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<strong>RSPB</strong> TRUSTEES’<br />
REPORT AND ACCOUNTS<br />
FOR THE YEAR ENDED<br />
31 MARCH <strong>2012</strong>
<strong>RSPB</strong><br />
Trustees’ Report <strong>and</strong> Accounts<br />
for the year ended<br />
31 March <strong>2012</strong>
<strong>RSPB</strong> trustees’ <strong>report</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>accounts</strong> 2011-12<br />
Contents<br />
Operating statement<br />
i<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> <strong>accounts</strong> in context<br />
ii<br />
Trustees’ <strong>report</strong> 1<br />
Independent auditor's <strong>report</strong> 21<br />
Financial statements 22<br />
Notes to the <strong>accounts</strong> 25<br />
How you can help the <strong>RSPB</strong> 43<br />
Acknowledgements 2011-12 – thank you for supporting us 44
<strong>RSPB</strong> trustees’ <strong>report</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>accounts</strong> 2011-12<br />
Operating statement<br />
Operating statement<br />
for the year ended 31 March <strong>2012</strong><br />
Income (<br />
Membership subscriptions <strong>and</strong> donations 39.0) 39.2)<br />
Grants, corporates <strong>and</strong> trusts 26.8) 29.7(<br />
Legacies 27.1) 27.5)<br />
Commercial trading 20.4) 0 20.9)<br />
L<strong>and</strong> rents, farming <strong>and</strong> advisory 5.8( 4.5)<br />
Financial income - profit on sale of fixed assets <strong>and</strong> interest 0.6) 0.7)<br />
Total income )119.7( 122.5)<br />
Cost of generating income<br />
Cost of goods for resale 12.5( 12.8)<br />
Other cost of generating income 17.9( 15.7)<br />
Total cost of generating income 30.4( 28.5)<br />
Net income available for charitable purposes )89.3( 94.0)<br />
Expenditure on charitable purposes<br />
Acquisition of nature reserves <strong>and</strong> operating assets 4.0) 3.0)<br />
Conservation on <strong>RSPB</strong> nature reserves 29.3( 28.9)<br />
Conservation – research, policy <strong>and</strong> advisory<br />
Education <strong>and</strong> communication<br />
Membership services <strong>and</strong> enquiries<br />
Governance<br />
34.2(<br />
13.6(<br />
4.1(<br />
0.5(<br />
33.7)<br />
13.3)<br />
4.0)<br />
0.5)<br />
Total expenditure on charitable activities 85.7( 83.4)<br />
<strong>2012</strong>(<br />
£m(<br />
2011(<br />
£m(<br />
Net operating income<br />
3.6(<br />
10.6)<br />
Other movements<br />
Investment assets<br />
Pension scheme<br />
Stock, debtors <strong>and</strong> creditors<br />
Total other movements (1.0) (5.9)<br />
Movement in cash <strong>and</strong> investments 2.6) 4.7)<br />
0.0.1(<br />
(2.9)<br />
1.8)<br />
0.9)<br />
(2.4)<br />
(4.4)<br />
Statement of net assets<br />
as at 31 March <strong>2012</strong><br />
Nature reserves 125.4) 121.7)<br />
Operating assets 4.7) 4.3)<br />
<strong>2012</strong>(<br />
£m(<br />
2011(<br />
£m(<br />
Cash <strong>and</strong> investments<br />
Stock, debtors <strong>and</strong> creditors<br />
Pension liability<br />
37.4)<br />
5.4)<br />
(46.7)<br />
34.8)<br />
7.2)<br />
(33.5)<br />
Net assets 126.2) 134.5)<br />
Financial reserves<br />
as at 31 March <strong>2012</strong><br />
Available financial reserves at the start of the period 42.0) 32.9)<br />
Net operating income<br />
Movement in investment assets <strong>and</strong> pension scheme<br />
3.6)<br />
(2.8)<br />
10.6)<br />
(1.5)<br />
Available financial reserves for future activities 42.8) 42.0)<br />
Held for specific purposes (25.3) (28.5)<br />
Free financial reserves 17.5) 13.5)<br />
<strong>2012</strong>(<br />
£m(<br />
2011(<br />
£m(<br />
Representing future expenditure cover of 11 weeks 9 weeks<br />
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<strong>RSPB</strong> <strong>accounts</strong> in context<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> <strong>accounts</strong> in context<br />
The Operating statement has been prepared to<br />
assist readers gain an overview of the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s<br />
financial position.<br />
Net income available for charitable purposes:<br />
Net income (money available for charitable<br />
purposes), at £89.3 million, was slightly down on<br />
the previous year.<br />
Grant income was lower because, in 2011, we<br />
received £1.2million shortly before year-end that<br />
was earmarked by the donor for the restoration of<br />
Bowers Marsh in Essex. Had we received it a<br />
couple of weeks later, grant income would have<br />
been stable over the two years. Membership<br />
subscriptions <strong>and</strong> donations include tax recovery<br />
under the Gift Aid scheme which fell by around<br />
£0.7 million due to the end of the “transition relief”<br />
which was introduced by the Government to<br />
cushion the impact of reducing the basic rate of<br />
income tax from 22% to 20% in 2008.<br />
The continued backing we receive from our<br />
members <strong>and</strong> supporters means that the<br />
underlying income trend was stable in spite of<br />
challenging times.<br />
Net income is shown after deducting the £17.9<br />
million cost of generating income <strong>and</strong> a further<br />
£12.5 million cost of goods for resale by our trading<br />
operation. The majority of products sold, such as<br />
bird food <strong>and</strong> feeders, optics, wildlife books <strong>and</strong><br />
videos, relate directly to our charitable objectives.<br />
The cost of generating income increased due to<br />
inflationary pressure in a number of areas such as<br />
printing <strong>and</strong> postage costs. We also invested in<br />
future income growth; by bringing our processes<br />
up to date <strong>and</strong> promoting the opportunity for<br />
supporters to upgrade their <strong>annual</strong> subscription to<br />
a monthly amount of their choice.<br />
Expenditure on charitable purposes:<br />
Expenditure on l<strong>and</strong> purchases <strong>and</strong> associated<br />
visitor facilities increased by £1 million from a<br />
comparatively low base in 2010. The availability of<br />
grants <strong>and</strong> the high price of l<strong>and</strong> continue to<br />
constrain our aspirations.<br />
leaves 90% of our resources available to be spent<br />
directly on delivering our conservation objectives.<br />
Net operating income <strong>and</strong> financial reserves<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong> is committed to putting its income to<br />
work as soon as possible. The £3.6 million surplus<br />
has been earmarked for projects that extend beyond<br />
the end of the financial year.<br />
Funds held for specific purposes, at £25.3 million,<br />
include money required for future working capital<br />
<strong>and</strong> a threat fund to cushion our key work<br />
programmes against uncertain times ahead.<br />
Free financial reserves are held at a modest level to<br />
maximise the funds available for immediate<br />
conservation needs. We hold just 11 weeks’ worth<br />
of expenditure in free financial reserves.<br />
The Statement of net assets includes Nature<br />
reserves held at their original cost, less depreciation<br />
where applicable, <strong>and</strong> the defined benefit Pension<br />
liability. The net liability of the scheme, at £46.7<br />
million, increased due to the combined effects of<br />
the depressed asset values (due to the impact on<br />
stock markets of continuing economic difficulties),<br />
a higher actuarial valuation of our liabilities (due to<br />
low interest rates) <strong>and</strong> increased life expectancy.<br />
The scheme is relatively immature in that there are<br />
significantly more contributing members than<br />
pensioners; therefore the net liability of the scheme<br />
will not crystallise for some years. In view of this<br />
<strong>and</strong> the medium term recovery plan, the <strong>RSPB</strong><br />
trustees do not consider the liability to represent a<br />
significant constraint over the use of financial<br />
reserves for the foreseeable future.<br />
The last full actuarial review was completed in July<br />
2010. The actions taken as a result of this review<br />
were a reduction in benefits accruing of around<br />
25% <strong>and</strong> a sharing with scheme members of the risk<br />
of future increases in longevity. The final salary<br />
section of the scheme was closed to new entrants in<br />
February 2007. The assets <strong>and</strong> liabilities of the<br />
pension scheme are reviewed every three years,<br />
following which a plan is agreed with the pension<br />
scheme trustees to make good any deficit. The next<br />
review began on 1 April <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
The diversity of our income streams gave us the<br />
financial stability to continue to increase our<br />
conservation <strong>and</strong> education work, spending £1.2<br />
million more than last year.<br />
Administrative overheads, including governance,<br />
are approximately 5% of our charitable expenditure<br />
<strong>and</strong> membership related costs a further 5%. This<br />
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Trustees’ <strong>report</strong><br />
Trustees’ <strong>report</strong><br />
Reference <strong>and</strong> administrative details of<br />
the charity, its advisers <strong>and</strong> trustees<br />
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (the<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong>) originated in 1889. Our membership now<br />
st<strong>and</strong>s at 1,090,219, including 203,628 in our junior<br />
membership Wildlife Explorers. This makes us one<br />
of the largest voluntary wildlife conservation<br />
organisations in the world. Within Scotl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
Northern Irel<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Wales, we are known as <strong>RSPB</strong><br />
Scotl<strong>and</strong>, <strong>RSPB</strong> Northern Irel<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>RSPB</strong> Cymru<br />
respectively.<br />
Registration<br />
Charity registered in Engl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Wales number<br />
207076, in Scotl<strong>and</strong> number SC037654.<br />
Registered office<br />
The Lodge<br />
S<strong>and</strong>y<br />
Bedfordshire SG19 2DL<br />
Principal professional advisers<br />
Bankers<br />
Co-operative Bank plc<br />
4 th Floor<br />
9 Prescot Street<br />
London E1 8BE<br />
Lloyds TSB Bank plc<br />
249 Silbury Boulevard<br />
Secklow Gate West<br />
Milton Keynes<br />
Buckinghamshire<br />
MK9 1NA<br />
Independent auditors<br />
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP<br />
Chartered Accountants & Registered Auditors<br />
St. Bride’s House<br />
10 Salisbury Square<br />
London EC4Y 8EH<br />
Insurance brokers<br />
Aon Limited<br />
Somerset House<br />
47-49 London Road<br />
Redhill<br />
Surrey RH1 1LU<br />
Legal advisers<br />
Hewitsons<br />
Shakespeare House<br />
42 Newmarket Road<br />
Cambridge CB5 8EP<br />
Speechly Bircham<br />
6 New Street Square<br />
London EC4A 3LX<br />
Turcan Connell<br />
Princes Exchange<br />
1 Earl Grey Street<br />
Edinburgh EH3 9EE<br />
Withers LLP<br />
16 Old Bailey<br />
London EC4M 7EG<br />
Pension administrators<br />
Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited<br />
Mercer House<br />
Thames Side<br />
Windsor<br />
Berkshire SL4 1QN<br />
Investment advisers<br />
Cambridge Associates<br />
80 Victoria Street<br />
Cardinal Place<br />
London SW1E 5JL<br />
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Management, Council <strong>and</strong> Directorate<br />
Patron:<br />
Her Majesty the Queen<br />
President:<br />
Ms Kate Humble<br />
Vice Presidents:<br />
Dr Elizabeth Andrews MBE DL<br />
Mr Nick Baker<br />
Mr Adrian Darby OBE<br />
The Earl of Lindsay<br />
Professor Ian Newton OBE FRS FRSE<br />
Mr Chris Packham<br />
Sir Graham Wynne CBE<br />
Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS<br />
Viscount Blakenham<br />
Professor Sir John Lawton CBE FRS<br />
Sir John Lister-Kaye Bt<br />
Mr Bill Oddie OBE<br />
Mr Julian Pettifer OBE<br />
Baroness Young of Old Scone<br />
Trustees:<br />
Council Chairman<br />
Mr Ian Darling FRICS<br />
Committees:<br />
Honorary Treasurer <strong>and</strong> Chairman – Finance <strong>and</strong> Audit Committee: Mr Alan Martin FCMA<br />
Chairman – Conservation Committee:<br />
Dr Andrew Brown<br />
Chairman – Communications Committee: Mr Anthony Thomas OBE (retired 8 October 2011)<br />
Mr James Alex<strong>and</strong>er (appointed 8 October 2011)<br />
Country Advisory Committees:<br />
Chairman – Committee for Northern Irel<strong>and</strong>:<br />
Chairman – Committee for Scotl<strong>and</strong>:<br />
Chairman – Committee for Wales:<br />
Dr Julian Greenwood<br />
Mrs Pamela Pumphrey<br />
Professor Steve Ormerod FIEEM<br />
Other Council Members:<br />
Mr David Baldock (elected 8 October 2011) Mr Shyam Parekh (retired 8 October 2011)<br />
Mr Paul Cooke (elected 8 October 2011)<br />
Ms Rosemary Radcliffe CBE<br />
Mr Kevin Cox (elected 8 October 2011)<br />
Ms Carol Rawlings<br />
Mr Huw Jones<br />
Mr Patrick Stirling-Aird MBE<br />
Mr Gilbert Little OBE Mr Graeme Wallace (elected 8 October 2011)<br />
Sir Anthony Milbank Bt (retired 8 October 2011) Mr Geoff Woodard (retired 8 October 2011)<br />
Professor David Mitchell<br />
Management Board:<br />
Chief Executive<br />
Dr Mike Clarke<br />
Director, Conservation<br />
Mr Martin Harper<br />
Director, Finance <strong>and</strong> Information Systems<br />
Mr Alan Sharpe<br />
Director, Human Resources Ms Anne Harley MBE (retired 31 August 2011)<br />
Ms Ann Davies (appointed 7 March <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Director, International Operations<br />
Dr Tim Stowe<br />
Director, Marketing<br />
Mrs Karen Rothwell<br />
Director, Operations<br />
Mr Shaun Thomas<br />
Director, Public Affairs Mr Mike Hodgson (retired 2 September 2011)<br />
Director, Scotl<strong>and</strong><br />
Mr Stuart Housden OBE<br />
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Structure, governance <strong>and</strong> management<br />
Legal structure<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong> is a non-statutory body incorporated by<br />
Royal Charter. The Charter was originally granted<br />
in 1904 <strong>and</strong>, together with the Statutes, provides the<br />
rules <strong>and</strong> guidelines under which the <strong>RSPB</strong><br />
operates. After approval by the Privy Council,<br />
Supplemental Charters were granted by Her<br />
Majesty the Queen in 1957 <strong>and</strong> 1996. Amendments<br />
to the statutes were approved by the Privy Council<br />
in 2010.<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong>’s commercial activities are undertaken<br />
by its wholly-owned trading subsidiary, <strong>RSPB</strong><br />
Sales Limited, <strong>and</strong> all profits are donated under<br />
Gift Aid to the <strong>RSPB</strong>. <strong>RSPB</strong> Sales Limited was<br />
incorporated as a company in 1992 to conduct<br />
trading activities in support of the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s<br />
charitable objectives. The principal activity is the<br />
sale of goods by mail order <strong>and</strong> through retail<br />
outlets. The company is registered under<br />
company number 2693778.<br />
March Farmers (Washl<strong>and</strong>) Limited, company<br />
registration number 01039814, is a wholly-owned<br />
subsidiary acquired in 2008 to secure the leasehold<br />
interest in l<strong>and</strong> in Cambridgeshire. All profits are<br />
donated under Gift Aid to the <strong>RSPB</strong>.<br />
Farming For Nature, a company limited by<br />
guarantee, registration number 07982175, was<br />
incorporated in 2011. The intention is to use this<br />
entity in relation to l<strong>and</strong> leased from United<br />
Utilities at Haweswater in Cumbria.<br />
The trustees are members of Council, which is the<br />
ultimate governing body.<br />
New trustees are nominated by Council or<br />
members, <strong>and</strong> elected for a five-year term of<br />
office by the membership at the AGM. Council<br />
sets policy <strong>and</strong> is responsible for the conduct of<br />
the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s affairs <strong>and</strong> for ensuring that the<br />
charity operates in accordance with the Royal<br />
Charter, the Statutes <strong>and</strong> the law.<br />
Council comprises the President, the Chairman,<br />
the Treasurer, the Chairmen of the Country<br />
Advisory Committees for Scotl<strong>and</strong>, Wales <strong>and</strong><br />
Northern Irel<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> not more than 12 ordinary<br />
members.<br />
Council has three committees: Finance & Audit,<br />
Conservation <strong>and</strong> Communications. Its policy is<br />
also influenced by the Country Advisory<br />
Committees.<br />
The day-to-day management of the Charity is<br />
delegated to the Chief Executive, who <strong>report</strong>s to<br />
Council, <strong>and</strong> is carried out by the Management<br />
Board.<br />
Following their election to Council, each trustee<br />
receives a briefing pack outlining their role,<br />
together with information on the <strong>RSPB</strong>, its structure<br />
<strong>and</strong> work. An induction day, taking a strategic look<br />
at the roles <strong>and</strong> responsibilities of trustees <strong>and</strong><br />
management, is offered to each new trustee. All<br />
trustees are offered opportunities to learn more<br />
about specialist areas of the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s work, through<br />
individual meetings with staff <strong>and</strong> site visits to our<br />
nature reserves throughout the UK. A special<br />
weekend event, to which all trustees are invited, is<br />
held each year in an area of high nature<br />
conservation importance, focusing on species <strong>and</strong><br />
habitat management work that the <strong>RSPB</strong> is<br />
undertaking. Similar events are held for the<br />
