Devon
Financial Review
Wildlife Trust
Annual Review 2007-08 Statement by the Trustees
Income
Total ÂŁ4,018,049
We have examined the summary financial information set out overleaf.
This summary financial information is intended to provide the reader with an overview of the revenue income and expenditure of Devon Wildlife Trust for the year 2007-08.
Respective responsibilities of Trustees and Auditors
You are responsible as Trustees for the preparation of the summary financial information. We have agreed to report to you our opinion on the consistency of the information with the full financial statements, on which we reported to you on 24 June 2008.
You will see from the income chart that Devon Wildlife Trust utilises a wide variety of income sources to support its work. As always when reading financial information it is important to be aware of unusual items. This year the income figures have been inflated by a legacy bequest made to the organisation in the form of a farm.
Basis of opinion
We have carried out the procedures we consider necessary to ascertain whether summary financial information is consistent with the full financial statements from which they have been prepared.
Opinion
In our opinion, the summary financial information is consistent with the full financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2008. Francis Clark, Southernhay House, 36 Southernhay East, Exeter, Devon, EX1 1NX 24 June 2008
The expenditure chart shows the wide spread of activities that have become part of modern conservation.
In 2007-08 DWT received grants from the following Charitable Trusts and Foundations:
These figures come from the full annual accounts which have been audited. For further information, the full audited annual accounts and the Trustees’ annual report should be consulted; copies can be obtained from The Secretary, Devon Wildlife Trust, Cricklepit Mill, Commercial Road, Exeter, EX2 4AB. The annual accounts were approved by the Trustees on 24 June 2008 and will be submitted to the Charity Commission. Signed for and on behalf of the Trustees: Andrew Charles John Cooper Chair of Council 24 June 2008
Independent auditors’ statement to the Trustees of the Devon Wildlife Trust
Expenditure
Total ÂŁ2,573,839
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Devon Wildlife Trust Cricklepit Mill, Commercial Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2 4AB tel: 01392 279244 email: contactus@devonwildlifetrust.org Registered charity no 213224
Photos: hare, Darin Smith; leopardsbane, heather, Simon Williams (www.southviewimages.co.uk); razorbill, Chris Lloyd; scarlet waxcap, Kevin New; child, shield bug, dandelion seeds, S Hussey
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The perfect home 2007-08 will be remembered as the year we moved to Cricklepit Mill. 45 years after its founding, the Devon Wildlife Trust finally found a home. Everything about the Mill – its history, its connections to the countryside, the running water and the sustainable new construction – fits with the ethos of an organisation seeking balance between human life and living things. The year was almost an embarrassment of riches, since DWT also acquired Woodah Farm in the Teign Valley – a legacy from a former Honorary Treasurer – which is full of further potential for the future. The organisation continued to go from strength to strength in many ways. It spent over £2.5 million in pursuit of its vision of a Devon in which wildlife is plentiful, varied and widespread, has a secure future and is valued and enjoyed by people. Membership increased to 35,485. Volunteer hours were up by a staggering 51% - and that is only recorded hours! Each year, what DWT stands for becomes more and more important to more and more people, and this is reflected in increased support of all kinds. It was also the year when DWT began by far its most important project to date – a landscape scale conservation project called Working Wetlands, which aims not only to restore large areas of Culm grassland but, in so doing, to restore eco-system functions vital to water management in north Devon. With roughly half of the £2million project costs also secured during the year, it will set DWT’s direction and a major fundraising challenge for some years to come. The fate of the Lyme Bay Reefs has been high on DWT’s agenda for years, but 2007-08 was the year in which 18 years of effort came to a head. A Defra consultation on their future provided the opportunity for a major campaign to secure their long term, sustainable management. We knew by year end that 72% of those who responded supported our position; 2008-09 will see a decision from Government. 1BVM (PNQFSU[ Director, Devon Wildlife Trust
Annual Review 2007-08
The Devon Wildlife Trust year
Planning for wildlife
Spread the word
Devon Wildlife Trust’s Planning Officer, Bill Broadbent, looks back on an important year.
