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Somerset Wildlife Trust Annual Report 2016 Somerset Wildlife Trust Annual report and accounts 2016-17 1 Somerset Wildlife Trust Annual Report and Accounts 2016-17 Contents What we do What we do 3 Somerset is one of the most habitat-diverse and wildlife-rich Message from the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer 4 counties in Britain. Somerset Wildlife Trust is an independent conservation charity working to ensure this remains the case. Strategic report 6 Conservation strategy and achievements 7 Engaging our supporters 11 We rely on the support of our members, donors and volunteers, as well as income from Financial review 15 grant-making bodies and companies, including profits from our ecological consultancy, Looking ahead 19 to look after Somerset’s wildlife and wild places. This includes the nature reserves in our care and creating thriving ‘Living Landscapes’ across the Mendips, the Levels and Moors, Objectives and activities 21 Taunton, and Somerset’s coast. Structure, governance and management 22 We also work to influence Somerset’s policy-making and planning decisions, which affect the county’s wildlife and the wider environment. We believe access to wildlife and Statement of Trustees’ responsibilities 25 wild places is important for people of all ages to value wildlife and help protect it, and Independent Auditors’ Report to the Members also to enhance the health and wellbeing of everyone who lives and works in our of Somerset Wildlife Trust 26 wonderful county. Financial statements 28 Consolidated statement of Financial Activities 29 Consolidated and Trust Balance Sheets as at 31 March 2017 30 Consolidated statement of Cash Flows for the year ended 31 March 2017 31 Notes forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2017 32 Cheddar Frome Gifts and donations 46 Key people and advisers 47 Glastonbury Bridgwater Taunton Yeovil Ilminster Living Landscapes and nature reserves Somerset’s Living Coast Trust nature reserves Levels and Moors Living Landscape Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty Mendip Hills Living Landscape Exmoor National Park Taunton Living Landscape 2 Somerset Wildlife Trust Annual Report & Accounts 2016–17 Somerset Wildlife Trust Annual Report and Accounts 2016-17 What we do 3 Message from the Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer 2016-17 was a successful year for Somerset Wildlife Trust. to ensure the needs of wildlife and people are considered as part of its new Garden Town status and in the major developments planned. We continued to invest in conservation, visitor facilities and interpretation, and in the next generation of conservationists – As a charity we are ever more aware of the need to make the biggest impact we can for both through formal training programmes and a range of projects the county’s wildlife against a challenging and changing financial climate. Uncertainty over future agri-environment funding following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, and events. We learnt more about and helped rebuild Somerset’s together with increasing competition for other grant funding, has led us to review our ecological networks, including the county’s brilliant but often strategy, financial model and programme management, and conclude that certain changes forgotten coast, helping to connect green spaces across the county will need to be introduced to enable us to focus on delivering what we believe will produce so wildlife can travel freely. And more people joined us as members the greatest conservation gain. and donors, and gave their time and skills as volunteers, showing Selective cost reductions in operations together with new measures to increase existing their support for our work. sources of income and establish new income sources will be needed. The changes also involve an intent to re-shape progressively our landholding and its operation over the But September’s publication of the second national State of Nature Report reminded us too coming few years, to enable us to deliver better outcomes for wildlife and people across that not all is well – 56% of species across the country are in decline. The Trust alone, and the county with the reduced funds we expect will be available. There is more to do to in partnership with other organisations, still has a big job to do but this report also tells us prepare us for the funding changes that seem likely, and planning for this is vital if we are that all is not lost. Here in Somerset there are some real success stories in which Somerset to continue to be an impactful and financially sustainable local charity. Wildlife Trust has played an important part. We thank our staff and volunteers, including the Trustees we said goodbye to and others we A generation ago Bitterns were absent from the Somerset Levels. Now thanks to over welcomed to Council in the year, for their expertise and shared passion for Somerset’s wildlife. 