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Trustees’ Annual Re ort and Accounts p Year ended 31 March 2023

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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is the only charity
entirely dedicated to conserving, protecting and
enhancing Yorkshire's wildlife and wild places
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is registered in England no. 409650 and is a registered charity no. 210807. Registered Office: 1 St George’s Place, York, YO24 1GN
Cover Image: Hare by Mark Hamblin/2020Vision
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Report of the Board of Trustees

~~Our vision for Yorkshire~~

Nature-rich and resilient land and seascapes stretching from the sea to cities and fells with healthy, thriving ecosystems meeting the needs of people across Yorkshire.

Yorkshire’s nature plays many roles. A source of beauty and wonder, a place to be active, nature creates great places to live and work.

At the heart of it, nature underpins our economy and even our very existence. Nature provides us all with the very fabric that sustains life – food, materials, water purification, and pollination.

Your support for nature’s recovery is vital.

Nature does not charge for her role; however, taking nature for granted has led to a crisis. Habitats and species are disappearing or worsening as we build on natural flood plains, destroy forests and degrade the water and soil, threatening our quality of life.

Yorkshire’s wildlife sites and protected areas are working to keep many species from disappearing, but they are too few and far between. We must make them the building blocks of a wider ecological network that will withstand climate change and other pressures, and deliver the services that we depend on.

We now understand more about how important nature is to our health, wealth and wellbeing. We need to help nature, so that nature can help us.

Roe deer

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~~Working together for~~ Yorkshire’s wildlife

Welcome to our Annual Report for 2022-23, showcasing some of the highlights that your support has helped us to achieve over the past year.

Record-breaking temperatures, new breeding and visiting species, and stark reminders of the benefits of a healthy natural environment played out last year against a backdrop of ongoing economic and societal uncertainties. Our growing evidence is showing the pressure our wildlife is under.

We continue to expand the programmes of work we do and the reach we have. We are ambitious for our cause and committed to evidence informed action, which enables others to act too.

We are embracing the challenges of external and internal change, learning, and adapting the way we work, showing that we are an evolving strong, resilient team. Together we are making an enduring organisation dedicated to Yorkshire’s wildlife.

We are interconnected to the UK and the Crown Dependencies, as a member of The Wildlife Trusts’ federation. Increasingly our work as an active contributor to the collaborations and ambitions at national level, will pay dividends for Yorkshire’s wildlife and residents.

Our Ambitions are for:

n More land and sea to be positively managed for wildlife, to achieve 30% by 2030.

n At least 1 in 4 people to take positive action for wildlife. n Active support for wildlife to be embedded within the framework of society.

We could not achieve what we do without the loyal support of the members, funders, volunteers and growing team, and hope this year’s report is of interest and you feel as proud as we do of being a part of this amazing Trust and wider movement for wildlife. Finally, to everyone who has supported us in whatever way they could, thank you; we need your support to continue working and meeting our ambitions for wildlife.

Martin Randle, Treasurer

Jo Webb, Chair

Black-winged stilt

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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Report of the Board of Trustees

~~Our Governance~~

Directors and trustees

Trustees serving during the year are:

Prof. Alastair Fitter CBE Christine Packer (until October 22) David Counsell (until October 22) Gurdev Singh Joanna Webb Joanna Royle (until October 22) Louise Farnell (until October 22) Martin Randle Paddy Hall Richard Tripp Nick Perks Mick Armitage Pete Meadows (from October 22) Dr Ceri Williams (from October 22) Nabil Abbas (from October 22) Michael Graham (from October 22) Dr Jane Smart OBE (from October 22)

Officers of the Trust President Prof. Sir John Lawton

Chair of the Board

Joanna Webb

Company Secretary

Christine Packer (until October 22) Nick Perks (from October 22)

Honorary Treasurer Martin Randle

Directors of Yorkshire Wildlife

Services Limited Darren Tiffney Christine Packer

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

Charity number 210807. Company number 409650

Yorkshire Wildlife Services Limited Company number 9922108

Head Office

1 St. George’s Place, York, YO24 1GN

Legal Advisors

Harland & Co, 18 St Saviourgate, York, YO1 8NS

Auditors

Saffery LLP, Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors, Mitre House, North Park Road Harrogate, HG1 5RX

Bankers

Barclays Bank plc, 1 Parliament Street, York, YO1 8SE

Chief Executive Officer Rachael Bice

Deputy Chief Executive Martin Slater

Director of Finance

Darren Tiffney

Director of Fundraising and Engagement Amanda Spivack

Patrons

Stephen Martin OBE

The trustees of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust are pleased to present their Annual Report and the Consolidated Audited Accounts for the year to 31st March 2023.

The trustees also confirm that they have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission in exercising their powers or duties.

Annual Report and consolidated accounts are also prepared to meet the requirements for a directors’ report and accounts for Companies Act purposes.

The trustees, who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act, have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice, applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS102) (Effective 1 January 2015).

