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From the Chief Executive research into their social structures. This is ’s only resident population. I was privileged to join Wildlife Trust as the new Chief Business Supporters – working for wildlife Annual Business-as-usual activities continued too – we managed our 57 nature Executive in January 2018, following the retirement of former leader reserves across Cornwall for wildlife, advised on planning applications, Trevor Edwards. Our Business Supporter Businesses support us in many ways worked with farmers to encourage wildlife-friendly practices and we scheme grew even stronger The people of Cornwall Wildlife Trust – our staff, trustees, volunteers, welcomed hundreds of children, young people, members, wildlife The most popular way to support the Trust during the year was through annual Business Membership. members, local groups and partners – have worked tirelessly throughout recorders and volunteers to join us at a range of inspirational events with 168 Business Supporters In addition to this, there were also many innovative ways in which our supporters raised vital funds. the year to protect Cornwall’s wildlife and wild places. and activities. on board during the year, Review Amongst many highlights, this year saw us secure one of our largest including Business Members, n n A personal thank you to all who have welcomed me into Cornwall Frugi’s incredible support for our Living Seas Mother Ivey’s Bay’s visitor gifting scheme 2017-18 grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund to conserve and enhance Penwith’s Wildlife Trust and to the people and organisations who donate and Wildlife Guardians and Wildlife work continued as they raised £13,946 donations increased again to an impressive unique landscape. We also released two Eurasion beavers into a five-acre support our work for Cornwall’s wildlife and wild places. Partners. In total, the scheme through their Little Clothes, BIG Change £2,451. enclosure – the first beavers in Cornwall for 400 years. In Cornwall’s seas, raised £83,331 for Cornwall’s campaign where the company donated 1% n Five Brewery pubs donated 5p a resident group of 28 bottlenose dolphins was discovered following Carolyn Cadman, Chief Executive wildlife and wild places. of the revenue generated from their organic from hot drink sales to the Trust amounting childrens’ clothing range to selected charities. to £1,658. We also received £11,100 worth of in- kind support from generous businesses n We received £2,427 from Whistlefish n Bedruthan Hotel & Spa raised £676 for our Trustees’ statement We confirm that the following is a summary of information extracted from the Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s annual by donating free services or products, through the sales of their beautifully Cornish Hedge Appeal through their visitor unqualified consolidated statutory accounts. These accounts comprise the consolidated statements of The Cornwall Trust for Nature Conservation meaning a huge saving for the charity. designed wildlife-inspired Christmas cards. gifting scheme. Limited and its subsidiary company Cornwall Environmental Consultants Ltd for the year ended 28th February 2018.

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES Our Business Supporters for the year ended 28 February 2018 Wildlife Partners Bourne Leisure Ltd Heligan Woods Campsite View Resort Sykes Cottages Unrestricted Restricted Total Total This year our designated funds have Brewer and Bunney Ltd. Helman Tor Cottages Newquay Zoo Ta Mill Holiday Cottages Funds (£) Funds (£) 2018 (£) 2017 (£) increased from £810,067 to £949,484. This BBC Radio Cornwall Income from: Chelonia Limited Holiday Resort Hendra Holiday Park Touring Park Tehidy Holiday Park Donations and legacies 416,312 429,363 845,675 667,534 increase has occurred primarily due to the Budock Vean Hotel Heritage Attractions Ltd Paradise Park Wildlife Centre The Cornish Food Box Ltd following: Cornish Coffee Membership subscriptions 559,471 8,297 567,768 557,972 Cornish Guardian Carbis Bay Holidays Hicks Carpet Cleaning Parkdean Holidays The Cornwall Hotel n Designation of a car park fund of Cornishman Carbis Bay Hotel, Spa and Higher Menadew Farm Pastel Solutions The Labyrinth Charitable activities: Estate Cottages £45,000 to repair and improve the Dewsign Consultancy Pioneer Billys The Nare Hotel Nature conservation 655,515 1,002,382 1,657,897 1,602,558 Carley's of Cornwall Limited Holiday Cornwall Ltd headquarters’ public use car park Fernbank Advertising Ltd Piran Meadows Resort & Spa The Old Coastguard Other Trading activities: Carnglaze Caverns Hotel Tresanton during 2018-19. Frugi Pitt House The Olde