Report and Financial Statements for the Year-Ended 30 September 2018
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OCEANS & COASTS CLIMATE CHANGE WILDLIFE & HABITATS FRESH WATER CONSERVATION EDUCATION & RESEARCH TRUST REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR-ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2018 Company number: 4373313 Charity number: 1094467 1 CONSERVATION EDUCATION & RESEARCH TRUST REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2018 OCEANS & COASTS FRESH WATER CLIMATE CHANGE WILDLIFE & HABITATS CONTENTS Trustees’ annual report Welcome 3 Independent auditor’s report 21 Mission and vision 4 Consolidated statement of financial activities 24 Fundraising 5 Balance sheets 25 Objectives and achievements 6 Consolidated statement of cash flow 26 Our new strategy 11 Financial review 12 Notes to the financial statements 27 Administration and governance 16 Thank you to our supporters 41 2 CONSERVATION EDUCATION & RESEARCH TRUST REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2018 “Earthwatch Europe is now embarking on a new five-year strategy, with greater impact delivery at its heart.” Lucian J. Hudson, Chair, Earthwatch Europe WELCOME 2018 was a successful and busy year for Earthwatch the next 50 years. We will be focussing on the Europe. Working in partnership with many key challenges where we can have most impact: different stakeholders, we have achieved much in reducing the pollution of our water bodies; the last 12 months as we seek to tackle complex enhancing the health of our coasts; promoting environmental issues. sustainable agriculture and creating thriving places to live and work. This year we have empowered many more people to protect the natural world. During 2018 over 4,600 As we move into this exciting new era for Earthwatchers were engaged in our projects from Earthwatch Europe, our Chief Executive of the last measuring the health of our rivers and coastlines, three years, Steve Gray, will be handing the reins to taking part in film and photography competitions. over to a new leader to propel the organisation towards future success. Steve will be moving on Our work on inspiring the next generation also to a new challenge as Delivery Director with the reached new heights, with hundreds of teachers Brecon Beacons National Park Authority. The and students participating in our education new Chief Executive will have a strong legacy to programmes. We have also continued to support build on and no doubt will continue to evolve our training opportunities for early career scientists approach, as we seek to maximise our impact on and were delighted to receive a grant from Neville the environmental challenges we all face. Shulman CBE to maintain this work for a further 10 years. Finally, we have sustained our long-term relationships with our corporate partners HSBC, Shell and Mitsubishi Corporation - engaging with them to further embed sustainability within their organisations. Earthwatch Europe is now embarking on a new five-year strategy, which will have the delivery of greater impact at its heart. Whilst we have a proud history of creating knowledge around environmental issues, the ongoing impacts of climate change, wildlife loss and degradation of our habitats, requires us to have a greater emphasis on inspiring the action necessary to tackle these complex challenges. During this new strategy, Earthwatch will celebrate Lucian J. Hudson its 50th year of bringing people, science and Chair, Earthwatch Europe nature together, and the strategy will ensure that Earthwatch Europe is the trading name of Conservation we continue and evolve this unique approach for Education and Research Trust 3 CONSERVATION EDUCATION & RESEARCH TRUST REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2018 OCEANS & COASTS HOW WE BENEFIT THE PUBLIC FRESH We create knowledge and inspire WATER action through hands-on science and environmental engagement. We address big challenges – such as climate change, loss of wildlife and habitats, provision of fresh water and ocean health – by working together with individuals, CLIMATE communities and organisations. CHANGE WILDLIFE & HABITATS MISSION AND VISION OUR PURPOSE OUR VALUES We empower people to save our natural world Inclusive through rigorous and relevant science that We believe it is essential that people participate in addresses key environmental issues, and through solving the environmental challenges we face. engaging experiences that inform, connect and Objective inspire. This enables us to deliver solutions by Independent research is at the core of our work, and influencing policy and providing hands-on action. its outcomes determine our goals and priorities. OUR MISSION Passionate We are passionate about the opportunity we have Our mission is to engage people worldwide in to make a meaningful impact on people and the scientific field research and education, to promote natural world. the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment. Empowering We seek to inspire people, organisations and OUR VISION communities with experiences, knowledge and tools that enable them to take action. We envision a world in which we live within our means and in balance with nature. We believe that Responsible future decisions regarding the environment must We act in a manner that respects and protects be based on objective science and must engage the well-being of people and the environment, and empower people and organisations to act including our staff, researchers, volunteers and responsibly if they are to be sustainable. the places we work. 4 CONSERVATION EDUCATION & RESEARCH TRUST REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2018 FUNDRAISERS RAISED MORE THAN £10,500 THIS YEAR We achieved significant success in trust fundraising during 2017-18. This included a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant for our Naturehood project FUNDRAISING Earthwatch is a member of the Fundraising Heritage Fund grant for our Naturehood project, Regulator. Our income is generated predominantly in partnership with colleagues from the Wiltshire thanks to the support of corporate partners funding Wildlife Trust. education and engagement programmes designed to embed sustainability in their businesses. Where we We have also maintained a steady income from partner with corporates, we conduct due diligence on individuals. Our fundraising policy clearly states all the organisations and set clear parameters, before the steps that should be followed in order to protect agreeing responsibilities between partners. vulnerable people when offering support to the charity, ensuring that they have the relevant capacity We achieved significant success in trust fundraising to enable them to make the decision to donate. during 2017-18. This included a National Lottery Our fundraising and partnership teams are internal, and the organisation does not use external professional fundraisers. We do not employ the services of any fundraising agencies or third parties, nor have we run a telephone or door-to-door fundraising campaign. We have ensured we are in line with the GDPR data protection regulations. We received no complaints about our fundraising practices in 2018. 5 CONSERVATION EDUCATION & RESEARCH TRUST REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2018 OBJECTIVES AND ACHIEVEMENTS This was the final year of our three-year strategy which began in 2016. The aim of which was to broaden our beneficiaries, whilst focusing on increasing our impact on those beneficiaries and, by extension, on the environment. Our strategic priorities to deliver on this aim were: • Create hands-on activities for individuals to take local actions that have a global impact and deliver science that matters. • Work in partnership with global companies to help transform how they think and do business, enabling them to integrate sustainability into their organisations. • Develop skills in young people through a range of immersive education programmes for teachers and students. • Help scientists develop their careers and close the gap between scientific discovery and action, and enable them to actively engage with people, communities and business. STRATEGIC 2018 2018 PRIORITIES OBJECTIVE KEY STATS EMPOWER Launch the urban Over 4,600 wildlife project in at least Earthwatchers engaged PEOPLE two counties in our projects ENGAGE Refine our 782 corporate employees approach to partnership participated in our BUSINESSES development programmes INSPIRE THE NEXT Expand Discover & Teach Over 1,300 participants took Earth and develop our part in Discover Earth and GENERATION secondary school approach Teach Earth ENABLE Develop a new 10 researchers programme for were supported SCIENTISTS young scientists with grants 6 CONSERVATION EDUCATION & RESEARCH TRUST REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2018 Engaged people in citizen science thorough Capturing our Coast and FreshWater Watch EMPOWERING PEOPLE SPEND: £907K (2017: £802K) How did we empower people? Our work to empower people has continued apace in 2018. Our objective to launch the urban wildlife project Naturehood in two counties will be fulfilled shortly when the public phase of Naturehood gets underway in Swindon and Oxford in the spring. We have also: • Raised awareness of critical environmental issues through social media, e-campaigns and events; • Redeveloped the Earthwatch Europe website to improve information for our different audiences about our programmes and activities, making it easier to get involved; • Run interactive events including a young Earthwatcher film competition and held speaking engagements across the UK, with