## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1 November 2024 Period start date To 31 October 2025 Period end date** **Charity name: Gloucestershire Raptor Monitoring Group CIO** ## **Charity registration number: 1185930** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To advance the education of the public**
**in matters pertaining to wild birds of**
**prey (Raptors), their habitats, species**
**conservation and monitoring,**
**ornithology and avian biology.**
**To promote for the benefit of the public**
**the conservation and protection of wild**
**birds of prey (Raptors) and their**
**habitats.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Holding talks open to the public at large**
**to disseminate our conservation and**
**monitoring work and to educate the**
**public generally in UK and**
**Gloucestershire raptors.**
**Monitoring, marking (rings and tags)**
**and conserving Gloucestershire raptors**
**and maintaining a database of all**
**activities.**
**Communicating with the public at large**
**via our website.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees are always mindful of the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit and**
**discharge these responsibilities by**
**holding regular talks and raptor events**
**in addition to maintaining our website**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**We make grants when it might assist**
**our understanding of local raptors and/**
**or promote scientific research into**
**conservation/ monitoring.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**The Trustees have invested in display**
**materials, equipment for talks and**
**website development to facilitate**
**dissemination of information to the**
**public at large.**| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The Trustees, themselves unpaid**
**volunteers, recognise the input of all our**
**volunteers (numbering c. 40 in 2024/25)**
**who include monitors, ringers, satellite**
**taggers, climbers, authors, web**
**specialists and general administrative**
**workers. GRMG CIO is entirely**
**dependant on all its volunteers. We**
**operate with no paid staff.**| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Our monitoring data now contributes to**
**the national report by the Rare Breeding**
**Birds Panel, published in the British**
**Birds journal.**
**Where possible we will support local**
**universities and colleges with their**
**student studies and suggesting**
**potential projects. We have supported**
**one person with their Doctorate.**
**GRMGs Goshawk study is the largest**
**study in the UK and has been going**
**since 1982.**
**GRMG volunteers monitored several**
**hundred nests of a range of raptors and**
**owls including Goshawk, Red Kite,**
**Peregrine, Hobby, Sparrowhawk,**
**Buzzard, Kestrel, Tawny Owl, Little Owl**
**and Barn Owl. Many of the chicks were**
**also ringed by our licenced bird ringers**
**with the data collected contributing to**
**the British Trust for Ornithology’s**
**national nest record and ringing**
**schemes as well as local conservation**
**knowledge. Our volunteers have also**
**provided advice to many landowners**
**and managers across the county**
**regarding conservation of and habitat**
**management for raptors.**
**Aided Police and other agencies in**
**multiple potential Raptor persecution**| **investigations. GRMG sit on the Gloucestershire Police Wildlife engagement group.** **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves|Para 1.22|**Reserves comprise entirely of bank and**
**cash funds and these are held to**| |stating why they are held||**facilitate our future activities.