2023-12-31-accounts - For Tigers

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

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Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 1 01 2023 To 31 12 2023

Section A Reference and administration details

For Tigers

Charity name For Tigers Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1176840 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
Anna Fourage	Trustee
Tomas Brown	Trustee
Ratjatanan Prapatsorn	Trustee
Tunya Chinpilas	Trustee	Appointed 3rd December

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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 2023:

Objective: Direct Aid

Achievement: This year, For Tigers continued its collaboration with the Department of National Parks (DNP). Three more enclosures were finalised as per the plans of 2022 providing all tigers within Khao Son DNP facility access to an enclosure. Each enclosure contains trees, grass and a pond. In the future, additional funding projects within the DNP facilities will incorporate more enrichment items such as the provision of tyres, barrels and balls. Medication including deworming pills was donated to both DNP facilities.

Our collaboration with Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT) continued. This rescue and rehabilitation facility within Thailand began the process of rescuing a further 20+ tigers from Mukdahan Tiger zoo, a recently closed tiger farm in northern Thailand. For Tigers funded transport costs as well as materials for enclosures for the tigers to move into. In 2023, For Tigers was able to collaborate with WFFT in the rescue of 12 tigers, part of one of the largest non-governmental tiger rescues in Thailand. This collaboration will continue in 2024 as there are still 12+ tigers in need of rescue from this tiger farm, and enclosures still need to be built.

Objective: Research and resource development

Achievement: During this financial year, our staff attended the South East Asian Zoo Association (SEAZA) Annual conference, as well as taking part in an Enclosure Design workshop from EAZA, and various training workshops by Animal Training Fundamentals 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 May 2023, we visited and assessed 33 public facilities holding captive tigers in Thailand, doing so from a tourist’s point of view. For this assessment, we continued to use the basic animal welfare assessment form created and implemented in 2019. This welfare assessment form underwent further improvements and updates to the scoring system and rating criteria in accordance with the latest animal welfare literature.

Our second intern joined this data collection field trip, working with us from May to August 2023. The role of the intern was to participate in the welfare assessments and to perform their own tiger welfare research on the use of ponds in tiger enclosures. The internship culminated in a Masters thesis awarded a distinction.

Finally, a paper entitled “Using qualitative behaviour assessment (QBA) to investigate the effect of tourist presence on the welfare of captive tigers in three tourism facilities in Thailand” by For Tigers director, Tanya Erzinclioglu, was published in Zoo Biology (DOI: 10.1002/zoo.21804). It

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Section D Achievements and performance

is a novel application of QBA and provides a new method for assessing captive tiger welfare.

Objective: Partnership networks

Achievement: Talks with tiger venue, Tiger World, were successful in 2023 regarding tiger welfare and potential management practice changes. This has resulted in the moving forward of a working relationship with the venue, starting with providing training material, and access and provision of tiger welfare information for the keepers. The working partnership will begin in 2024.

For Tigers has continued its collaboration with other NGO’s namely, Wild Welfare for research and dissemination of materials and workshops, and Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, to further aid in the rescue of confiscated tigers in Thailand.

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.

The process to translate the website into Thai began in 2023. A small portion of the website is now available in Thai in an effort to reach out and engage a wider audience.

In addition, we held our sixth fundraising event, which was key to communicating many of the welfare issues prevalent across Thailand’s tiger facilities. This year we fully returned to our original in-person format and include the tiger walk with members of all ages. 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 2024

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 as well as providing more enrichment items.
We plan to create further, and continuous updated educational material to aid tourists in choosing welfare-friendly captive tiger venues
We aim to create educational and/or training material such as enrichment guides that can be delivered to staff working with tigers in Thai venues such as Tiger World.
All educational and training material is planned to be translated into Thai (for venue staff) as well as the entire website.
We will continue to develop additional research opportunities with zoos and NGO partners
We will continue to identify facilities willing to accept support, aid and advice to become more welfare aware.
We intend to continue working with Tiger World, supporting their progress and potential for transition away from the tourist business model

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Section D Achievements and performance

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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 and grants for the period was £13,172 Rollover total from 2022 was £2589 Total expenditure for this period was £14,225 Funds Policies

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
The 2024 expected expenditure is £10,000, 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 2023.

There were no trustees’ expenses paid for the year ended 31 December 2023.

Section G Declaration

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

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

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Charity Name No (if any) For Tigers 1176840

Receipts and payments accounts

CC16a

For the period from	1/1/2023	To	12/31/2023

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	1,270	-	-	1,270	1,233
Fundraising	5,048		-	5,048	1,284
AmazonSmile	73	-	-	73	86
EasyFundRaising	16	-	-	16	31
Animal Friends Grant	6,025	-	-	6,025	5,000
OneLottery	244	-	-	244	165
Gift Aid	283	-	-	283	38
JustGiving	-	-	-	-	-
Merchandise	212	-	-	212	91
*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	13,172	-	-	13,172	7,928

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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*Total receipts* A3 Payments
					7,928

Charitable activities	13,487	-	-	13,487	10,419
Support costs	235	-	-	235	371
Enthuse Platform costs	504	-	-	504	414
Merchandise costs	-	-	-	-	542
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**Sub total **	14,225	-	-	14,225	11,746

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*
					11,746


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	1,536			1,536	2,589

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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Signature	Print	Name		Date of approval

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)