2024-08-14-accounts - Conservancy Guardians

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	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	for theperiod	for theperiod	for theperiod
	From	Period start date			To	Period end date
		15	08	2023		14	08	2024

Section A Reference and administration details	Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name	Conservancy Guardians

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1191235

Charity's principal address Kingwell Southill Avenue Harrow Postcode HA1 3PB

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Nicholas Kershaw
	Alexander Walker
	Salil Patel

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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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

Type of governing document Foundation model constitution (eg. trust deed, constitution) Company How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by the Charity Trustees Trustee selection methods

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

Section C Objectives and activities

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

The objects of the CIO ("the objects") are to promote, for the benefit of the public, the preservation, conservation and protection of East Africa's wildlife and natural heritage, and to advance, for the benefit of the public, education in the principles and practices of conservation.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to TAR

Conserving endangered species and the environments on which they depend through community land leases in Mara Region, Kenya 2 March 2012

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and Kisampa Conservancy, Southern Tanzania.

Promoting for the public benefit effective management of habitats populated by endangered species and ensuring the sustainability of such populations in the context of the other uses to which such habitats are put through equipping and training local scouts while promoting low-impact tourism in the areas under lease. E stablishing and promoting the application of a broad set of principles standards and criteria designed to ensure that such other uses do not have an adverse impact on fulfilling the objective of conserving wildlife habitats. these objects (include within Namely the upkeep and introduction of predator proof structures to the this section the statutory Mara North Mobile Cattle Boma. declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance Providing support for the communities surrounding these areas issued by the Charity through school meals program, school bursaries, school renovation Commission on public at Golden Naboisho Academy and providing sports equipment, a benefit) Grow House and Learning resources. All encouraging the public engagement in the protection of their natural spaces. Protection of wildlife through daily monitoring, patrol and snare collection across the protected habitat.

The trustees have read the guidance on public benefit issued by the charities commission. We have also engaged the professional services of Pesh Framjee , Global Head of Social Purpose and Non-Profits, Crowe U.K. LLP to advise us in regard to these guidelines when planning the activities for the charity.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information) Grant making

The trustees have reviewed and will follow the Charity Commission’s guidance on grants to non-charities and its publication ‘Charities: due diligence, monitoring and verifying the end use of charitable funds.

We have a grant application procedure and document.The projects and initiatives that will be supported are based on criteria that support the
You may choose to include CIO’s charitable objectives. For example, they must be: further statements, where  operating within or part of the community surrounding community relevant, about: wildlife conservancies  minimizing negative environmental impact and promoting
policy on grantmaking; preservation of wildlife and sustainable land use.
policy programme related  meeting our ideals of sustainable community development investment; through education, training and micro financing with encouragement given to projects that act to empower women and
contribution made by girls.
volunteers. When making grants to organisations the CIO will make restricted grants only for activities, services or outcomes that will further its charity’s purposes for the public benefit. Where core costs are being funded, they will be limited to those specified activities, services or outcomes. When making grants to individuals any private benefit will be incidental to the charitable purposes.

The CIO will receive feedback on how the funds have been applied and this will be reported to donors within 12 months of the grant payment.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Our fundraising efforts brought in 14,204 GBP by the year end and we had laid good foundations to increase this amount at the beginning of the next financial year. During this year, we continued protection of the habitat in Tanzania and in Kenya – total of 10,000 acres through conservation land lease and ranger patrols.

We assisted with school fees through bursaries, school improvements with rainwater catchment systems, Grow House. Fed 1000 children a meal each day at schools in Northern Kenya and reduced human wildlife conflict through upkeeping predator proof cattle enclosures in Mara North Conservancy.

We continued to assist a ranger team collecting snares on the escarpment north of the Serengeti NP.

We supported a young Kenyan film maker in completing his final project for film school, a wildlife film about conserving snakes in East Africa. His film premier date is March 2025.

We supported the work of Mara Elephant project with direct donation.

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Section E Financial review

The charities policy on reserves was discussed and agreed at our board Brief statement of the meeting, June 2022. We will maintain an amount within the charity charity’s policy on reserves account to be utilized as and when an unexpected grant requirement arises.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

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Further financial review details (Optional information)

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

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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

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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
	Nicholas James Kershaw		Salil Patel
	Trustee		Trustee
	7thMay 2025

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Charity Name No (if any) Conservancy Guardians 1191235 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 8/15/2023 8/14/2024

Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts brought forward - Donations 14,204 Account Interest 27 - - - - - 14,231 - - Sub total - Total receipts 14,231 A3 Payments Grants and Donations Paid 19,477 Bank Charges Paid 156 - - - - - - - Sub total 19,633 - - Sub total - Total payments 19,633 Net of receipts/(payments) - 5,402 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end 15,564 Cash funds this year end 10,162 Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ Sub total(Gross income for AR) A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)	to the nearest £ Restricted funds	to the nearest £ Endowment funds	Total funds to the nearest £	Last year to the nearest £
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets B5 Liabilities B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Details brought forward donations balance Details Details Details Details Signature Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	to nearest £ to nearest £ 15,564 - - 5,402 - - - 10,162 - OK OK to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Print Name Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional)	to nearest £ Endowment funds
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			Date of approval

Nicholas James Kershaw		5/7/2025
Salil Patel		5/7/2025