**| |---|---|---| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£4678**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**There is no such uncertainty.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**Talks by celebrity raptor enthusiasts**
**and also by our own volunteers.**
**Raptor ID events in the field.**
**Gift Aid**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**Our investment policy is to generate**
**sufficient funds for our current and**
**future activities and to maintain high**
**liquidity. We also invest in materials**
**required by our volunteers to carry out**
**their conservation, monitoring and**
**marking activities such as harnesses,**
**ladders, ropes, trail cams and batteries.**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The risks are limited to an inability to**
**continue to generate funding to facilitate**
**our activities. Our current funds would**
**provide for at least four years future**
**activities (depending on how we fund**
**any future satellite tagging costs)**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**whose only voting members are its**
**charity trustees.**
**(‘Foundation’ model constitution)**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**In selecting individuals for appointment**
**as charity trustees, the charity trustees**
**will have regard to the skills, knowledge**
**and experience needed for the effective**
**administration of the CIO.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**Gloucestershire Raptor Monitoring Group CIO**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|**GRMG CIO**| |Registered charity number|**1185930**| |Charity’s principal address|**Old Builders Arms**
**Randalls Green**
**Chalford Hill**
**Nr Stroud**
**GLOS**
**GL6 8EF**| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if**
**not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**Gordon Kirk**|**Co-Founder & former Chair.**||| ||**Natalie Roberts**|**Chief Operating**||| ||**Gareth Jones**|**Chair/ Wildlife Crime**||| ||**Anna Field**|**BTO ringer/ monitor**||| ||**Stephen Watson**|**Treasurer**||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** ## Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |||| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets **N/A** held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees’ Report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Stephen Joseph Watson Full name(s) Gareth Jones Position (eg Secretary, Chair Treasurer Chair, etc) Date 29 January 2026** ## **GRMG CIO Group Accounts 12 months ending 31 October 2025** |**Balances brought forward at 1 November 2024**
Bank balance
Cash in hand
**Total**
**Income received**
Donations Received
Conservation services
Grants
Gift Aid
Talks income
Sales of GRMG badges
Sales of Nestboxes
Raffle ticket sales
**Expenditure incurred**
Nestbox build costs - materials/ labour
Nestboxes for resale
Ringing costs (Bags/rings/ladders)
Badges/ fridge magnets for resale
Sat Tags for Goshawk ex BTO
Climbing harness, ropes, consumables
Trailcams, cameras, batteries, disk storage
Conservation sub contract costs
Advertising
PR (Literature & Brochures)
Venue hire re Talks
Speaker costs
Refreshments for Talks
Printing costs
Postage and Carriage
PA System / Projector for talks
Office Stationery
Computer Equipment and Software
IT Support & eqpt.
Website support
Insurance
Show expenses
Display materials
Paypal charges
Ticketing commission
Zettle card fees
Credit card charges|**2024/25**
**£**
2420.09
340.72
**2760.81**
342.51
500.00
625.92
277.19
2824.49
100.00
**4670.11**
(50.79)
(1483.51)
(300.00)
(200.00)