Charitable Objects

The objects for which the Trust is established are:

n For the benefit of the public, to advance, promote and further the conservation, maintenance and protection of: wildlife and its habitats; places of natural beauty; places of zoological, botanical, geographical, archaeological or scientific interest; features of landscape with geological, physiographical, or amenity value in particular, but not exclusively, in ways that further biodiversity.

n To advance the education of the public in: the principles and practice of sustainable development; and the principles and practice of biodiversity conservation.

n To promote research in all branches of nature study and to publish the useful results thereof.

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust (“YWT”) is a Charity registered with the Charity Commission in England and Wales and a company limited by guarantee governed by its Articles of Association.

The financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011 and the Companies Act 2006.

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~~Establishing the State of~~ Yorkshire’s Nature

Our Nature Recovery Committee, made up of trustees and external experts, ensures our work is informed by the best available evidence and nature conservation practices so we can optimise our impact on and off our reserves.

We are working in partnership to gather evidence and new insight on what is needed to deliver nature’s recovery across Yorkshire. The first phase of work to establish the State of Yorkshire’s Nature has told us:

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YORKSHIRE SUPPORTS
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This work is generously supported by Joyce Mary Mountain Will Trust. We also would like to offer thanks to Yorkshire Naturalist Union, British Trust for Ornithology, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, Butterfly Conservation and Rothamsted Experimental Station for their contributions to the work so far.

ywt.org.uk/driving-natures-recovery

Around Around 60% Around 70% of two thirds of of British moth British breeding British flora and butterfly bird species species

and therefore makes an important contribution to British biodiversity

Of the plants, birds and lepidoptera, nearly 300 are species of national conservation concern and around 130 have a particularly large part of their British distribution in our county, making us important custodians. We call these Yorkshire stronghold species.

17 plant species have gone extinct in Yorkshire since before 1970

1 in 4 plant species have declined since before 2000

7% of our macro moth species have declined since 2000

35% of our breeding bird species have experienced a decline in their distribution between 1990 and 2010.

Willow tit

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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Report of the Board of Trustees

Delivering nature’s recovery at landscape scale

From the uplands to the coast, we are challenging ourselves to work at a larger scale to create bigger, better and more joined up places for nature. This will enable nature’s recovery to accelerate, and increase resilience to a changing climate.

Yorkshire Peat Partnership

The team has completed restoration plans for over 40,000 hectares of upland blanket bog in Yorkshire and another 6,850 hectares of peatland have come under restoration management this year.

All peatland has been surveyed across the North York Moors through National Parks Nature, supported by the Nature for Climate Discovery grant.

Lowland peat has been surveyed across the Humberhead Levels so restoration work can begin, with support of the Nature for Climate Fund.

Wilder uplands

Our Wild Ingleborough programme is growing from strength to strength and this year the area in restoration management increased to 1600 hectares , with 19 hectares of Ashes Shaw pasture acquired permanently for wildlife thanks to generous donations.

We have also welcomed increasingly diverse visitors to the Ingleborough region. The Our Ingleborough Festival included an exhibition for local people and visitors and a film which had captured the oral history of the landscape from residents.

n Across the landscape over 11,000 trees were planted to kickstart the reestablishment of the natural treeline and bring back woodland habitats on the mountainside.

n The peatlands have begun to be revitalised through the planting of 10,000 sphagnum moss plugs which will improve water retention and start to rebuild the peatlands.

n Looking ahead, we have secured development funding from the Defra Environmental Land Management Landscape Recovery Scheme pilot . This will be used to explore the mechanisms needed to enable farmers and landowners to manage their businesses in close harmony with nature, to work together to bring back thriving populations of black grouse, curlew, ring ouzels , and to draw the nearby red squirrels further into the Dales. we want to connect 2500 hectares of land across Ribblesdale including Ingleborough, Kingsdale Head and Chapel-le-Dale.

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JENNY SHARMAN
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Black grouse
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The Wilder North Sea

From the coastline into the deeper sea, we advocate for marine wildlife, and pioneer new seascape restoration approaches to deliver The North Sea Wildlife Trusts’ Strategy. Our marine wildlife is precious and under pressure, and by working with others we want to significantly accelerate habitat restoration and enable more species to recover around our coast and in our seas.

Through the Wilder Humber partnership with renewables company Orsted and Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, habitat restoration including 74 acres of seagrass meadow and a reef of half a million oysters has started to reinvigorate the natural marine ecosystem, store carbon and improve water quality.

Over 50 miles of coastline, 50 tonnes of waste (equivalent to 2 humpback whales) has been removed, catalysed by 104 pollution surveys , associated beach clean ups, and the Fishing for Litter initiative by local fishermen.

The Dogger Bank Marine Protected Area is now fully protected from the use of damaging bottom-towed fishing gear. The byelaw, implemented in June 2022, means the area’s sensitive sandbanks will be better protected and have a chance to recover.

Four hectares of scrub was cleared at Spurn Point to develop the mosaic of habitats, improve the dune structure and age profile of the buckthorn.

Working in partnership with the Spurn Bird Observatory, the beach nesting sites for rare ringed plover and little terns were protected, with ringed plovers breeding successfully.

