African Wildlife Conservation Fund (UK) 1186260 Annual Report 1[st] July 2019 – 31[st] December 2020 ## **African Wildlife Conservation Fund (UK)** **Annual Report and Accounts for the period from 1st July 2019 to 31st December 2020 Charity registration number: 1186260** Page 1 African Wildlife Conservation Fund (UK) 1186260 Annual Report 1[st] July 2019 – 31[st] December 2020 Contents Trustees Report ............................................................................................................................................. 3 AWCF (UK) Objectives and Activities ........................................................................................................ 3 Achievements and Performance ............................................................................................................... 3 Financial Review ........................................................................................................................................ 4 Structure, Governance and Management ................................................................................................ 4 Reference and Administrative details ....................................................................................................... 4 Declarations .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Section A: Receipts and Payments Accounts for the period (Charity Commission form CC16a) ................. 6 Section B: Statement of assets and Liabilities (Charity Commission form CC16a) ....................................... 8 Independent examiners Report .................................................................................................................. 10 Page 2 African Wildlife Conservation Fund (UK) 1186260 Annual Report 1[st] July 2019 – 31[st] December 2020 ## Trustees Report ## AWCF (UK) Objectives and Activities To promote the conservation of endangered African Wild Dogs and other vulnerable large carnivores in Zimbabwe and neighbouring territories, for the public benefit. To advance the education of the public in particular, but not exclusively, in South East Zimbabwe in ways which include providing facilities for education in schools, and awarding scholarships to enable students to access education. AWCF (UK) raises funds primarily in the UK to support the education programmes in Zimbabwe and to support field work for conservation of endangered African Wild Dogs and other vulnerable large carnivores in Zimbabwe and neighbouring territories. In planning our activities, the trustees kept in mind the guidance issued on public benefit at our trustee meetings and when setting the objectives. To enable the Charity to fulfil its objects, the Trustees have adopted the following policies: - Grant Making Policy - Rural Schools Policy - Child Protection Policy - Financial Control Policy - Conflict of Interest Policy - Memorandum of Understanding between AWCF (Zimbabwe), AWCF (UK) and AWCF (US) - Privacy Policy ## Achievements and Performance AWCF (UK) has raised £45,708 which has contributed significantly to the following achievements on the ground in Zimbabwe in the reporting period: - Monitored and protected 21 packs of endangered African wild dogs (12 in Save Valley Conservancy (SVC) and 8/9 in Gonarezhou National Park (GNP)) over 18 months (average c. 200 individual animals). - Seven endangered African wild dogs saved from death in snare wires and 2 pups saved - Total of 6,316 domestic dogs vaccinated against rabies to protect African wild dogs and other wildlife - Two annual carnivore spoor surveys carried out in both GNP and SVC, critical to understanding long-term trends of all large carnivore species - Two new Zimbabwean undergraduate students welcomed to join the AWCF team for their 10 month industrial attachments. - 49 rural primary schools participated in our annual community conservation cluster competitions, directly involving 546 students, 136 teachers and 358 community members - 610 rural school children given the opportunity to visit SVC and GNP through our annual conservation and leadership field course (30 students) and our popular day trips into wildlife areas (580 students) Page 3 African Wildlife Conservation Fund (UK) 1186260 Annual Report 1[st] July 2019 – 31[st] December 2020 - Personal protective equipment was provided to 8 community clinics around SVC in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic - Three of our scholarship students (29 supported in total) were accepted to university - A shipment of 10 pallets (350 boxes) of library books and 950 solar lamps received and distributed into AWCF-supported schools - Printed and distributed 1,000 educational posters detailing how to ‘Spot the Difference’ between African wild dogs, jackals and spotted hyena to all our supported schools. - Carried out a project for the provision of fresh running water to Muvava primary school and surrounding community ## Financial Review At the end of the period, AWCF (UK) had a balance in Barclays Bank of £4457. AWCF (UK) does not have a reserve policy and holds zero funds in reserves. This is because we can only provide support to AWCF in Zimbabwe to the extent that we have funds available. The charity’s principal sources of funds are scholarship and other education focused donations from individual donors. In addition, we receive grants from other organisations for forwarding to Zimbabwe for work in line with our objectives. ## Structure, Governance and Management AWCF (UK) is governed by our Trust deed and is a registered Charity in the UK (No. 1186260). The original Trustees were invited to serve by the current Chairperson and the CEO. Going forward, new Trustees will be approved by current trustees AWCF (UK) works as part of the broader AWCF group and has sister organisations in the US and Zimbabwe. There is a Memorandum of Understanding between AWCF (UK), AWCF (Zimbabwe) and AWCF(US) ## Reference and Administrative details Charity name: African Wildlife Conservation Fund (UK) Other names: AWCF (UK) Registered charity number: 1186260 Charity’s