(10.00)
(50.00)
(120.00)
(298.38)
(190.06)|**2023/24**
£
2309.04
103.21
**2412.25**
776.50
1750.00
1923.71
**4450.21**
(822.44)
(163.64)
(141.60)
(109.99)
(240.00)
(126.00)
(1452.96)
(240.00)
(339.74)
(93.99)
(23.41)
(187.88)|**2022/23**
£
513.93
220.01
**733.94**
200.00
675.10
500.00
495.29
2395.14
**4265.53**
(313.00)
(254.93)
(139.90)
(275.10)
(523.20)
(100.00)
(285.20)
(57.80)
(37.18)
(231.42)|**2021/22**
£
774.95
386.50| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**1161.45**| |||||1016.60
3433.95
82.55
120.00| |||||**4653.10**
(2071.20)
(1071.13)
(306.12)
(274.62)
(962.40)
(60.00)
(267.96)
(13.99)
£0.01| 1 of 4 ## **GRMG CIO Group Accounts 12 months ending 31 October 2025** |Bank charges
Grant
First Aid kit/ courses
Raffle prizes
Donations
Donations
Endoscope & poles x2
Endoscope batteries
Ladder for nest box checking
Climbing spikes
Ladder for nest box checking
iZettle card machines
Surplus/ deficit|(50.00)
(2752.74)
**1917.37**
**£4,678.18**
4298.95
379.23
**£4,678.18**
4678.18
**£4,678.18**|(60.00)
(100.00)
(4101.65)
£348.56
**£2760.81**
£2420.09
£340.72
**£2760.81**
£2760.81
**£2760.81**|(60.00)
(216.00)
(93.49)
(2587.22)
£1678.31
**£2412.25**
£2309.04
£103.21
**£2412.25**
£2412.25
**£2412.25**|(53.20)| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||(5080.61)| |||||(427.51)| |||||| |**Balance as at 31 October 2025**
Bank balance
Cash in hand
**Total balances at 31 October 2025**||||**£733.94**| |||||£513.93
£220.01| |||||**£733.94**| |||||£733.94| |Represented by;
**Unrestricted Funds**
**Restricted Funds**
**Designated Funds**
**Total Capital at 31 October 2025**||||| |||||**£733.94**| 2 of 4 |**GRMG CIO**|||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Income & Expenditure Account**|||||||**Income**|||**Expenditure**||**Totals**|**Balances**||| |**To 31 October 2025**
**Date**
**Income/ Expense type**||**_Notes_**
**_o/s_**|**_GA_**|**_reclaim_**|**_NL_**
**_Code_**|**Bank**
**£ p**|**Paypal**
**£ p**|**Cash**
**£ p**|**Bank**
**£ p**|**Paypal**
**£ p**|**Cash**
**£ p**|**£ p**|**Bank**
**£ p**|**Paypal **
**£ p**|**Cash**
**£ p**| ||||||**_NL_**|**BankIn**|**PaypalIn**|**CashIn**|**BankOut**|**PaypalOut**|**CashOut**|**Totals**|||| |01-Nov-24|**Balances b/fwd**|||||||||||**2420.09 **|**######**|**0.00**|**340.72**| |01-Nov-24|eBay O*09-12263-27LONDON|**_Anna_**|||_6002_||||(£14.69)|||**(14.69)**|2405.40|0.00|340.72| |01-Nov-24|eBay O*18-12253-31LONDON|**_Anna_**|||_6002_||||(£36.10)|||**(36.10)**|2369.30|0.00|340.72| |05-Nov-24|EB *EVENTBRITE INV801-413-7200||||_6301_||||(£19.32)|||**(19.32)**|2349.98|0.00|340.72| |15-Nov-24|TOTAL CHARGES TO 24OCT2024||||_6304_||||(£5.00)|||**(5.00)**|2344.98|0.00|340.72| |21-Nov-24|Ticket sales RT Cotswold Raptors talk||||_4400_|||440.00||||**440.00**|2344.98|0.00|780.72| |21-Nov-24|Donations||**_GA_**||_4000_|||10.51||||**10.51**|2344.98|0.00|791.23| |21-Nov-24|Sale of badges at RT event||||_4401_|||60.00||||**60.00**|2344.98|0.00|851.23| |21-Nov-24|PAYPAL*WYLDE NATALRichmond||||_4400_|£111.59||||||**111.59**|2456.57|0.00|851.23| |21-Nov-24|Hall hire - RT event||||_6207_||||||(60.00)|**(60.00)**|2456.57|0.00|791.23| |26-Nov-24|ANNA FIELD Annatalk||||_4400_|£8.00||||||**8.00**|2464.57|0.00|791.23| |06-Dec-24|EB *EVENTBRITE INV801-413-7200||||_6301_||||(£5.52)|||**(5.52)**|2459.05|0.00|791.23| |06-Dec-24|EB *EVENTBRITE INV801-413-7200||||_6301_||||(£5.52)|||**(5.52)**|2453.53|0.00|791.23| |16-Dec-24|TOTAL CHARGES TO 24NOV2024||||_6304_||||(£5.00)|||**(5.00)**|2448.53|0.00|791.23| |20-Dec-24|Howden Insurance 12 mths employers/ public liab ins.