Zambezi Working Donkey Project UK Trustees Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 10 June 2023 Registered Office. Charity Name Zambezi Working Donkey Project UK Charity 118998 New House Farm Village Road Christow ## **Trustees** Sarah Harvey (Founder and Trustee) With a lifelong passion for and some knowledge of equines, first became aware of the plight of working donkeys on a visit to Zambia six years ago and along with her daughter who lives there knew something had to be done to help these animals and so founded ZWDP. Anne Penney (Trustee) Also with long term experience of equines and having much travelled worldwide, well understands animal welfare issues in poor countries and has spent much of her free time volunteering including for the RDA. Tania Wedin (Trustee) Established and runs her own successful business . She also runs the HOCL trust and launched a campaign providing free antiviral sanitiser to frontline workers during the covid pandemic. Meryl McLaren (Trustee) Has had a long term love for equines which she has been surrounded by since a young age and continues today. She has an MA in archaeology Bankers Lloyds Bank Oldham ## **Structure and organisation** Zambezi Working Donkey Project UK is a registered charity that was founded in October 2018 and registered as a CIO with the UK Charties Commision on 18th June 2020. Registration number 1189998. ZWDP operates according to its constitution and is managed by its trustees who meet quarterly to discuss progress, direction, finances and fundraising. ZWDP supports its partner Zambezi Working Donkey Project in Zambia The two are separately registered organisations in their own countries but the two boards work together towards a shared strategic plan. Zambezi Working Donkey Project Zambia is a registered Not-for-Profit Company limited by Guarantee (reg no 120190001631. ## Our Vision Is a Zambia where working donkeys are free from suffering, treated with compassion and truly valued by those whose livelihoods depend on them. ## Our mission To relieve the suffering of working donkeys and other equines in Zambia and to promote humane behaviour by providing appropriate treatment, care, protection and security for these animals which are in need due to sickness, maltreatment, Ill use or poor circumstances and to educate their owners and public in general in regard to donkey welfare and prevent further suffering. ## How we work Since founding the ZWDP in 2018 we have undertaken multiple outreach clinics visiting rural villages and have made significant improvements to the lives of the donkeys and thereby those of their owners. We have done this by removing the heavy and entirely unsuitable wooden ox yokes and provided new harnesses made in our workshop, modifying carts for use with harnesses and removing excess weight and installing shafts making them lighter and easier to pull. We also advise on loading these carts correctly for balance. We tend to wounds , often many, treat skin parasites and deworm, teach about hoof care; crucially we have introduced education on the care and wellbeing of these animals. This has been well received in the main and the level of interest and willingness has exceeded our expectations. ## **Our achievements** Up to the end of financial year ending 10th June 2023 We have undertaken 23 community outreach clinics as well as multiple follow up calls and markets visits with 572 people in 72 villages benefitting from our help with their working animals. We helped many others who came to our ‘drop in’ centre at our base at Maramba Farm in Livingstone and the 2 open days held there. We have treated 1843 donkeys, provided 187 new, replacing 3. harnesses, modifying 12 + carts. We have ‘ Community Livestock Officers’ in key villages who help with coordination, monitoring and evaluation and training to empower farmers to care for their donkeys as well as through our Education Project. We have rescued a further 25 donkeys in need during the year which we brought back to our base at Maramba Farm for treatment, 18 being released back to their owners once we were assured would care for them correctly. Those deemed too old or unable to work again are now living their dream retirement in adoptive homes. We currently have 16 in long term care at the farm. Table 1 ||**ZWDP Accounts**|**2022 - 2023**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||| |**Date**||||||| ||Details|Paid In|Incoming Fees|Paid Out|Outgoing Fees|Balance| |**11/06/2022**|Opening Balance|||||2,258.52| |**13/06/2022**|Correspondent fee||||20.00|2,238.52| ||Foreign Payment|||1,000||1,238.52| ||Bank charge||||15.00|1,223.52| |**03/08/2022**|Payment|9.61||||1,223.13| |**16/08/2022**|Payment|29.94||||1.263.07| ||Payment|799.75||||2.062.82| |**31/08/2022**|PayPal Payment|723.49||||2.786..31| |**05/09/2022**|PayPal Payment|494.61||||3,280.92| |**15/10/2022**|Amazon Payment|27.00||||3,307.92| |**06/12/2022**|Foreign Payment|||840.11||2,467.81| ||Bank charge||||15.00|2,452.81| |**12/12/2022**|PayPal Payment|550.80||||3,003.61| ||Foreign Payment|||2,600.00||403.61| ||Correspondent fee||||20.00|383.61| ||Bank Charge||||15.00|368.61| |**31/01/2023**|Amazon Payment|43.09||||411.70| |**13/03/2023**|Payment|100.00||||511.70| Table 1 ||**ZWDP accounts**|**2022 - 2023 cont**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Date**|Details|Paid In|Incoming Fees|Paid Out|Outgoing Fees|Balance| |**13/0/2023**|Forwarded Balance|||||511.70| ||Foreign Payment|||426.69||85.01| ||Correspondent Fee||||20.00|65.01| ||Bank Charge||||15.00|50.01| |**12/04/2023**|PayPal Payment|391.64||||441.65| ||PayPal Payment|1,502.94||||1,944.59| |**13/04/2023**|Jumblebee|||191.75||1,752.84| |**17/04/2023**|Foreign Payment|||1,700.00||52.84| ||Correspondent Fee|||20.00||32.84| ||Bank Charge|||15.00||17.84| |**24/04/2023**|Amazon Payment|||21.81||39.65| |**09/05/2023**|Payment|40.00||||79.65| |**17/05/2023**|Payment|156.04||||235.04| |**19/05/2023**|Amazon Payment|66.85||||302.54| |**26/05/2023**|Payment|38.96||||341.50| |**31/05/2023**|PayPal Payment|46.43||||387.93| |**10/06/223**|Closing Balance|||||387.93| |||||||| |||||||| ||||||||