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Review2019-20 From the Chief Executive Taking action ‘41% of species studied in the UK since the 1970s Nature based solutions work by restoring natural are in decline’ was the sobering headline of the ecosystems to address challenges facing . State of Nature report released in 2019. Good examples include tree-planting, wetland to restore Sadly, our records show that Cornwall reflects habitat creation and expanding the network of that trend. The shocking statistic added to the Cornish hedges to slow the flow of water and increasing volume of science and public opinion reduce the threat of flooding downstream, improve Cornwall’s backing the need for urgent action to tackle the soil health and absorb pollutants. climate and the ecological crises. Nature based solutions also provide other The coronavirus pandemic followed and benefits – green jobs, opportunities for sustainable wildlife and underlined the importance of nature for our businesses, resilient landscapes thriving with health and wellbeing, especially the importance of wildlife, improved health and wellbeing benefits the wildlife and wild places that we have on our for Cornish people and our visitors. wild places, doorsteps in Cornwall. I would like to thank everyone involved with We know this because thousands of you shared Cornwall Wildlife Trust – our staff, volunteers, your reflections, photos and videos of how nature Trustees, members, supporters, delivery partners on land and in helped you and your families through difficult and funders – for taking action. times in Cornwall. Your ongoing support means we can continue to Nature was there for us all during lockdown help Cornwall’s wildlife and wild places to survive and thrive, putting nature and the climate crisis at our seas, all Cornwall Wildlife Trust and many others support the heart of Cornwall’s recovery from the pandemic. a green recovery from the pandemic - a recovery which sees investment in low carbon and ‘nature- Carolyn Cadman year round. based solutions’. Chief Executive, Cornwall Wildlife Trust MORE THAN > 1,400 volunteers gave their time for nature to:

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The Trust continued to represent our members in support of the national Wilder Future campaign, building support alongside our local partners for the 2,341 including creation of a nature recovery network in Cornwall. FUTURE VISITORSFUTURE Volunteers organised and delivered a programme of to Looe Island Open Garden events across the county, which helped 155 to demonstrate and showcase how all gardens can SEALS be managed for the benefit of wildlife. Our Annual now identified 7,544 Generalpeople Meeting was held at Heartlands and was came to our 435 Advised 152 land owners local walks and farmers and talks

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It is Trust policy to aim to keep the equivalent of three months Trustees’ statement of unrestricted expenditure in free cash reserves to smooth out We confirm that the following is a summary of information extracted from the Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s annual unqualified fluctuations in Trust income. For 2019/20 this equates to £500,658 consolidated statutory accounts. These accounts comprise the consolidated statements of The Cornwall Trust for Nature and our reserves stood at £504,731 Conservation Limited and its subsidiary company Cornwall Environmental Consultants Ltd for the year ended 29th February 2020. at year-end. The pie charts below demonstrate that our actual ‘free’ or general funds, excluding funds STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES BALANCE SHEET already designated for a specific purpose, were £284,844 at year-end for the year ended 29th February 2020 at 29th February 2020 (£626,795 in 2019).

Unrestricted Restricted Total Total The Group Income from: Funds (£) Funds (£) 2020 (£) 2019 (£) 2020 (£) 2019 (£) Donations and legacies 60,455 261,421 321,876 1,691,459 Fixed Assets 4,355,174 3,868,988 Membership subscriptions 558,144 6,989 565,133 587,361 2020 Charitable activities: Current Assets 4,203,504 4,476,651 Nature conservation 816,934 1,412,457 2,229,391 1,908,665 £8m Other Trading activities: Creditors Consultancy income and sales 637,129 56,881 694,010 630,355 due within one year (422,939) (345,295) Other income 108,562 83,461 192,023 272,758 Net Current Assets 3,780,565 4,131,356 Total income 2,181,224 1,821,209 4,002,433 5,090,598 £198 Expenditure on: Creditors Revaluation Reserve Consultancy expenses 493,581 – 493,581 532,029 due after one year (164,919) (190,409) £284,844 General Funds Other 502,175 9,407 511,582 494,503 Net Assets 7,970,820 7,809,935 Charitable activities: £1,225,028 Designated Funds Nature conservation 1,447,525 1,388,860 2,836,385 2,677,804 Funds £6,460,750 Total expenditure 2,443,281 1,398,267 3,841,548 3,704,336 Unrestricted funds: Restricted Funds General Funds 284,844 626,765 Transfers between funds (76,860) 76,860 – – Designated Funds 1,225,028 1,221,943 Net movement in funds (338,917) 499,802 160,885 1,386,262 Revaluation Reserve 198 279 Funds at 1st March 2019 1,848,987 5,960,948 7,809,935 6,423,673 Restricted funds: 6,460,750 5,960,948 Funds at 29th February 2020 1,510,070 6,460,750 7,970,820 7,809,935 Total Funds 7,970,820 7,809,935 2019 £7.8m