Country Advisory Committees.<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong>’s main UK headquarters is in S<strong>and</strong>y,<br />
Bedfordshire, with country headquarters for<br />
Scotl<strong>and</strong>, Northern Irel<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Wales in<br />
Edinburgh, Belfast <strong>and</strong> Cardiff; <strong>and</strong> regional offices<br />
in Engl<strong>and</strong>, Scotl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Wales. The <strong>RSPB</strong> has UKwide<br />
operations with nature reserves located across<br />
all four countries.<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong> is the UK Partner organisation of BirdLife<br />
International, the global partnership of bird<br />
conservation organisations that strives to conserve<br />
birds, their habitats <strong>and</strong> global biodiversity,<br />
working with people towards sustainability in the<br />
use of natural resources.<br />
Accounts <strong>and</strong> Trustees’ responsibilities<br />
The trustees are required to prepare financial<br />
statements for each financial year, which give a true<br />
<strong>and</strong> fair view of the Charity’s <strong>and</strong> the group’s<br />
financial activities during the year <strong>and</strong> of the<br />
financial position at the end of the year. The<br />
requirements are set out in the Charter <strong>and</strong><br />
Statutes, the Charities Act 2011, the Charities<br />
Accounts (Scotl<strong>and</strong>) Regulations 2006 <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Charities <strong>and</strong> Trustee Investment (Scotl<strong>and</strong>) Act<br />
2005.<br />
In preparing these statements, the trustees follow<br />
best practice <strong>and</strong>:<br />
• select suitable accounting policies <strong>and</strong> then<br />
apply them consistently<br />
• make judgements <strong>and</strong> estimates that are<br />
reasonable <strong>and</strong> prudent<br />
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• state whether applicable accounting st<strong>and</strong>ards<br />
have been followed<br />
• prepare the financial statements on the going<br />
concern basis.<br />
The trustees are responsible for ensuring that<br />
accounting records are kept which enable them to:<br />
• ascertain the financial position of the Charity<br />
<strong>and</strong> the group<br />
• disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial<br />
position of the Charity <strong>and</strong> the group<br />
• ensure that the financial statements comply<br />
with the Charities Act 2011 <strong>and</strong> to publish a<br />
summary of the <strong>accounts</strong> in Birds magazine.<br />
The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding<br />
the assets of the Charity <strong>and</strong> hence for taking<br />
reasonable steps for the prevention <strong>and</strong> detection of<br />
fraud <strong>and</strong> other irregularities.<br />
Risk management<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong> trustees are responsible for the<br />
identification <strong>and</strong> management of the major risks<br />
facing the organisation. Risk management is well<br />
established at the <strong>RSPB</strong> <strong>and</strong> is considered in every<br />
aspect of our work. Managing large areas of<br />
countryside, much of it visited by many people,<br />
entails risk <strong>and</strong> dem<strong>and</strong>s constant attention. In<br />
response to the recommendations set out in the<br />
Accounting <strong>and</strong> Reporting by Charities: Statement of<br />
Recommended Practice (revised 2005) (SORP), the<br />
trustees consider the risk register on an <strong>annual</strong> basis.<br />
In undertaking this work, the trustees review risk in<br />
its broadest sense <strong>and</strong> consider anything that might<br />
undermine the capacity of the Charity to fulfil its<br />
charitable objectives.<br />
The register provides a comprehensive view of the<br />
following areas of risk:<br />
• our responsibility to staff, supporters, volunteers<br />
<strong>and</strong> visitors<br />
• our reputation<br />
• our physical assets (including data <strong>and</strong> financial<br />
assets)<br />
• retaining <strong>and</strong> maintaining know-how<br />
• the external environment<br />
• our sources of income.<br />
This <strong>annual</strong> risk review assesses each of the major risks<br />
to each of the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s categories of assets <strong>and</strong> the<br />
effectiveness of the arrangements for managing them.<br />
Following the most recent review, the trustees confirm<br />
that they are satisfied with such arrangements.<br />
general guidance on public benefit when reviewing<br />
objectives <strong>and</strong> activities.<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong> is the UK charity working to secure a healthy<br />
environment for birds <strong>and</strong> wildlife, helping to create a<br />
better world for us all.<br />
The objectives of the <strong>RSPB</strong> as set out in our Charter are<br />
to:<br />
• conserve wild birds <strong>and</strong> the environment on which<br />
wild birds depend, maintaining bird numbers,<br />
diversity <strong>and</strong> natural geographic distribution<br />
• conserve natural <strong>and</strong> semi-natural habitats <strong>and</strong> to<br />
recreate habitats<br />
• encourage others to practise the conservation of<br />
wild birds <strong>and</strong> habitats<br />
• promote knowledge of conservation through<br />
education <strong>and</strong> research.<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong> has a range of means of achieving these<br />
objectives, combining them to best effect. For the<br />
purposes of preparing our <strong>accounts</strong>, these means are<br />
grouped under four main headings: Conservation on<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> nature reserves, Conservation – research, policy<br />
<strong>and</strong> advisory, Education <strong>and</strong> communication, <strong>and</strong><br />
Membership services <strong>and</strong> enquiries.<br />
Conservation on <strong>RSPB</strong> nature reserves<br />
• We manage nature reserves, which are home to<br />
populations of 80% of the most rare or<br />
threatened bird species in the UK.<br />
• We acquire new reserves, following a Councilagreed<br />
strategy, <strong>and</strong> devote resources to<br />
safeguarding <strong>and</strong> recreating habitats.<br />
• We provide facilities, including classrooms <strong>and</strong><br />
viewing areas, to enhance the visitor<br />
experience on our reserves.<br />
Conservation – research, policy <strong>and</strong> advisory<br />
• All of our conservation work is underpinned<br />
by research <strong>and</strong> investigation, much of which<br />
is carried out by our scientists <strong>and</strong> specialist<br />
advisers.<br />
• Birds <strong>and</strong> their habitats are affected by a wide<br />
range of human activity. Our policy work<br />
therefore covers a broad range of issues, from<br />
agriculture to energy, transport, overseas aid,<br />
education <strong>and</strong> the economy.<br />
• We seek to influence l<strong>and</strong>-use <strong>and</strong> economic<br />
policies so that the environment is at the heart<br />
of all Government decisions.<br />
• We defend <strong>and</strong> promote the implementation of<br />
laws <strong>and</strong> policies designed to protect wildlife.<br />
Objectives <strong>and</strong> activities<br />
The trustees confirm that they have referred to the<br />
guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s<br />
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Education <strong>and</strong> communication<br />
• We work with the support of our members <strong>and</strong><br />
other supporters to use their voice most<br />
effectively to benefit nature conservation.<br />
• We seek to connect young people to nature at<br />
all stages of their development through their<br />
formal education <strong>and</strong> their leisure.<br />
Membership services <strong>and</strong> enquiries<br />
• We provide services to our members <strong>and</strong><br />
supporters <strong>and</strong> respond to more than 240,000<br />
enquiries each year.<br />
• We administer our relationship with around 2.5<br />
million individuals including members,<br />
supporters <strong>and</strong> volunteers.<br />
• We send our members a magazine to keep them<br />
aware of <strong>and</strong> involved with the work of the<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong>.<br />
• Our website received just over 16 million visits in<br />
2011-12.<br />
Generating funds<br />
• We receive most of our financial support from<br />
individuals through a range of activities. <strong>RSPB</strong><br />
supporters are the foundation of everything we<br />
do <strong>and</strong> we endeavour to increase this each year.<br />
• We also aim to build lasting support from<br />
institutional bodies. These include statutory<br />
grant funders, trusts <strong>and</strong> corporate bodies.<br />
• Much of what we do to deliver conservation also<br />
generates income. This ranges from l<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
farming income through to the sale of research to<br />
other appropriate organisations.<br />
• Our trading operation focuses on the sale of bird<br />
care products, optics <strong>and</strong> educational material to<br />
support our work.<br />
In all of these activities, we receive extensive<br />
assistance from volunteers, who are at the heart of<br />
what the <strong>RSPB</strong> does <strong>and</strong> achieves; without their help,<br />
the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s work would be greatly diminished.<br />
Volunteers founded the <strong>RSPB</strong> in 1889 <strong>and</strong> they are<br />
still fundamental to our work. They carry out a<br />
variety of roles, from practical conservation <strong>and</strong> field<br />
surveys, to support for office <strong>and</strong> retail activities. All<br />
the volunteers are doing vital jobs that help us to<br />
undertake our work. In addition, we have hundreds<br />
of thous<strong>and</strong>s of people who put time <strong>and</strong> enthusiasm<br />
into our citizen science projects, such as Big Garden<br />
Birdwatch.<br />
Trustees’ <strong>report</strong><br />
Achievements<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong>’s long term vision is set out in its strategy<br />
document - A voice for conservation: Future Directions<br />
IV – our plans for 2007-<strong>2012</strong>. Our medium term<br />
objectives are drawn from the strategy albeit that<br />
some have had to be modified in the light of the<br />
economic recession. We <strong>report</strong> here on our<br />
achievements against the following indicators of<br />
performance:<br />
Indicators of performance<br />
• Acquisition of l<strong>and</strong> as nature reserves<br />
• Populations of priority bird species on <strong>RSPB</strong><br />
reserves<br />
• Status of other special wildlife in the UK <strong>and</strong><br />
on <strong>RSPB</strong> reserves<br />
• All designated l<strong>and</strong> on <strong>RSPB</strong> reserves in good<br />
condition<br />
• Status of priority bird species in the UK <strong>and</strong><br />
abroad<br />
• Healthier bird populations in the countryside<br />
outside nature reserves<br />
• Protection of key sites <strong>and</strong> habitats<br />
• Stopping extinction<br />
• Securing the most important sites abroad<br />
• Futurescapes<br />
• Rainforest destruction prevented<br />
• Reduced carbon footprint<br />
• Supporting BirdLife International Partners<br />
• Numbers of children learning in the natural<br />
world<br />
• Involvement of people<br />
• More people making a gift of time<br />
• <strong>RSPB</strong> membership<br />
• Money for conservation<br />
For further details on our achievements, please<br />
refer to the <strong>RSPB</strong> 2011-12 Annual Review available<br />
from Membership Services, The <strong>RSPB</strong>, UK<br />
Headquarters, The Lodge, S<strong>and</strong>y, Beds SG19 2DL:<br />
Telephone 01767 693680 membership@rspb.org.uk<br />
or our website www.rspb.org.uk.<br />
For further information about the <strong>RSPB</strong>, please<br />
request a copy of our leaflet Introducing the <strong>RSPB</strong>, or<br />
visit our website: www.rspb.org.uk.<br />
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Acquisition of l<strong>and</strong> as nature reserves<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We will continue<br />
to seek new sites<br />
<strong>and</strong> extend<br />
existing ones to<br />
add to our nature<br />
reserve network.<br />
Extending<br />
existing sites is<br />
sensible for both<br />
ecological <strong>and</strong><br />
financial reasons.<br />
Our nature reserves managed for conservation are impressive: we<br />
care for a wonderful selection of superb sites for nature <strong>and</strong> for<br />
people. We added 1,392 hectares during the year, including two<br />
new reserves, at Pagham Harbour, West Sussex (342 hectares) <strong>and</strong><br />
Loch Lomond, West Dunbartonshire (228 hectares).<br />
We manage 143,780 hectares, at 211 nature reserves. In Engl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
we extended existing reserves at Snape, Suffolk; South Essex<br />
Marshes <strong>and</strong> Wallasea Isl<strong>and</strong>, Essex; Freiston Shore, Lincolnshire;<br />
Langstone Harbour, Hampshire; Dungeness, Harty Marshes <strong>and</strong><br />
Seasalter Levels, Kent <strong>and</strong> the Dee Estuary, Cheshire. In Scotl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
we added l<strong>and</strong> at Forsinard Flows, Highl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Crook of<br />
Baldoon, Dumfries & Galloway.<br />
We will continue to make<br />
existing, high priority<br />
nature reserves “complete”<br />
by adding to them; we will<br />
continue to refine our<br />
criteria for buying reserves,<br />
<strong>and</strong> will acquire new, high<br />
priority sites wherever we<br />
can.<br />
Conservation on <strong>RSPB</strong> nature reserves<br />
Populations of priority bird species on <strong>RSPB</strong> reserves<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We will continue<br />
our work to<br />
maintain or<br />
enhance the<br />
populations of<br />
priority bird<br />
species.<br />
There are 26 priority bird species on our nature reserves. We have<br />
accurate breeding population trends for 24 of them. Four made<br />
good progress towards <strong>2012</strong> “enhance” targets. We expect them to<br />
increase their populations on the area of <strong>RSPB</strong> reserves that<br />
existed in 2005, to reach the often ambitious targets that we set.<br />
Eleven species are expected to achieve targets to maintain stable<br />
populations. Seven species appear unlikely to achieve their<br />
“maintain” targets for a variety of reasons, some outside our<br />
control, such as the effects of recent severe winter weather. Two<br />
species have failed to colonise or re-colonise reserves as hoped.<br />
Just some of the successes on reserves in 2011 are:<br />
• Slavonian grebes increased, <strong>and</strong> had a productive<br />
breeding season, at Loch Ruthven, following three years<br />
of decline.<br />
• Bitterns continued to increase, despite the hard winter,<br />
with 37 booming males, compared with 34 in 2010.<br />
• Design tweaks to a predator-exclusion fence at Otmoor<br />
kept out foxes, <strong>and</strong> lapwing productivity was the highest<br />
ever recorded there.<br />
• Numbers of breeding stone-curlews continued to rise at<br />
Winterbourne Downs <strong>and</strong> on acid grassl<strong>and</strong> created at<br />
Minsmere. Since 2005, the number of breeding pairs of<br />
stone-curlews at these two sites has increased from two<br />
to thirteen.<br />
We must maintain or<br />
increase numbers of<br />
breeding lapwings <strong>and</strong><br />
redshanks, against a<br />
backdrop of catastrophic<br />
declines of both species in<br />
the countryside outside<br />
reserves. We need to<br />
maintain numbers, <strong>and</strong><br />
increase productivity, of<br />
little terns <strong>and</strong> will<br />
continue to face difficult<br />
challenges to benefit<br />
capercaillie at Abernethy.<br />
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Status of other special wildlife in the UK <strong>and</strong> on <strong>RSPB</strong> reserves<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We will maintain<br />
or improve the<br />
conservation<br />
status of special<br />
animals <strong>and</strong><br />
plants on our<br />
nature reserves.<br />
Our reserves are marvellous places for a host of wildlife in<br />
addition to birds. We take our responsibilities for conserving them<br />
very seriously. We learned a lot through surveys, some by trainees<br />
employed under the HLF Nature Counts programme.<br />
We knew the rare beetle Omophron limbatum lived beside pools<br />
at Dungeness, but our ecologists discovered it in a new area of<br />
East Anglia, which presumably indicates a second, independent<br />
colonisation of Britain.<br />
A spectacular beetle, Calosoma inquisitor, the “caterpillarhunter”,<br />
was discovered at South Stack in Anglesey. It has been<br />
lost from a number of its ancient woodl<strong>and</strong> sites <strong>and</strong> there are no<br />
previous records from Anglesey, making this an exciting find.<br />
Trainee researchers in Scotl<strong>and</strong> found a new colony of<br />
Orthotrichum obtusifolium at Insh Marshes, a rare tree-trunk<br />
moss of eastern Scotl<strong>and</strong>. It was lost from Engl<strong>and</strong> more than 100<br />
years ago, but it has been found again in East Anglia, so might be<br />
re-colonising.<br />
Translocation programmes included further releases of field<br />
