ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF ORANGUTAN VETERINARY AID (OVAID) FOR THE PERIOD ENDING 31/03/2024
Achievements of the charity during the year 1/4/2023 to 31/3/2024
The charity received an income of £52,712 during this year. The charity has made actual physical donations (comprising purchased medicines, purchased equipment and financial donations) totaling £25,612. In addition the charity also provided donated items from partner companies and individuals and still holds a reserve stock of veterinary equipment and consumables. During this financial year the charity also funded an education opportunity / workshop facility within Indonesia providing experts to train 10 Indonesian veterinarians.
2023 saw the charity continue to support various orangutan rescue groups & rescue and rehabilitation centres in Borneo & Sumatra both financially and with donations of equipment and medicines together with increasing its efforts to provide professional academic and practical training opportunities for local veterinarians.
The charity continues to function with no salaries being paid and the Trustees are pleased to report that administrative costs excluding travel costs remain at less than 1% of the income.
During this financial year the charity has received no legacies but did receive three grants from LUSH, Orangutan Conservancy America & POFCAP Australia but continues to function primarily on funds generated by its supporters.
CHARITY DONATIONS.
The charity has made substantial donations throughout this financial year. Donations of funds and equipment have specifically been made to: Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) Samboja Lestari – Air driven dental machine, dental equipment, surgical lighting for new clinic, wish list fulfilment £15,000
Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) Nyaru Menteng – Air driven dental machine, instruments & wish list fulfilment £6000 Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme Conservation Action Network (CAN) E. Kalimantan - £5,000
In addition the charity was able to attend the annual Orangutan Advisory Group Workshop & Conference in Yogjakarta taking approximately 150kg
of medicines and equipment (£6,000) which was distributed to various orangutan and wildlife rescue / rehabilitation centres.
EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE
The charity continues to fund an equipment maintenance scheme for various orangutan rescue centres.
TRAINING
The charity has continued its efforts to assist with the training of the veterinary teams at the rescue centres and recognises this as an extremely valuable, efficient and increasingly important aspect of its work.
At the outset of 2023 the charity committed to facilitating three specialist wildlife veterinarians to travel to Indonesia to deliver both academic and practical training.
In July 2023 the charity funded a specialist dentist, anaesthetist and a cardiologist to attend the annual Orangutan Veterinary Advisory Group workshop / conference in Bali where they delivered presentations to approximately 80 veterinarians and rescue centre staff.
Following this conference the charity organized for these specialists to conduct a week long workshop at the BOSF Samboja Lestari orangutan rescue and rehabilitation centre in association with Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation and with Indonesian Government permissions and approval. This workshop provided the opportunity for 10 veterinarians from five orangutan rescue centres to receive one to one academic teaching in the subjects of dentistry, anaesthesia and cardiology together with practical surgeries on both orangutan and sun bears. This workshop provided both training and an improvement in the welfare of the resident orangutan and sun bears.
In November / December the charity revisited Indonesia with a group of supporters to deliver further medicines and equipment to both BOSF orangutan rescue centres.
PUBLIC EDUCATION
The co-founders have continued their ongoing programme to deliver educational presentations during this financial year including universities (Bristol University, Glasgow University, University of Brazil) Canterbury College and numerous schools and public meetings.
FUNDING
During 2023/ 2024 the charity provided funding for: a) Veterinarian from Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) to attend and present at a Forensic conference in Malang, Java. b)Veterinarian from BOSF Nyaru Menteng to attend a Forensic Medicine course at the University of Florida, Gainsborogh, USA.
c)The Conservation Action Network (CAN) group in N. E. Kalimantan to enable the rescue with a veterinary presence of a large number of orangutan in a human/orangutan conflict zone adjacent to an open face coal mine.
FUNDRAISING
The charity is extremely grateful to its supporters worldwide. No specific fundraising campaign was initiated in this financial year but the charity was able to undertake its annual fundraising tour. 9 supporters travelled with the co-founders to Sumatra and approximately £6,500 was raised by their fundraising efforts. In total the charity has received £30,727 in donations in the last financial year together with grants for £20,407 and these have been sufficient for us to undertake projects and to continue and expand our work as planned.
The charity has sufficient reserves for the forthcoming financial year.
The Trustees are pleased to report a slight recovery in regular income but a very positive increase in the charity’s activities and influence during the last financial year.
The Trustees have acknowledged the very positive effects of the charity’s innovative training programmes in 2023 and recognise that this is an
important and valuable charity function. Whilst the charity will continue its core activities of providing essential equipment during the forthcoming year it will also be planning a further training opportunity for Indonesian and Malaysian wildlife veterinarians delivering further teaching in dentistry and anaesthesia.
Signed:
Dr N.C.Hicks BVSc. MRCVS. Trustee & Chair August 22[nd] 2024
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