House Consultancy income and sales 706,436 21,808 728,244 668,884 Cedar Croft Nursuries HPB Management Hall Wood Pocketful of Stones Distillers The Pandora Inn Other income 124,656 59,159 183,815 143,079 n Increase of £119,520 to the previously Celtic Renewable Energy Idle Rocks Ltd John Fowler Holidays The Park Mawgan Porth designated development fund (from Limited Imerys Pollaughan Farm South West Water The Port William Inn Total income 2,462,390 1,521,009 3,983,399 3,640,027 £108,780 to £228,300). This is funded Chocolate Dog Marketing John Bray Cornish Holidays Polstrong Feed Store St Eval Candle Company Services The Valley Polzeath from unrestricted legacies, for capital Jon Tremaine Wildlife Artist Rail Holiday Ltd Expenditure on: Vine House Farm Clowance Holdings Ltd Travel Chapter - and non-capital works or projects Kernow Chocolate Rashleigh Arms Holidaycottages.co.uk Consultancy expenses 545,381 – 545,381 471,363 Visit Cornwall Coastdale Parks, Atlantic which advance the strategic plan Kiligarth Manor RCES Ltd Trebah Garden Other 365,180 121 365,301 344,085 West Briton Coast Holiday Park King Edward Mine Museum Retallack Holiday Lettings Ltd Tregothnan Estate objectives of the Trust. Western Morning News Coombe House Charitable activities: Koru Kayaking Richard Lander School Trethem Mill Touring Park n Slightly offsetting the increase is a Woodland Valley Farm Cornish Orchards Nature conservation 1,280,132 872,211 2,152,343 2,103,020 Lewinnick Lodge River Valley Country Park Trevalgan Touring Park St Ives slightly lower designated capital Cornwall Community Land Lifeboat Inn Robinson Reed Layton Trevarth Holiday Park Total expenditure 2,190,693 872,332 3,063,025 2,918,468 reserve fund, which dropped from Wildlife Guardians Trust Cotna Eco Retreat Listed Luxury Rosehill Lodges Trevaskis Farm Ltd £569,058 to £557,095. This recognises Cher Varya Group Ltd Transfers between funds 43,716 (43,716) – – Cornish Horizions Country Conservation Little White Alice Roundhouse Barn Holidays Trevella Park the unrestricted funds that are tied up Green & Blue CPMR Ltd Lost Gardens of Heligan Sailflags Trevone Beach Café Net income for the year 315,413 604,961 920,374 721,559 in fixed assets, e.g. the value of our Handykam Duchy College Lou Jones Design Sandoe and Sons Trevornick headquarters land and buildings, are Funds at 1st March 2017 1,159,541 4,343,758 5,503,299 4,781,740 Jo Downs Glass Design Ltd Eden Valley Holiday Park Lower Barns SEA LIFE Trust Trewan Hall Ltd not available for other charitable Kurt and Caroline Jackson EKO Lower Marsh Farm Holiday Seaview Holiday Village Treworgey Cottages Lettings & Retreat Venue Funds at 28th February 2018 1,474,954 4,948,719 6,423,673 5,503,299 purposes. Southern England Farms Encounter Cornwall Southwestern Distillery Usfor Design and Print Lower Polladras Touring Park Limited Trago Mills Ltd Environment Agency Vickery Holman The pie chart below demonstrates that our actual ‘free’ or general reserves Lower Treave Caravan & St Aubyn Estates Essential Sewage Systems Watergate Bay Hotel are £525,057 (£349,120 in 2017). It is Trust policy to aim to keep £400,000 in Business Members Camping Park St Austell Brewery Visitor Fin Lines Waterlily Holiday Cottage free reserves to smooth out fluctuations in Trust income. Andrew Butterworth Designs Mother Ivey's Bay Holiday Centre BALANCE SHEET The Group Forest Holidays Limited Park Watson Marlow This represents 3 months of unrestricted expenditure. Atropos St Ives Bay Holiday Park at 28th February 2018 2018 (£) 2017 (£) Four Way Print Mount Pleasant Eco Park Westcare Supply Zone Ayr Holiday Park St Moritz Hotel & Garden Furse Sanders Solicitors Mullion Cove Hotel Villas Whalesborough Cottages & Bamham Farm Cottages Fixed Assets 3,708,968 3,702,750 Globe Vale Holiday Park Naked Solar St Tinney Farm Holidays Spa Bedruthan Hotel and Spa £413 Limited Nancarrow Farm Stay In Cornwall Wooda Farm Holiday Park Bosayne Guest House Current Assets 3,205,605 2,377,298 Revaluation Reserve Greenbank Hotel Newquay Activity Centre Stephens Scown Solicitors Worldwide Financial Boscastle Farm Shop & Cafe Gwel an Mor Newquay Sea Safaris and Sustainable Parking Planning Ltd Creditors £525,057 Bosinver Farm Cottages Harbour Lights Fishing Surfaces Ltd ZLC Energy Ltd Amounts falling due within one year (271,468) (325,164) General Funds 2018 Net Current Assets 2,934,137 2,052,134 £949,484 £6.4m Cornwall Environmental Consultants (CEC) Designated Funds Amounts falling due after one year (219,432) (251,585) CEC had a successful year completing almost 600 projects for which won a Pennon Group Award. Our landscape architects completed developers, architects, engineers, local authorities, utility