2020-12-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Da Month Year From 01 01 2020 To 31 12 2020

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1166614 Charity's principal address 9 The Clock Tower Redlers Waterside, Dudbridge Rd. Stroud, Gloucestershire Postcode GL5 3LH

Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
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1 Gary Gilmour Chairman Full year
2 Regina Storey 01/01/20-Oct 24 [th] , 2020
3 Valerie Swanson Secretary Full year
Rodney Graeme Full year
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5 James O Murray Full year
6 Andrew Weir Start 16/07/20- present
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

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Type of adviser Name Address
Veterinary Michael Thorne
Zoology Andrew Loveridge
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Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

CIO Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by a majority of Trustees Trustee selection methods

• (eg. trust, association, company)

• (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

• policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;

• the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;

VFWT held quarterly board meetings and reviewed relevant procedures and policies. It was agreed in early 2020 to hold off renewing using a contractor to assist in fundraising activities which was fortunate as the pandemic set in and reduced any travel.

VFWT adjusted its respective risk register as needed with the onset of COVID-19 and possible risk to the organisation, its Trustees and volunteers. Risk was limited as much as possible but only one Trustee was able to visit the international partners that the organisation works with due to the limits on travel with the pandemic. However regular meetings were held with the downstream partners to ensure that projects remained on target and the goals and outcomes were achieved.

• relationship with any related parties;

• trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

To promote, for the benefit of the public, the conservation and protection of the natural environment in Southern Africa by providing grants and undertaking research in connection with animal welfare and the environment.

To advance the education of the public in the conservation, protection and improvement of the natural environment of Southern Africa

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Provided funding for carnivore research and conservation of wildlife in Zimbabwe

• Funded the salaries for two response units in the rural agropastoralist community adjacent to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe and Hwange National Parks

• Provided funding for conflict mitigation support for human wildlife conflict incidents in these areas and protection of livestock and crops for these communities

• Funding of the Community Guardians prevented the loss of any carnivores in 2020 due to retaliation from local villages or problem animal control in the Victoria Falls areas

• Ensured that through the predator proof mobile bomas no livestock were lost inside the bomas due to carnivore predation

• For a consultant to analyse camera trap images to determine predator species numbers and identifications

Public benefit is derived from the conservation of carnivores, and improved livelihoods of the poor living at the interface with wildlife. The mobile predator proof bomas had no losses of livestock in the bomas in the last year, significantly reducing carnivore conflict, and this project helped conserve carnivores that would otherwise have been killed.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

UK Aid Grant funding was secured to alleviate hunger in line with the UN’s sustainability goals. The project’s implementing partner was in North-West Zimbabwe. This funding was provided through the Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust Zimbabwe and was used to:

• Purchase a laptop for the project

• Distribute maize, sorghum and millet seeds to impoverished agropastoralists living at the wildlife interface

• Provide chilli seedlings and chilli mitigation tools to deter elephant from raiding vegetable gardens

• Train local people in safe handling of livestock, and mitigation methods for human wildlife conflict

• Held community meetings to garner public support and feedback on challenges, suggestions and improvements

• Ensured predator proof mobile kraals were utilised in 5 communities to prevent human carnivore conflict

• Improve sustainable agriculture practices and increase cropping yields for the rural poor.

Public Benefit for this project is to the ~2000 direct beneficiaries that are situated in wildlife interface area of two rural communities that will have received training, seeds and mitigation of wildlife conflict to ensure they are able to protect their livestock and their gardens from wildlife and increase their cropping yields to feed their families.

VFWT received grant funding from the IUCN Save Our Species Rapid Action Grant to conserve elephant and protect the biodiversity of North West Zimbabwe. This funding was utilised by implementing partner Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust Zimbabwe to:

• Purchased 17 Blackview Smartphone Devices for Anti-Poaching patrols to use with SMART software

• Funding the salaries of 17 anti-poaching unit team members for four months

• Provided food rations for 91 rangers in the area to ensure they were able to sustain themselves while performing their jobs.

• Provided fuel to the anti-poaching bodies for deployment of patrols, response, and collection of rangers

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The project was successful in achieving the following:

• Over 400 people have been arrested who were involved in environmental crimes around Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

• More than 600 patrols conducted

• Over 10,000 kilometers covered

• 42 first responding rangers trained on wildlife diseases, poisonings and wildlife crime scene identification

• 6 mammals were immobilised and wire snares removed during the grant period, and 33 animals throughout all of 2020

• New disease outbreak in elephant was identified and managed

The public benefitted from this project through the protection of the biodiversity of flora and fauna in a World Heritage Site, and supported ranger livelihoods during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure continued sustainability and conservation of the natural resources of this area to be enjoyed by tourists worldwide and local communities.