principal address: Evesham, Houston Way, CROWTHORNE, RG45 6BY Trustees: Elizabeth Mary Gupta (Chairperson, July 2018 – present) Dr John Douglas Graeme Groom PhD, FREng (Treasurer, July 2018 – present) Page 4 African Wildlife Conservation Fund (UK) 1186260 Annual Report 1[st] July 2019 – 31[st] December 2020 Amy Ellen Howard (July 2018 – present) Michael Dent ( July 2018 – present) Dr Rosemary Joy Groom PhD (July 2018 – present)) AWCF (UK) does not have any advisors, but the operational arm in Zimbabwe does use a network of high profile scientists and education experts for advice as required ## Declarations The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees **Signature(s)** John Douglas Graeme Groom **Full name(s)** Elizabeth Mary Gupta **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chairperson Treasurer **etc) Date** th 27[th] September 2021 9 September 2021 Page 5 African Wildlife Conservation Fund (UK) 1186260 Annual Report 1[st] July 2019 – 31[st] December 2020 Section A: Receipts and Payments Accounts for the period (Charity Commission form CC16a) **Charity Name No (if any) African Wildlife Conservation Fund (UK) 1186260** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** ## **CC16a** Period start Period end **For the period** date **To** date **from** 01-Jul-19 31-Dec-20 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**45,706**
**2**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**45,708**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total**
**funds**
**to the**
**nearest**
**£**
**45,706**
**2**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**45,708**|**Last year**
**to the**
**nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Donations|**45,706**|**-**|**-**|**45,706**|**-**| |Bank refund|**2**|**-**|**-**|**2**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross_
_income for AR)_|**45,708**|**-**|**-**|**45,708**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross_
_income for AR)_|**45,708**||**-**|**-**|**45,708**|**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A2 Asset and**
**investment sales,**
**(see table). **|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**|| |**Nil**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**|
**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| Page 6 African Wildlife Conservation Fund (UK) 1186260 Annual Report 1[st] July 2019 – 31[st] December 2020 ## _**Total receipts**_ **45,708 -** **45,708 -** ## **A3 Payments** |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |US $ purchases for AWCF|||||||||| |use in Zimbabwe|**32,724**||**-**||**-**||**32,724**||**-**| |Transfers for Zim $|||||||||| |purchases|**3,681**||**-**||**-**||**3,681**||**-**| |Invoices paid|||||||||| ||**5,346**||**-**||**-**||**5,346**||**-**| |Bank charges|||||||||| ||**12**||**-**||**-**||**12**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|||||||||| ||**41,763**||**-**||**-**||**41,763**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and**|||||||||| |**investment**|||||||||| |**purchases, (see table) **|||||||||| |**Nil**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**_Total payments_**|**41,763**||**-**||**-**||**41,763**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**_Net of_**|||||||||| |**_receipts/(payments)_**|**3,945**||**-**||**-**||**3,945**||**-**| |**A5 Transfers between**|||||||||| |**funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last**|||||||||| |**year end**|**512**||**-**||**-**||**512**||**512**| |**_Cash funds this_**|||||||||| |**_year end_**|**4,457**||**-**||**-**||**4,457**||**512**| Page 7 African Wildlife Conservation Fund (UK) 1186260 Annual Report 1[st] July 2019 – 31[st] December 2020 Section B: Statement of assets and Liabilities (Charity Commission form CC16a) ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**of the period**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other**
**monetary assets**
**B3 Investment**
**assets**|**Details**
Cash at Bank
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts
and payments account(s))
**Details**
Nil
**Details**
Nil|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**4,457**
**-**
**-**
**4,457**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs **|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||Nil||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| **Details** **Fund to which Cost (optional) asset belongs** **Current value (optional)** Page 8 African Wildlife Conservation Fund (UK) 1186260 Annual Report 1[st] July 2019 – 31[st] December 2020 |**B4 Assets**|Nil||||||||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**retained for the**|||||**-**||||| ||||||||||**-**| |**charity’s own**|||||**-**||||| |**use**|||||||||**-**| ||||||**-**||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||**-**||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||**-**||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||**-**||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||**-**||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||**-**||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||**-**||||| ||||**Fund to which**|||**Amount due**||**When due**|| ||**Details**||**liability relates**|||**(optional)**||**(optional)**|| |**B5 Liabilities**|Nil||||||||| ||||||**-**||||| ||||||**-**||||| ||||||**-**||||| ||||||**-**||||| ||||||**-**||||| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of Signature all the trustees Date of Print Name approval 9th September Elizabeth Gupta 2021 John D G Groom 27[th] September 2021 Page 9 African Wildlife Conservation Fund IUKI 1186260 Annual Report I" July 2019- 31" December 2020 Independent examiners Report CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examlnerfs report on the accounts Sectlon A Independent Exaffllner's Report R•port to th• Iru•t# On a¢c4xmts for thr 11 1186280 Tr￿41"￿ 18 F•kn1 31112￿20. 2011 ur¥JDr 145 cl 2011 AL* •xl my exllfftn*h￿. I urthr 1493Xbl cl Ad. lh• Bn•d: 111 •nyl.' Section B OtsclosuTe Onty Corry￿e rf ttje eXarnM￿ nee(ts to highlyhl rnatter5 of t￿[￿[￿ 15te CC32. Page 10