crickets, pine hoverfly <strong>and</strong> pearl-bordered fritillary <strong>and</strong> we are<br />
establishing ladybird spiders at Arne.<br />
We are inviting specialists<br />
in particular groups of<br />
species to visit reserves, to<br />
help assess the needs of<br />
rare <strong>and</strong> scarce species <strong>and</strong><br />
advise us on their<br />
management. We will<br />
develop plans for priority<br />
species where we can<br />
conserve them on reserves.<br />
All designated l<strong>and</strong> on <strong>RSPB</strong> reserves in good condition<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
Where their<br />
condition is<br />
within our<br />
control, all Sites<br />
of Special<br />
Scientific Interest<br />
(SSSIs), or Areas<br />
of Special<br />
Scientific Interest<br />
in Northern<br />
Irel<strong>and</strong>, on our<br />
nature reserves<br />
will be in<br />
Favourable<br />
condition or<br />
classed as<br />
Recovering.<br />
In Engl<strong>and</strong>, virtually all – 99.996% – of the area of SSSI l<strong>and</strong> for<br />
which the <strong>RSPB</strong> is responsible for carrying out the remedies is in<br />
Favourable or Recovering condition, a splendid achievement.<br />
In Scotl<strong>and</strong>, 95% of the features for which we are responsible for<br />
carrying out remedies are in Favourable condition (a few are<br />
affected by factors elsewhere, beyond our control such as seabirds<br />
nesting on <strong>RSPB</strong> reserves, which are affected by feeding<br />
conditions away from their nest sites).<br />
For Wales <strong>and</strong> Northern Irel<strong>and</strong>, we rely on information from the<br />
Countryside Council for Wales <strong>and</strong> the Northern Irel<strong>and</strong><br />
Environment Agency respectively, to make our assessments, <strong>and</strong><br />
at the time of <strong>report</strong>ing, this is incomplete.<br />
We will continue to focus<br />
attention <strong>and</strong> provide<br />
suitable resources to<br />
maintain or improve the<br />
status of l<strong>and</strong> currently<br />
classified as being in<br />
Favourable, or<br />
Unfavourable Recovering,<br />
condition.<br />
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Conservation – research, policy <strong>and</strong> advisory<br />
Status of priority bird species in the UK <strong>and</strong> abroad<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We will continue<br />
our work to<br />
maintain or<br />
enhance the<br />
populations of<br />
priority bird<br />
species.<br />
The sheer scale of our ambition for returning endangered species<br />
to a safer state is breathtaking. We celebrated some great successes<br />
this year.<br />
Most birds released by the Great Crane Project in 2010 survived<br />
the harsh 2010-11 winter, <strong>and</strong> 17 young birds were reared <strong>and</strong><br />
released from 20 eggs in 2011. The two generations are getting on<br />
well together in the wild, boding well for future breeding.<br />
We will continue to tackle<br />
factors that prevent rare<br />
species recovering,<br />
including a seeming<br />
inability to stop illegal<br />
persecution despite action<br />
by government agencies,<br />
the police <strong>and</strong> ourselves.<br />
A survey of breeding waders of wet meadows reinforced the<br />
importance of reserves <strong>and</strong> protected areas, for redshanks in<br />
particular, on lowl<strong>and</strong> wet grassl<strong>and</strong>. We use the results to<br />
continue to stress this in our advocacy <strong>and</strong> advisory work.<br />
We completed initial research on the needs <strong>and</strong> problems for<br />
redshanks on saltmarsh, too, <strong>and</strong> continue to be at the forefront of<br />
large-scale work to create more of this fragile habitat, replacing<br />
areas lost to sea level rise <strong>and</strong> l<strong>and</strong> claim.<br />
Common scoters remain amongst our rarest breeding birds,<br />
following a rapid decline, but numbers remained fairly stable <strong>and</strong><br />
at least 21 young were reared. This helped us unravel their food<br />
<strong>and</strong> feeding dynamics. Conifer plantations can have a major<br />
impact on scoter habitat on Scottish moors; we removed another<br />
35 hectares of these trees next to two important breeding lochs.<br />
We must address the slow<br />
progress in establishing<br />
marine protected areas; a<br />
lack of progress on<br />
wildlife-friendly<br />
management at a<br />
l<strong>and</strong>scape scale in our<br />
upl<strong>and</strong>s; <strong>and</strong> the<br />
continuing pressure on<br />
funds for our crucial work<br />
to identify why species<br />
such as some woodl<strong>and</strong><br />
birds, seabirds <strong>and</strong> upl<strong>and</strong><br />
breeding waders are<br />
declining.<br />
Healthier bird populations in the countryside outside nature reserves<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We will continue<br />
our work to<br />
stabilise or<br />
increase farml<strong>and</strong><br />
bird populations.<br />
It was another record-breaking year in 2011 for our arable<br />
demonstration project at Hope Farm, Cambridgeshire. Breeding<br />
birds have more than doubled since 2000, while crops continue to<br />
bring in a profit. It can be done!<br />
We are encouraged by the amount of l<strong>and</strong> in arable stewardship<br />
in Engl<strong>and</strong>, but more is needed. The importance of face-to-face<br />
advice to farmers has been backed up by independent research.<br />
We learned more about causes of bird declines <strong>and</strong> practical ideas<br />
being tested in pastoral systems are bringing results, building on<br />
the arable work at Hope Farm.<br />
One huge challenge is to turn around the fortunes of upl<strong>and</strong><br />
waders. We are still working out why curlews <strong>and</strong> lapwings are<br />
declining on upl<strong>and</strong> farms, so that we can find ways to turn the<br />
situation around. In the South Pennines we are working hard on a<br />
quite different bird: an engaging little finch, the twite. Unusually,<br />
twites need an abundance of seeds all year, even feeding their<br />
young on seeds: we helped more farmers to create hay meadows,<br />
creating a source of seeds through the spring <strong>and</strong> summer. Our<br />
advocacy around the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy<br />
(CAP) is extremely encouraging, with better conservation on the<br />
ground, <strong>and</strong> vital income for farmers who care for wildlife.<br />
We underst<strong>and</strong> what many<br />
lowl<strong>and</strong> farml<strong>and</strong> birds<br />
need, but still face<br />
significant challenges in<br />
making sure enough of the<br />
right measures are put into<br />
place at an adequate scale.<br />
We will remain vigilant to<br />
the risks involved in the<br />
detail of CAP reform, as it<br />
progresses through<br />
Europe, to ensure that<br />
birds <strong>and</strong> their habitats<br />
don’t lose out.<br />
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Protection of key sites <strong>and</strong> habitats<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We will press<br />
governments to<br />
adopt policies<br />
that protect the<br />
very best wildlife<br />
sites (including<br />
those at sea).<br />
Working closely with other wildlife NGOs, we gave evidence to<br />
the Government’s review of the implementation of the Birds <strong>and</strong><br />
Habitats Directives in Engl<strong>and</strong>. This helped Defra to show that the<br />
Directives’ essential roles, in protecting vulnerable species <strong>and</strong><br />
habitats <strong>and</strong> providing essential services, underpin economic<br />
growth, rather than acting as a block to it. The Government’s<br />
<strong>report</strong> recognised the value of the natural environment <strong>and</strong> the<br />
importance of policy <strong>and</strong> regulation in protecting it.<br />
In more specific cases, we helped persuade the Government to<br />
reject large housing proposals at Talbot Heath, Poole <strong>and</strong><br />
Hurstleigh Park, Berkshire. This maintained already hard won<br />
protection for the remarkable bird <strong>and</strong> reptile populations of the<br />
Dorset <strong>and</strong> Thames Basin heathl<strong>and</strong>s.<br />
As part of a broad coalition, we secured strong environmental<br />
policies in the National Planning Policy Framework for Engl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
improving the definition of sustainable development, reframing<br />
the “presumption in favour of sustainable development” to<br />
protect special places, <strong>and</strong> strengthening nature conservation<br />
policies to reflect the Natural Environment White Paper’s<br />
ambitions.<br />
Leading a broad coalition of NGOs, we convinced North Ayrshire<br />
Council to object to the proposed coal-fired power station at<br />
Hunterston <strong>and</strong> remove it from their local plan.<br />
We will strive to prevent<br />
any net loss of nationally<br />
or internationally<br />
important sites for birds.<br />
We will continue to press<br />
Government to complete<br />
the protected area network<br />
on l<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> to create an<br />
effective protected area<br />
network at sea.<br />
In each UK country we will<br />
continue to advocate<br />
positive changes to the<br />
planning systems.<br />
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Stopping extinction<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We will continue<br />
to try to reduce<br />
the risk of<br />
extinction for<br />
critically<br />
endangered<br />
species.<br />
We set up the International Species Recovery Group to oversee<br />
work on 32 species <strong>and</strong> four species groups.<br />
The Albatross Task Force showed that numbers of seabirds<br />
caught <strong>and</strong> killed in fisheries can be reduced to negligible levels,<br />
<strong>and</strong> we can now begin to manage recovery.<br />
Four endemic species benefited from a complex <strong>and</strong> costly (but<br />
fully funded) programme to eradicate rats on Henderson Isl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Rats reached many such isl<strong>and</strong>s via shipping in the past,<br />
wreaking havoc on native wildlife.<br />
There was some success in tackling shooting of sociable<br />
lapwings in Syria. The critically endangered spoon-billed<br />
s<strong>and</strong>piper (there may be as few as 200 left) was the subject of a<br />
challenging co-operative programme of work. This included a<br />
breeding programme based at Slimbridge, involving<br />
transporting chicks across the globe; surveying <strong>and</strong> training<br />
local people in Myanmar; <strong>and</strong> working to effect changes under<br />
the Convention on Migratory Species.<br />
A Saving Asian Vultures from Extinction consortium should<br />
establish Vulture Safe Zones in India <strong>and</strong> Nepal. Captive<br />
breeding centres in India had a successful year, with 18 young<br />
vultures fledged. Diclofenac, the drug that has killed tens of<br />
thous<strong>and</strong>s of vultures feeding on carcasses of treated cattle, is<br />
less readily available in retail outlets <strong>and</strong> levels in the<br />
environment halved.<br />
In the UK, ruddy duck numbers fell to fewer than 100 with the<br />
eradication programme to benefit the white-headed duck.<br />
Despite an increase in the St<br />
Helena plover population,<br />
there are increasing threats<br />
from airport <strong>and</strong> tourism<br />
development. Monitoring of<br />
the Montserrat oriole,<br />
following the calamitous<br />
volcanic eruption, must<br />
continue, as there is little<br />
chance of transferring the<br />
responsibility to local<br />
conservationists.<br />
Prospects are not good for<br />
the oriole, nor for the eastern<br />
population of the northern<br />
bald ibis in Syria, despite the<br />
arrival of a fourth bird in<br />
<strong>2012</strong>. Overcoming the threats<br />
of electrocution <strong>and</strong> shooting<br />
will require a major effort,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the political situation<br />
adds to the challenge.<br />
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Securing the most important sites abroad<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We will help to<br />
increase the<br />
number of<br />
Important Bird<br />
Areas (IBAs) that<br />
are legally<br />
protected in<br />
countries in<br />
which we are<br />
working with<br />
BirdLife partners.<br />
IBAs are sites which are the most important for the<br />
conservation of birds <strong>and</strong> other wildlife. Over 11,000 have<br />
been identified around the world but they are increasingly<br />
under threat.<br />
Latest information indicates that each of 1,084 (of 2,073) IBAs<br />
had more than 75% of their area legally protected by 2010,<br />
against 1,006 (out of 2,040) a year earlier.<br />
We supported our BirdLife partner, the Association for the<br />
Conservation of Biodiversity in Kazakhstan, <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Government of Kazakhstan to designate a sensational 900,000<br />
hectares of new steppe <strong>and</strong> wetl<strong>and</strong> protected area in Altyn<br />
Dala.<br />
To our great relief, G4 Industries pulled a proposal to grow<br />
28,000 hectares of jatropha in the magnificent Tana River Delta<br />
in Kenya, following pressure from our BirdLife partner with<br />
strong <strong>RSPB</strong> support.<br />
IBA site support groups are growing across Europe, Africa <strong>and</strong><br />
Asia, <strong>and</strong> grew most significantly in India with a 35% increase.<br />
In EU member states, there<br />
has been clear progress in<br />
new site designation <strong>and</strong> this<br />
is slowly moving into active<br />
management work. In non-<br />
EU countries however, there<br />
has been virtually no change<br />
to the number of IBAs<br />
designated as protected<br />
areas or the management of<br />
those sites.<br />
We must continue to support<br />
our BirdLife partners to help<br />
communities in developing<br />
alternative livelihoods <strong>and</strong> to<br />
strengthen their advocacy<br />
capacity to achieve sustained<br />
IBA protection.<br />
Futurescapes<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We will work<br />
towards the 2020<br />
target of 10<br />
“Futurescapes” of<br />
large contiguous<br />
blocks in the UK,<br />
in total covering<br />
up to 550,000<br />
hectares, each<br />
giving sustainable<br />
l<strong>and</strong> management<br />
via a mosaic of<br />
appropriate l<strong>and</strong><br />
uses to benefit<br />
nature.<br />
We secured support from the EU Life Communications fund.<br />
A €2 million grant will help recruit eight Futurescapes staff<br />
<strong>and</strong> many people engagement staff to work on the<br />
programme. Local management <strong>and</strong> governance arrangements<br />
have been established across the UK to help facilitate<br />
conservation on a large scale. Advocacy work was rewarded<br />
with the establishment of 12 government sponsored Nature<br />
Improvement Areas in Engl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
We need to be more<br />
innovative to extract the<br />
most from existing sources<br />
of money <strong>and</strong> to identify <strong>and</strong><br />
use emerging funds.<br />
We need to broker <strong>and</strong><br />
maintain relationships with a<br />
range of partners including<br />
governments, other NGOs<br />
<strong>and</strong> l<strong>and</strong>owning interests to<br />
create l<strong>and</strong>scape scale<br />
conservation across the UK.<br />
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Improved marine environment<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We will continue<br />
to conserve<br />
important<br />
populations of<br />
seabirds through<br />
a network of<br />
marine protected<br />
areas.<br />
We continued to work hard to see a coherent network of Marine<br />
Protected Areas (MPA) designated, including sites for seabirds.<br />
MPAs in Scotl<strong>and</strong> should benefit seabirds. Sites for black<br />
guillemots have been discussed, as well as some to protect<br />
s<strong>and</strong>eels, which many seabirds eat.<br />
With other NGOs in the Northern Irel<strong>and</strong> Marine Task Force, we<br />
were encouraged by a Marine Bill for Northern Irel<strong>and</strong> in <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
This is a fantastic achievement after years of hard work, but we<br />
will continue, via the Task Force, to improve <strong>and</strong> strengthen the<br />
Bill as it is debated.<br />
We must see effective<br />
implementation of marine<br />
legislation throughout the<br />
UK, including the<br />
designation of seabird<br />
MPAs. We will call on<br />
Government to be more<br />
ambitious in the designation<br />
of such sites, to fulfil the EC<br />
Wild Birds Directive <strong>and</strong><br />
other international<br />
obligations.<br />
Our advocacy through the English regional Marine Conservation<br />
Zone (MCZ) projects succeeded, with six sites for seabirds<br />
included in the final network proposals for English MCZs.<br />
Our work with the Future of the Atlantic Marine Environment<br />
project continues to uncover exciting information about the<br />
distribution of seabirds at sea, through satellite tracking. As<br />
more information comes to light, we will continue to advise on<br />
MPAs for seabirds.<br />
There is an urgent need for<br />
more marine survey <strong>and</strong><br />
research work to help site<br />
selection, <strong>and</strong> we must<br />
reconcile the need for greater<br />
marine protection with the<br />
planned expansion of marine<br />
industry <strong>and</strong> development<br />