Wildlife is declining because in the past wildlife habitats such as woodland and grassland have been fragmented by changes in agriculture and the expansion of building development. The planning system doesn’t have much influence on agricultural land use but it is a major determinant of the use of land for development in or around our towns and villages. DWT felt that it needed somebody who could understand how the planning system affected Devon’s wildlife habitats, in terms of both the positive opportunities it could provide as well as the threats it could pose.
In autumn 2007 Government announced that it was to open a three month public consultation period into the future of Lyme Bay Reefs. In response Devon Wildlife Trust began its biggest campaign of recent years. Its aim was to protect the Reefs’ nationally important wildlife by mobilising public support behind a proposal to close 60 sq. miles (or less than 10%) of Lyme Bay to damaging towed fishing gear. Central to the campaign was to be the extent of coverage in the media, as Communications Officer, David Ireland, explains‌
In its simplest terms, what does your role involve?
Why did Devon Wildlife Trust choose this issue as a major campaign?
When were you appointed? In April 2006.
Why does Devon Wildlife Trust need a planning officer?
Examining how wildlife’s interests can best be pursued through the land use planning system. We are particularly interested in promoting and pursuing our vision for a Devon-wide habitat network, which would extend through and between towns and which would expand and connect the best existing areas of wildlife habitat. We feel that it is only by pursuing this big picture approach to nature conservation that wildlife will be given the best chance to adapt in the face of climate change. In this context, my job is to:
No, we also needed to show that we had wide public and political support behind us. With the help of Dorset Wildlife Trust and The Wildlife Trusts we established a campaign website that gathered 3,000 on-line petition signatures. We also produced campaign postcards. 8,000 QFPQMF DPNQMFUFE BOE GPSXBSEFE UIFTF UP )JMBSZ #FOO .1 4FDSFUBSZ PG 4UBUF GPS &OWJSPONFOU 'PPE 3VSBM "GGBJST .1T TJHOFE BO &BSMZ %BZ .PUJPO DBMMJOH GPS UIF protection of the Lyme Bay Reefs, while the Commons held an Adjournment Debate and a question was asked in the House of Lords.
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April 2007: Young and old Devon Wildlife Trust members join DWT Nature Reserves Interpretation OfďŹ cer, Jo Pullin, on a guided tour of Halsdon nature reserve. The highlight of the walk is Halsdon’s bluebell display – nationally the species is threatened by hybridisation, illegal removal and climate change.
October: A pair of mermaids help DWT and The Wildlife Trusts launch the Lyme Bay Reefs campaign (see main story for more details). The venue is the Dive Show, at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre. The campaign, which lasts three months, aims to raise public support for the closure of a small part of Lyme Bay’s seabed against damaging scallop dredging.
May: DWT’s two Voluntary Marine Conservation Areas (VMCAs), in North Devon and at Wembury in the South Hams, open for a summer programme of beach-based events. The VMCAs take DWT’s messages on the importance of marine wildlife to thousands of local people and visitors.
But was this expertise and evidence enough?
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Why doesn’t DWT get involved in individual planning proposals (eg small building projects)?
Devon Wildlife Trust month-by-month 2007-08
It wasn’t a sudden decision, DWT has been campaigning on Lyme Bay Reefs for 18 years. Over that time we’ve built up the expertise and scientific data that shows just how important a healthy Lyme Bay habitat is for marine wildlife and for local people.
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Annual Review 2007-08
The Director of Devon Wildlife Trust, Paul Gompertz
What part did media coverage of the campaign play?
It had a huge influence. Altogether we managed to get 65 newspaper, radio, television and website features on the campaign to save Lyme Bay Reefs. These included appearances in live debates on BBC Radio 4’s Today and BBC1’s Breakfast programme. Then there were features in The Independent, The Observer and The Guardian.
Is this kind of exposure difficult to get?
