Thank you We are extremely grateful to those individuals and organisations who have so generously supported the charity in 2015/16. On behalf of everyone at Butterfly Conservation we would like to thank the following for their support: A E H Salvesen’s Charitable Trust Friends of Wolstonbury Royal Bank Scotland Community Cashback Coda Systems Limited A S Butler Charitable Trust Gartocharn Gardening Club Rowan Bentall Trust Cole & Son (Wallpapers) Limited Aberdeenshire Council Gearrchoille Community Wood in Ardgay Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Coln Park LLP Amersham U3A Birdwatchers Gloucestershire Environmental Trust Rural Payments Agency Continental Landscapes Antrim Camera Club Grand Union Junction Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory Trust Elm Horticulture Limited Arnside & Silverdale AONB Partnership Granstcape (CWM Community & Environmental Fund) Scottish Natural Heritage From the Notebook Limited Arthingworth Gardening Club Greenwings Scottish Wildlife Trust Frontier Agriculture Limited ASDA Habitat Aid Shropshire County Council Ginger Dragon Association of Countryside Voluntary Wardens Halesowen Wildlife Group SITA Trust Ground Control Limited Atropos Hamamelis Trust SMJ Nature Reserve Holme for Gardens Barwick & Scholes Probus Club Harrogate Golf Club Somerset Wildlife Trust Naturetrek Battens Charitable Trust Haven Power Limited South West Lakes Trust Northumbrian Water Annual Review Biffa Award Hawridge & Cholesbury Commons Preservation Society Southam Town Council Opticron Bisland Commons Limited Heligan Gardens Limited Spear Charitable Trust Perrywood Garden Centre Blackwater Valley Henry C Hoare Charitable Trust Staffordshire County Council Pili Palas Nature World Limited 2015/16 BP Foundation Heritage Lottery Fund Staunton Brownies Priory Junior School Braintree Organic Club Highslopes Beavers, Fareham Stevenage Borough Council Silver Trees Holiday Park Brandis Corner Wildlife Group Hoburne Caravan Park Blue Anchor STNC Bridgnorth Sussex Country Gardener Brecon Beacons National Park Authority Holy Trinity Community Group Stoke Holy Cross Tuesday Group The Green People Company Limited Brendoncare Hugh Fraser Foundation Stroud School The Weld Estate British Science Association Hull Valley Wildlife Group Swindon Wildlife Group Tobiz Products British Wildlife Publishing Ivy Lane School Tadcaster Methodist Church Broadcraft J P Developments (Midlands) Limited Tanner Trust LEGACY GIFTS Brown & Co Property & Business Consultants JJ Burgess & Sons Tayfield Foundation Much of our successful conservation work is Bruton & District Horticultural Society John Bebbington The Banister Charitable Trust underpinned by the generosity of supporters who Butterfly World John Lewis Partnership The Bat Conservation Trust have left Butterfly Conservation a gift in their Will. C W Groves & Son Kingston Horticultural Society The Blair Foundation All gifts, whatever their size, are hugely valuable, Caerphilly County Borough Council Kleinworth Benson The Claxton Trust making a lasting difference to butterfly and moth Calnex Solutions Limited Lacey Green Horticultural Society The Dulverton Trust conservation. Canal & River Trust Learning Through Landscapes The Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust We would like to thank our generous benefactors for Carmarthenshire County Council Leeds Co-operative Photography Society The Esme Mitchell Trust these important gifts: Castle Cameras Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust The Geoffrey Arnold of Longdon Memorial Trust Legacies Cemex Community Fund Llandudno Friendship Link The Gesingthorpe Trust Peter John Bell Cemex UK Materials Limited Lulworth Over 50s Club The Hubert Burton Foundation Trust Keith Cleaves Ceredigion County Council Lydford and District Gardening Club The John Swire 1989 Charitable Trust Priscilla Ruth Cook Chapman Charitable Trust Lynmouth Pavilion Project The JTH Charitable Trust Raymond Philip Cordero Cheltenham Woodcraft Folk Magnox Limited The Leggett Charitable Trust Michael John Dyke Chesham Natural History Society Marden Charitable Trust The Louis Sterne Trust Geraldine Beatrice Fisher Colden Common Womens Institute Margaret Lindstone Memorial Fund The Patsy Wood Trust Graham Thomas Foggitt Cole & Son (Wallpapers) Limited Marks & Spencer plc The Robert O Curle Charitable Trust Beryl Foote Creature Candy Marsh Christian Trust The Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust Yvonne Hilda Griffiths Cubs & Scouts Portsmouth Mike & Lynne Charitable Trust The Simon Digby Charitable Trust Philip Haskell Cumbria County Council Miss K M Harbinson’s Charitable Trust The Sylvia and Colin Shepherd Charitable Trust Bessie Howlett D G Albright Charitable Trust Miss Kathleen Beryl Sleigh Charitable Trust The Technical Lodge of Freemasons Hull Henry