Our Living Seas Centre reopened with a new café and educational activities for all ages. The education centre will be refreshed next year.

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Spurn

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Caring for woodlands

Healthy woodlands provide a rich, biodiverse environment, showcasing our wonderful tree species, shade-loving plants and wildflowers. They also host a vast variety of birds, insect species and mysterious fungi. But these vital and varied wild havens are facing increasing challenges.

Ash dieback is a growing problem both in our woodland reserves and more widely across the UK. We are assessing and felling dead and dying trees on a number of our reserves, including more recent work at Grass Wood, Moorlands and Little Beck Wood. This work is having a huge impact on our time and resources, and the long-term impact of the disease and effectiveness of our management techniques will be assessed over the coming years.

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Restoring rivers

We work in river systems across Yorkshire, enabled by the Environment Agency and in partnership with landowners. In catchments such as the Wiske and Lower Esk, our work improves water quality, wetland habitats, and increases the number of ponds and scrapes. We are also delivering a highly-skilled programme of invasive non-native species (INNS) treatments.

n Yorkshire Derwent Catchment Partnership secured funding for natural flood management works across the catchment, resulting in 67km of surveys and 54km of invasive non-native species management , working with more than 60 landowners.

n A Networks for Nature grant from National Highways kickstarted 40 improvement projects across the River Calder catchment, managed invasive non-native species and habitat creation.

n White-clawed crayfish were found in Luddenden Brook in Calderdale , not seen in that area of Yorkshire since 2014 and testament in part to partnership water quality restoration work.

n We began the next phase of work to support native whiteclawed crayfish recovery including options for a hatchery to help repopulate water courses, assessed ark sites, and continued to raise awareness about biosecurity among user groups.

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Our wilder wetlands

In a changing climate, wetlands are essential refuges for Yorkshire’s wildlife and global migratory birds. They also host wonderful wildlife spectacles, and spaces for people to be more deeply immersed in nature. Creating and managing wetlands can be complex — it takes time and investment to get the conditions right for a rich myriad of species — and we have had some great success.

Our Wilder Wetlands campaign raised £142,937 thanks to generous donations, and funding from Biffa Award to make improvements to visitor infrastructure at Adel Dam nature reserve. We received a specific donation to support land acquisition at Denaby Ings, helping us to control water levels there more effectively for wildlife in the future.

The additional funds enable us to create more vital habitats for our wetland birds such as reedbeds, scrapes and islands, and these new wet spaces will improve the resilience of our wetlands to climate change and drought. Our refreshed infrastructure will tie all of this together, bringing wildlife spectacles closer for our visitors.

n Rare black-winged stilts bred for the first time in the north of England at our Potteric Carr reserve, successfully raising four young. The nest was protected from potential harm by a huge volunteer effort.

n Glossy ibises, spoonbill and spotted crakes were seen on our wetlands – a sign of our changing climate and the migration of species north .

n New shingle islands, sand martin banks, and reedbed nurseries formed of 25,000 reed plugs were created as part of the 30 hectare extension at North Cave Wetlands.

n A colossal starling murmuration of around 250,000 birds appeared at Ripon City Wetlands, attracting new visitors to the reserve during the winter months.

n Marsh stitchwort was re-discovered at Potteric Carr for the first time in 40 years . Willow emerald damselflies were also recorded for the first time, and the reserve now supports 905 species out of the 2500 species of UK moths.

n We saw evidence of otters breeding at Wheldrake Ings for the first time since the 1960s.

n Two pairs of avocets bred successfully at Staveley, and then took their fledged chicks to Ripon City Wetlands.

n 16 more ponds were created for great crested newts, meaning there is 2540m2 of new habitat in north and west Yorkshire.

n Visitors to Adel Dam in Leeds can now enjoy new and improved wildlife-watching opportunities, with brand-new information boards, a new bird feeding area and improved trails thanks to Biffa Award.

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Conservation grazing

Our cattle, sheep and ponies — and those loaned in through grazing arrangements — join us in managing our reserves to control vegetation, create dynamism and promote species-rich grasslands.

n Thanks to our Amazing Grazing appeal last year, we extended our use of Nofence collars to 65 Highlands , Galloways and Dexters . They all now wear collars enabling safe conservation grazing on our reserves at Spurn , Wheldrake Ings, Askham Bog and Brockadale .

n Our herd of belted Galloways grazed Ripon City Wetlands for the first time to reduce the extensive willow spread, creating muddy edges to the lagoons for wetland plants, invertebrates and wading birds.

n Following detailed research and planning, we swapped some of our Hebridean sheep for four Konik ponies with Kent Wildlife Trust. The ponies are restoring habitat at Huxterwell Marsh at Potteric Carr by grazing previously inaccessible and hard-tomanage areas.

