
**Trading operations**
**Fundraising activities**
**Total incoming resources**
**RESOURCES EXPENDED**
**Trading operations**
**Fundraising activities**
**Expenditure on charitable activities**
**Grants allocated**
**Total resources expended**
**NET INCOMING/(OUTGOING) RESOURCES**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**
**Total funds brought forward**
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**|**2023**
**2022**
**Unrestricted**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
**1,910**
**3,342**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|---|---|
||**1,910**
**3,342**
**-**
**187**
**-**
**-**
**187**
**1,910**
**3,155**
**4,109**
**954**
**6,019**
**4,109**|
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## **Balance Sheet As at 31 December 2023**
|**Notes**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
**Cash at bank**
**Debtors**
**Total current assets**
**CREDITORS:**
**Amounts falling due within one year**
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**
**NET ASSETS**|**2023**
**2022**
**Unrestricted**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
**6,019**
**4,109**
**-**|
|---|---|
||**6,019**
**4,109**
**-**
**-**
**6,019**
**4,109**
**6,019**
**4,109**
**6,019**
**4,109**|
## **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees' report.**
## **Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees**
**Reg.Charity No. 1161804**