## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Da Month Year **From** 01 01 2021 **To** 31 12 2021
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1166614 **Charity's principal address** 9 The Clock Tower
Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust
Redlers Waterside, Dudbridge Rd. Stroud, Gloucestershire **Postcode GL5 3LH**
## **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
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Gary Gilmour Chairman Full year
2 Andrew Weir Full year
3 Valerie Swanson Secretary Full year
Rodney Graeme Finance Full year
4
Dacomb
5 James O Murray Full year
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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;
VFWT held quarterly board meetings and reviewed relevant procedures and policies and networking for Trustees during the COVID-19 limitations
VFWT maintained the company risk register and reviewed any new risks and updated outstanding risks each board meeting. VFWT also continued to hold virtual meetings with downstream implementing project partners to review their risks and procedures.
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- 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 2021 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
- Funding included 10 new satellite lion collars for lions that were identified as potential human wildlife conflict risk, disease risk or poaching risk
- Deployed 5 new predator proof mobile bomas
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:
- 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
- Prevent disease in livestock and domestic animals
- 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 ~2430 direct beneficiaries that are situated in the wildlife interface area of two rural communities that directly benefited from a reduction in human-wildlife conflict with carnivores and elephant and had a 91% increase in their cropping yields that helped them to feed their families, alleviating hunger for many people and improving their nutrition.
Provided funding to enhance the Victoria Falls Wildlife Disease and Forensics 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.
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- Grant funding also has been received for an epidemiologist to work on activities of the regional Animal Health Sub-Working Group (KAZA) and communicate and collaborate with the Directors of Veterinary Services for all five countries to communicate on disease concerns, reporting and collaboration on movement of samples and disease diagnosis.
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, the risk register is maintained and updated regularly.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
|Achievements and performance|Achievements and performance|
|---|---|
|In the past 12 months of operation, we have managed to achieve
significant goals, including helping fund programmes that had the
following outcomes
Through the UK Aid project, 2430 direct beneficiaries improved their||
||livelihoods through reduction in human wildlife conflict in their rural|
||communities, and had a 91% increase in cropping yields to also alleviate|
||hunger for subsistence agro-pastoralists|
||Worked with local rural communities to plant millet and develop a|
||value chain with a local micro-brewery to purchase the millet and then|
||for the project to take the used grains, hops and offtake from beer|
||fermentation process and dry it and then use for cattle fodder during|
||the dry season when grazing is short and livestock nutrition is low|
||66 endangered black & white rhino immobilized, ear-notched,|
||microchipped, health checks done and samples taken for genetics, as|
||well as a translocation of 10 black rhino to a new founder population in|
||Gonarezhou National Park|
||Trained 27 First responding wildlife rangers on Wildlife Diseases,|
||Poisonings, and Wildlife Crime Scene Awareness from Chizarira|
||National Park and surrounding areas|
||Supported teams to remove over 33 wire snares from a range of|
||species from elephants to warthogs, lions and hyena, buffalo and|
||impala, kudu and waterbuck|
||Assisted with support to rehabilitate pangolins confiscated from the|
||illegal wildlife trade, and a wide range of other species injured through|
||human interference (vultures, goshawks, warthogs, eland, bushbuck)|
||Deployed 5 new mobile predator proof kraals/bomas to prevent|
||livestock losses|
||Supported the purchase of 10 satellite tracking collars for lion and the|
||teams conducting field research to deploy the collars on lions identified|
||as high risk for poaching and human-wildlife conflict. Identified 76|
||individual lions in the region through whisker spot analysis|
||Provided support for teams to satellite collar 5 problem animal|
||elephants in Victoria Falls urban area, that were immobilized in conflict|
||situations, to monitor elephant after collaring and immobilization and|
||their movements in urban environment|
||Supported the VFWT Zimbabwe laboratory team who received 1373|
||animal samples from 225 cases, testing for a range of zoonotic diseases|
||Worked with regional partners through the African Wildlife Forensics|
||Network to support laboratory forensics capacity to test for 19|
||forensics cases.|
||Assisted with vaccinations for 1973 head of livestock against|
||transboundary animal diseases, as well as dip and de-worming to keep|
||the animals healthy|
||Vaccinated over 1750 dogs against rabies and 1000 dogs against|
||distemper, helping keep rabies and distemper out of the area|
||Protected conflict lions through conflict prevention and mitigation, and|
||consequently not one lion was lost due to problem animal control|
||Facilitated support to survey 257 vulture nest breeding sites, including a|
||major critically endangered white backed vulture colony that showed a|
||15% annual decline from 2020. The survey also identified elephant|
||impact to nesting trees as a major threat to the nesting habitat and|
||funding in 2022 will be utilized to address the habitat protection for this|
||colony|
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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 £50,000 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);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
The charity’s principal sources of funds have continued to be mainly grant driven, with finalization of FCDO UK AID grant funding for the SCCF project, and IUCN. Additional funds were received from OAK Foundation for Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust to use for a downstream partner to assist with a KAZA Animal Health Sub-Working Group Epidemiologist, and disease and forensics work at the end of 2021 and this will roll over into 2022. Funding was also secured for a small grant from the Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust at the end of 2021 for vulture conservation with Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust Zimbabwe, and this will also roll over into 2022.
- 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 the respective grants for projects in Zimbabwe, and restricted donation requirements (e.g. towards a vehicle for a veterinarian in Zimbabwe)
The charity only has a bank account and makes no investments.