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Speaking up and advocating for wildlife

We mobilised supporters to #DefendNature when it looked like the new Government was going to ride roughshod over many of the protections our wildlife relies on — a campaign which is sadly still needed.

n We continued to work with the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Change Commission to meaningfully address the nature and climate crisis, and we signed up to the Climate Action Pledge.

n We facilitated a successful workshop event bringing together the four responsible bodies for developing Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) , as well as other stakeholders. This is the first step on the road to four effective LNRS that complement each other and build a more cohensive strategy.

n We continued to engage in the Planning System to speak up for the wildlife across Yorkshire under pressure from development. We also began exploring potential for biodiversity net gain across the region.

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Connecting people with Nature

The Wildlife Trusts have a long history, founded in grassroots action. At the end of 2022, we launched #TeamWilder, an ambitious new approach empowering local communities to be the leaders and stewards in positive change for nature. The response has been fantastic and we are developing closer ties with even more communities in future.

In Hull, we are pioneering Dynamic Drains , supporting Hull City Council’s bee-friendly green roof bus shelters and helping West Hull RLFC to ‘wild’ parts of their grounds.

Our new Wildlife Gardening Award launched in March to great and ongoing success, encouraging people to take action no matter the size of their plot.

Over 7000 people attended the Trust’s 390 events throughout the year to enjoy and watch wildlife. Including school and group sessions, we engaged over 10,700 people .

Cliff the Puffin delighted his fans at the biggest and best Puffin Festival in Flamborough in May, and ‘Knitterns’ now roost at Potteric Carr following our Wilder Wetlands Campaign!

#TeamWilder is delivered by our new Community Engagement team. Nextdoor Nature in Hull and Doncaster is up and

running with funding secured from and National Heritage Lottery Fund . People’s Postcode Lottery

Citizen scientists have been our ‘Eyes on the Bog’ to monitor our peatlands using more than 40 special monitoring plots across a range of different peatland sites.

Blackbirds, pigeons and sparrows were the top three in the third Great Yorkshire Creature Count, when over 3000 participants searched for 30 species in their gardens and neighbourhoods.

Wilder Communities Engagement Officer Andy Steele received the Dame Mary Smieton EDI Award for his work with Welcome to English, a Hull-based community group supporting asylum seekers and refugees.

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Thank you to our amazing volunteers

Our volunteers are vital contributors to our work for Yorkshire’s wildlife and the overall sustainability of the Trust. By offering their time, knowledge, skills, support and networks, our volunteers enable the resources we have to reach further and have more impact than could be achieved by staff alone.

Our amazing volunteers gave over 46,000 hours of their time to help care for the Trust’s reserves and other wild places.

100% of our volunteers say volunteering improves their wellbeing and rated our staff managers at 4.4/5 - their highest score ever!

We launched Discovery Days t o give people an insight into volunteering – 93% of current volunteers would recommend working with us.

175 individuals attended training Our Spurn volunteers won National from the Volunteer Programme. Lighthouse of the Year – maintaining the lighthouse depends on their dedicated skill.

Volunteers in total

1,054 (volunteers, voluntary trainees and corporates) 17 Voluntary trainees 223 Corporate volunteers 814 Volunteers

Thank you to our generous supporters

To our our members – your loyal support means the world to Yorkshire’s wildlife, and we’ve been truly humbled that so many of you have stepped forward to increase your support in this challenging time. We’re so grateful for everything you make possible, and we want to continue to make you proud to support us every day.

Generous legacy donors left gifts to support our work including land acquisition at Brockadale nature reserve and the purchase of Ashes Shaw Pasture at Wild Ingleborough. We also received a substantial and generous unrestricted legacy towards the end of the year.

volunteering. We were delighted that so many of you joined us at North Cave Wetlands, Adel Dam, Potteric Carr, Staveley and Denaby Ings nature reserves for exclusive events when we told you more about our work.

Our grant funders have helped to support ongoing work with wildlife, people and our organisation. These include a grant from Esmee Fairbairn to develop work around our EDI policies, and a significant grant from NHLF/PPL to launch #TeamWilder through the Nextdoor Nature programme. We successfully secured funding for a second year from Yorkshire Coast BID for the Puffin Festival, and from the Banks Foundations for a replacement water pump at Potteric Carr.

Individual donors and corporate supporters made significant contributions to our work financially and through

Corporate Members and Supporters

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Cave Wetlands
RICHARD WILLISON
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A warm welcome to our new corporate members: Harmony Energy, NDL Software Ltd, Close Brothers Group PLC, Leeds Building Society, Aviva PLC, Dalesbred Ltd. As well as to our new corporate supporters: Airedale International, Alexandra Stanley Properties, Arch-Comms, BAMM, Cloud Kickers, Banks Group, Hull & Pickering Quakers, Meltons Restaurant, Northern Monk, Regenesis, Sea2Sky

We appreciate the ongoing support from a wide range of Yorkshire’s businesses who value our work – thank you.

