Destinations
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Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust
Linked to each Honeyguide wildlife holiday, we help to protect the wildlife we have enjoyed by contributing to a conservation project in the country visited.
This works by £40 of the price of your Honeyguide holiday (that's the amount for 2011 and 2012) being earmarked for a conservation body, often the bird protection society of the host country, towards its current work.
To date (January 2012), we have raised £75,934 for conservation projects, mostly in Europe, including donations totalling £7,695 in 2011.
About us
The Honeyguide Wildlife Trust Limited was registered as a charity in June 2004, registered charity number 1104606. The object of the charity, in summary, is "To help conserve … the natural environment and wildlife”.
We set up the Charitable Trust to boost our efforts, in particular by claiming tax from HM Revenue & Customs against the contributions from Honeyguiders through 'gift aid'. This can raise an additional 25p in the pound, and we then make the usual donations with the holidays a bit bigger for LPO, SEO, GOB, HOS, ROS and so on. In a typical year, this raises an additional sum for conservation of more than £1,000. |
Lesser kestrels (Roger Tidman) - helped through our donations to SEO in Extremadura. |
Who's who
Trustees of the charitable trust are Helen Crowder, Malcolm Crowder (secretary) and Chris Durdin (chairman).
How you can help
We welcome donations or legacies through the Honeyguide charity.
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Additional donations: if we know you, then a simple cheque is fine (or bank to bank transfer - please email for the Charitable Trust bank details). Or you can complete an additional donations form. |
About Gift Aid: Gift Aid increases the value of donations to charities and Community Amateur Sports Clubs by allowing them to reclaim basic rate tax on your gift. More information from HMRC here
Booking a holiday: we would be very grateful if everyone booking a holiday who is a UK taxpayer could complete the simple gift aid declaration on the booking form.
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The most recent accountants' report (below) is for the financial year from October 2009 to September 2010. They show £5,214 - down from £7,757 in the previous year, the decline because of holidays lost due to volcanic ash and an air traffic control strike - going towards the conservation projects we support. Some money comes in before the end of September (our financial year-end) but goes out later in the autumn. As always, most of this was raised from £40 per holiday and topped up by Gift Aid, plus additional donations from Honeyguiders and £600 from the Wildlife Outreach Network.
Administration expenses continue to be covered by Honeyguide Wildlife Holidays Ltd and Malcolm Crowder Ltd so that maximum funds can be sent to the 'sharp end' – the various conservation projects we support.
We are grateful for the help of the Charitable Trust's accountants Nigel Wordingham Ltd in Norwich.
Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust accounts 2009-10The Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust is a charity registered in England.
News
December 2011 – Wildlife Outreach Network. The late Roger Jordan and his friends from the Wildlife Outreach Network in Essex added additional support to our projects for several years. They had contributed £4,700 through the Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust by 2010.
Jill Jordan has kindly arranged that the remaining money they raised also comes to us, with the result that £1,643 arrived during December 2011, concluding their donations at the grand total of £6,343.
The trustees' plan is to use this linked to our own projects much as before, in Roger's words "... to give a little help and encouragement to conservationists, especially young people, working on small projects in their own localities overseas."
June 2011 – LPO. Our biggest single donation ever: £2390 / €2630 to La Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux in France. This is the sum raised and combined from four holidays in France this year, namely the Dordogne, Camargue, Cévennes and French Pyrenees.
February 2011 – Freira Conservation Project in Madeira. Following the fire on the Zino's petrel breeding area last summer, we accepted donations through the Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust. Topped-up with Gift Aid, we raised £288 for Dr Frank Zino and his team, working at the sharp end for Zino's petrel conservation in Madeira. More here.
Malcolm and Helen Crowder. Helen also helps to produce our colourful holiday reports.
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The societies and projects we support are described under each holiday. For example, to read about our link with GOB in Menorca click here.
Look on the inside front cover of our holiday reports to read about this year's donations and running totals given to our partner bodies overseas.
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The Honeyguide Wildlife Trust on the Charity Commission's website here.
The Honeyguide Charitable Trust online is www.honeyguide.org.uk which redirects to this page.
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