2022-01-31-accounts

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Descriptfon ofthe charity's trusts
Type of governing document	Constitution
How the charity is constituted	Charitable Incorporated Organisation —Foundation
Trustee selection methods	Trustees are appointed by existing trustees foraterm ofthree years where they may then be appointed forfurther three year terms.
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where	There must be no less than three trustees and no more than twelve one time.	at any
relevant, about:	As a small charity the trustees share all aspects ofthe responsibility	of
~ policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training oftrustees;	running the charity but have elected a chairperson to lead the organisation. All financial and secretarial duties are shared by the board of trustees and all matters are discussed and passed at meetings or through electronic communication.
~ the charity's organisational
structure and any wider network with which the charity	Trustees have written the following policies and procedures which are used in line with Charity Commission Guidance to help the trustees run
works;	the charity. These include Risk Management and Conflict of Interest
~ relationship with any related parties; ~ trustees' consideration of	Procedures and a Donation Policy. All ofthese policies and procedures along with the Financial Control Review have been reviewed and updated by all trustees this year.
major risks and the system
and procedures to manage
them.
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	The charitable objects ofthe Safina Lion Conservation Fund are:
Summary ofthe objects ofthe charity set out in its	To promote forthe benefit ofthe public the conservation and protection of lions by:
governing document	a) Supporting conservation projects in such ways that are charitable
	b Conseivin and rotectin the naturalhabitatsoflions
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							The Safina Lion Conservation Fund is run entirely by volunteers and no
							expenses ofany description are paid totrustees or conservation
							advisers, all ofwhom act and work on a voluntary basis.
							Trustees ofthe Safina Lion Conservation Fund have established and
							agreed on adonation policy where any organisation that receives a
							financial donation from the charity must fit a certain criterion and the
You may			choose		to indude		donation must go towards an action that fits at least one ofour charitable
further statements,					where		objects. The work carried out must be work that we could carry out via
relevant,			about:				those objects. This donation policy was reviewed and updated during this
~	policy		on grantmaking;				financial year.
~	policy programme investment;					related	As well as our trustees we also have a small group ofconservation advisers. All ofwhich are people experienced in conservation and we ask
~	contribution volunteers.			made		by	their opinion ofany organisation the trustees may be considering donating to. Although these advisers do not make any decisions, their advice and feedback is an important resource that trustees can use while
							making decisions on conservation donations.
							The financing and printing ofactivities such as information leaflets and
							website fees was done personally by trustees and not used by money
							from the charity account. This allows public raised funds to go straight to
							our conservation and education work.
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Summary ofthe main achievements ofthe charity during the year							2021 saw normal charity activities disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic but towards the end ofthe year with restrictions lifted we were able to undertake and assist with fundraising and sponsorship events again. Due to this our fundraising levels have surpassed that of2020 and become
							more consistent with the levels we had seen before. This fundraising
							allowed us to fulfil our basic objectives but also save up the majority
							required to sponsor another GPS collar.
							Trustees also worked behind the scenes to update our conservation
							strategy by writing a conservation strategy review 'Working Together For Lions' published on World Lion Day, 10~ August, with athree year plan
							still focussing on our three main focus areas highlighted in our original
							strategy.
							Educational Work &Su ort From Zoos
							Trustees continued to work on the educational pages ofthe website to
							keep them as up to date and informative as possible. Due to conflicting
							information available one ofthe trustees contacted the chair ofthe IUCN
							cat classification task force to seek more clarity on the classification of
							lions in the wild. This communication was most useful and saw us update
							the information on our website to show the two lion subspecies. Panthera
							leo melanochaita commonly referred to as the 'Southern Lion' found
							throughout Eastern and Southern Africa and Panthera leo leo commonly
							referred to as the 'Northern Lion' found throughout central, west and
							northern Africa and India, encompassing the last Asiatic Lion population
							in the Gir Forest. The most significant change isthat the Asiatic lion is
							now considered a sub population and not aseparate subspecies.
							At the innin ofthe ear two educational resentations were also
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camed out online for Bristol University Veterinary and Zoological Society
as well as supporters ofWild Arena Ltd. Wild Arena Ltd donated atotal of f79raised by this online talk. Covid-19 restrictions made it harder to plan
and run traditional fundraising events and talks with many zoos not
holding public talks even when restrictions were slowly lifted, thanks to
the ease ofonline talks and events we were still able to carry out these
talks in a slightly different way.
The Lion Keepers Resource Group was launched in March in
cooperation with Apex Extreme starting with information gathered by
trustees and Apex Extreme. Over the following months several
resources have been added by different zookeepers and the password
has been given to keepers at various different zoos all over the country.	It
is hoped that this would give something back to our zoo supporters by
providing them with a place to share information on all aspects of lion
care and husbandry techniques including a care guide from the welfare
based organisation Wild Welfare. Trustees hope that the LKRG will
continue to grow in number ofresources with over 20resources available
currently and potentially even lead to workshops based on conservation
and husbandry sharing.
Support From Zoos
The restrictions ofthe Covid-19 Pandemic in the earlier part of2021 did
make our traditional work with zoos more difficult to carry out similar to
2020.Talks and larger gatherings became very hard to carry out with
many zoos not holding events to celebrate World Lion Day. f1392.12
came from Folly Farm Adventure Park &Zoo who were the only zoo to
donate to us directly this year with some still suffering the afier effects of
the Covid-19 Pandemic. This comes from 10%ofprofits from their
adoption sales which are split between their chosen conservation
partners. Aside from a large donation, Folly Farm also designed and
installed a large educational sign in October detailing the threats oflions
in the wild and the work that they support through their donations towards
our conservation projects. The sign includes a donations box. Trustees
are incredibly grateful to Folly Farm for their support which has sofar totalled tof4142, close to a third ofour entire income so far.
Support From Other Charities
We have continued to work with Apex Extreme on the Lion Keepers
Resource Group and the Walk For Lions sponsorship event detailed
below. Apex Extreme also carried out fundraising events by holding a
stall at Little Owl Farm Park in Worcestershire throughout the Christmas
season and weekends.
S nsorshi S Fund-Raisin Events
Online fundraising sites such as Just Giving and GoFundMe (via PayPal
Giving Fund) have been invaluable this year with several sponsorship
events taking place. Atotal off1868.40from the Pay Pal Giving Fund and f412.53from Just Giving including Gift Aid received.
Our main fundraising focus this year along with Apex Extreme was to
kickstart our Walk For Lions again this year. This saw us walk a 23km
route around the village ofWomboume and Baggeridge Country Park
while picking up litter on the way as part ofApex Extreme's 'Take Out
The Trash' campaign taking place on 5th September. 9year old Jess, a volunteer ofA x Extreme and her mother Emma took u the role of
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