Gold Members:

Bronze Members:

Corporate Supporters Airedale International Alexandra Stanley Properties Andrew Bennett Wildlife Photography Arch-Comms BAMM Clarks Vehicle Conversions Cloud Kickers Banks Group Barratt Foundation Beechfield Brands Castle Howard Hull & Pickering Quakers Melton’s Restaurant Northern Monk Potter Associates Regenesis Sea2Sky Vine House Farm Vp plc Whitby Distillery Yorkshire Water / Kelda Group

Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (EU) Ltd GB Railfreight Ltd Harmony Energy Ltd H C Slingsby PLC Jay-Be Ltd NDL Software Ltd University of Leeds Wykeland Ltd The Symphony Group PLC

Aviva PLC Consulo Financial Planning Ltd Croda International PLC Dalesbred Ltd Double Two Ltd Evans Property Group Ltd Far ‘n’ Beyond Ltd Forest Holidays Group Ltd Friendship Estates Ltd Henry Boot PLC Inntravel Ltd Lubrizol Ltd Peppers Marquees Ltd Read Family Group Ltd Reed Boardall Group Ltd Sloemotion Distillery Ltd Syngenta Ltd Tennants Auctioneers Ltd W Clifford Watts Ltd Xiros Ltd

Silver Members:

Close Brothers Group PLC Leeds Building Society Lightrock Power Ltd TOG24 / Mileta Sports Ltd The Bio-D Company Ltd University of Bradford University of York

Our finances

Despite a challenging financial climate, we have delivered a financially stable organisation with an increased turnover of £12.2m, a record year for the Trust. Our reserves are effectively supporting the scale of the organisation and our programmes of work, whilst allowing us to carefully manage our risks.

Income has increased again this year, with a significant proportion of this from the Nature for Climate funding for peatland restoration. This has also created some cash flow challenges, as the claims have been substantial and the process complex, illuminating the technical skills and administrative capacity needed to manage larger and more complex programmes of work in future.

The partnership with Ørsted offered new income streams for marine restoration with investment in staff and infrastructure to increase restoration capability and capacity.

The expansion in project capital and revenue delivery commitments within the Nature for Climate and Ørsted work programmes generated increases in the work grouped under Living Landscapes and Living Seas compared to 21/22.

Like many charities, membership numbers have fallen slightly this year as the cost-of-living crisis has particularly impacted families. However, we continue to recruit new members and the overall value of memberships has been maintained, thanks to many members increasing their subscriptions.

We continue to invest in our support services and infrastructure to meet the demands of the growing organisation, particularly in IT and Communications, Finance and Human Resources.

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Income £12,230,039
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Legacies 8% People’s Postcode
Lottery 2%
Trading & other
income 4%
Membership &
donation 18%
Charitable
activities 68%
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Expenditure £11,313,844

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Fundraising &
Support costs 13% membership 7%
Nature Matters – Living Landscapes
Inspiring People 57%
14%
Living Seas 9%
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Looking ahead to 2023/24

Our voice will be heard strongly throughout Yorkshire - through the media, at events and in communities - to drive and inspire action which addresses the climate and nature crises. These are the most urgent issues of our time, and will impact the future of all of Yorkshire’s widlife.

Our focus is on ensuring Local Nature Recovery Strategies include the level of ambition Yorkshire’s nature needs. We will use our evidence and experience to encourage responsible authorities to adopt enduring and meaningful plans for nature.

We will deliver an innovative programme of nature recovery work through our peat, marine and Wild Ingleborough programmes. These will be enabled by traditional and emerging funding sources and work with partnerships which are transforming our landscapes for the better.

Using the guiding principles of #TeamWilder, our major engagement programmes will return and we will continue to encourage action at home through our Wildlife Gardening Award and provide further opportunities in communities as well as with the Trust directly at events, shows and via volunteering activities.

Our dedicated care of our precious nature reserves continues, improving both our habitats and visitor infrastructure so that Yorkshire’s wildlife has a supportive and dedicated refuge from which to thrive.

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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Report of the Board of Trustees

The 2022-23 financial year consolidated our recent achievements, with ambitious large-scale programmes of landscape restoration. This was against a challenging economic backdrop of pressures from the cost of living and inflation of goods, utilities and services. Our reserves continue to play an important role in supporting the increased scale of the organisation and our programmes of work, whilst allowing us to carefully manage our risks.

Contents

Financial and fundraising overview ......................................17 Principal risks and uncertainties ...........................................18 Financial Reserves and Investment Policies .........................18 Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Governance.....................................19 Auditors Report .....................................................................21

Audited Accounts ...........................................................21 Statement of Financial Activities .....................................24 Consolidated and Charity Balance Sheet ........................25 Consolidated Cash Flow Statement ................................27 Notes to the accounts .....................................................28

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Financial and Fundraising overview

We remain focused on our financial management and fundraising activities to ensure that the Trust has the resources it needs. Our finances have faced challenges this year due to inflationary pressures, diminishing investment returns and continued pressures arising from land subsidy income reductions. We have also made important investments in our central functions including our Finance and HR systems, in addition to mobile IT equipment.

Our financial outturn for 22/23 however shows a surplus of £0.17m. This pleasing position reverses the small deficit of £0.09m posted in 21/22.

We are once again proud to partner with agencies such as Natural England, the Environment Agency, local and national government to deliver landscape-scale restoration projects. We hope to build on these relationships with the introduction of green financing opportunities such as carbon credits and Biodiversity Net Gain.