companies three years of work on the Pier Approach public realm project in Net Assets 6,423,673 5,503,299 £4,948,719 and government agencies. Bournemouth as well as completing a feasibility study for the Loops Restricted Funds cycle and footpath project. Funds Examples included Hall Wood at Pelynt, supplying ecology, landscape Unrestricted funds – General Funds 525,057 349,120 and arboricultural services and advising on the design of this tourism We continued to work with our Wildlife Trust Consultancy colleagues – Designated Funds 949,484 810,067 project to retain and enhance important biodiversity and cultural heritage across the country ensuring that Cornwall remains one of the largest and most active members of the organisation. 30,000 miles of Cornish – Revaluation Reserve 413 354 £354 features. CEC also provided ecology and landscape services for Waterside at Lanivet; advising on planning issues and avoidance of Restricted funds 4,948,719 4,343,758 Revaluation Reserve CEC’s Board of Directors was further strengthened resulting in improved impacts to the nearby Site of Special Scientific Interest. Our ecologists Hedges across Cornwall are Total Funds 6,423,673 5,503,299 corporate and financial governance and we also retained accreditation to also assisted South West Water in identifying priorities for management OHSAS18001 (Health and Safety), ISO9001 (Quality Management £349,120 and eradication of invasive non-native species on their landholdings System), ISO14001 (Environmental Management System). alive with the buzz of insects General Funds 2017 Caveat statement The financial summary shown above does not contain sufficient £5.5m and birdsong. A unique information to allow for a full understanding of the financial affairs of £810,067 Cornwall Wildlife Trust , Five Acres, Allet, Truro, Cornwall TR4 9DJ Tel: 01872 273939 Cornwall Wildlife Trust and its subsidiary company Cornwall Designated Funds Email: [email protected] www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk wildlife superhighway Environmental Consultants Ltd. For further information the full financial statements should be consulted. Copies of these can be £4,343,758 JOHN BEEDLE Registered charity number 214929 obtained by contacting Cornwall Wildlife Trust or visiting our website. CornwallWildlife @CwallWildlife throughout Cornwall. Restricted Funds 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. @cornwallwildlifetrust CornwallWildlifeTrust Annual Review 2017-18 6pp – Final_Annual Review 2015-16 6pp 25/10/2018 15:42 Page 4

Continuing to protect Cornwall’s wildlife and wild places, on land and in our seas, all year round. Living Landscapes... Living Seas ... Inspiring People... An ambitious plan to secure a better future A vibrant network of rivers, streams, Cornish hedges Seas in which wildlife thrives from the top to During the last year 711 casual sightings were submitted to Seaquest Engaging and inspiring our members, local During the year, we launched two appeals which have received great and waysides providing wildlife corridors through the ORKS website, of 22 different species of marine mammal, support from the public. As well as much needed funds, the appeals for wildlife and people where nature is the bottom of the ocean food-web. shark and ocean sunfish. Trained volunteers also collected 248 hours people and those visiting Cornwall to have also received messages of support from around the world. Our ‘Wild’ volunteer groups completed 730 days of hands-on conservation embedded into the heart of our lives. of effort based survey data from 31 different sites around Cornwall support our efforts and take action for During the Marine Strandings Appeal, people shared their own on farms including scything, hedge repairs and coppicing, which Our Living Seas targets are: during surveys conducted by Seaquest. personal stories and experiences of witnessing helped to enhance 37 hectares of semi-natural habitat. In addition, our wildlife and the natural environment. Our Living Landscape targets are: Threatened habitats and species that recover from strandings on their local shorelines. advisers helped farmers to apply for payments to look after wildlife past decline Our Inspiring People targets are: A healthy suite of wildlife-rich core areas habitats, which has secured protection of a further 52 hectares. This year we established that there is a resident group of 28 Provide a diverse range of opportunities for people to In June, two Eurasian beavers were released into a five-acre enclosure bottlenose dolphins that regularly use Cornish coastal waters. at Woodland Valley Farm near Ladock as part of a partnership project learn about, experience and get