2020-12-31-accounts - For Tigers

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 1 01 2020 To 31 12 2020

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1176840

For Tigers

Charity's principal address 28 Harlton Road Little Eversden Cambridge Postcode CB23 1HB

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year
Annie Vera Hunnestad	Chairwoman
Tanya Sanna Erzinclioglu	Director
Sharon Wynne Erzinclioglu	Treasurer
Heather Beth Morelli	Deputy Director
Mia Hunter	Secretary	Resigned June 2020
Anna Fourage	Trustee
Tomas Brown	Trustee

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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

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO Foundation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the Trustee selection methods charity trustees (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;

Organisational Structure

For Tigers is made up of a board of trustees that include a Chairwoman and Director. The only voting members are the Board of Trustees who review the performance of the charity and support decisions on its governance and strategic direction. The Board provides annual reports on project achievements. The Board also ensures that all governance, finances and practices are robust and aim to help the charity meet its objectives.

relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

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Section C Objectives and activities

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

The mission of this Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) is to work
toward improving the animal welfare of, and promoting the humane
behaviour toward, captive tigers in Thailand, in particular, but without
limitation, by:
i. Providing educational services and support in matters pertaining
to animal welfare in general and the prevention of cruelty and
suffering among animals at facilities housing captive tigers in
Thailand;
ii. Working with locals toward better ethical treatment and
approaches toward animals, wild and captive;
iii. Educating the public in matters pertaining to animal welfare and
the prevention of cruelty and suffering amongst captive tigers;
iv. Analyzing and assessing the welfare, care, treatment, and
housing conditions of captive tigers in facilities across Thailand
that are open to the public;
v. Engaging the public to support positive changes for improving
conditions of animals in captivity; and
vi.Creating and distributing information on responsible wildlife
tourism.

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Public Benefit

The trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit.

For Tigers' founders identified that the charity’s aim was to improve captive tiger welfare in Thailand, reduce the hands-on tourist interactions prevalent in that country and promote humane, ethical and responsible welfare practices to end the suffering of captive tigers.

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)

The organisation’s activities benefit the public in the following manner:

Improving captive tiger welfare in Thailand by educating the public about tiger tourism venues through science-based information via a transparent website, reports, and social media platforms
Improving and promoting humane captive tiger welfare by informing and educating tiger venues on best welfare practices through training and direct aid

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

Achievement and Performance

Charitable activities

To achieve For Tigers’ objectives, we identified the fundamental activities that are the core of all For Tigers’ activities. These include direct aid, research and resource development, partnership networks and public awareness.

For the year ended December 2020:

Objective: Direct Aid Achievement: This year, For Tigers was unable to fulfil any direct aid. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the government facilities were closed to the public and were not permitting outside help. We remain on standby for if and when the need arises. Objective: Research and resource development

Achievement: During this financial year, our staff attended the virtual South East Asian Zoo Association (SEAZA) Annual conference where our director presented work on tiger welfare and the use of Qualitative Behaviour Assessment as an important welfare too. Our staff also attended the virtual European Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EAZA) conference, the International Society for Anthrozoology Annual Conference and the Global Animal Training Summit in order to gain a better understanding of welfare issues, discuss potential steps that could be taken and to network with like-minded organisations and NGOs.

During September to December 2020, we visited and assessed 28 public facilities holding captive tigers in Thailand, doing so from a tourist’s point of view. Due to Covid-19, a number of the facilities were closed either temporarily or permanently resulting in a smaller number of facilities being assessed. For this assessment we continued to use the basic animal welfare assessment form created and implemented in 2019.

We also released a report detailing the common misconceptions surrounding captive tiger interactions covering such topics as drugging, speed-breeding, colour variants and more. The misunderstandings regarding these subjects has led to continuous welfare issues for captive tigers. This report is designed to help visitors to such facilities have a better understanding for what is occurring and can help them ask the right questions in order to ascertain whether the venue they are visiting is welfare orientated.

Objective: Partnership networks Achievement: Talks are continuing with the tiger venue in Thailand, but with the current Covid-19 crisis, talks were put on hold.