Carbon reduction

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is committed to reach carbon net zero by 2030, and strives to go beyond this target, embedding best practice and adopting a holistic approach to carbon reduction through its work, people and practices. The data shows our actual carbon footprint from 2018 – 2022, estimated emission for 22/23 and the target forecast for 23/24. It is worth noting that the target emission for 21/22 was 489 tonnes, resulting in the Trust being an additional 25.31 tonnes of CO2 below target.

Table One – Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Carbon Emissions

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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Carbon Emissions Estimate Target
2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24
Total tonnes
of CO2 649.42 603.95 402.75 463.69 435.00 396.00
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Our analysis compares our usage including; electricity and heating, transportation at work, staff commutes and allowances arising from the carbon impacts of hybrid working from home. Our figures also consider emissions from our conservation grazing herd of livestock.

Our fundraising portfolio of activity continues to grow with corporate partners increasingly interested in funding our landscape and seascape scale work. Wilder Wetlands focused on our wetland nature reserves, specifically drawing attention to Potteric Carr, Adel Dam, Staveley and North Cave as visitor hot spots. We launched an appeal to members through our magazine and newsletters and were humbled to receive donations totaling £142,937. This included £35,617 from members; a £75,000 grant from Biffa Award for Adel Dam; £26,000 in private donations to extend our land holdings at Denaby Ings nature reserve and £5,820 grant from the Banks Group to renew a water pump at Potteric Carr. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who donated.

We are delighted to continue our affinity partnership with silver business members TOG24 who have produced two t-shirt designs and a tote bag, and with Whitby Gin on their Navy Strength gin. We also received sponsorship from for our new Discover Yorkshire’s Croda International Plc Wildlife guidebook and welcomed new gold business members Harmony Energy and NDL Software Ltd .

The support we continue to receive from our business members, partners and funders has helped us to fund and carry out vital work. This includes corporate grant funding for improvements to Owl Wood and Pit Plantation nature reserve from Banks Group; and project support and Wild Work Day participation from the University of Leeds.

We also reached out to our members in December - following the extremely difficult and challenging year for Trust finances - and asked for a voluntary uplift in their membership subscriptions. We were absolutely thrilled and humbled with the response. 1254 members very generously increased their membership subscriptions by an average of £2.79per month; this fabulous generosity resulted in an annual average increase of £41,979pa (£51,967 inc.Gift Aid) for nature conservation.

Thank you

We have been fortunate in recent years to receive funds in legacies, which this year totalled £925,156 (with £150,000 accrued) for which we are humbly grateful. Gifts in Wills remain a critical funding source in enabling us to achieve significant steps to protect and restore wild places and wildlife for future generations.

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Trustees’ Annual Report

Principal risks and uncertainties

The Trustees regularly review the risks the charity faces and where appropriate establish processes and procedures to mitigate those risks identified, including, where appropriate, putting in place insurance and setting aside financial reserves. The Trust’s principal risks and uncertainties are summarised as follows;

n Significant challenges in recruiting and retaining staff due to wage inflation and the volatility in the UK jobs market.

n Systems breach/IT fraud/Cyber-crime; increased risk of data breaches, virus and malware attacks and sophisticated attempts at online financial crime.

n Rising costs and inflationary pressures of energy, materials and supplier costs may lead to greater unrestricted contributions to projects and greater likelihood of increased core costs.

n Risk of UK Government policy to reinvigorate the economy, not accounting for wildlife and environmental factors, instead favouring commercially focussed activity including housing development and large infrastructure plans to the detriment of wildlife.

n The risk of serious injury to staff or contractors from high-risk activities such as chain sawing, large scale land restoration, marine research and restoration activities.

n The management of 111 sites across Yorkshire and the potential impact of major disasters and adverse events at these sites, many resulting from the effects of climate change, in particular incidents of flooding and fire.

n The occurrence of an event that threatens the reputational damage or integrity of the Trust.

n Risk of not having sufficient cash flow to support large grant funded projects that deliver income in arrears.

n Potential for overtrading with limited resource to deliver a large, diverse range of projects.

n Maintaining UK GDPR compliance and best practice with differing data sets and data sharing agreements.

The Board of Trustees approved the Strategic Report contained within the Annual Report as required by The Companies Act 2006 (Strategic Report and Director’s Report) Regulations 2013.

Financial Reserves Policy and Going Concern considerations

The Trust’s financial reserves policy is reviewed annually by the trustees. In setting the Trust’s reserve policy, the trustees consider various financial metrics and data, cash flow movements and working capital requirements, anticipated risks, fixed assets equity availability and material future commitments. The Trust’s key driver in setting its general unrestricted target is maintaining sufficient cash flow to allow it to continue to trade and to ensure it can fund the large number of projects for which grant funding is received in arrears, whilst at the same time not retaining large sums of money that could be put to use to support nature conservation in Yorkshire.

The Trust’s target level of general unrestricted reserves is £1m, with a minimum of 80% set for budgeting below which we should not fall.