||||_6225_||||(£298.38)|||**(298.38)**|2150.15|0.00|791.23| |21-Dec-24|Petty Cash banked||||_tfr_|200.00|||||(200.00)|**0.00**|2350.15|0.00|591.23| |02-Jan-25|Donation received - Chris Furley||**_GA_**||_4000_|300.00||||||**300.00**|2650.15|0.00|591.23| |09-Jan-25|Electronics- adapters/ batteries||||_6223_||||||(50.00)|**(50.00)**|2650.15|0.00|541.23| |09-Jan-25|Sundries||||_6221_||||||(10.00)|**(10.00)**|2650.15|0.00|531.23| |13-Jan-25|FE Conservation fees||||_4001_|500.00||||||**500.00**|3150.15|0.00|531.23| |15-Jan-25|Bank charges||||_6304_||||(£5.00)|||**(5.00)**|3145.15|0.00|531.23| |29-Jan-25|Ticket sales on door cash Keith Betton||||_4400_|||392.00||||**392.00**|3145.15|0.00|923.23| |29-Jan-25|Sale of badges at KB event||||_4401_|||30.00||||**30.00**|3145.15|0.00|953.23| |29-Jan-25|Donations||**_GA_**||_4000_|||14.00||||**14.00**|3145.15|0.00|967.23| |29-Jan-25|Venue Hire at KB event||||_6207_||||||(60.00)|**(60.00)**|3145.15|0.00|907.23| |29-Jan-25|Speaker costs KB incl. Fee, Travel, meal||||_6208_||||||(200.00)|**(200.00)**|3145.15|0.00|707.23| |30-Jan-25|Eventbrite ticket sales KB event via PayPal||||_4400_|112.00||||||**112.00**|3257.15|0.00|707.23| |30-Jan-25|Eventbrite fees KB event via PayPal||||_6301_||||(£6.52)|||**(6.52)**|3250.63|0.00|707.23| |31-Jan-25|Petty Cash banked [via G Kirk account]||||_tfr_|300.00|||||(300.00)|**0.00**|3550.63|0.00|407.23| |15-Feb-25|Bank charges||||_6304_||||(£5.00)|||**(5.00)**|3545.63|0.00|407.23| |04-Mar-25|Eventbrite fees KB event via PayPal||||_6301_||||(£44.16)|||**(44.16)**|3501.47|0.00|407.23| |09-Mar-25|Cash takings Ed Drewitt talk 'City Falcons'||||_4400_|||424.00||||**424.00**|3501.47|0.00|831.23| |09-Mar-25|Donations||**_GA_**||_4000_|||8.00||||**8.00**|3501.47|0.00|839.23| |09-Mar-25|Eventbrite ticket sales ED City Falcons event via PayPal [28]||||_4400_|**224.00**||||||**224.00**|3725.47|0.00|839.23| |09-Mar-25|Eventbrite fees ED event via PayPal||||_6301_||||**(38.64)**|||**(38.64)**|3686.83|0.00|839.23| |09-Mar-25|Venue Hire at ED event||||_6207_||||||(60.00)|**(60.00)**|3686.83|0.00|779.23| |09-Mar-25|Petty Cash banked [via G Kirk account]||||_tfr_|300.00|||||(300.00)|**0.00**|3986.83|0.00|479.23| |18-Mar-25|Bank charges||||_6304_||||(£5.00)|||**(5.00)**|3981.83|0.00|479.23| |27-Mar-25|GNS grant via Anna ref trailcams||||_4100_|625.92||||||**625.92**|4607.75|0.00|479.23| |03-Apr-25|Cash takings Sophie-Lee Williamst talk 'WTE reintroduction'||||_4400_|||416.00||||**416.00**|4607.75|0.00|895.23| |03-Apr-25|Donations WTE||**_GA_**||_4000_|||4.00||||**4.00**|4607.75|0.00|899.23| |03-Apr-25|Badge sales WTE||||_4401_|||5.00||||**5.00**|4607.75|0.00|904.23| |03-Apr-25|Venue Hire at WTE event||||_6207_||||||(60.00)|**(60.00)**|4607.75|0.00|844.23| |05-Apr-25|Petty Cash banked [via G Kirk account]||||_tfr_|300.00|||||(300.00)|**0.00**|4907.75|0.00|544.23| |06-Apr-25|Eventbrite fees WTE talk via VISA||||_6301_||||(£23.46)|||**(23.46)**|4884.29|0.00|544.23| ||||||||3 of 4||||||||| |**GRMG CIO**
**Income & Expenditure Account**
**To 31 October 2025**
**_Notes_**
**_NL_**
**_o/s_**
**_Code_**
**Date**
**Income/ Expense type**
**_NL_**
**_GA_**
**_reclaim_**
06-Apr-25 Eventbrite ticket sales WTE via PayPal
_4400_
06-Apr-25 18x ursus trailcams reimburse Gareth
_6006_
09-Apr-25 WTE talk - Anna Ford ticket
_4400_
10-Apr-25 Petty Cash banked [via G Kirk account]
_tfr_
16-Apr-25 Ebay - batteries for Anna
_6006_
18-Apr-25 Bank charges
_6304_
06-May-25 Petty Cash banked [via G Kirk account]
_tfr_
18-May-25 Bank charges
_6304_
03-Jun-25 SD cards for Harriet
_6006_
03-Jun-25 Batteries for Harriet
_6006_
18-Jun-25 Bank charges
_6304_
18-Jul-25 Bank charges
_6304_
18-Aug-25 Bank charges
_6304_
20-Aug-25 Gift Aid
_4300_
03-Sep-25 Amazon (?)