(in particular marine<br />
renewable energy schemes).<br />
Rainforest destruction prevented<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We will help<br />
protect 240,000 ha<br />
of tropical forest<br />
with our BirdLife<br />
partners.<br />
Our rainforests work has been brought together under one<br />
programme. With our BirdLife partners we are now conserving<br />
or restoring approximately 238,000 hectares in eight countries.<br />
The President of Sierra Leone launched the 71,000 hectares Gola<br />
Rainforest National Park in December 2011: an important<br />
milestone in the conservation of Gola. Our researchers found one<br />
species of frog <strong>and</strong> three species of butterfly previously<br />
unknown to science, exciting discoveries that reinforced the<br />
importance of Gola for biodiversity.<br />
Restoration at Harapan Rainforest (98,000 hectares) is<br />
proceeding well, with plant nurseries producing more than 2.5<br />
million seedlings per year. More than 250,000 were planted.<br />
Illegal encroachment by loggers <strong>and</strong> settlers continues to be a<br />
severe challenge, with a new front opening up during 2011. We<br />
are working with the Indonesian Government to overcome this<br />
taxing problem.<br />
Our work with BirdLife partners in Liberia, Montserrat,<br />
Tanzania, Thail<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Ug<strong>and</strong>a protected additional rainforest<br />
sites in these countries. The year culminated in the launch of the<br />
Together for Trees partnership with Tesco, raising awareness of<br />
the plight of rainforests with the UK public, <strong>and</strong> aiming to<br />
generate income through corporate <strong>and</strong> customer donations for<br />
our rainforests programme.<br />
We have to tackle increased<br />
illegal encroachment at<br />
Harapan. We must ensure<br />
long-term sustainable<br />
financing for our flagship<br />
projects at Harapan <strong>and</strong><br />
Gola.<br />
We will strengthen the<br />
cohesiveness of our project<br />
work, <strong>and</strong> develop a new<br />
area of work with Tesco to<br />
address sustainable<br />
consumption of tropical<br />
commodities related to<br />
deforestation.<br />
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Reduced carbon footprint<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We aim to reduce<br />
CO2 emissions by<br />
3% each year on a<br />
per staff basis.<br />
From a baseline of emitting 3.25 tonnes of CO2 per staff<br />
member in 2008, we reduced emissions to 2.39tCO2 in <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
This is significantly lower than our target of 2.88tCO2 <strong>and</strong> it<br />
represents an extraordinary achievement for the <strong>RSPB</strong>. In total,<br />
since 2008, we have saved nearly 500tCO2, despite continuing<br />
to grow. However, the rate of reduction is getting harder to<br />
maintain.<br />
Our revised target is to<br />
continue to reduce emissions<br />
on a per staff basis by 3%<br />
each year against a 2010<br />
baseline. Previous, emission<br />
reductions were principally<br />
delivered through reducing<br />
travel, behavioural change<br />
<strong>and</strong> energy efficiency. To<br />
ensure meeting this target<br />
does not threaten<br />
conservation delivery in the<br />
future, we will need to invest<br />
in renewable <strong>and</strong> energy<br />
efficient infrastructure.<br />
Whilst these investments can<br />
yield attractive returns,<br />
accessing the capital,<br />
expertise <strong>and</strong> staff time to<br />
deliver them will be a major<br />
challenge.<br />
Supporting BirdLife International Partners<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We will continue<br />
to help build the<br />
capacity of<br />
BirdLife<br />
International<br />
partners.<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong> provides support to 24 BirdLife partners across the<br />
world. The combined <strong>annual</strong> income of our partners increased<br />
significantly by 19%, from £11.7 million to £14 million, partly<br />
through our support for proposal development <strong>and</strong> joint<br />
applications. Examples include:<br />
• We assisted NatureKenya to secure Department for<br />
International Development funds to develop a l<strong>and</strong>-use<br />
plan for the sustainable management of the Tana River<br />
Delta.<br />
• EU Life projects continue to be important with the largest<br />
ever grant for Egyptian vulture conservation (€3.3 million)<br />
secured for work in Bulgaria <strong>and</strong> Greece.<br />
• Important new funding for marine IBA work was secured<br />
for Malta, Turkey, Bulgaria <strong>and</strong> Romania.<br />
• We were awarded three grants from the UK Darwin<br />
initiative to support our partners work on the Bengal<br />
florican, the spoon-billed s<strong>and</strong>piper <strong>and</strong> restoration of<br />
Henderson Isl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
We must help partners<br />
generate funds for<br />
unrestricted use, rather than<br />
funds solely for specific<br />
projects. Once they become<br />
financially sustainable, we<br />
will have achieved our goal.<br />
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Education <strong>and</strong> communication<br />
Numbers of children learning in the natural world<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We will exp<strong>and</strong><br />
our field teaching<br />
on reserves,<br />
thereby helping<br />
to increase the<br />
number of school<br />
children who<br />
enjoy <strong>and</strong> benefit<br />
from an<br />
encounter with<br />
nature first h<strong>and</strong>.<br />
More than 51,000 children visited <strong>RSPB</strong> countryside<br />
classrooms in organised school groups. Most providers of such<br />
learning outside the classroom <strong>report</strong> difficult operating<br />
conditions. Economic constraints affect schools <strong>and</strong> many have<br />
become less willing to ask parents to pay for visits.<br />
We invested in quality rather than quantity. The<br />
independently verified, Government sponsored Quality Badge<br />
helps us measure the quality of our Living Classrooms.<br />
Quality Badge inspections on all but a very few of sites were<br />
encouraging. Fourteen sites reached our desired st<strong>and</strong>ard of<br />
overall outst<strong>and</strong>ing or very good. The other 20 already display<br />
some outst<strong>and</strong>ing <strong>and</strong> very good characteristics.<br />
We are committed to increase<br />
the quality of our education<br />
experience <strong>and</strong> we want all 34 of<br />
our sites to achieve the overall<br />
outst<strong>and</strong>ing or very good<br />
designation.<br />
Involvement of people<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
In 2011/12, we<br />
will engage 3.5<br />
million people<br />
through nature<br />
reserve visits,<br />
citizen science<br />
projects <strong>and</strong> Date<br />
with Nature<br />
events.<br />
We engaged a total of 3.4 million people.<br />
Visits to our nature reserves increased to two million<br />
compared to 1.9 million during the previous year.<br />
More than 670,000 people took part in our citizen science<br />
projects, the long running Big Garden Birdwatch <strong>and</strong> the second<br />
Make Your Nature Count. We met more than 50,000 visitors at<br />
specific events such as Feed the Birds Day <strong>and</strong> Springwatch with<br />
the <strong>RSPB</strong>. A further 17,600 people are undertaking action in<br />
their garden as part of our Homes for Wildlife project.<br />
There were 63 Date with Nature events, attracting 410,000<br />
people, showing people a variety of wildlife from ospreys <strong>and</strong><br />
seabirds to red deer <strong>and</strong> dragonflies.<br />
With an investment in<br />
destination marketing work at<br />
our more popular sites, we hope<br />
to see growth in nature reserve<br />
visits continue. Furthermore,<br />
through the provision of<br />
training <strong>and</strong> support to staff in<br />
regions <strong>and</strong> countries, we will<br />
continue to increase all people<br />
engagement activities off <strong>and</strong> on<br />
nature reserves. We will reach a<br />
wider, more diverse audience<br />
<strong>and</strong> improve the experience for<br />
all. We will also improve the<br />
accessibility <strong>and</strong> inclusivity of<br />
all our projects.<br />
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More people making a gift of time<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We aim to be<br />
supported by<br />
15,000 volunteers,<br />
working a total of<br />
750,000 hours<br />
<strong>annual</strong>ly.<br />
We exceeded our target: it was a great year for volunteering.<br />
Volunteers gave the <strong>RSPB</strong> a gift of more than one million<br />
hours in one year for the first time ever. We've come a long<br />
way since those ladies in Didsbury, volunteers themselves,<br />
started the <strong>RSPB</strong> way back in 1889. They would no doubt be<br />
extremely proud to know their legacy enjoys the support of<br />
more than 17,000 regular volunteers.<br />
Competition for people’s time is<br />
growing: we must attract more<br />
for the <strong>RSPB</strong>. We offer<br />
increasingly interesting,<br />
rewarding <strong>and</strong> flexible ways for<br />
people to donate their time <strong>and</strong><br />
talents.<br />
And what a contribution our volunteers make. One million<br />
hours equates to more than 500 full time staff,<br />
Volunteers step up for nature with the <strong>RSPB</strong> in new <strong>and</strong><br />
innovative ways. We had doctors, translators, IT specialists,<br />
health <strong>and</strong> safety experts, carpenters, quantity surveyors <strong>and</strong><br />
even a burlesque dancer donating time <strong>and</strong> talents to the <strong>RSPB</strong><br />
last year.<br />
“I really enjoyed my time volunteering. It has helped build up my<br />
confidence, <strong>and</strong> goes down really well with potential employers. I still<br />
volunteer in my spare time – it's great fun.” Volunteer at<br />
Broadwater Warren nature reserve.<br />
We will offer more flexible “bite<br />
size” volunteering opportunities<br />
<strong>and</strong> find new ways for people to<br />
use specialist <strong>and</strong> professional<br />
skills. Our volunteer intern’s<br />
programme offers high quality<br />
3-6 months opportunities<br />
alongside career coaching <strong>and</strong><br />
mentoring. Many participants<br />
have achieved their ambition of<br />
a career in conservation.<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> membership<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We will continue<br />
to recruit <strong>and</strong><br />
keep our millionplus<br />
members,<br />
<strong>and</strong> aim for<br />
growth, as far as<br />
continued<br />
uncertain times<br />
allow.<br />
In spite of economic troubles UK-wide, the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s<br />
membership remains as strong as ever, at more than 1,090,000.<br />
More than 185,000 people joined in the last year, a fantastic<br />
endorsement of our work <strong>and</strong> how much the UK public cares<br />
about nature. We still need more support, to meet increasing<br />
conservation challenges.<br />
With economic uncertainty set<br />
to continue, <strong>and</strong> threats to<br />
nature still increasing, we need<br />
to do far more to make our work<br />
more compelling to many more<br />
people. We will look afresh at<br />
how we describe <strong>and</strong> promote<br />
wildlife <strong>and</strong> connect with people<br />
to support the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s work, <strong>and</strong><br />
how we retain <strong>and</strong> develop the<br />
support we already have.<br />
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Generating Funds<br />
Money for conservation<br />
Objective Achievement Future challenges<br />
We will continue<br />
to review our<br />
income objective<br />
in light of<br />
recessionary times.<br />
Total income was down, partly because of timings of large<br />
grants <strong>and</strong> the loss of some grants following the Government’s<br />
Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR).<br />
We will take a prudent view on<br />
predicted income, given the<br />
economic uncertainty <strong>and</strong><br />
government policies, including<br />
taxation changes <strong>and</strong> the CSR.<br />
We will continue<br />
to maintain<br />
diversity in<br />
income streams.<br />
Continued investment in core, unrestricted income streams<br />
ensured that these continued to exp<strong>and</strong>. Membership support<br />
rose by more than £1 million in spite of the loss of some<br />
£750,000 from transitional gift aid relief - introduced by the<br />
Government to cushion the impact of reducing the basic rate of<br />
income tax from 22% to 20% in 2008. This achievement, in<br />
difficult times, demonstrates fantastic commitment from<br />
current <strong>and</strong> new supporters. Legacies continue to be vital to<br />
conservation programmes <strong>and</strong> are holding steady. Community<br />
fundraising grew by an amazing 8%, only just falling short of<br />
£1 million in turnover. We’re hugely grateful to thous<strong>and</strong>s of<br />
volunteers who helped make recent investment in this area<br />
such a great success.<br />
We will invest in increasing <strong>and</strong><br />
diversifying our core,<br />
unrestricted support, especially<br />
to promote the <strong>RSPB</strong> to many<br />
more people, in more<br />
compelling ways. Investment in<br />
digital channels is likely to be<br />
important.<br />
Flexible membership continues to be very popular <strong>and</strong> helped<br />
increase subscription income by £1 million. Life fellowship<br />
income was up by 16%. Mail order trading was spectacular,<br />
with net income up 15%. Recent investments are giving<br />
exceptional customer service <strong>and</strong> product quality, <strong>and</strong> real<br />
growth, even though we didn’t sell so much bird food as in the<br />
previous snowy winter.<br />
Major grants supported a wide range of work: rainforest<br />
conservation in Africa, helping declining species in Northern<br />
Irel<strong>and</strong>, making Minsmere an even better place to see wildlife,<br />
<strong>and</strong> much more. The total grant income was £23.9 million.<br />
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Trustees’ <strong>report</strong><br />
Financial review<br />
The <strong>accounts</strong>, which form part of this <strong>report</strong>, comply<br />
with the requirements of the Accounting <strong>and</strong><br />
Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended<br />
Practice 2005 (SORP). The trustees consider that in<br />
preparing these <strong>accounts</strong>, they have consistently<br />
applied appropriate accounting policies supported<br />
by reasonable <strong>and</strong> prudent judgements <strong>and</strong> estimates<br />
where required.<br />
A resolution to re-appoint the firm Crowe Clark<br />
Whitehill LLP as auditors to the organisation was<br />
passed at the Annual General Meeting on 8 October<br />
2011.<br />
Financial reserves policy<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong> holds financial reserves to be applied to<br />
future activities in a number of categories:<br />
• Unrestricted – available to be applied, at the<br />
discretion of the trustees, to any of the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s<br />
charitable purposes<br />
• Restricted – to be applied to the specific<br />
purpose(s) intended by the donor<br />
• Endowment – Endowment funds are restricted<br />
funds that are to be retained for the benefit of<br />
the Charity as a capital fund. Permanent<br />
endowments require the capital to be<br />
maintained <strong>and</strong> only the income <strong>and</strong> capital<br />
growth can be utilised. With expendable<br />
endowments the capital may also be utilised.<br />
Each year the trustees consider the appropriate<br />
level of free reserves. They review the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s<br />
requirements <strong>and</strong> consider a sustained fall in<br />
income of 10–15% to be a reasonable basis for<br />
setting a minimum level. It is the intention of the<br />
trustees to hold sufficient reserves to enable<br />
expenditure to be reduced in a managed fashion,<br />
should the need arise, avoiding the need to halt<br />
work abruptly. The trustees have agreed that free<br />
reserves should normally be within a range of 8–16<br />
weeks of expenditure.<br />
The trustees have fully adopted Financial Reporting<br />
St<strong>and</strong>ard 17 “Retirement Benefits”. The scheme<br />
liabilities are measured at a point in time for the<br />
purposes of FRS 17 but will not crystallise for some<br />
years. Showing the liability in the <strong>accounts</strong> does not<br />
imply a significant constraint over the use of reserves<br />
for the foreseeable future.<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong>’s primary investment objective is to maintain<br />
the real value of its investments. However, as a<br />
proportion of the financial reserves are likely to be held<br />
in the longer term it is appropriate to invest<br />
conservatively a proportion of the funds to generate<br />
income <strong>and</strong>/or real growth.<br />
Investment properties arising from legacies are managed<br />
by the <strong>RSPB</strong> until disposal.<br />
In managing investments, wherever possible, we follow<br />
the principles of Socially Responsible Investing (SRI).<br />
These principles are to:<br />
• invest in companies that make a positive<br />
contribution to society<br />
• use influence as an investor to encourage best<br />
practice management of social responsibility issues<br />