At 31 March 2023, the Trust had total reserves of £17.32m including unrestricted, restricted, designated funds and fixed asset reserves. Of this, our unrestricted funds (including fixed assets and designated funds) totalled £4.09m, with general unrestricted funds up £0.17m to £1.45m (2022: £1.28m). The agreed budget for 23/24 forecasts a year end deficit of £0.32m, which would reduce the unrestricted funds to £0.13m above the Trust’s target level of £1m.

General unrestricted funds represent available funds of the charity which trustees are free to use in accordance with the charitable objectives of the Trust. Funds used to purchase fixed assets, net of the Trust’s long-term mortgage liability, are set aside as designated funds as these assets are not generally available for day-to-day operations of the Trust. These comprise primarily nature reserves, which are held as part of the charitable objectives of the Trust and cannot be readily sold, and also Trust premises and equipment which are required for us to operate effectively. These assets may from time to time be used to raise funding if it is in the best interest of the Trust to do so.

Investment Policy

The Trust’s Articles of Association enable it to invest monies not immediately needed for its purposes in such investments deemed appropriate, subject to such conditions as may be required by law. While trustees have delegated authority for the management of investments to a Finance and Risk Committee and to fund managers, they retain ultimate responsibility for all matters relating to and affecting the Trust’s investments.

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The investment policy objectives are:

During the financial year, the trustees continued to hold all Yorkshire Wildlife Trust investments within stocks, shares or funds in those investments that are subject to screening of an ethical nature and to ensure that no investments are made which are knowingly contrary to the objects of the Trust. All Trust investments are currently held in either CCLA COIF Ethical Investment Fund or the Eden Tree Amity Global Equity Fund.

Uncertain global financial markets due to the Ukranian conflict, rising inflation and disruption to global supply chains, resulted in overall investment losses of £0.05m (2022: £0.21m gain). Despite the disappointing result overall, it was pleasing to see gains in the final two quarters of the year. The Trustees will continue to monitor market performance and the suitability of its investment options.

Fundraising Disclosure

In accordance with the Charities Act 2011, as amended in 2016, the Trust endeavours to adhere to the Code of Fundraising Practice governed by the Fundraising Regulator, and all relevant guidance published by the Chartered Institute of Fundraising including treating donors fairly. The Director of Fundraising and Engagement coordinates our fundraising activity to ensure the highest standards of fundraising practice. We did not receive any complaints in relation to fundraising in the year.

Our commitment to supporters

Through our members’ magazine, our website, events and activities and our other communications we will always tell you about how you are helping to make a difference for wildlife so you know how your money is being spent.

We strictly adhere to the Code of Fundraising Practice as defined by the Fundraising Regulator and follow all relevant guidance from the Chartered Institute of Fundraising. All fundraisers representing us receive training so as to understand the standards we expect when they are speaking to members of the public on our behalf, to ensure a positive experience. We will always take action if others acting on our behalf fail to meet our high standards and we will never sell your data to anyone else or share it without consent or having a legitimate reason to do so.*

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has a procedure for handling complaints and we are committed to dealing with all complaints constructively, impartially and effectively. We will make every effort to ensure that all complaints receive a complete, accurate and timely response and no complaint is ever disregarded. If we cannot resolve a fundraising related complaint we will provide information about how to raise a complaint with the Fundraising Regulator. In the year 22/23 we received a total of 6 complaints of which none were related to our fundraising activity.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is committed to providing access and equality in its activities, across its nature reserves, as well as supporting equal opportunities and equal treatment for its staff, volunteers, members and supporters regardless of sex, gender, race, religion or belief, age, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/ maternity, sexual orientation or disability. The Trust has a dedicated group tasked with developing the approach to equality, diversity and inclusion.

Governing document

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is a charitable company limited by guarantee, governed by its Articles of Association. It is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission. The Articles of Association were updated at the 2012 AGM.

Structure, Governance and Management

The directors of the charitable company (the charity) are its trustees for the purposes of charity law and throughout this report are collectively referred to as the trustees. The Trust currently has 13 trustees. The trustees serving during the year are listed at the beginning of this report. Rachael Bice was Chief Executive throughout the year.

The Directors consider the trustees, the Chief Executive Officer and the Senior Leadership Team together comprise the key management personnel of the charity in charge of directing and controlling, running and operating the Trust on a day to day basis. The pay of the Chief Executive and Senior Leadership Team is reviewed annually.

Trustee appointment, induction and training

Trustees are elected by the members of the Trust at the Annual General Meeting for an initial period of 4 years and are then eligible to seek re-election for a further 4 year period. Trustees may from time to time co-opt an eligible person to fill a temporary vacancy until the next Annual General Meeting when the co-opted trustees can subsequently stand for election.

*It is sometimes necessary for YWT to allow its carefully vetted suppliers to use supporter data to carry out work on our behalf, such as undertaking member satisfaction surveys or sending out mailings to our supporters. We may also sometimes have to share data in other circumstances, for example where there’s a legal requirement to do so. Please see our privacy policy on the website.