Provided funding to enhance wildlife forensics and zoonotic disease testing at a laboratory in Zimbabwe.

• The funding assisted in the prevention of rabies and distemper in North West Zimbabwe, helping protect the local human population against rabies as well as domestic animal and wildlife populations in a major international tourism area

• The funding also assisted the laboratory in developing capacity for wildlife forensics and therefore being able to provide scientific evidence for a court of law on wildlife trafficking cases. Helping to conserve wildlife and combat poaching.

• Grant funding assisted in laboratory capacity development to help identify a novel pathogen in African elephant for the first time which had resulted in 37 elephant mortalities and assisted in providing a disease management plan to the wildlife and veterinary authorities.

In planning for the organisation’s annual activities, the Trustee’s reviewed the guidance on public benefit at the Annual General Meeting, and the Trustees are satisfied that they are achieving the organisation’s goals in accordance with the guidance. All policies and procedures have been reviewed as needed as per each policy review date.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

• policy on grantmaking;

• policy programme related investment;

• contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Achievements andperformance	Achievements andperformance
In the past 12 months of operation, we have managed to achieve significant goals, including helping fund programmes that had the following outcomes  Being a grantee of UK Aid we have managed to assist in alleviating
	hunger to rural impoverished Zimbabwean’s living along the wildlife
	interface by supporting 2000 direct beneficiaries with improved
	cropping, human wildlife conflict mitigation and livestock protection
	14 endangered black rhino immobilised, ear-notched, microchipped,
	health checks done and samples taken for genetics
	Trained 42 First responding wildlife rangers on Wildlife Diseases,
	Poisonings, and Wildlife Crime Scene Awareness
	Removed 33+ snares from different species ranging from warthog,
	impala, buffalo, elephant, kudu, bushbuck, leopard
	Rehabilitated and released numerous animals from warthogs, eland,
	vultures, falcons, storks, to bushbuck
	Supported 304 wildlife ranger family members for five months with a
	monthly food parcel
	Trained 253 community members on improved livestock husbandry
	methods
	Supported anti-poaching efforts that have arrested over 400 people
	and removed 800 wire snares in four months
	Provided monthly food rations for 91 wildlife rangers in Victoria Falls
	for four months, so they could sustain themselves and be effective on
	the job
	Purchased a desktop computer and Blackview devices for National
	Parks rangers to use for anti-poaching data collection, and deployment
	Prevented livestock predation with rural villages in 2020 that
	participated in our predator proof mobile bomas, deploying 5 mobile
	predator proof bomas
	Vaccinated over 1000 dogs against rabies and distemper, keeping
	rabies out of the area and alleviating a distemper outbreak
	Protected conflict lions through conflict prevention and mitigation, and
	managed to not lose one lion to problem animal control
	Conducted a survey on vulture nest sites in previously identified critical
	safe zones along the Zimbabwe/Botswana border to determine
	population shifts and losses of breeding pairs
	Assisted in funding wildlife disease project that identified a new
	disease prevalent in African elephant that resulted in the mortality of
	37 animals in North West Zimbabwe

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

The charity policy on reserves at this time is to hold a minimum of £5000 as reserves

Details of any funds materially in deficit

None

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

• the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

The charity’s principal sources of funds have shifted slightly this year with the addition of a few larger grants for this organization from the FCDO for the Small Charities Challenge Fund (SCCF) and the IUCN. Individual donations have continued albeit at a lower than normal rate as potential significant donors have not been able to travel to see the Trust’s beneficiaries’ outcomes.

• how expenditure has Funding has gone principally to projects supporting the objectives of the charity. The bulk of the funding has gone to the budget lines allocated in

• supported the key objectives the respective grants for projects in Zimbabwe. There was limited

• of the charity; expenditure to complete a contract with a fundraiser, and basic

• investment policy and administration fees. objectives including any ethical investment policy The charity only has a bank account and makes no investments. adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s)

Graeme Dacomb Full name(s) Gary Gilmour Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chairman Finance Trustee etc) Date 24 March 2021

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VICTORIA FALLS WILDLIFE TRUST

CHARITY NUMBER: 1166614

RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS FOR THE PERIOD 1 January 2020 TO 31 December 2020

UNRESTRICTED FUNDS

RECEIPTS Donations Gift Aid Interest TOTAL RECEIPTS PAYMENTS Bank Charges Brochures Transfers to Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust in Zimbabwe for use in Rescue & Rehabilitation Payments to professional fundraisers, incl expenses Darting Supplies SURPLUS/(DEFICIT)	£ £ 21,535 0 0 21,535 21,535 6 0 33,860 1,800 0 35,666 -£14,131 12 months 2020	15 months 2019 £ £ 45,625 7,500 0 53,125 53,125 52 276 21,763 14,073 563 36,727 £16,398