A new potential partnership is now in the early stages. For Tigers is currently creating a captive tiger enrichment programme alongside Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) in order to create a programme that can be implemented anywhere in the world, but with particular focus on those facilities that have a lower welfare understanding or do not have such expansive budgets.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Objective: Public Awareness

Achievement: For Tigers always strives to provide clear and objective information regarding tiger welfare at the facilities across Thailand. This is disseminated via regular newsletters, a website blog and the responsible use of various social media channels.

In addition, we held our third fundraising event, this year in virtual form, which was key to communicating many of the welfare issues prevalent across Thailand’s tiger facilities. We also held an online comedy event where a number of comedians helped to highlight some of the welfare issues surrounding tiger selfies.

Finally, we teamed up with Roxi the Rescue Dog who released a short children’s story outlining the welfare issues surrounding tiger interactions in a format to educate the younger generation.

All of our communication with the public is designed to raise effective awareness of welfare issues, elicit positive change and also to secure on going income for our work. Social media is particularly pertinent in these areas, so we are continuing to grow our audience and interaction in these areas.

Future Plans 2021

We plan to continue our direct support of the two Department of National Parks (DNP) facilities housing confiscated tigers in order to continue improving and upgrading their current facilities.
We plan to create further, and continuous updated educational material to aid tourists in choosing welfare-friendly captive tiger venues
We aim to continue creating educational and/or training material such as enrichment guides that can be delivered to staff working with tigers in Thai venues.
All educational and training material is planned to be translated into Thai (for venue staff), and various other languages including Mandarin, Russian, Hindi and French in order to reach, and educate, a wider range of tourist groups
We will continue to develop additional research opportunities with zoos and NGO partners
We will identify facilities willing to accept support, aid and advice to become more welfare aware.
We intend to continue working with the tiger venue, supporting their progress and transition

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

The charity aims to keep in reserve sufficient funds to cover the running costs such as those applicable for website and domain usage.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

N/a

Further financial review details (Optional information)

Financial Review

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

Total income from donations for the period was £3881 Rollover total from 2019 was £1056 Total expenditure for this period was £253 Funds Policies

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
• how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
The 2021 expected expenditure is £5000, which aims to allow for
supported the key objectives development in a number of areas including direct aid and dissemination
of the charity; of educational materials, as well as the potential development of venue
• investment policy and resource materials. We therefore need to continue identifying new donor objectives including any avenues to meet this predicted expenditure. ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

There were no trustees’ remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 December 2020.

There were no trustees’ expenses paid for the year ended 31 December 2020.

Section G Declaration

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

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Charity Name For Tigers

No (if any) 1176840

Receipts and payments accounts

CC16a

For the period from	01/01/2020	To	31/12/2020

	Unrestricted funds	Restricted funds	Endowment funds	Total funds	Last year
	to the nearest £	to the nearest £	to the nearest £	to the nearest £	to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations	1,334	-	-	1,334	575
Fundraising	1,393	-	-	1,393	3,751
AmazonSmile	18	-	-	18	23
EasyFundRaising	83	-	-	83	30
Animal Friends Grant	1,000	-	-	1,000	-
OneLottery	53	-	-	53	-
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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	3,881	-	-	3,881	4,379

A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £	Restricted funds to the nearest £	Endowment funds to the nearest £	Total funds to the nearest £	Last year to the nearest £
Donations	1,334	-	-	1,334	575
Fundraising	1,393	-	-	1,393	3,751
AmazonSmile	18	-	-	18	23
EasyFundRaising	83	-	-	83	30
Animal Friends Grant	1,000	-	-	1,000	-
OneLottery	53	-	-	53	-
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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	3,881	-	-	3,881	4,379
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).		- - - -	- - - -	- - - 3,881
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*Sub total*	-				-
*Total receipts* A3 Payments
					4,379

Charitable activities	30	-	-	30	5,334
Support costs	183	-	-	183	64
LotteryLicence	40	-	-	40	-
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**Sub total **	253	-	-	253	5,398

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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**Sub total **	-				-
*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*
					5,398

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	4,684				1,056

Unrestricted funds to nearest £ - - - 4,684	Restricted funds to nearest £ - - -	Endowment funds to nearest £
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

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