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New trustees undergo an induction to brief them on their legal obligations under charity and company law, the content of the Articles of Association, the committee and decision making processes, the business plan and recent financial performance of the Trust. They are also invited to meet key employees and other trustees. New trustees attend an induction day, led by the Chief Executive and hold trustee feedback sessions each year with Chair of the Board of Trustees.

Organisation

The Board of Trustees administers the charity and meets at least five times a year. The Finance and Risk Committee comprises a minimum of three trustees and up to two other members of the Trust who can be appointed by the Board, and meets at least four times a year. The Chief Executive is appointed by the trustees to manage the day to day operations of the charity. The trustees actively engage with the Chief Executive Officer and Directors, working collectively in development of organisational strategy.

Supporters groups operate to encourage, coordinate and focus the active participation and contribution of volunteers to the Trust’s projects and objectives at local level. Supporters groups are part of the Trust’s volunteer structure, reporting through staff, and may be formed around a specific project, site or community, a group of sites or wider geographic area, according to the interests of group members.

The Trust is an active member of The Wildlife Trusts. This is a national partnership of 46 independent Wildlife Trusts and the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT) which operates throughout the UK. All the Wildlife Trusts contribute an annual levy to fund RSWT to provide advocacy and representation at a national level.

Trading Subsidiary

Yorkshire Wildlife Services Limited (YWSL), a company registered in England, is a wholly owned trading subsidiary of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. YWSL commenced trading on 1 April 2016, with a view to generating funds on behalf of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for the furtherance of its charitable objectives and ensuring continued compliance with UK tax legislation. Profits generated by YWSL are generally distributed to the charity using gift aid. Further information is included in Notes 15 and 23 of the accounts.

Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities

The trustees (who are also directors of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees Annual Report and the Financial Statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and the group and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable group for that year. In preparing those financial statements the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and the group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

In so far as the trustees are aware:

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

This statement is agreed by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Board of Trustees

Joanna Webb, Chair 31/01/2024

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Auditors Report

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust (the ~~p~~ arent charitable company) and its subsidiary (the group) for the year ended 31 March 2023 which comprise the statement

of financial activities, balance sheet and the cash flow statement, and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102, the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events

or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group or the parent charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves.

If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

Other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

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Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the group and the parent charitable company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Trustees’ Annual Report including the Strategic Report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 require us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities set out on page 20, the trustees (who are also the directors of the parent charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of the financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of noncompliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The specific procedures for this engagement and the extent to which these are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud are detailed below.

Identifying and assessing risks related to irregularities: We assessed the susceptibility of the group and parent charitable company’s financial statements to material misstatement and how fraud might occur, including through discussions with the trustees, discussions within our audit team planning meeting, updating our record of internal controls and ensuring these controls operated as intended. We evaluated possible incentives and opportunities for fraudulent manipulation of the financial statements. We identified laws and regulations that are of significance in the context of the group and parent charitable company by discussions with trustees and updating our understanding of the sector in which the group and parent charitable company operates.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the group’s and parent charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the group or the parent charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

We have been appointed as auditors under the Companies Act 2006 and report in accordance with regulations made under that Act.

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Laws and regulations of direct significance in the context of the charitable company include The Companies Act 2006, and guidance issued by the Charity Commission for England and Wales .

Audit response to risks identified:

We considered the extent of compliance with these laws and regulations as part of our audit procedures on the related financial statement items including a review of financial statement disclosures. We reviewed the parent charitable company’s records of breaches of laws and regulations, minutes of meetings and correspondence with relevant authorities to identify potential material misstatements arising. We discussed the parent charitable company’s policies and procedures for compliance with laws and regulations with members of management responsible for compliance.

During the planning meeting with the audit team, the engagement partner drew attention to the key areas which might involve non-compliance with laws and regulations or fraud. We enquired of management whether they were aware of any instances of noncompliance with laws and regulations or knowledge of any actual, suspected or alleged fraud. We addressed the risk of fraud through management override of controls by testing the appropriateness of journal entries and identifying any significant transactions that were unusual or outside the normal course of business. We assessed whether judgements made in making accounting estimates gave rise to a possible indication of management bias. At the completion stage of the audit, the engagement partner’s review included ensuring that the team had approached their work with appropriate professional scepticism and thus the capacity to identify non- compliance with laws and regulations and fraud.

A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org. uk/auditors responsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the parent charitable company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the parent charitable company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the parent charitable company and the parent charitable company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Sally Appleton (Senior Statutory Auditor) for and on behalf of Saffery LLP Chartered Accountants Statutory Auditors Mitre House, North Park Road, Harrogate, HG1 5RX Saffery LLP is eligible to act as an auditor in terms of section 1212 of the Companies Act 2006

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There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures described above and the further removed noncompliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we would become aware of it. Also, the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment by, for example, forgery or intentional misrepresentations, or through collusion.

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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust 1 St. George’s Place York YO24 1GN Phone: 01904 659570 Email: info@ywt.org.uk

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is registered in England no. 409650 and is a registered charity no. 210807. Registered Office: 1 St George’s Place, York, YO24 1GN