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The air holidays shown are ATOL Protected by the Civil Aviation Authority. Our ATOL number is ATOL 3253. ATOL Protection extends primarily to customers who book and pay in the United Kingdom. Click on the ATOL logo if you want to know more.
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 (June 2010), we have raised £66,527 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 HM Revenue & Customs 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.
Roger Jordan and friends from the Wildlife Outreach Network in Essex continues to add additional support tp our projects, and has already contributed £4,300 through the Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust (to April 2010).
The most recent accountants' report below is for the financial year from October 2008 to September 2009. They show £7,757 going towards the conservation projects we support. That total includes some money that came in before the end of September (our financial year-end) but went out later in the autumn. As always, most of this was raised from £35 per holiday and topped up by Gift Aid, plus additional donations from Honeyguiders and £900 from the Wildlife Outreach Network.
Administration expenses continue to be 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.
We are grateful for the help of the Charitable Trust's accountants Nigel Wordingham Ltd in Norwich.
Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust accounts 2008-9
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. Helen also helps to produce our colourful holiday reports.
The Honeyguide Wildlife Trust on the Charity Commission's website here.