## **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,** Chair Finance **etc) Date** 25 March 2022
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## **VICTORIA FALLS WILDLIFE TRUST**
## **CHARITY NUMBER: 1166614**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS FOR THE PERIOD 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021**
## **UNRESTRICTED FUNDS**
|**RECEIPTS**
Donations
Lion Collars
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
Purchase/donation of vehicle
Darting Supplies
**SURPLUS/(DEFICIT)**
Transfers from Restricted Funds
**Net Movement in Funds**|£
£
41,448
41,000
10,250
0
92,698
92,698
4
0
25,804
0
15,875
91
41,774
£50,924
23,349
£74,273
**12 months 2021**|**12 months 2020**
£
£
21,535
0
0
21,535
21,535
6
0
33,860
1,800
0
35,666
-£14,131
0
-£14,131|
|---|---|---|
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## **VICTORIA FALLS WILDLIFE TRUST**
## **CHARITY NUMBER: 1166614**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS FOR THE PERIOD 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021**
## **RESTRICTED FUNDS**
|**RECEIPTS**
DFID Grant
IUCN Grant
Oak Foundation
Camera Trap Grant
University of Oxford - Human/Wildlife conflict mitigation
University of Oxford - Wildlife Conservation Research
Ernest Kleinwort Trust - Vulture conservation
Beit Trust - Interpretive Centre
**Total Receipts**
**PAYMENTS**
DFID Grant transferred to VFWT Zimbabwe
IUCN Grant transferred to VFWT Zimbabwe
Oak Foundation Grant transferred to VFWT Zimbabwe
Camera Trap Grant expenses
Interpretive Centre
Ernest Kleinwort Trust -
Vulture Conservation
Wildlife Conservation Research
Grant expenses
**Total Payments**
Net Receipts/Payments
Cash funds at beginning
Cash funds at period end|**12 months**
**2021**
£
254
25,051
37,500
0
0
0
0
21,000
£83,805
26,109
26,108
17,286
3,858
21,000
0
14,070
108,431
-24,626
54,340
£29,714|**12 months**
**2020**
£
49,678
24,583
19,500
7,458
0
11,500
0
£112,719
23,823
23,526
10,000
3,600
0
0
0
60,949
51,770
2,570
£54,340|
|---|---|---|
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## **VICTORIA FALLS WILDLIFE TRUST**
## **CHARITY NUMBER: 1166614**
## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES AT 31 DECEMBER 2021**
|**Unrestricted Restricted**
**Total**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Debtors and prepayments
0
0
0
Bank deposit accounts
101,078
34,714
135,792
**CURRENT LIABILITIES**
Creditors and accruals falling
due within one year
0
5,000
5,000
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
£101,078
£29,714
£130,792
**FUNDS**
At 1 January
26,805
54,340
81,145
Net movement in funds
74,273
-24,626
49,647
At 31 December
£101,078
£29,714
£130,792
Of which:**RESERVED FUNDS**
£50,000
£29,714
£79,714
**UNRESERVED FUNDS**
£51,078
0
£51,078
**ANALYSIS of RESTRICTED FUNDS**
DFID Grant
0
IUCN Grant
0
Oak Foundation Grant
29,714
Camera Trap Grant
0
Ernest Kleinwort Trust
0
Beit Trust - Interpretive Centre
0
Oxford WildCru Grant
0
£29,714
Signed in Approval
**2021**|**Unrestricted Restricted**
**Total**
0
0
0
26,805
54,340
81,145
0
0
0
£26,805
£54,340
£81,145
40,936
2,570
43,506
-14,131
51,770
37,639
£26,805
£54,340
£81,145
£5,000
£54,340
£59,340
£21,805
0
£21,805
25,855
1,057
9,500
3,858
0
0
14,070
£54,340
**2020**|
|---|---|
R. G. Dacomb - Finance Trustee
25 March 2022
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examinerfs
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to tho trusteesl
membors of
,TraiMy N8rn11
Vlctoria Fal Wildlife Trust
On accounts for tha year
ended
31 Decen*er 2021
Charfty no
(if any)
1166614
Set out on pages
1-3
14femembef to th•. pÈg& nL.mbE*r* of $lio0141
I report to the trust88s my examination of th8 accounts of the above
charlty (Yhe TNst') for the year ended ,' i¥ldi l YY,
Rospon8lbllftles and As the charity trustees of the Tnjst, you are responsib16 for the preparatkjn
basls of report of Ihe accounts in accordance ¥th the requlrements of the Chatitbes Act
2011 (Ihe Act").
I report in respect of my exaMInatk of the Trust's accA)unts carrfed out
under section 145 of the 2011 Acl and in carying out my examination. I
have followed the applicable Diredions glven by the Chadty Commi881on
uNler section 145{5Mb} of Ihe ACL
I have completèd my examination. I confimi that no materlal matters have
come to my attentlon (other Ihan that dlsdosed bek>w") in connection with
the examination whith gives me cause to belleve that In, any material
respect:
accountmg re(x)rds were not kept In 8rdan with sectlon 130 of
the Act or
the a¢Unts do t accord wldi the a(xx)unting record8
Independent
oxamlnerf8 8tatem•nt
I have no (cernS have (Y>me across no otsr matters In OneCtIon
th the examination to vthich attentlon should be drawn In order to enable a
proper understsnding of th8 accounts to be rea¢J)ed.
. Ple8s8 delete the words In Ihe brackets rf they do not 8ppty.
Slgnod:
Dato:
2510312022
Nam•:
Gavin Power
Relevant profe88lonal
quallfication(s) or body
{If ary):
77 Oxft)rd Road South
London W4 3DD
IER
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