Our good links with local and national media gave us an advantage. In an average year we issue nearly 100 press releases covering every aspect of our work from advice about nest box building to major campaigns. Last year this meant we gained nearly 600 press articles and 50 TV appearances about Devon Wildlife Trust. So when something like the Lyme Bay Reefs campaign comes along we already have the contacts with well-known media outlets such as the national broadsheets and BBC1’s Countryfile and Radio 4’s Farming Today.
Where can DWT improve?
Last year our website www.devonwildlifetrust.org received WJTJUT VQ GSPN B ZFBS BHP CVU * UIJOL XF DBO improve on this by making it slicker and by offering browsers more. Here I’m thinking of features like the audio guide to Dunsford nature reserve which people can now download and use. This type of initiative helps spread the word about the work of Devon Wildlife Trust.
Stop Press: as this Annual Review went to press we heard the good news that Government had decided to close 60 square miles of Lyme Bay to damaging scallop dredging.
November: Devon’s bats receive a boost when DWT receives more than ÂŁ10,000 from the Alcoa Foundation. The money will be used to provide bat-breeding and nursery refuges at three nature reserves: Higher Kiln Quarry, Old Sludge Beds and Sourton Quarry. 14 of the UK’s 17 bat species have been recorded at the sites. The grant will also enable DWT to monitor bat populations using new digital technology that has been pioneered in the USA. June: DWT’s annual Wildlife Festival rolls into a sunny Plymouth city centre. An estimated 28,000 people come to build bird nest boxes, examine the marine creatures of a specially constructed rockpool and learn about the work of DWT. The event is run in collaboration with the BBC to form part of their SpringWatch campaign. July: An appeal to members raises ÂŁ12,000 for DWT’s Culm Conservation projects. At DWT’s newest nature reserve, Ashmoor, work begins to improve public access, provide a pond and wetland area and restore the nature reserve’s Culm grassland. The work will beneďŹ t rare and threatened species such as wood white butteries and barn owls. August: Volunteers join DWT staff to undertake the annual heath lobelia count at Andrew’s Wood nature reserve, near Ivybridge. The slender, purple owered plant is present at only ďŹ ve sites in the UK, with Andrew’s Wood being the most important. September: DWT gets the go ahead to prepare the way for the re-introduction of the rare southern damsely to Venn Ottery Nature Reserve in East Devon. ÂŁ11,000 from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund will fund work to enhance its wetland areas, clearing scrub to increase water supply and installing small dams to slow its ow, creating the perfect conditions for the insect.
DWT’s Lyme Bay Reefs campaign materials were displayed in the chamber of the House of Commons by Fisheries Minister Jonathan Shaw
December: Dunsford becomes the ďŹ rst DWT nature reserve to have its own audio guide. The guide, which can be downloaded from www.devonwildlifetrust.org, uses the voices of children from the local Dunsford Community Primary School. Listeners hear the children exploring the nature reserve, discussing the likely inuence of climate change on the landscape and providing ideas for wildlife games and activities. The guide was funded by Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund. January 2008: An unusual opportunity arises at DWT’s new headquarters, Cricklepit Mill. A team of volunteer millers is being sought to work at the C17th water mill. Eight men and women will be trained to operate its working mill wheel along with learning how to grind corn into our. The aim is to have the mill working at special events in the future. February: The work of DWT volunteers proves vital as a winter’s work at Bovey HeathďŹ eld Local Nature Reserve comes to a close. Having saved the rare lowland heath from destruction six years ago, DWT now spends many hours maintaining it in good condition for wildlife. Bracken cutting, pond creation and fencing are amongst the tasks undertaken by a band of local people led by DWT staff. March: DWT provides training for tourism providers in North Devon, showing them the important part wildlife and a thriving local environment plays in the health of their businesses. Workshops on marine wildlife, saving water and wildlife gardening are amongst the topics in an event organised by DWT’s Marine OfďŹ cer, Cat Jones.