George Howlett Mrs M A Lascelles Charitable Trust Dartmoor Conservation Garden The University of the Third Age Trevor Leary National Museums Dartmoor National Park Authority Thomey Womens Institute Phyllis Barbara Lodge National Trust Dartmoor Soap Company United Reformed Church Group Sheila Jennifer Matthew Nationwide Scheme Defence Infrastructure Organisation University of York Hugh Charles Millman Natural England Diageo plc Valentine Charitable Trust Eileen Patricia Morris Natural Resources Wales Dorset County Council Veolia Environmental Trust Joyce Penticost Nature Conservation Services Durlston Court School Waitrose Limited John Lee Sager Eastleigh Young Carers Natureguides Warwick Natural History Society Michael Anthony Terry Easyfundraising.co.uk Naturetrek Limited Waste Recycling Environmental Limited John Norris Wood Eaton Women’s Institute New Forest Primary Watkins & Doncaster Ecclesiastical Insurance NFU Mutual WHEN Home Education Group EcoCo Life Normany Wildlife Whitley Gardening Club In Memory Gifts Ecotricity Group Limited North Bovey Conservation Group Wickersley Probus Club John Bater Elm Horticulture Limited North Dartmoor Garden Club Wildlife World Limited Diana Carr Environment Agency Northern Ireland Environment Agency William Haddon Charitable Trust Richard Constable Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Opticron Willow Organic Beauty Helen Corbett Everyclick Limited Otterbourne Primary Winchester Cubs & Beavers John Richard Coward Exmoor National Park Authority Pembrokeshire County Council Woodpeckers Trust Colin Davis Fairweathers Garden Centre Peninsular QS Limited Worcestershire Wildlife Trust Ormonde Tony Dicks Farm & Countryside Liaison Service Peter’s Trust Wychavon District Council Isaac William Fuser Forestry Commission Peveril Bruce – Matterley Estate Yorventure Harold D H Hughes OBE Forestry Commission Scotland Portsmouth Young Carers Zetland Lodge Freemasons Eleanor James Fox Lane Market Garden Cooperative Probus Club Gwen Norman Freedom Civil Asset Management Rapanui Corporate Members Maureen Skinner Fremington Gardening Club Robert Kiln Charitable Trust Barnes Common Management Company Grizel Lindsay-Watson Head office and registered address: President: Sir David Attenborough CH CVO CBE FRS Council members: Dr Andy Barker, Andrew Brown, Butterfly Conservation, Manor Yard, East Lulworth, Vice-presidents: Maurice Avent Esq, Nick Baker Esq, Kathryn Dawson, Mike Dean (Vice Chair), Roger Dobbs, Wareham, Dorset BH20 5QP Thelma Barlow, John F Burton FZS FRES, Dudley Cheesman Dr Susan Foden, David Hanson (Hon Treasurer), t: 01929 400209 e: [email protected] Esq, Sue Collins, The Earl of Cranbrook PhD DL Cbiol, Michael Johnston, Alan Martin, Dr Ian Small, Sue Smith, Nigel Symington, Ilija Vukomanovic, Chris Winnick www.butterfly-conservation.org David Dennis esq, Mike Dilger Esq, Clive P Farrell Esq, Julian Gibbs Esq, Ian Hardy MVO, Anthony Hoare Esq, Chief Executive: Dr Martin Warren @savebutterflies Dr Stephen Jeffcoate, Chris Packham Esq, Professor Deputy Chief Executive: Julie Williams facebook.com/savebutterflies Jeremy Thomas OBE, Alan Titchmarsh MBE Director of Conservation Science: Dr Nigel Bourn Scotland Office: Balallan House, Allan Park, Stirling, FK8 2QG Director of Conservation & Regions: Dr Sam Ellis Wales Office: 10 Calvert Place, Swansea, SA1 6AR Chair: Dr Jim Asher Director Scotland: Paul Kirkland Butterfly Conservation is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England (02206468) Charity registered in England and Wales (254937) and in Scotland (SCO39268) www.butterfly-conservation.org Cover image: Red Admiral. IAIN H LEACH ROB SKINNER Left Dr Jim Asher, Chair Right Dr Martin Warren, Chief Executive Overview by the Chair and Chief Executive We are undoubtedly living through a period of unprecedented change which is having a profound impact not only on populations of butterflies and moths but also on the running of Butterfly Conservation. Our recent The State of the UK’s Butterflies 2015 report showed more than 70% of butterflies have suffered long term declines and over 40% are considered as threatened. The report also found worrying declines of several of our most widespread and familiar species. The reasons are One final change for the year is not well known, but the relentless Martin Warren’s formal decision intensification of farming and other to step down as Chief Executive of land uses must be partly responsible. Butterfly Conservation at the end of Climate change is also having a December 2016. Martin has worked measurable impact on butterflies; tirelessly for us over the past 23 probably causing at least 15 species years and we all owe him a huge to spread but exacerbating the decline debt of gratitude for his fantastic of many others. However, there is work to build Butterfly Conservation some good