Caveat statement: The financial summary shown above £279 does not contain£933,850 sufficient information£ to453,803 allow for a full £933,850 £453,803 £933,850 £453,803Revaluation Reserve understanding of the financial affairs of Cornwall Wildlife £626,765 Trust and its subsidiary company Cornwall Environmental £1,448,732 £1,448,732 General£ Funds1,448,732 Consultants Ltd.SPENT For further ON information theSPENT full financial ON SPENTSPENT ON ON SPENT ON SPENTSPENT ON ON SPENT ON£1,221,943SPENT ON statements should beNature consulted. Copies ofConservation these can be Work ConservationNature Work Conservation Work ConservationNature Work Conservation DesignatedWork ConservationFunds Work obtained by contactingReserves Cornwall Wildlife Trust ATor visiting SEA ON LANDReserves AT SEA ON LANDReserves AT SEA£5,960,948ON LAND our website. Restricted Funds £884,063 £884,063 £884,063 SPENT ON SPENT ON SPENT ON Nature Reserves Nature Reserves Nature Reserves

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2017 Business Supporters OUR BUSINESS SUPPORTERS Wildlife Business Helman Tor Cottages Parkdean Holidays Ta Mill Holiday Cottages working for wildlife Partners Members Hendra Holiday Park Piran Meadows Resort & Spa Tehidy Holiday Park Heritage Attractions BBC Radio Cornwall Atropos Pocketful of Stones The Cornwall Hotel Our Business Supporter scheme added six new Higher Menadew Farm Bourne Leisure Ltd Ayr Holiday Park Distillers The Eden Project businesses throughout the year taking the total Cottages Chelonia Limited Bamham Farm Rail Holiday The Nare Hotel to 138. Treloy Touring Park, Forever Cornwall, The Cottages Holiday Cornwall Cornish Coffee Rashleigh Arms Eden Project, Big Domain and Ekopod all joined The Old Coastguard Cornish Guardian Bedruthan Hotel and Hotel Tresanton Spa RECS the scheme and Rowe Farming became a Wildlife HPB Management The Olde House Cornishman River Valley Country Big Domain The Pandora Inn Partner, supporting our work at Pendarves Wood. Dewsign Idle Rocks Park Boscastle Farm Shop Consultancy Imerys The Port William Inn & Cafe Robinson Reed Layton New business supporter Rachael from Ekopod Fernbank The Valley Polzeath Bosinver Farm Jon Tremaine Wildlife Rosehill Lodges said “It seemed a natural step to become business Advertising Artist Travel Chapter Cottages River Valley Country Frugi members of Cornwall Wildlife Trust. Our guests love Brewer and Bunney John Bray Cornish Park Holidaycottages.co.uk John Fowler Holidays that we’re associated with such a worthwhile charity, Holiday Resort Robinson Reed Layton Tregothnan Estate Holidays Koru Kayaking and we have received support from their team to Budock Vean Hotel Rosehill Lodges Treloy Touring Park Mother Ivey’s Bay Lewinnick Lodge improve our business in many ways, including helping Holiday Park Carbis Bay Holidays Roundhouse Barn Trethem Mill Touring Lifeboat Inn Holidays Park us secure a TEVI grant earlier this year.” Rowe Farming Carley’s of Cornwall Little White Alice Sailflags Trevarth Holiday Park South West Water Carnglaze Caverns In addition to supporting the trust through the Lost Gardens of Sandoe and Sons Trevaskis Farm St Eval Candle Coastdale Parks, Heligan business membership scheme, there were also Company Atlantic Coast Holiday Sealife Trust Trevella Park Park Lou Jones Design many other ways in which our supporters Visit Cornwall Seaview Holiday Trewan Hall Cornish Orchards Lower Marsh Farm Village raised vital funds; West Briton Holiday Vickery Holman Cornwall Community Southwestern Western Morning Watergate Bay Hotel Frugi’s amazing support for Cornwall Wildlife Land Trust Lower Treave Caravan Distillery • News & Camping Park Waterlily Holiday Cotna Eco Retreat St Aubyn Estates Trust entered its final year and they donated an Mount Pleasant Eco Cottage Country Conservation incredible £36,700 to our Marine work. Thank Wildlife Park St Austell Brewery Watson Marlow CPMR Ltd Visitor Centre you! Guardians Mullion Cove Hotel Westcare Supply Zone St Ives Bay Holiday Woodland Valley Duchy College South West Water continued to support our Naked Solar Park Whalesborough • Farm Eden Valley Holiday Cottages & Spa Nancarrow Farm St Moritz Hotel & work with Farmers via our Upstream Thinking Cher Varya Group Park Activity Garden Villas Wooda Farm Holiday project. Cornish Horizions Environment Agency Park Centre St Tinney Farm Tevi continued to support us providing Green & Blue Ekopod Newquay Sea Safaris Holidays Worldwide Financial • Planning businesses with vital networking