involved in Living Research conducted into the abundance, social structure and between Chris and Janet Jones at the farm, Cornwall Wildlife Trust 22 31 Seas and Living landscapes programmes distribution of the species in used a total of 3,843 and Exeter University. Within days the beavers started to dam the and different sites 2 staff mapped photographic records from numerous collaborators to identify that stream and diversify the wildlife habitat in their new home. species 248 this is England's only resident population of bottlenose dolphins. £8,456 Researchers found that after just a few weeks the beaver dams had hours of £11,223 30,000 survey raised for the Protecting started to slow the flow of water in the stream, reducing the peak flow 711 Cornwall's Mammals raised for the Marine after heavy rainfall. miles of effort 16,693 3,956 Appeal Strandings Appeal sightings The Penwith Landscape Partnership secured a £2.5 million grant from Cornish Hedges photo-identified individual members child members the Heritage Lottery Fund in December 2017. The five years of funding 20 volunteers 192 encounters will enable projects involving archaeology and ancient sites, Seaquest ran 57 events through the project in 2017/18, engaging with countryside access, redundant farm buildings, landscape assessment, 1,489 people and training 84 new Seaquest Volunteers. Cornish hedging, farming and wildlife. A project delivered by two staff and 20 volunteers to map 30,000 miles Use of the sea’s resources is environmentally Our Charity Supporter team attended 240 events and venues around of Cornish Hedges, the first countywide mapping of the rural hedges, 3,843 sustainable Cornwall, up from 210 last year. We continued to be active at events Expand our work with young people to inspire the We supported a number of landscape scale partnership initiatives, began. The maps created by the Environmental Records Centre for hosted at high profile locations including Trebah Garden and Royal including the Linking the Lizard project. The Trust manages two records entered Our online sustainable seafood resource, the Cornwall Good Seafood next generation with the wonders and importance of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (ERCCIS) will provide a wealth of resident bottlenose Cornwall Show. nature reserves on the Lizard and works with other landowners to Guide (www.cornwallgoodseafoodguide.org.uk), continued to be Cornwall’s wildlife and wild places information for research, conservation and the sustainable dolphins coordinate management. 28 popular with over 90,000 hits to the website and 69 businesses Engaging events in the community this year included: Fox Club held 83 events across the year, up from 60 the previous year. management of wildlife and habitats. signing up as supporters of the scheme, pledging to provide at least £50,000 was left by a generous donor as a gift in a will, with £12,000 n Hosting the UK Premiere of Ian McCarthy's award-winning film Events this year included pond dipping, bee-home making, welly The East Catchment Project continued to give business owners two fish from the Good Seafood Guide recommended list on their wading, seal school and bird-box making. All events are made spent at Devichoys Wood Nature Reserve, near Penryn, on a new oak Cornwall Wildlife Trust continued to contribute to the effective 'Wild Cornwall – Out on the Edge' to sell-out crowds and householders ways to protect their bathing water from organic menus or fish counters. possible by volunteers, with 50 helping out and leading throughout bridge and footpath to allow access into Perran Meadows and a management of Marine Conservation Zones around Cornwall and n The annual Race for Wildlife which had a record attendance this year woodland management plan which facilitated a local Community pollution: this year. influence the choice of future sites. To date, two tranches of sites have n Our Open Gardens scheme saw gardens opening throughout Wood fuel group to start a new coppicing cycle. n The Yellow Fish initiative reminds shoppers that it’s been agreed and a third is planned. People appreciate, understand and value the Cornwall on behalf of the Trust raise a record-breaking £12,995 A Conservation Enhancement Scheme grant of £54,000 was used at ‘Only Rain Down the Drain’ as anything else ends up in sea for the many ways in which it supports 2017 saw the worst marine strandings for 15 years along the Cornish The Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Pendarves Wood Nature Reserve, , to: the rivers and sea Fox Club - inspiring children coastline with a total of 250 animals washing up dead on our beaches. our quality of life (ERCCIS), hosted by the Trust, continued