• avoid investing in companies whose activities<br />
conflict strongly with <strong>RSPB</strong> objectives.<br />
The trustees rely upon specialist advisers for fund<br />
selection <strong>and</strong> allocation. Investment performance is<br />
compared to an independent benchmark <strong>and</strong> the<br />
target for investment returns is to outperform this<br />
benchmark by at least 1% per annum over a rolling<br />
three-year period.<br />
The Charity investment of £3,250,000 in <strong>RSPB</strong> Sales<br />
Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary, is held at cost<br />
<strong>and</strong> represents the aggregate amount of the<br />
subsidiary’s assets, liabilities <strong>and</strong> funds. <strong>RSPB</strong> Sales<br />
Limited Gift Aided its entire profit of £5,115,000 to the<br />
Charity. The trustees consider this a satisfactory return<br />
on their investment.<br />
On 29 February 2008, the Charity purchased March<br />
Farmers (Washl<strong>and</strong>) Limited in order to acquire the<br />
leasehold interest in l<strong>and</strong> in the Nene Washes. The<br />
Charity investment of £551,000 in March Farmers<br />
(Washl<strong>and</strong>) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary, is<br />
held at cost <strong>and</strong> represents the aggregate amount of<br />
the subsidiary’s assets, liabilities <strong>and</strong> funds. March<br />
Farmers (Washl<strong>and</strong>) Limited Gift Aided its entire<br />
profit of £37,000 to the Charity.<br />
Farming For Nature, a company limited by guarantee,<br />
was incorporated in 2011. The intention is to use this<br />
entity in relation to l<strong>and</strong> leased from United Utilities at<br />
Haweswater in Cumbria.<br />
Investment policy <strong>and</strong> powers<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> investment powers are as set out in the<br />
Society’s governing documents, the Charter<br />
<strong>and</strong> Statutes, <strong>and</strong> are wider than those<br />
contained in the Trustees Investment Act<br />
2000.<br />
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Financial <strong>report</strong> on the year<br />
Outcome for the year<br />
The year ended with an increase in available<br />
cash <strong>and</strong> investments of £2.6 million. With<br />
economic difficulties affecting many people in<br />
many countries the prospect of a worse outcome<br />
was very real. We are thankful that the majority<br />
of our income streams held up well, so our<br />
conservation work programmes could continue<br />
uninterrupted. The Trustees are committed to<br />
putting income to work as soon as possible; the<br />
surplus has been earmarked for projects which<br />
cross over the year-end.<br />
Income<br />
The continued backing we receive from our<br />
members <strong>and</strong> supporters means that the<br />
underlying income trend was stable in spite of<br />
challenging times. We value highly, the current<br />
support of more than a million people through<br />
membership, donations, buying from our shops<br />
<strong>and</strong> catalogue <strong>and</strong> of course from legacies. These<br />
are the bedrock of all we do <strong>and</strong> we are hugely<br />
grateful that people continue to join <strong>and</strong> support<br />
us even in difficult times. However, we are not<br />
immune to the impact of external pressures on our<br />
income.<br />
Membership subscriptions <strong>and</strong> donations include<br />
tax recovery under the Gift Aid scheme, which fell<br />
by around £0.7 million due to the end of the<br />
“transition relief” - introduced by the Government<br />
to cushion the impact of reducing the basic rate of<br />
income tax from 22% to 20% in 2008.<br />
The grant income trend is slightly deceptive where<br />
the timing of receipt of the income is crucial. It<br />
would have been flat over the two years if we had<br />
received the £1.2 million that was earmarked by<br />
the donor for the restoration of Bowers Marsh in<br />
Essex a couple of weeks later. However, a<br />
proportion of our grant income has been affected<br />
by the Government’s Comprehensive Spending<br />
Review <strong>and</strong> funding for a number of species<br />
recovery projects was affected. Fortunately, some<br />
grant agreements run over many years; this gives<br />
us time to both advocate against reductions <strong>and</strong><br />
seek alternative funding. Support in this area<br />
comes from local, national <strong>and</strong> international<br />
sources – see Acknowledgements for the full list -<br />
the breadth gives us the opportunity to plan our<br />
work with a degree of confidence.<br />
To provide even more stability <strong>and</strong> growth to our<br />
income, we are starting to gain more financial<br />
support from the corporate sector where social<br />
responsibility, despite economic difficulties, is<br />
gaining importance all the time. There is a<br />
growing recognition amongst forward-thinking<br />
Trustees’ <strong>report</strong><br />
companies that this is an important ingredient for<br />
success <strong>and</strong> we are ideally placed to benefit. In this<br />
arena, we are delighted to be working with Tesco to<br />
help protect rainforests around the world. Twenty<br />
million shoppers, including <strong>RSPB</strong> supporters, can now<br />
take another “Step For Nature” through this scheme -<br />
a huge opportunity in the battle against climate<br />
change. Partnerships like this one can take many<br />
months from inception to launch but a sound<br />
relationship can serve both parties well over many<br />
years. The deal with the Co-operative Bank has run<br />
since 1989 <strong>and</strong> has helped us to raise around £10<br />
million through the <strong>RSPB</strong> affinity credit card.<br />
Net income (money available for charitable purposes),<br />
at £89.3 million, was slightly down on the previous<br />
year. This is shown after deducting £17.9 million cost<br />
of generating income <strong>and</strong> a further £12.5 million cost<br />
of goods for resale by our trading operation. The<br />
majority of products sold, such as bird food <strong>and</strong><br />
feeders, optics, wildlife books <strong>and</strong> videos, relate<br />
directly to our charitable objectives.<br />
Cost of generating income increased due to<br />
inflationary pressure in a number of areas such as<br />
printing <strong>and</strong> postage costs. We also invested in future<br />
income growth; by bringing our processes up to date<br />
<strong>and</strong> promoting the opportunity for supporters to<br />
upgrade their <strong>annual</strong> subscription to a monthly<br />
amount of their choice.<br />
Expenditure<br />
The diversity of our income streams gave us the<br />
financial stability to continue to increase our<br />
conservation <strong>and</strong> education work, spending £1.2<br />
million more than last year. In addition, expenditure<br />
on l<strong>and</strong> purchases <strong>and</strong> associated visitor facilities<br />
increased by £1.0 million from a comparatively low<br />
base in 2011. The reduced availability of grants <strong>and</strong> the<br />
high price of l<strong>and</strong> continue to constrain our<br />
aspirations. We believe that acquiring l<strong>and</strong> is the most<br />
enduring way of safeguarding habitat; it would be a<br />
disaster for nature conservation if future generations<br />
were to witness further loss of biodiversity as a<br />
consequence of our generation’s financial woes.<br />
As well as making nature reserves <strong>and</strong> protected areas<br />
the best they can be for nature, we must work on the<br />
pieces of l<strong>and</strong> between them to join up the fragments<br />
of habitat that go to make up the l<strong>and</strong>scapes that are<br />
important to wildlife. Futurescapes is the name we<br />
give to the vision for these l<strong>and</strong>scapes <strong>and</strong> provides a<br />
brilliant example of how the <strong>RSPB</strong> has been able to<br />
progress l<strong>and</strong> management in spite of the recession.<br />
Nature reserves are an important part of l<strong>and</strong>scapescale<br />
conservation, but it is unrealistic for a single<br />
organisation to realise the vision alone. The key to<br />
success is partnership working. For example, we work<br />
with United Utilities in the Forest of Bowl<strong>and</strong> in<br />
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Lancashire - the only place in Engl<strong>and</strong> where hen<br />
harriers nested successfully in 2011. We have to do<br />
more in partnership with companies, farmers <strong>and</strong><br />
other conservation charities <strong>and</strong> our fundraisers<br />
are striving to come up with new <strong>and</strong> innovative<br />
ways to fund more l<strong>and</strong> purchases.<br />
To help constrain the damaging impact on<br />
conservation of sea level rise, we undertook<br />
two major projects on the English east coast<br />
during the year. The first one was at Wallasea<br />
Isl<strong>and</strong> in Essex, where Crossrail <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Environment Agency have helped to fund<br />
the Defra-supported project to secure 155<br />
hectares of saltmarsh <strong>and</strong> mudflat as<br />
replacement habitat for that lost to “coastal<br />
squeeze”. And secondly, with financial<br />
support from the European Union, we have<br />
improved the sea defences to protect<br />
freshwater habitats at Titchwell on the<br />
Norfolk Coast.<br />
Still on the theme of water levels, further<br />
inl<strong>and</strong>, the drought in eastern Engl<strong>and</strong> badly<br />
affected wintering ducks <strong>and</strong> swans, whilst<br />
breeding waders in the Fens had their nests<br />
flooded out by the heavy spring rainfall.<br />
Careful management of water levels to try<br />
<strong>and</strong> reduce the risk to wetl<strong>and</strong> wildlife <strong>and</strong><br />
improve drought resilience is a relatively low<br />
cost way of achieving much.<br />
Within the <strong>RSPB</strong> we have been doing a lot to<br />
reduce our carbon footprint. We have used<br />
green electricity at our sites for many years<br />
<strong>and</strong> now have a number of new programmes<br />
underway - including solar, wind, biomass<br />
<strong>and</strong> heat-exchange. In the last year we added<br />
rechargeable electric vehicles to our fleet <strong>and</strong><br />
plan more. All travel undertaken by staff is<br />
monitored <strong>and</strong> we set ourselves a target of<br />
reducing the carbon footprint by 3% per<br />
person, per year – a target we regularly hit<br />
but which becomes more difficult with every<br />
passing year.<br />
The amount we spend on Education <strong>and</strong><br />
communications has been stable for the last<br />
couple of years but the amount spent<br />
probably is not the best way by which to<br />
judge the scale of much of our work. For<br />
example, new technology is driving down<br />
the cost of communication – which is a relief<br />
given the rising cost of postage – so this<br />
doesn’t mean we are doing less; we are just<br />
doing it more efficiently. Our monthly e-<br />
newsletter is a good example; we now have<br />
more than 400,000 subscribers.<br />
Trustees’ <strong>report</strong><br />
Turning to education specifically, we are<br />
consciously investing in quality rather than<br />
quantity as verified by the Government<br />
sponsored Quality Badge – 14 of our sites<br />
reached the st<strong>and</strong>ard of outst<strong>and</strong>ing or very<br />
good. And on the quantity side, we are very<br />
pleased that more than 50,000 children visited<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> countryside classrooms in organised school<br />
groups. Minsmere’s million pound makeover<br />
(much of it funded by partners) sees a new<br />
discovery centre designed for families <strong>and</strong><br />
children with a dedicated learning facility, Wild<br />
Zone <strong>and</strong> wildwood adventure. We were taken<br />
by surprise by the level of participation in the Big<br />
Schools’ Birdwatch after widespread coverage on<br />
TV. We sent out so many packs to schools that we<br />
ended up with just eight left!<br />
These examples are just the tip of the iceberg<br />
because education, in its widest sense, needs to<br />
engage every age group. With regard to new<br />
technology mentioned earlier; we have just<br />
made our debut into the world of Smartphone<br />
technology by launching two apps: LoveNature<br />
<strong>and</strong> LoveBirds.<br />
Looking further afield, through BirdLife<br />
International we work very closely with our<br />
overseas partners. About 12% of our expenditure<br />
supports overseas conservation but about half of<br />
this is funded from money specifically donated<br />
for the purpose (from the EU or KfW - the<br />
German Development Bank for example).<br />
Support for BirdLife Malta <strong>and</strong> Cyprus to save<br />
migrant birds that use the flyway between Africa<br />
<strong>and</strong> Europe is one of our top conservation<br />
priorities. It is an issue that many <strong>RSPB</strong><br />
supporters care passionately about <strong>and</strong>, of<br />
course, success isn’t just dependant on funding;<br />
we have to change the behaviour of those<br />
involved in illegal trapping <strong>and</strong> hunting too.<br />
One the challenges we face is the pension deficit.<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong>, like all other responsible employers,<br />
has invested considerable time <strong>and</strong> effort in<br />
finding the best solution to the complex problem<br />
of providing an affordable pension scheme for its<br />
employees. We are committed to providing a<br />
remuneration <strong>and</strong> reward package that attracts<br />
<strong>and</strong> retains the quality of people we need to<br />
deliver our conservation ambitions. We have<br />
made a number of changes over the last nine<br />
years to share the risk of pension provision more<br />
equally between staff <strong>and</strong> the <strong>RSPB</strong> <strong>and</strong> we have<br />
in place a long-term deficit recovery programme,<br />
which is agreed with the Pension Trustees. The<br />
latest triennial review is underway; in reaching<br />
an outcome we will strike a balance between the<br />
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needs of all those involved but, at this stage,<br />
the specific details are under review.<br />
However, it isn’t just the financial<br />
consequences of recession that are of concern;<br />
economic woes have shifted the environment<br />
down the Government’s agenda as well as<br />
buffeting the security of our income; making<br />
funding sources harder to tap into.<br />
Thankfully, we have strong support from our<br />
members <strong>and</strong> we are weathering the storm<br />
reasonably well.<br />
We would love to be able to say that we<br />
confidently expect brighter skies to appear on<br />
the horizon by this time next year. The<br />
Trustees spend a lot of time balancing<br />
between the need for prudence <strong>and</strong> the need<br />
to invest wisely for the benefit of wildlife<br />
today <strong>and</strong> tomorrow; being realistic, we<br />
think that will be a feature of our financial<br />
planning meetings for some time to come.<br />
Signed on behalf of the Council<br />
Mr Ian Darling<br />
Chairman<br />
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Independent Auditor’s Report to the<br />
Trustees of Royal Society for the<br />
Protection of Birds.<br />
We have audited the financial statements of Royal<br />
Society for the Protection of Birds for the year ended 31<br />
March <strong>2012</strong> set out on pages 22 to 42.<br />
The financial <strong>report</strong>ing framework that has been<br />
applied in their preparation is applicable law <strong>and</strong><br />
United Kingdom Accounting St<strong>and</strong>ards (United<br />
Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).<br />
This <strong>report</strong> is made solely to the charity’s trustees, as a<br />
body, in accordance with section 154 of the Charities<br />
Act 2011 <strong>and</strong> section 44(1c) of the Charities <strong>and</strong><br />
Trustee Investment (Scotl<strong>and</strong>) Act 2005. Our audit<br />
work has been undertaken so that we might state to<br />
the charity’s trustees those matters we are required to<br />
state to them in an auditor’s <strong>report</strong> <strong>and</strong> for no other<br />
purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do<br />
not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other<br />
than the charity <strong>and</strong> the charity’s trustees as a body,<br />
for our audit work, for this <strong>report</strong>, or for the opinions<br />
we have formed.<br />
Respective responsibilities of trustees <strong>and</strong> auditor<br />
As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees'<br />
Responsibilities (Accounts <strong>and</strong> Trustees’<br />
responsibilities) , the trustees are responsible for the<br />
preparation of the financial statements <strong>and</strong> for being<br />
satisfied that they give a true <strong>and</strong> fair view.<br />
We have been appointed as auditor under section 151<br />
of the Charities Act 2011 <strong>and</strong> section 44(1c) of the<br />
Charities <strong>and</strong> Trustee Investment (Scotl<strong>and</strong>) Act 2005<br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>report</strong> in accordance with those Acts.<br />
Our responsibility is to audit <strong>and</strong> express an opinion<br />
on the financial statements in accordance with<br />
applicable law <strong>and</strong> International St<strong>and</strong>ards on<br />
Auditing (UK <strong>and</strong> Irel<strong>and</strong>). Those st<strong>and</strong>ards require us<br />