opportunities, Handykam Forest Holidays and Fishing Stay In Cornwall ZLC Energy workshops and assistance. Kurt and Caroline Forever Cornwall Newquay View Resort Stephens Scown Jackson Greenbank Hotel Newquay Zoo Solicitors Many other businesses also raised funds • Southern England Gwel an Mor Touring Park Sustainable Parking through visiting gifting and fundraising. Thank Farms Surfaces Heligan Woods Paradise Park Wildlife you to all of you. Trago Mills Campsite Centre Sykes Cottages Cornwall Environmental ERCCIS Consultants (CEC) The Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isle of Scilly (ERCCIS) is Cornwall’s accredited Local Environment Record Centre (LERC), which holds CEC had a successful year, working on more than 500 projects across the baseline information on species, habitats, environmental and conservation Cornwall. Our ecologists completed work on the A30 Cycleways and evidence in the county. Newquay Aerohub, as well as continuing to monitor the A30 Temple dualling project. They also undertook work on the next phase of ERCCIS launched its consultancy service portal; ERCCIS Data Search (EDS) a A30 development, the Chiverton to Carland Cross section, as well huge achievement and the cumulation of two years work. ERCCIS also supports as continuing to survey and monitor wildlife activity across the other online platforms that allow anyone to submit and view species information proposed Langarth development area in . via the Online Recording Kernow and Scilly (ORKS) mobile phone application and website. ERCCIS continued to assist local groups and individuals in their Our landscape department co-ordinated the Environmental wildlife recording, for example, with the Alexandra Recorders Fund. Statement for the Pydar Street redevelopment project in Truro as well ERCCIS started a 10 month DEFRA funded Environmental Land Management as undertaking the Landscape and Townscape impact assessment Scheme (ELMS) Test and Trial to develop a natural capital evaluation tool and of the proposals. Other projects included landscape design work for deliver these outcomes via a public mobile phone application. ELMS will have a major housing scheme at Trevithick Manor, Newquay, working a huge influence on future land management in Cornwal. We are excited to together with the ecology team to ensure a good outcome for have a small involvement in assisting to shape the direction of the future ELMS biodiversity and people. The team also continued to work with processes. local people and volunteers on the That’s Our Parish project for the Penwith Landscape Partnership, and were also successful in a bid to ERCCIS staff supported key partnership projects including theHedgehog support Cormac and in the delivery of the Making monitoring survey and also delivered the Cornwall Marine Stranding’s outputs. Space for Nature project, improving public parks and open spaces for ERCCIS changed managers and other staffing positions, which resulted in wildlife and people. ERCCIS becoming the mapping support for the wider Wildlife Trust, developing new spatial products, including information about species richness in Cornwall. The CEC Board continued to improve governance, financial monitoring and reporting and positioning the company for a The Wildlife Information Service worked to deliver a Wilder Cornwall by successful future. The company also retained its accreditation to dealing with thousands of wildlife related enquires and supplying the quality and management systems ISO45001 (Health and Safety), hundreds of information products to partners, Trust ISO9001 (Quality Management System), ISO14001 (Environmental members and the public. Maybe they could help you? Management System Projects and partnerships include: Your ongoing support means we can continue to help Cornwall’s wildlife and wild places to survive and thrive... Annual

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Cornwall Wildlife Trust is a registered charity formed in 1962 by a group of volunteers who were passionate about Cornwall’s natural environment and wanted to safeguard it for future generations. CHLOE BALMER, IAIN BARKER, RICHARD BIRCHETT, MALCOM BISHOP, DAVID CHAPMAN, JOANNA CLEGG, ABBY CROSBY, ADRIAN LANGDON, NICK MARRIOTT, ADRIAN LANGDON, NICK MARRIOTT, CHAPMAN, JOANNA CLEGG, ABBY CROSBY, DAVID MALCOM BISHOP, PHOTO CREDITS: CHLOE BALMER, IAIN BARKER, RICHARD BIRCHETT, THOMAS, BEN WATKINS DAVE SLATER, MATT SOPP, SMITH, ALISTAIR BARRY JASON PARRY, MITCHELL, DAN MURPHY, NATALIE MARTIN, TOM MARSHALL, KATRINA