to promote and improve the n n throughout the year: Clear the entire 15ha wood of rhododendron Innovative changes to plumbing to ensure sewage does The Marine Strandings Network has a team of over 100 volunteers The Your Shore Beach Rangers project has gone from strength to Online Recording in Kernow and Scilly (ORKS) system. We are n Repair and re-instate 675 metres of track not enter surface water drains who record all reported strandings of marine organisms on strength, with development and support of new and existing local currently developing user-friendly ORKS smartphone apps which n at 30th Anniversary Replace seven bridges n Food producers have pledged to dispose of fat, oil and grease Cornwall’s coastline. Volunteers continue to develop information marine groups in Cornwall. As part of Your Shore Beach Rangers, 577 allow records to be entered at the point of sighting. Over 22,000 400 n Rainbow event Build 10 metres of Cornish Hedge to avoid the build-up of ‘fatbergs’ which block sewers about the marine environment and health of marine creatures as a young people undertook training to become Beach Rangers. wildlife records were entered on ORKS, contributing to nearly a n Replace 55 meters of boardwalk result of the network. An appeal was launched in January 2018 to quarter of the biological records entered to ERCCIS in the past year. We have increased the number of youth engagement events 1,272 at Wildlife Celebration A wider working countryside sympathetically raise funds to conduct deeper research and analysis to ensure ORKS now has 38 local wildlife and Cornish recording groups using 150 managed for wildlife effective action is taken to reduce these strandings. throughout the Your Shore Network and the delivery of the Beach their own recording pages. children Rangers Academy, in partnership with Cornwall College. 200 at Polzeath Marine The Wildlife Information Service continues to be the first point of call took part Last year our catchment-based projects supported farmers whose A natural environment that adapts well to Discovery Day This year, 211 different events were run through the project, engaging for anyone wanting to enquire about wildlife in Cornwall, giving land drains to Drift Reservoir, , Falmouth Reservoirs, climate change with ocean processes helping covering 5,183 members of local communities and 4,227 young people access to the Trust’s expert advice and the wealth of wildlife and earth Estuary, Bolingey Stream and Looe and Seaton beaches. to slow climate change between 11 and 24 years old. science information over the phone or by email. We expanded our work with Tregothnan estate and their tenanted Over 550 parents and guardians accompanied children to our Through our Seasearch dive surveys we worked with 27 divers to farmers, providing mentoring and support for continued A worrying 129 cases of disturbance were reported to the Cornwall Neighbourhood Development Plans are devised at a parish-level family events. 57 collect data on 377 different species around the coast. Notably, a pair 2,032 environmental sustainability. Disturbance Hotline between March 2017 and February 2018; 106 and when completed and voted on by the local community they of Felimida krohni nudibranchs were observed near Porthkerris, the We continued to engage with educational organisations, receiving Wild Nature involving seals, 18 involving birds and 5 involving dolphins. become part of the strategic development plan for the area, helping hectares Across these projects we engaged 154 farmers, resulting in positive first record of this species in UK waters. Large numbers of Palinurus to steer future development. Cornwall Wildlife Trust continued to Cornwall magazine article contributions from Cornwall College students Reserves changes to protect farmland wildlife, reducing phosphate in fertiliser, elephas, the crawfish or spiny lobster, were seen around all of The Cornwall Marine and Coastal group responded to each case and work with local communities to help make sure opportunities to and welcoming volunteers from Falmouth & Exeter Students’ Union’s establishing buffer strips and planting species-rich pastures. Cornwall’s waters. produced positive education material on how to watch wildlife safely. protect and enhance wildlife are maximised through those plans. Generation Wild and Exeter University’s Business Studies course.

Photo credits: Terry Dunstan, Michelle Blaken, Projects and David Lidstone, Jo Clegg, John Beedle, Anita Shepherd, Adrian Langdon, George Karbus, partnerships Claire Lewis, Adrian Langdon, Bob Sharples and include: Chris Robins. All photographs along the top are featured in the 2019 Cornwall Wildlife Trust Calendar.