to comply with the Auditing Practices Board's Ethical<br />
St<strong>and</strong>ards for Auditors.<br />
Independent auditor’s <strong>report</strong><br />
In addition, we read all the financial <strong>and</strong> non-financial<br />
information in the Trustees’ Report to identify material<br />
inconsistencies with the audited financial statements. If<br />
we become aware of any apparent material<br />
misstatements or inconsistencies we consider the<br />
implications for our <strong>report</strong>.<br />
Opinion on financial statements<br />
In our opinion the financial statements:<br />
• give a true <strong>and</strong> fair view of the state of the<br />
group’s <strong>and</strong> the charity’s affairs as at 31<br />
March <strong>2012</strong> <strong>and</strong> of the group’s incoming<br />
resources <strong>and</strong> application of resources for the<br />
year then ended;<br />
• have been properly prepared in accordance<br />
with United Kingdom Generally Accepted<br />
Accounting Practice; <strong>and</strong><br />
• have been prepared in accordance with the<br />
requirements of the Charities Act 2011 <strong>and</strong><br />
the Charities <strong>and</strong> Trustee Investment<br />
(Scotl<strong>and</strong>) Act 2005 <strong>and</strong> Regulations 6 <strong>and</strong> 8<br />
of the Charities Accounts (Scotl<strong>and</strong>)<br />
Regulations 2006.<br />
Matters on which we are required to <strong>report</strong> by<br />
exception<br />
We have nothing to <strong>report</strong> in respect of the following<br />
matters where the Charities Act 2011 or the Charities<br />
Accounts (Scotl<strong>and</strong>) Regulations 2006 (as amended)<br />
require us to <strong>report</strong> to you if, in our opinion:<br />
• the information given in the Trustees’ Report<br />
is inconsistent in any material respect with<br />
the financial statements; or<br />
• sufficient accounting records have not been<br />
kept; or<br />
• the financial statements are not in agreement<br />
with the accounting records <strong>and</strong> returns; or<br />
• we have not received all the information <strong>and</strong><br />
explanations we require for our audit.<br />
Scope of the audit of the financial statements<br />
An audit involves obtaining evidence about the<br />
amounts <strong>and</strong> disclosures in the financial statements<br />
sufficient to give reasonable assurance that the<br />
financial statements are free from material<br />
misstatement, whether caused by fraud or error. This<br />
includes an assessment of: whether the accounting<br />
policies are appropriate to the charity's circumstances<br />
<strong>and</strong> have been consistently applied <strong>and</strong> adequately<br />
disclosed; the reasonableness of significant accounting<br />
estimates made by the trustees; <strong>and</strong> the overall<br />
presentation of the financial statements.<br />
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP<br />
Statutory Auditor<br />
London<br />
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP is eligible to act as an<br />
auditor in terms of section 1212 of the Companies Act<br />
2006.<br />
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Financial statements<br />
Consolidated statement of financial activities<br />
for the year ended 31 March <strong>2012</strong><br />
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE<br />
Note<br />
Unrestricted(<br />
funds(<br />
£’000(<br />
Restricted(<br />
funds(<br />
£’000(<br />
Endowment(<br />
funds(<br />
£’000(<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Total(<br />
£’000(<br />
INCOMING RESOURCES<br />
Voluntary income (<br />
Membership subscriptions <strong>and</strong> donations 2 35,524) 3,491) -( 39,015) 39,205(<br />
Grants, corporate <strong>and</strong> trusts 3 1,207) 26,831) (1,208) 26,830) 29,666)<br />
Legacies 4 26,008) 1,030) -) 27,038) 27,489)<br />
_______ _______ _______ _______ _______)<br />
Total voluntary income 62,739) 31,352) (1,208) 92,883( 96,360)<br />
Activities to generate funds (<br />
Commercial trading 20,413( -) -) 20,413) 20,933)<br />
Investment income <strong>and</strong> interest 5 200( 163( 13( 376) 528)<br />
Incoming resources from charitable activities<br />
(<br />
Fees <strong>and</strong> grants for services 1,984) -) -) )11,984( 2,196)<br />
L<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> farming income 1,766) 1,231) -) 2,997) 1,606)<br />
Events <strong>and</strong> media sales 829)<br />
_______)<br />
-)<br />
_______)<br />
-)<br />
_______)<br />
829)<br />
_______)<br />
672)<br />
_______)<br />
Total income from charitable activities 4,579( 1,231) -) 5,810) 4,474)<br />
Other income<br />
) )<br />
Net gains on disposals of fixed assets 5 195)<br />
_______)<br />
-)<br />
_______)<br />
-)<br />
_______)<br />
195)<br />
_______)<br />
224)<br />
_______)<br />
Total incoming resources 88,126) 32,746) (1,195) 119,677) 122,519)<br />
_______) )_______) )_______) )_______) )_______)<br />
RESOURCES EXPENDED (<br />
Cost of generating funds (<br />
Costs of generating voluntary income 13,033) -) -) 13,033) 11,236)<br />
Costs of activities to generate funds (inc cost of goods) 17,304) -) -) 17,304) 17,218)<br />
Investment management costs 43)<br />
_______)<br />
9)<br />
_______)<br />
9)<br />
_______)<br />
61)<br />
_______)<br />
54)<br />
_______)<br />
Total cost of generating incoming resources 30,380) 9) 9) 30,398) 28,508)<br />
Net resources available for charitable purposes 57,746) 32,737) (1,204) 89,279( 94,011)<br />
Charitable revenue expenditure (<br />
Conservation on <strong>RSPB</strong> nature reserves 15,007( 14,272( -) 29,279( 28,860)<br />
Conservation – research, policy <strong>and</strong> advisory 21,632( 12,548( -) 34,180( 33,722)<br />
Education <strong>and</strong> communication 12,684( 885( -) 13,569( 13,257)<br />
Membership services <strong>and</strong> enquiries ))4,072(<br />
_______)<br />
-)<br />
_______)<br />
-)<br />
_______)<br />
4,072)<br />
_______)<br />
3,949)<br />
_______)<br />
Total charitable revenue expenditure 53,395) 27,705) -) 81,100) 79,788)<br />
Governance costs 483)<br />
_______)<br />
Total resources expended 6 84,258)<br />
_______)<br />
-)<br />
_______)<br />
27,714)<br />
_______)<br />
-)<br />
_______)<br />
9)<br />
_______)<br />
483)<br />
_______)<br />
111,981)<br />
_______)<br />
2011)<br />
Total)<br />
£’000)<br />
498)<br />
_______)<br />
108,794)<br />
_______)<br />
NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS BEFORE TRANSFERS 3,868( 5,032) (1,204) 7,696) 13,725)<br />
Transfers (<br />
Gross transfers between funds 18 1,422)<br />
(1,422)<br />
_______)<br />
-(<br />
_______)<br />
-)<br />
_______)<br />
-)<br />
_______)<br />
_______)<br />
NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS BEFORE OTHER<br />
RECOGNISED GAINS / (LOSSES) 5,290( 3,610( (1,204) 7,696( 13,725)<br />
Other recognised gains / (losses) (<br />
Movement in value of investment assets 11 100( 9( 27( 136( 855)<br />
Actuarial loss on pension scheme 22 (16,192)<br />
_______)<br />
-)<br />
_______)<br />
-)<br />
_______)<br />
(16,192)<br />
_______)<br />
(1,198)<br />
_______)<br />
(10,802) 3,619( (1,177) (8,360) 13,382)<br />
Reconciliation of funds<br />
Total funds brought forward )37,091(<br />
_______)<br />
94,139)<br />
_______)<br />
3,312)<br />
_______)<br />
134,542)<br />
_______)<br />
121,160)<br />
_______)<br />
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 26,289)<br />
_______)<br />
97,758)<br />
_______)<br />
2,135)<br />
_______)<br />
126,182)<br />
_______)<br />
134,542)<br />
_______)<br />
All the above results arise from continuing activities. Notes 1 to 22 form an integral part of these <strong>accounts</strong>.<br />
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Charity <strong>and</strong> consolidated balance sheets<br />
as at 31 March <strong>2012</strong><br />
Financial statements<br />
Note<br />
Charity)<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Consolidated)<br />
total)<br />
Charity)<br />
2011)<br />
Consolidated)<br />
total)<br />
£’000) )£’000) )£’000) )£’000)<br />
Fixed assets<br />
Nature reserves 10 124,846( 125,396) 121,162) 121,712)<br />
Other tangible assets 10 4,719) 4,719) 4,365) 4,365)<br />
Investments 11 30,717) 30,717) 29,108) 29,108)<br />
Investment in subsidiary companies 11 3,801) -) 3,801) -)<br />
_______) _______) _______) _______)<br />
164,083) 160,832) 158,436) 155,185)<br />
Current assets<br />
Stock 418) 2,345) 384) 3,617)<br />
Debtors 12 19,363) 18,381) 16,877) 16,309)<br />
Short-term cash 3,708) 6,718) 4,281) 5,689)<br />
_______) _______) _______) _______)<br />
23,489) 27,444) 21,542) 25,615)<br />
Creditors amounts falling due within one year 13 (10,238) (10,942) (8,011) (8,833)<br />
_______) _______) _______) _______)<br />
Net current assets 13,251) 16,502) 13,531) 16,782)<br />
_______) _______) _______) _______)<br />
Total assets less current liabilities 177,334) 177,334) 171,967) 171,967)<br />
Creditors amounts falling due in more than one year 15 (4,400) (4,400) (3,924) (3,924)<br />
_______) )_______) _______) _______)<br />
Net assets excluding pension liability 172,934) 172,934) 168,043) 168,043)<br />
Pension scheme liability 22 (46,752)<br />
_______)<br />
Net assets including pension liability 126,182)<br />
_______)<br />
(46,752)<br />
_______)<br />
126,182)<br />
_______)<br />
(33,501)<br />
_______)<br />
134,542)<br />
_______)<br />
(33,501)<br />
_______)<br />
134,542)<br />
_______)<br />
Represented by<br />
Unrestricted funds<br />
General funds 37,360) 37,360) 35,056) 35,056)<br />
Designated funds 35,681) 35,681) 35,536) 35,536)<br />
Pension reserve 22 (46,752)<br />
_______)<br />
(46,752)<br />
_______)<br />
(33,501)<br />
_______)<br />
(33,501)<br />
_______)<br />
)26,289( )26,289) 37,091) 37,091)<br />
Restricted funds 97,758) 97,758) 94,139) 94,139)<br />
Endowment funds 22,135) 22,135) 3,312) 3,312)<br />
_______) _______) _______) _______)<br />
18 & 19 126,182)<br />
_______)<br />
126,182)<br />
_______)<br />
134,542)<br />
_______)<br />
134,542)<br />
_______)<br />
Notes 1 to 22 form an integral part of these <strong>accounts</strong>.<br />
Authorised for issue by <strong>RSPB</strong> Council on 26 June <strong>2012</strong> <strong>and</strong> signed on behalf of the Council by:<br />
Ian Darling<br />
Chairman<br />
Alan Martin<br />
Honorary Treasurer<br />
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Financial statements<br />
Application of net incoming resources<br />
for the year ended 31 March <strong>2012</strong> <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000)<br />
2011)<br />
£’000)<br />
Net resources available for charitable purposes<br />
Less Total charitable revenue expenditure <strong>and</strong> governance costs<br />
89,279)<br />
(81,583)<br />
94,011)<br />
(80,286)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
Net incoming resources before losses 7,696) 13,725)<br />
Movement in value of investments <strong>and</strong> pension scheme (16,056)) (343)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
Net movement in funds as per statement of financial activities (8,360)) 13,382)<br />
_______) _______(<br />
(<br />
Application of net funds for charity use: (<br />
Nature reserves 3,684) 2,907)<br />
Other tangible assets 354) 201)<br />
Movement on stock, debtors <strong>and</strong> creditors (1,785) 4,414)<br />
Movement on pension scheme (13,251) 1,157)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
(10,998) 8,679)<br />
Movement in cash <strong>and</strong> investments available for future activities 2,638) 4,703)<br />
)<br />
Cash <strong>and</strong> investments available at start of year 34,797) 30,094)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
Cash <strong>and</strong> investments available at end of year 37,435) 34,797(<br />
_______) _______)<br />
Consolidated cash flow statement<br />
for the year ended 31 March <strong>2012</strong><br />
Note<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000)<br />
2011)<br />
£’000)<br />
Net cash inflow from operating activities 21(a) 9,226) 8,735)<br />
Returns on investments <strong>and</strong> servicing of finance:<br />
Interest received 188) 335)<br />
Dividends received 188) 193)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
376) 528)<br />
Capital expenditure <strong>and</strong> financial investment:<br />
Purchase of nature reserves (5,185) (3,979)<br />
Purchase of other tangible fixed assets (2,169) (1,703)<br />
Proceeds from disposals 254) 267)<br />
Purchase of investments (3,372) (7,886)<br />
Sale of investments 3,897) 4,850)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
(6,575) (8,451)<br />
Management of liquid resources:<br />
Movement in investment cash (1,998) 1,005)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
Increase in cash 21(b) 1,029) 1,817)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
Notes 1 to 22 form an integral part of these <strong>accounts</strong>.<br />
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Notes to the <strong>accounts</strong><br />
Notes to the <strong>accounts</strong><br />
1 Accounting policies<br />
Basis of <strong>accounts</strong><br />
The <strong>accounts</strong> have been prepared under the historical cost<br />
convention as modified by the revaluation of certain<br />
investments, <strong>and</strong> in accordance with the recommendations<br />
set out in the Accounting <strong>and</strong> Reporting by Charities:<br />
Statement of Recommended Practice 2005 (SORP), the<br />
Charities Accounts (Scotl<strong>and</strong>) Regulations 2006, applicable<br />
accounting st<strong>and</strong>ards <strong>and</strong> the Charities Act 2011.<br />
The <strong>accounts</strong> have been prepared on a going concern basis<br />
<strong>and</strong> having considered future plans <strong>and</strong> forecasts<br />
including a review of financial reserves as detailed in the<br />
Trustees’ <strong>report</strong>, the trustees believe it appropriate to<br />
continue to do so.<br />
The Charity operates through its 13 Regional <strong>and</strong> Country<br />
offices whose operations are fully integrated into these<br />
<strong>accounts</strong>. The Statement of financial activities (SOFA) <strong>and</strong><br />
balance sheet consolidate, on a line-by-line basis, the<br />
financial statements of the Charity <strong>and</strong> its subsidiary<br />
undertakings: <strong>RSPB</strong> Sales Limited <strong>and</strong> March Farmers<br />
(Washl<strong>and</strong>) Limited. <strong>RSPB</strong> Sales Limited, incorporated on<br />
4 March 1992 as a wholly owned subsidiary of The Royal<br />
Society for the Protection of Birds, was established to<br />
undertake trading activities on behalf of the Charity <strong>and</strong> is<br />
licensed to use its name <strong>and</strong> trademarks. March Farmers<br />
(Washl<strong>and</strong>) Limited was acquired on 29 February 2008 <strong>and</strong><br />
retains the leases of two pieces of l<strong>and</strong> in Cambridgeshire.<br />
Farming For Nature, a company limited by guarantee,<br />
registration number 07982175, was incorporated in 2011.<br />
The intention is to use this entity in relation to l<strong>and</strong> leased<br />
from United Utilities at Haweswater in Cumbria.<br />
The Charity holds a 33% joint venture interest in Yayasan<br />
Konservasi Ekosistem Hutan a non-profit organisation<br />
registered in Indonesia <strong>and</strong> established to facilitate the<br />
acquisition <strong>and</strong> management of the Harapan Rainforest,<br />
Sumatra. The results have not been included in these<br />
<strong>accounts</strong>; to do so would not materially alter them.<br />
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is a registered<br />
charity <strong>and</strong> as such is potentially exempt from taxation on<br />
its income <strong>and</strong> gains to the extent that they are applied to<br />
its charitable purposes. No tax charge arises in its<br />
subsidiaries, due to their donating, under Gift Aid, all<br />
taxable profits to the Charity each year.<br />
Designated funds are unrestricted funds, which have<br />
been applied or reserved by the trustees for a specific<br />
purpose. The aim <strong>and</strong> use of each designated fund is<br />
set out in the notes to the <strong>accounts</strong> (see Notes 18 <strong>and</strong><br />
19).<br />
Restricted funds:<br />
Restricted funds are those which are to be used in<br />
accordance with specific restrictions of the donors or<br />
which have been raised by the Charity for particular<br />
purposes. The purpose for which restricted funds are<br />
held is analysed in the notes to the <strong>accounts</strong> (see Notes<br />
18 <strong>and</strong> 19).<br />
Endowment funds:<br />
Endowment funds are restricted funds that are to be<br />
retained for the benefit of the Charity as a capital fund.<br />
Permanent endowments require the capital to be<br />
maintained <strong>and</strong> only the income <strong>and</strong> capital growth<br />
can be utilised. With expendable endowments the<br />
capital may also be utilised. The purpose for which<br />
endowment funds are held is analysed in the notes to<br />
the <strong>accounts</strong> (see Notes 18 <strong>and</strong> 19).<br />
Capital expenditure<br />
Purchased assets, individually exceeding £2,500 at cost,<br />
are included on the balance sheet at historic cost less<br />
depreciation <strong>and</strong> any impairment in accordance with<br />
FRS 15. Donated assets are included at market value as<br />
determined by the trustees. Expenditure on fixed assets<br />
is capitalised in the year of acquisition <strong>and</strong> depreciation<br />
is charged <strong>annual</strong>ly.<br />
Depreciation<br />
Nature reserves, either owned as freehold l<strong>and</strong> or held<br />
as leasehold l<strong>and</strong> where the lease is held in perpetuity,<br />
are considered to have an indefinite useful life <strong>and</strong> are<br />
not depreciated. Other fixed assets are depreciated on a<br />