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VICTORIA FALLS WILDLIFE TRUST

CHARITY NUMBER: 1166614

RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS FOR THE PERIOD 1 January 2020 TO 31 December 2020

RESTRICTED FUNDS

RECEIPTS DFID Grant IUCN Grant Oak Foundation Camera Trap Grant University of Oxford - Human/Wildlife conflict mitigation University of Oxford - Carnivore darting drugs University of Oxford - Wildlife Conservation Research Ernest Kleinwort Trust - Vulture conservation Total Receipts	12 months 2020 £ 49,678 24,583 19,500 7,458 0 0 11,500 0 £112,719	15 months 2019 £ 0 0 0 0 44,650 0 11,306 5,000 £60,956

PAYMENTS

DFID Grant transferred to VFWT Zimbabwe IUCN Grant transferred to VFWT Zimbabwe Oak Foundation Grant transferred to VFWT Zimbabwe Camera Trap Grant expenses Lion Guardians Salary contributions Boma Costs Overheads Monitoring & Evaluation Travel & Subsistence Ernest Kleinwort Trust - Vulture Conservation Wildlife Conservation Research Grant expenses Total Payments Net Receipts/Payments Cash funds at beginning Cash funds at period end	23,823 23,526 10,000 3,600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 60,949 51,770 2,570 £54,340	0 0 0 0 28,800 16,033 0 750 1,500 400 5,000 7,883 60,366 590 1,980 £2,570

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VICTORIA FALLS WILDLIFE TRUST

CHARITY NUMBER: 1166614

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES AT 31 DECEMBER 2020

CURRENT ASSETS Debtors and prepayments Bank deposit accounts CURRENT LIABILITIES Creditors and accruals falling due within one year NET CURRENT ASSETS FUNDS At 1 January 2020 (1 October 2018) Net movement in funds At 31 December 2020 (31 December 2019) ANALYSIS of RESTRICTED FUNDS DFID Grant IUCN Grant Oak Foundation Grant Camera Trap Grant Oxford WildCru Grant	Unrestricted Restricted Total 0 0 0 22,988 58,157 81,145 0 0 0 £22,988 £58,157 £81,145 40,936 2,570 43,506 -14,131 51,770 37,639 £26,805 £54,340 £81,145 25,855 1,057 9,500 3,858 14,070 £54,340 2020	Unrestricted Restricted Total 3,817 0 3,817 37,119 2,570 39,689 0 0 0 £40,936 £2,570 £43,506 24,538 1,980 26,518 16,398 590 16,988 £40,936 £2,570 £43,506 0 0 0 0 2,570 £2,570 2019

Signed in Approval

R. G. Dacomb - Finance Trustee

18/02/2021

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CHARITY COMM155ION Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to tho trustoosl members of Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust On accounts for Ihe 12 month8 endèd 31 Decentsr 2020 Charity no (If any) 1166614 Set out on pag 14 I report to the tnjstees on my examination of the a¢¢ounts of the above chaTIty <lh8 Trusf) for ts 12 months ended 31 09￿mbar 2020 Re$ponslblltlos and bash ol report As the thaiitys tNstees. yw are respcrf)sibbe for the preparatlon of the a￿)Unts in aca)rdan￿ with lh8 r8quir8rrBnts of the Charitias Ad 2011 (Ihe Acr). I rep)rt In respect of my examlnatM)n of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Ac and in carrylng out my examlnatlon, I have followed all the ap￿1¢able Dir8dM)ns given by the Charlty Commlsslon under Sect[￿ 145(5Xb) of the ACL Independent I have completed my examination. l Lxxffim that no npterlal matters have oxamlnerfs Statement ct)me to my attent￿n In conned(m wth Ihe eyamin8tk)n ￿thIch glves rr C8U8e to belleve trbat In, any material respect: the aCc￿unti￿ records were not kept in a¢￿)rdance with sectk)n 130 of the Charlties Acl., or the accx)unts did not accorf wilh the ac(x)unting records,. or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concernlng the fomi and ￿nIent of 8ccounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Rep)rts) Regulations 2008 other than any requlrement that the accounts give a 'twe and fairf view which Is not a matter considered as part of an independenl 8￿mination. I have no 12￿ComS and have coff across no other matters In conn8ctlon wlth the examlnation to vthich attention Sh(￿ld be drawn in thls report in order to enable a p￿per understandlng of the acLx)unts b be read)ed. Slgnod: Date: 1210312021 Name: Gavin Power Relevant prof•8slonal quallflcatlon{s) or body Ilf any): Bachelor of Commerce Address.. 77 Oxlord Road South London W4 3DD IER Oct 2018