Destinations
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Honeyguide Charitable Trust
Linked to each holiday, we help to protect the wildlife we have enjoyed by contributing to a conservation project in the country visited.
This works by £35 of the price of your Honeyguide holiday being earmarked for a conservation body, often the bird protection society of the host country, towards its current work.
To date (November 2009), we have raised £61,363 for conservation projects, mostly in Europe.
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 the Inland Revenue against the contributions from Honeyguiders through 'gift aid'. This can raise an additional 28p 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.
Trustees of the charitable trust are Helen Crowder, Malcolm Crowder (secretary) and Chris Durdin (chairman).
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.
We also welcome additional donations or legacies through the Honeyguide charity.
We are very grateful to the Wildlife Outreach Network in Essex, which has already contributed £3,650 through the Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust (to June 2009).
The accountants' report below is for the financial year from October 2007 to September 2008. It shows a total for donations to conservation projects in 2007-8 of £4,917 – a total already exceeded in 2008-9. We are grateful for the help of Honeyguide's accountants M + A Partners in Norwich.
The lack of administration expenses for the charitable trust is because these were covered by Honeyguide Wildlife Holidays Ltd and Malcolm Crowder Ltd so that maximum funds could be sent to the 'sharp end' – the various conservation projects we support.
Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust accounts 2007-8
Lesser kestrels (Roger Tidman)
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.
Malcolm and Helen Crowder