straight-line basis over their anticipated useful lives as<br />
follows:<br />
Freehold buildings<br />
Leasehold l<strong>and</strong>, with a<br />
fixed term <strong>and</strong> buildings<br />
Other fixed assets<br />
50 years<br />
Period of lease or 50 years<br />
whichever is shorter<br />
4 years<br />
Funds<br />
Unrestricted funds:<br />
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the<br />
discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the objectives<br />
of the Charity <strong>and</strong> which have not been designated for<br />
other purposes.<br />
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Investments<br />
The investments in the subsidiary undertakings are<br />
stated at cost less provision for impairment; all other<br />
investments are stated at market value. Properties<br />
included in investments are those assigned under<br />
legacy bequests, awaiting disposal at a future date, <strong>and</strong><br />
are stated at trustees’ valuation. The SOFA includes the<br />
net gains <strong>and</strong> losses arising on revaluations <strong>and</strong><br />
disposals throughout the year.<br />
Investment cash is held for investment purposes only.<br />
It is the intention of the trustees that fixed asset<br />
investments will not be drawn upon within the<br />
following accounting year.<br />
Stocks<br />
Stocks, which include livestock <strong>and</strong> products for resale,<br />
are stated at the lower of cost <strong>and</strong> net realisable value.<br />
Incoming resources<br />
Incoming resources are included in the SOFA when the<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> is legally entitled to the income <strong>and</strong> the amount<br />
can be quantified with reasonable accuracy. If these<br />
conditions are not met then the income is deferred. The<br />
following specific policies apply to categories of<br />
income:<br />
i) Membership income is treated as a donation <strong>and</strong> is<br />
accounted for when received.<br />
ii) Legacies are accounted for based on settlement of<br />
the estate or receipt of payment, whichever is<br />
earlier.<br />
iii) Grants received in advance of the associated work<br />
being carried out are deferred only when the donor<br />
has imposed preconditions on the expenditure of<br />
resources (see Note 15).<br />
iv) Gifts in kind <strong>and</strong> donated assets are valued at their<br />
realised amount, or the amount equivalent to an<br />
alternative commercial supply, <strong>and</strong> are included in<br />
the SOFA <strong>and</strong> balance sheet as appropriate.<br />
Resources expended<br />
All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis <strong>and</strong><br />
has been classified under headings that aggregate all<br />
costs related to that category.<br />
i) Costs of generating voluntary income are those<br />
incurred in seeking voluntary income <strong>and</strong> do not<br />
include the costs of disseminating information in<br />
support of the charitable activities.<br />
ii) Governance costs are the costs associated with the<br />
governance arrangements of the<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> which relate to the general running of the<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong>. Included within this category are the costs<br />
associated with the strategic, as<br />
opposed to day-to-day management of the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s<br />
activities.<br />
Notes to the <strong>accounts</strong><br />
iii) Support costs have been allocated to the headings in<br />
the SOFA on the basis of salary percentage. This<br />
applies to office facilities <strong>and</strong> accommodation,<br />
finance, information technology, human resources<br />
<strong>and</strong> management.<br />
iv) Grants are awarded, at trustees’ discretion, on a<br />
project basis where such projects meet the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s<br />
charitable objectives.<br />
Operating leases<br />
Operating lease rentals are charged to the SOFA on a<br />
straight-line basis over the length of the lease.<br />
Foreign currency<br />
Transactions in foreign currencies are translated at<br />
rates prevailing at the date of the transaction. Balances<br />
denominated in foreign currencies are translated at<br />
the rate of exchange prevailing at the year-end, in<br />
accordance with SSAP 20. Any gains or losses arising<br />
on translations are <strong>report</strong>ed as part of the transaction<br />
within the SOFA <strong>and</strong> are not material; they are<br />
therefore not disclosed separately.<br />
Pensions<br />
For the defined benefit scheme the amounts charged<br />
in resources expended are the current service costs<br />
<strong>and</strong> gains <strong>and</strong> losses on settlements <strong>and</strong> curtailments.<br />
They are included as part of staff costs. Past service<br />
costs are recognised immediately in the Statement of<br />
Financial Activities if the benefits have vested. If the<br />
benefits have not vested immediately, the costs are<br />
recognised over the period until vesting occurs. The<br />
interest cost <strong>and</strong> the expected return on assets are<br />
shown as a net amount of other finance costs or<br />
credits adjacent to interest. Actuarial gains <strong>and</strong> losses<br />
are recognised immediately in “Other recognised<br />
gains <strong>and</strong> losses”.<br />
Defined benefit schemes are funded, with the assets<br />
of the scheme held separately from those of the<br />
group, in separate trustee administered funds.<br />
Pension scheme assets are measured at fair value <strong>and</strong><br />
liabilities are measured on an actuarial basis using<br />
the projected unit method <strong>and</strong> discounted at a rate<br />
equivalent to the current rate of return on a high<br />
quality corporate bond of equivalent currency <strong>and</strong><br />
term to the scheme liabilities. The resulting defined<br />
benefit asset or liability is presented separately after<br />
other net assets on the face of the balance sheet. Full<br />
actuarial valuations are obtained triennially.<br />
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Notes to the <strong>accounts</strong><br />
2 Membership subscriptions <strong>and</strong> donations<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000(<br />
2011(<br />
£’000(<br />
(<br />
Membership subscriptions 32,461) 31,966)<br />
Donations 6,554) 7,239(<br />
________) ________)<br />
39,015) 39,205(<br />
________) ________)<br />
3 Grants, corporates <strong>and</strong> trusts<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000(<br />
2011(<br />
£’000(<br />
(<br />
Grants 23,875) 27,039)<br />
Corporates 1,871( 1,684)<br />
Trusts 1,084) 943)<br />
________) ________)<br />
26,830) 29,666)<br />
________) ________)<br />
Major grants received during the year include the following: <strong>2012</strong>(<br />
£’000(<br />
2011)<br />
£’000(<br />
UK (<br />
Department for Environment, Food <strong>and</strong> Rural Affairs )5,110( 5,755)<br />
L<strong>and</strong>fill Communities Fund 2,588) 1,957)<br />
Scottish Executive 1,781) 1,760)<br />
Scottish Natural Heritage<br />
Natural Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
1,261(<br />
1,152)<br />
1,005(<br />
1,189)<br />
Department for International Development 569) 330)<br />
Environment Agency<br />
Countryside Council for Wales<br />
305(<br />
229)<br />
214(<br />
293)<br />
Department of Environment, Northern Irel<strong>and</strong> 196) 227)<br />
Forestry Commission 182) 133)<br />
Department of Agriculture <strong>and</strong> Rural Development, NI<br />
National Assembly for Wales<br />
162(<br />
44)<br />
28)<br />
77)<br />
________) ________)<br />
13,579) 12,968)<br />
Overseas<br />
European Union<br />
KfW<br />
3,987)<br />
2,745)<br />
________<br />
6,732)<br />
)<br />
)<br />
3,111)<br />
4,604)<br />
________<br />
7,715)<br />
National Lottery: Heritage Lottery Fund <strong>and</strong> Big Lottery 1,840) 944)<br />
Local councils <strong>and</strong> other 1,724) 5,412)<br />
________) ________)<br />
23,875) 27,039)<br />
________) ________)<br />
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Notes to the <strong>accounts</strong><br />
3 Grants, corporates <strong>and</strong> trusts (continued)<br />
Grants from Natural Engl<strong>and</strong> include Access to Nature funding of £385,000 (2011: £140,000) for three<br />
separate projects – “Dove Stone: Nature at the Heart of Urban Communities”, “Explore Moor at Geltsdale”<br />
<strong>and</strong> “The <strong>RSPB</strong> South Essex People <strong>and</strong> Wildlife Programme”. This is included within restricted funds on<br />
the Consolidated statement of financial activities.<br />
The following grants from the Department for International Development (DfID) - Civil Society Challenge Fund<br />
have been received; all expenditure is in accordance with the terms of the grant agreement.<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000)<br />
2011))<br />
£’000)(<br />
South N<strong>and</strong>i project, Kenya (<br />
Balance at 1 April<br />
Income<br />
-)<br />
70)<br />
(50)<br />
121)<br />
Expenditure (70) (71)<br />
________) ________)<br />
Balance at 31 March -) -<br />
________) ________)<br />
Ulugurus project, Tanzania<br />
Balance at 1 April<br />
Income<br />
(14)<br />
148)<br />
-(<br />
58()<br />
Expenditure (134) (72))<br />
________) ________)<br />
Balance at 31 March -) (14))<br />
________) ________)<br />
Tana River Delta project, Kenya<br />
Balance at 1 April -) -)<br />
Income 132) -)<br />
Expenditure (131) -)<br />
________) ________)<br />
Balance at 31 March 1) -)<br />
________) ________)<br />
Grants received were for the following purposes:<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000(<br />
2011)<br />
£’000(<br />
(<br />
Conservation on <strong>RSPB</strong> nature reserves 13,884( 16,631)<br />
Conservation – research, policy <strong>and</strong> advisory 9,124) 9,731)<br />
Education <strong>and</strong> communication 519) 677)<br />
________) ________)<br />
23,527) 27,039)<br />
Acquisition of nature reserves 348) -)<br />
________) ________)<br />
23,875) 27,039)<br />
________) ________)<br />
4 Legacies<br />
The estimated value of legacies notified but neither received nor included in income is £17,881,000 (2011:<br />
£15,118,000).<br />
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Notes to the <strong>accounts</strong><br />
5 Investment income <strong>and</strong> interest<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000)<br />
2011)<br />
£’000(<br />
Income received from: (<br />
Interest on cash 169) 106)<br />
Listed Stock Exchange investments 188) 193)<br />
Corporate Bonds -) 166)<br />
Property 19) 63)<br />
________) ________)<br />
376) 528)<br />
________) ________)<br />
Other income:<br />
Net gains on disposals of fixed assets 195) 224)<br />
________) ________)<br />
Included above is investment income of £13,000 (2011: £18,000), which relates to the Hanson Environment Fund.<br />
This treatment has been agreed with the donor <strong>and</strong> the fund is held as an expendable endowment (see Note 18).<br />
6 Total resources expended<br />
Cost of generating funds:<br />
Direct(<br />
costs(<br />
£’000(<br />
Support(<br />
costs(<br />
£’000(<br />
<strong>2012</strong>(<br />
Total(<br />
£’000(<br />
2011(<br />
Total(<br />
£’000(<br />
Costs of generating voluntary income: (<br />
Membership subscriptions <strong>and</strong> donations 9,176) 627) 9,803) 8,404)<br />
Grants, corporates <strong>and</strong> trusts<br />
Legacies<br />
2,311)<br />
694)<br />
203)<br />
22)<br />
2,514)<br />
716)<br />
2,095)<br />
737)<br />
_______) _______) _______) _______)<br />
12,181) 852) 13,033) 11,236)<br />
Cost of activities to generate funds (<br />
Commercial trading 17,050) 254) 17,304) 17,218)<br />
Investment management costs 61) -) 61) 54)<br />
_______) _______) _______) _______)<br />
Total cost of generating funds 29,292) 1,106) 30,398) 28,508)<br />
(<br />
Charitable revenue expenditure: (<br />
Conservation on <strong>RSPB</strong> nature reserves 28,296) 983) 29,279) 28,860)<br />
Conservation – research, policy <strong>and</strong> advisory 32,050) 2,130) )34,34,180) 33,722)<br />
Education <strong>and</strong> communication 12,954) 615) 13,569) 13,257)<br />
Membership services <strong>and</strong> enquiries 4,008) 64) 4,072) 3,949)<br />
_______) _______) _______) _______)<br />
77,308) 3,792) 81,100) 79,788)<br />
Governance costs 459) 24) 483) 498)<br />
_______) _______) _______) _______)<br />
Total resources expended 107,059) 4,922) 111,981) 108,794)<br />
_______) _______) _______) _______)<br />
Governance costs include audit, legal advice for trustees <strong>and</strong> the costs associated with constitutional <strong>and</strong><br />
statutory requirements, such as trustees’ meetings.<br />
Conservation - research, policy <strong>and</strong> advisory includes grant payments amounting to £6,405,030 with support costs<br />
of £436,000 (2011: £7,995,000; £501,000). Grants were awarded to 94 (2011: 87) organisations; no grants were made<br />
to individuals. A full list is available on request.<br />
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Notes to the <strong>accounts</strong><br />
7 Support costs<br />
Premises)<br />
£’000)<br />
Finance(<br />
& IT(<br />
£’000(<br />
Human)<br />
resources)<br />
£’000)<br />
Mgmnt)<br />
& other)<br />
£’000)<br />
<strong>2012</strong>(<br />
Total(<br />
£’000(<br />
2011(<br />
Total(<br />
£’000(<br />
(<br />
Generating incoming resources 381) 417) 194) 114) 1,106) 942)<br />
Charitable expenditure:<br />
Conservation on <strong>RSPB</strong> nature<br />
reserves 339) 371) 172) 101) 983) 931)<br />
Conservation – research, policy <strong>and</strong><br />
advisory 734) 804) 373) 219) 2,130) 1,990)<br />
Education <strong>and</strong> communication 212) 232) 108) 63) 615) 579)<br />
Membership services <strong>and</strong> enquiries 22) 24) 11) 7) 64) 60)<br />
______) ______) ______) ______) ______) ______)<br />
1,307) 1,431) 664) 390) 3,792) 3,560)<br />
Governance costs 8) 9) 4) 3) 24) 25)<br />
______) ______) ______) ______) ______) ______)<br />
Total support costs 1,696) 1,857) 862) 507) 4,922) 4,527)<br />
______( ______( ______( ______( ______( ______(<br />
Support costs are included in the expenditure <strong>report</strong>ed in the Consolidated statement of financial activities <strong>and</strong><br />
have been allocated on the basis of salary percentage. The cost allocation includes an element of judgement <strong>and</strong><br />
the <strong>RSPB</strong> has had to consider the cost benefit of detailed calculations <strong>and</strong> record keeping.<br />
8 Audit fees<br />
The total audit fees were: <strong>2012</strong>(<br />
£’000(<br />
2011(<br />
£’000(<br />
(<br />
Charity 36( 36)<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> Sales Limited 24( 24)<br />
March Farmers (Washl<strong>and</strong>) Limited 3( 3)<br />
______) ______)<br />
63) 63)<br />
______) ______)<br />
In addition, our external auditors Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP were paid £18,239 (2011 : £26,500) for web<br />
development <strong>and</strong> employment advice.<br />
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9 Staff costs<br />
The average number of employees during the year was 2,110 (2011: 2,037).<br />
Staff numbers by activity: <strong>2012</strong>(<br />
No.)<br />
2011(<br />
No.)<br />
Conservation on <strong>RSPB</strong> nature reserves 637) 628)<br />
Conservation – research, policy <strong>and</strong> advisory 837) 813)<br />
Generating incoming resources 358) 324)<br />
Education <strong>and</strong> communication 209) 204)<br />
Membership services <strong>and</strong> enquiries 66) 65)<br />
Governance 3) 3)<br />
_______) _______(<br />
2,110) 2,037)<br />
_______) _______(<br />
The nature of work undertaken by individual staff traverses the above categories; therefore, the allocation<br />
includes an element of judgement.<br />
<strong>2012</strong>(<br />
£’000(<br />
2011(<br />
£’000(<br />
(<br />
Remuneration 41,424) 36,38,956)<br />
National Insurance 3,237) 2,991)<br />
Pension contributions 3,990) 4,304)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
48,651) 46,251)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
Not included in Pension contributions are payments of £2,941,000 (2011: £2,355,000) made in line with the<br />
payment schedule recommended by the scheme actuary at the last triennial valuation. No other benefits were<br />
paid to staff during the year.<br />
Total emoluments in b<strong>and</strong>s of £10,000<br />
Number of employees at 31 March(<br />
<strong>2012</strong>(<br />
No.)<br />
2011<br />
No.)<br />
60,001-70,000 5) 4)<br />
70,001-80,000 2) 3)<br />
80,001-90,000 1) 1)<br />
90,001-100,000<br />
100,001-110,000<br />
1)<br />
1)<br />
2)<br />
-(<br />
_______) _______)<br />
10) 10)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
Under the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s pension scheme, which is open to all eligible staff, benefits are accruing for 10 (2011: 10)<br />
directors <strong>and</strong> higher paid employees. No remuneration is paid to the members of the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s Council. The total<br />
reimbursement of travelling, accommodation <strong>and</strong> subsistence expenses incurred by 13 (2011: 16) trustees on<br />
Council business amounted to £22,400 (2011: £23,000).<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> staff <strong>and</strong> trustees consider building relationships with other like-minded organisations to be an essential<br />
part of delivering nature conservation in a cohesive <strong>and</strong> effective manner. Such relationships involve<br />
becoming active participants in committee work of other entities. Andy Brown, <strong>RSPB</strong> Trustee, is Deputy<br />
Chairman of the Environment Agency; <strong>RSPB</strong>’s grant transactions with the Environment Agency are disclosed<br />