20 years of hard work by staff and volunteers, old peat workings and arable fields in the We would also like to thank our members, supporters and donors as without their funding and Avalon Marshes area of the Somerset Levels have been transformed into ideal nesting interest in what we do, we would simply not be able to continue our work. It is their commitment and feeding habitat for Bittern. In spring 2016 both our nationally important Westhay Moor that enables Somerset Wildlife Trust to do the things it does ensuring Somerset is, and shall nature reserve and nearby Catcott Complex had ‘booming’ males, and two successful nests remain, one of the most habitat-diverse and wildlife-rich counties in Britain. were confirmed too. Extending and joining up land in this area is part of our plans to help Bittern and many other species. Another area highlighted by the State of Nature report was Britain’s fast disappearing meadows and grasslands – 97% have been lost since the 1930s. Here in Somerset, the Trust looks after some of the few remaining species-rich, traditional meadows, like our reserves at Chancellors Farm and Edford Meadows. For the past three years, as part of the Heritage Patricia Stainton Simon Nash Lottery Fund supported, national Save our Magnificent Meadows partnership project, our Chairman Chief Executive Officer meadows team, with the help of many local people, have restored neglected meadows and created new wildlife meadows by transforming community spaces, like the churchyard at Priddy, into havens for butterflies and bees. Not only is this good for wildlife, it is good for people and the county’s economy, where industries like cider-making and farming need a thriving population of pollinators. Much of what the Trust does now involves working closely with partners. We recognise we do not have the resources to tackle everything alone. The Severn Vision Project has for the first time brought together national and local conservation organisations to develop an ambitious vision for nature in the Severn Estuary to help restore it as a healthy functioning ecosystem, make it more resilient to climate change and ensure development is planned to sustain and enhance the estuary’s natural resources. While predominantly a rural county, development pressures are growing to support the economy, housing and infrastructure. In Taunton our three-year urban wildlife project, Routes to the River Tone, culminated in February with a lantern procession of hundreds of schoolchildren. Overall the project has demonstrated the real appetite of people living in the town to get involved and learn more about local wildlife, like the Otters and Water Voles that are present in the town’s waterways. We will be continuing to work in Taunton, trialling working with health and social care organisations, and also engaging with decision-makers 4 Somerset Wildlife Trust Annual Report and Accounts 2016-17 Message from the Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer 5 Strategic report Conservation strategy and achievements We champion Somerset’s stunning and important natural environment, making the case for nature to the public and politicians, protecting wildlife, and leading the recovery of the environment by example, including on our nature reserves. During the year specialist conservation leads were recruited to develop and manage delivery around our key conservation strategic goals: • Rebuilding Somerset’s ecological networks • Inspiring people and communities to value and protect Somerset’s nature • Standing up for nature Rebuilding Somerset’s ecological networks Creating ecological networks that rebuild Somerset’s natural environment, through our nature reserves and Living Landscape and Living Coast programmes, is one key component of our conservation strategy, and is co-ordinated by our Landscape Ecologist. Only through landscape-scale conservation and connectivity can we increase resilience to Somerset’s current and future pressures. Most of the Trust’s nature reserves are core warm, short turf conditions in spring that favour sites and stepping stones for Somerset’s the red ant species that the Large Blue Butterfly ecological networks and fulfil a crucial function larvae later parasitizes, followed by a period of in delivering exemplary land management, no grazing during the adult flight period, so that including trialling and demonstrating innovative livestock does not graze the flowers on which 6 land management techniques. They are also the eggs are laid. A project also got under way ‘drumming’ wildlife havens for people to visit and enjoy. to support rare populations of butterflies on Snipe at our reserves on the Blackdown Hills. Thanks to Covering 1,700 hectares and comprising an funding from Viridor Credits and the Blackdown Burtle Moor enormous range of very different habitats Hills AONB Partnership, the future of declining – from internationally renowned wetlands, species like Marsh Fritillary, Narrow Bordered ancient woodland, rich grassland, rolling hills Bee Hawkmoth and Brown Hairstreak is now to magnificent meadows – the Trust continued more secure. to invest in its nature reserves and revise management plans for each to improve their The Mendip Hills and the Somerset Levels and condition for wildlife gain.
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