_6006_
18-Oct-25 Hosting fees 2025/26
_6224_
22-Oct-25 GK talk - ticket sales on night
_4400_
22-Oct-25 Donations
**_GA_**
_4000_
22-Oct-25 Badge sales
_4401_
22-Oct-25 Venue Hire
_6207_
31-Oct-25 Eventbrite talk income GK (aggregated 15/9 - 31/10)
_4400_
31-Oct-25 Eventbrite fees and gross up
_6301_
31-Oct-25 Grossed up for Eventbrite fees taken from talk income
**_Check?_**
_4400_
**Totals**
**_sum_**|**Income**
**Expenditure**
**Totals**
**Balances**
**Bank**
**Paypal**
**Cash**
**Bank**
**Paypal**
**Cash**
**Bank**
**Paypal Cash**
**£ p**
**£ p**
**£ p**
**£ p**
**£ p**
**£ p**
**£ p**
**£ p**
**£ p**
**£ p**
**BankIn**
**PaypalIn**
**CashIn**
**BankOut**
**PaypalOut**
**CashOut**
**Totals**
166.05
**166.05**5050.34
0.00 544.23
(£1080.00)
**#######** 3970.34
0.00 544.23
8.00
**8.00**3978.34
0.00 544.23
240.00
(240.00)
**0.00**4218.34
0.00 304.23
(£175.12)
**(175.12)** 4043.22
0.00 304.23
(£5.00)
**(5.00)** 4038.22
0.00 304.23
100.00
(100.00)
**0.00**4138.22
0.00 204.23
(£5.00)
**(5.00)** 4133.22
0.00 204.23
(£129.98)
**(129.98)** 4003.24
0.00 204.23
(£88.02)
**(88.02)** 3915.22
0.00 204.23
(£5.00)
**(5.00)** 3910.22
0.00 204.23
(£5.00)
**(5.00)** 3905.22
0.00 204.23
(£5.00)
**(5.00)** 3900.22
0.00 204.23
277.19
**277.19**4177.41
0.00 204.23
(£10.39)
**(10.39)** 4167.02
0.00 204.23
(£120.00)
**(120.00)** 4047.02
0.00 204.23
224.00
**224.00**4047.02
0.00 428.23
6.00
**6.00**4047.02
0.00 434.23
5.00
**5.00**4047.02
0.00 439.23
(60.00)
**(60.00)** 4047.02
0.00 379.23
251.93
**251.93**4298.95
0.00 379.23
(£46.92)
**(46.92)** 4252.03
0.00 379.23
46.92
**46.92**4298.95
0.00 379.23
**0.00**4298.95
0.00 379.23| |---|---| ||**4071.60**
**0.00**
**2038.51**
**(2192.74)**
**0.00**
**(2000.00)**
**1917.37 ######**
**379.23**| 4 of 4