CIO name: Vetwork UK Charity registration number: 1165435 Trustees’ Annual Report for the period 1[st] April 2024 to 31[st] March 2025
Objectives and Activities
Summary of purpose
Vetwork UK’s purpose is to engage in and promote activities and research that aim to bring balanced and sustainable benefit to human and non-human animals, eco-systems, and the whole of the natural environment, in UK and worldwide.
Vetwork UK currently carries out its charitable purpose primarily through educational activities, publication via its website, and occasional grant-making.
Summary of main activities
In the year from April 2024 to March 2025, Vetwork UK:
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Worked with Veterinary Prescriber, Pesticide Action Network and others to broaden understanding of the environmental risks of veterinary pharmaceuticals (eg NSAIDS in Vultures, pet parasiticides to local invertebrate), and broader threats to biodiversity and climate
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Worked to promote these messages with other local and national environmental organisations in Devon, Lancaster, London and Norfolk
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Worked to improve understanding of the energy costs underpinning these challenges
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Maintained its website to support these activities
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Continued to follow and support the activities of the RSPB vulture conservation project in SE Asia.
Public Benefit Statement
Vetwork UK provides a public benefit by:
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Raising awareness of the need to monitor biodiversity, improving animal welfare, and conserve healthy ecosystems.
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Promoting a balanced approach to the care of animals in families, communities, and ecological systems, particularly where animals are a valuable livelihood resource.
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Promoting the benefits that animals can provide to their owners and the wider public such as the bond created between animals and people through daily care, shared work, and companionship.
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Achieving these through local and international engagement with a focus on marginalized and disadvantaged communities, and with those affected by emergencies such as animal disease outbreaks, climate change and other threats to biodiversity.
Financial Review
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| Total amount of reserves held | On 31st March 2025, the charity held £15866.43 as unrestricted funds |
| Charity’s principal sources of funds | Currently no income streams and no actve fundraising |
| Investment policy & objectves incl any social investment policy adopted |
Funds held only in Triodos Bank as the most ethical we could fnd |
| A descripton of the principal risks facing the charity |
Younger charites with newer approaches now operate in same space. Although we are not atractng new Trustees, we feel it is worth contnuing while we have funds and can play a role. |
Reference and Administrative details
Charity name |
Vetwork UK CIO |
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| Registered charity number | 1165435 |
| Charity’s principal address | 7 Elizabeth Close, Reepham, Norwich, NR10 4JF |
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
| Trustee name | Ofce(if any) | Dates acted if not for wholeyear | |
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| 1 | Dr S C Morgan | ||
| 2 | Dr S Blakeway | ||
| 3 | Dr A Briault | ||
| 4 | Dr S Arnot |
Declarations
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date
Vetwork UK CIO Charitable Objects
To advance and promote for the benefit of the public, anywhere in the world:
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The prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, livelihood projects and all the necessary support designed to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient;
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Education and system design for One Welfare, beneficial human-animal-biosphere relationships, animal health and welfare, ecology and biodiversity, and research in all aspects of these subjects with useful results disseminated to the public at large;
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Humane behaviour towards animals through education, recognition of the benefits good human-animal relationships can bring to human well-being, and by providing or supporting the provision of appropriate care, protection, treatment and security for animals which are in need of care and attention by reason of sickness, maltreatment, circumstances or ill-usage;
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Understanding of the biosphere, conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment and biodiversity, including but not limited to highlighting, raising awareness, education, research, and taking tangible steps towards conserving the biosphere, habitats and biological diversity alongside agriculture;
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Sustainable, integrated agriculture including but not limited to providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, livelihood projects with all the necessary support regarding One Welfare, human-animal relationships, and animal health and welfare for the management of production and working animals within human communities to generate income, provide for household food and labour requirements and be selfsufficient while preserving the local and global environment and biodiversity;
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Relief and assistance of people in any part of the world who are prone to or the victims of war or natural disaster, trouble, catastrophe or emergency (including but not limited to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and severe weather conditions such as drought, floods, major storms) including but not limited to planning and preventative measures in disaster-prone communities and active assistance in response to actual disasters or emergencies.
Charity Name No (if any) Vetwork CIO 1165435
Recei ts and a ments accounts p p y
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Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds funds funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
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| interest on deposit account | 295 | - | - | 295 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) | 295 |
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| **Total receipts ** | 295 | - | - | 295 |
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insurance - bank charges 0 grants and donations made telephone, internet,postage 25 advertising, fund raising 54 other runningcosts travel book keeping 100 Sub total 179 - - Sub total - Total payments 179 Net of receipts/(payments) 116 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end - Cash funds this year end 116 A4 Asset and investment |
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