in Note 3.<br />
Indemnity insurance premiums paid by the <strong>RSPB</strong> amounted to £6,600 (2011: £7,000).<br />
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Notes to the <strong>accounts</strong><br />
10 Tangible fixed assets – charity <strong>and</strong> consolidated<br />
Freehold)<br />
l<strong>and</strong>)<br />
Nature reserves Other tangible assets Total)<br />
Leasehold Buildings)<br />
Motor)<br />
)l<strong>and</strong><br />
vehicles)<br />
Other)<br />
properties)<br />
£’000(<br />
Equipment,)<br />
fixtures <strong>and</strong>)<br />
fittings)<br />
£’000( £’000(<br />
£’000( £’000( £’000(<br />
£’000(<br />
Cost ( ( ( ( ( ( (<br />
At 1 April 2011 92,048) 1,526) 34,321) 3,598) 3,739) 12,416) 147,648)<br />
Additions 2,016) 70) 3,099) -) 558) 1,611) 7,354)<br />
Disposals -) -) -) -) (327) (335) (662)<br />
______( ______) ______( ______) ______( ______( _______(<br />
At 31 March <strong>2012</strong> 94,064) 1,596) 37,420) 3,598) 3,970) 13,692) 154,340)<br />
______( ______) ______( ______) ______( ______( _______(<br />
( ( ( ( ( ( (<br />
Depreciation ( ( ( ( ( ( (<br />
At 1 April 2011 -) 364) 5,819) 1,635) 2,942) 10,811) 21,571)<br />
Charge for the year --) 13) 1,488) 87) 516) 1,153) 3,257)<br />
Disposals -) -) -) -) (314) (289) (603)<br />
______) ______) ______( ______) ______( ______( ______(<br />
At 31 March <strong>2012</strong> --) 377) 7,307) 1,722) 3,144) 11,675) 24,225)<br />
______) ______) ______( ______) ______( ______( ______<br />
( ( ( ( ( ( (<br />
Net book amount: (<br />
( ( ( ( ( ( (<br />
At 31 March <strong>2012</strong> 94,064) 1,219) 30,113) 1,876) 826) 2,017) 130,115)<br />
______) ______) ______) ______) ______) ______) _______)<br />
( ( ( ( ( ( (<br />
At 31 March 2011 92,048) 1,162) 28,502) 1,963) 797) 1,605) 126,077)<br />
______) ______) ______) ______) ______) ______) _______)<br />
Net book amount: <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000(<br />
2011)<br />
£’000)<br />
Nature reserves: ( (<br />
Freehold l<strong>and</strong> 94,064) 92,048)<br />
Leasehold l<strong>and</strong> 1,219) 1,162)<br />
Buildings 30,113) 28,502)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
125,396) 121,712)<br />
Other tangible assets: (<br />
Other properties 1,876) 1,963)<br />
Motor vehicles 826) 797)<br />
Equipment, fixtures <strong>and</strong> fittings 2,017) 1,605)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
4,719) 4,365)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
130,115) 126,077)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
The Net book amount of the Charity’s Tangible fixed assets is £129,565,000 (2011: £125,527,000). The wholly<br />
owned subsidiary March Farmers (Washl<strong>and</strong>) Limited holds Leasehold l<strong>and</strong> of £550,000 (2011: £550,000); the<br />
leases for this l<strong>and</strong> are held in perpetuity <strong>and</strong> no depreciation arises.<br />
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11 Investments – charity <strong>and</strong> consolidated<br />
Investments at market value: <strong>2012</strong>( 2011(<br />
)£’000( £’000(<br />
Investment cash 17,577) 15,579)<br />
Equities, bonds <strong>and</strong> other stocks:<br />
Equities * 8,114) 8,016)<br />
Corporate bonds * 1,862) 1,800)<br />
Government bonds * 2,816) 2,599)<br />
Listed Stock Exchange investments 3) 16)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
12,795) 12,431)<br />
Properties within the UK 345) 1,098)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
30,717) 29,108)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
* Equities <strong>and</strong> bonds are held in unit trusts.<br />
Movement during the year: <strong>2012</strong>( 2011(<br />
)£’000( £’000(<br />
Market value at 1 April 2011 29,108) 26,222)<br />
Disposals (3,897) (4,850)<br />
Additions 3,372) 7,886)<br />
Net gain on revaluation at 31 March <strong>2012</strong> 136) 855)<br />
Movement in investment cash 1,998) (1,005)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
Market value at 31 March 30,717) 29,108)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
Historical cost as at 31 March 14,746) 14,246(<br />
_______) _______)<br />
The Charity investments in its wholly owned subsidiaries are held at cost <strong>and</strong> represent the aggregate amount<br />
of the subsidiaries’ assets, liabilities <strong>and</strong> funds. The subsidiary investments are:<br />
<strong>2012</strong>( 2011(<br />
)£’000( £’000(<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> Sales Limited 3,250) 3,250)<br />
March Farmers (Washl<strong>and</strong>) Limited 551) 551(<br />
_______( _______(<br />
3,801) 3,801(<br />
_______) _______)<br />
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12 Debtors – charity <strong>and</strong> consolidated<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Charity)<br />
£’000)<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Consolidated)<br />
total)<br />
£’000)<br />
2011)))<br />
Charity)))<br />
£’000))(<br />
2011(<br />
Consolidated)<br />
(total)<br />
£’000(<br />
Trade debtors 2,348) 3,516) 1,154) 2,661)<br />
Other debtors 2,791) 2,791) 2,201) 2,201)<br />
Legacies 2,382) 2,382) 2,120) 2,120)<br />
Prepayments <strong>and</strong> accrued income 9,443) 9,692) 9,254) 9,327)<br />
Amounts due from subsidiaries 2,399) -) 2,148) -)<br />
_______) _______) _______) _______)<br />
19,363) 18,381) 16,877) 16,309)<br />
_______) _______) _______) _______)<br />
13 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year – charity <strong>and</strong> consolidated<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Charity)<br />
£’000)<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Consolidated)<br />
total)<br />
£’000)<br />
2011))<br />
Charity))<br />
£’000)(<br />
2011(<br />
Consolidated)<br />
(total)<br />
£’000(<br />
Trade creditors 3,438) 3,855) 2,269 2,561)<br />
Other creditors 1,466) 1,466) 16 29)<br />
Deferred income (see Note 15) 2,620) 2,620) 1,138 1,152)<br />
Accruals 2,714) 3,001) 4,588 5,091)<br />
_______) _______) _______ _______)<br />
10,238) 10,942) 8,011 8,833)<br />
_______) _______) _______ _______)<br />
14 Commitments<br />
Capital expenditure:<br />
Commitments for capital expenditure at 31 March not provided for in the <strong>accounts</strong> were £305,000 (2011:<br />
£68,000).<br />
Forward exchange contracts:<br />
At 31 March, three forward exchange contracts with a combined sales value of €740,000 were outst<strong>and</strong>ing.<br />
Each contract is for up to two <strong>and</strong> a half years in duration, at Euro/GBP rates between 1.17 <strong>and</strong> 1.19.<br />
Contracts to sell Euro are taken out in order to hedge forward currency exposure on future income.<br />
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15 Deferred income – charity <strong>and</strong> consolidated<br />
Movement during the year: <strong>2012</strong>( 2011(<br />
)£’000( £’000(<br />
Creditors amounts falling due in more than one year:<br />
Balance at 1 April 3,924) 2,438)<br />
Amount released to incoming resources (14) (14)<br />
Amount deferred in year 490) 1,500)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
Balance at 31 March 4,400) 3,924)<br />
Creditors amounts falling due within one year:<br />
Balance at 1 April 1,152) 2,131)<br />
Amount released to incoming resources (1,152) (2,131)<br />
Amount deferred in the year 2,620) 1,152)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
Balance at 31 March 2,620) 1,152)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
Deferred income: Balance at 31 March 7,020) 5,076)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
Deferred income includes lease premiums of £910,000 (2011: £924,000) received <strong>and</strong> amortised over the life of the<br />
leases. Income of £3,110,000 (2011: £2,652,000), where restrictions exist, was deferred in the year; this amount<br />
comprised grants of £3,116,000 (2011: £2,542,000), <strong>and</strong> commercial trading of £92,000 (2011: £110,000).<br />
16 Annual commitments under operating leases<br />
Properties <strong>and</strong> equipment are leased by the <strong>RSPB</strong> for defined periods. The <strong>annual</strong> cost of these is shown<br />
below:<br />
<strong>2012</strong>) 2011(<br />
L<strong>and</strong><br />
Other) Total) Total(<br />
<strong>and</strong>)<br />
buildings(<br />
Length of lease remaining £’000( £’000( £’000) £’000(<br />
Less than 1 year 425) 42) 467) 752)<br />
2-5 years 430) 40) 47470) 399)<br />
Over 5 years 881) - ) 881) 553)<br />
_______) _______) _______) _______)<br />
1,736) 82) 931,811,818) 1,704)<br />
_______) _______) _______) _______)<br />
Lease payments of £2,002,000 (2011: £1,902,000) were charged to the Consolidated statement of financial<br />
activities during the year.<br />
17 Contingent liabilities<br />
Contingent liabilities relating to charitable work carried out by other organisations, on behalf of the <strong>RSPB</strong>,<br />
amount to £736,460 (2011: £416,000) at 31 March.<br />
The trustees have given indemnities to Executors under the st<strong>and</strong>ard terms for legacies received; they believe<br />
the chance of significant claims arising as a result of these to be negligible.<br />
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18 Statement of funds – charity <strong>and</strong> consolidated<br />
The purpose for which funds are held can be analysed as follows:<br />
Consolidated<br />
1 April)<br />
2011)<br />
Incoming)<br />
Outgoing)<br />
Other)<br />
recognised)<br />
gains)<br />
/ (losses))<br />
£’000(<br />
Transfers)<br />
31 March)<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000( £’000( £’000)<br />
£’000) £’000(<br />
Unrestricted funds:<br />
General funds 35,056) 85,185( (84,258) 100( 1,277( 37,360)<br />
Pension liability (33,501) 2,941( -( (16,192) -( (46,752)<br />
Designated funds: ( (<br />
L<strong>and</strong> fund 35,536) -) -) -) 145) 35,681)<br />
_______) _______) _______( _______( _______( _______)<br />
Total unrestricted funds 37,091) 88,126) (84,258) (16,092) 1,422) 26,289)<br />
Restricted funds:<br />
Nature reserves 89,107) 2,838) -() -) (72) 91,873)<br />
Other tangible assets 419) 441) (258)) -) -) 602)<br />
Conservation on <strong>RSPB</strong> nature<br />
reserves 657) 14,775) (14,023) 9) (166) )1,252)<br />
Conservation – research, policy<br />
<strong>and</strong> advisory 3,922) 13,768) (12,548) -) (1,184) 3,958)<br />
Education <strong>and</strong> communication 34) 924) (885) -) -) 73)<br />
_______) _______) _______( _______( _______( _______)<br />
Total restricted funds 94,139) 32,746) (27,714) )9( (1,422) 97,758)<br />
Endowment funds 3,312) (1,195)) (9) 27) -) 2,135)<br />
_______) _______) _______( _______( _______( _______)<br />
Total funds 134,542( 119,677) (111,981) (16,056) -) 126,182)<br />
_______) _______) _______( _______( _______( _______)<br />
(<br />
Charity 134,542) 99,330) (91,634) (16,056) -) 126,182)<br />
_______) _______) _______( _______( _______( _______(<br />
Wholly owned subsidiaries:<br />
March Farmers)<br />
(Washl<strong>and</strong>)) Ltd)<br />
31 March <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000)<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> Sales Ltd)<br />
31 March <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000)<br />
Incoming 94) 25,405)<br />
Outgoing (57) (20,290)<br />
_______(<br />
_______(<br />
Profit (Gift Aided to the Charity) 37) 5,115)<br />
_______)<br />
_______)<br />
Advantage has been taken of the exemption given by FRS8, Related Party Disclosures, from disclosing<br />
transactions <strong>and</strong> balances with wholly owned subsidiaries.<br />
A review of funds during the year resulted in the net transfer of £1,422,000 reflecting restricted income<br />
received during the year which related to prior year’s expenditure from unrestricted funds.<br />
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18 Statement of funds – charity <strong>and</strong> consolidated (continued)<br />
The Charity holds a 33% joint venture interest in Yayasan Konservasi Ekosistem Hutan, a non-profit<br />
organisation registered in Indonesia <strong>and</strong> established to facilitate the acquisition <strong>and</strong> management of the<br />
Harapan Rainforest, Sumatra. Based on the latest financial statements available for the year ending 31<br />
December 2011, the Charity's share of the net assets, income <strong>and</strong> losses were £546,000, £538,000, <strong>and</strong><br />
£35,000 respectively (2011: £551,000, £671,000 <strong>and</strong> £63,000). We are not aware of any transactions that<br />
would significantly alter these figures for the year ending 31 March <strong>2012</strong>. The results have not been<br />
consolidated into the core financial statements; to do so would not materially alter them.<br />
During the year ended 31 March <strong>2012</strong>, the Charity paid £2,067,864 (2011: £1,442,000) to Yayasan Konservasi<br />
Ekosistem Hutan of this, £245,647 was funded by the European Union. As at 31 March <strong>2012</strong>, <strong>RSPB</strong> debtors<br />
<strong>and</strong> creditors in relation to Yayasan Konservasi Ekosistem Hutan were nil (2011: £207,000 loan repayable<br />
on dem<strong>and</strong>) <strong>and</strong> nil(2011: nil) respectively.<br />
Unrestricted funds include free <strong>and</strong> general funds that are not designated for particular purposes.<br />
Designated funds comprise the L<strong>and</strong> Fund which represents l<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> buildings purchased using<br />
unrestricted funds including the investment in March Farmers (Washl<strong>and</strong>) Limited.<br />
Restricted funds comprise:<br />
• The Nature reserves fund represents the historic cost of nature reserves acquired using restricted funds<br />
<strong>and</strong> a further £2,158,000 (2011: £2,931,000) held for specific future acquisitions.<br />
• The other funds held for charitable objectives include grants received of £1,597,000 (2011: £1,647,000) in<br />
advance of the associated work being carried out.<br />
Endowment funds comprise the following expendable endowments:<br />
• The Hanson Environment Fund granted an endowment of £1,000,000 in 2002 for the creation <strong>and</strong><br />
management of Needingworth Wetl<strong>and</strong> Nature Reserve. Investment income, net of fees, for this<br />
endowment is currently accruing to the fund. During the year, £46,000 (2011: £6,000) was expended on<br />
the Nature Reserve.<br />
• The Homes <strong>and</strong> Communities Agency’s Parkl<strong>and</strong>s Funding, administered by Essex County Council,<br />
granted an endowment of £1,444,000 in 2011 to create <strong>and</strong> enhance a high quality l<strong>and</strong>scape on the<br />
South Essex Marsh of which, £1,162,000 (2011: £282,000) was spent during the year.<br />
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19 Analysis of net assets between funds<br />
The trustees consider that sufficient resources are held in a suitable form to enable them to be applied in<br />
accordance with any restrictions imposed, as set out below:<br />
Unrestricted funds Restricted) Endowment) Total)<br />
General( Designated) funds) funds) funds)<br />
£’000( £’000( £’000) £’000) £’000)<br />
Asset type:<br />
Nature reserves -) 35,681) 89,715) -) 125,396)<br />
Other tangible assets 4,117) -) 602) -) 4,719)<br />
Investments 15,026) -) 13,556) 2,135) 30,717)<br />
Current assets 27,444) -) -) -) 27,444)<br />
Current liabilities (8,317) -) (2,625) -) (10,942)<br />
Long term liabilities (910) -) (3,490) -) (4,400)<br />
_______( _______( _______( _______( _______(<br />
Net assets excluding pension liability 37,360) 35,681) 97,758) 2,135) 172,934)<br />
Pension liability (46,752) -) -) -) (46,752)<br />
_______( _______( _______( _______( _______(<br />
Net assets (9,392) 35,681) 97,758) 2,135) 126,182)<br />
_______( _______( _______( _______( _______(<br />
Free reserves which are available to be applied at the discretion of the trustees are held as investments or<br />
working capital:<br />
Unrestricted funds Restricted Endowment Total<br />
General Designated funds) )funds) ) funds)<br />
£’000) £’000) £’000) £’000) £’000)<br />
Net assets excluding pension liability<br />
37,360)<br />
35,681)<br />
97,758)<br />
2,135)<br />
172,934)<br />
Less : Operating assets:<br />
Nature reserves )- (35,681) (89,715) )-( (125,396)<br />
Other tangible assets (4,117) -) (602) -( (4,719)<br />
_______( _______( _______( _______( _______(<br />
Available reserves 33,243) -) 7,441) 2,135) 42,819)<br />
Less : Held for specific purposes:<br />
Restricted <strong>and</strong> endowment -) -) (7,441) (2,135) (9,576)<br />
Working capital requirements (6,323) -) )-( -) (6,323)<br />
Threat fund (9,381) -) )-( -) (9,381)<br />
_______( _______( _______( _______( _______(<br />
Free reserves 17,539) -) -) -) 17,539)<br />
_______( _______( _______( _______( _______(<br />
20 Connected charities<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong> is one of the global partners in BirdLife International (registered charity number 1042125), an<br />
umbrella organisation for entities with similar objectives throughout the world.<br />
Further information about this organisation can be obtained by writing to BirdLife International at<br />
Wellbrook Court, Girton Road, Cambridge CB3 0NA.<br />
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21 Cash flow statement<br />
(a)<br />
Net cash inflow from operating activities:<br />
<strong>2012</strong>(<br />
£’000(<br />
2011(<br />
£’000(<br />
Net incoming resources for the year 7,696) 13,725)<br />
Depreciation on fixed assets 3,257) 2,531)<br />
Interest <strong>and</strong> dividends received (376) (528)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
10,577) 15,728)<br />
Profit on sale of tangible assets (195) (224)<br />
Movement in working capital: )<br />
Decrease / (Increase) in stocks 1,272) (1,658)<br />
(Increase) / Decrease in debtors (((2,072) 2,645)<br />
Increase / (Decrease) in creditors 2,585) (5,401)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
1,785) (4,414)<br />
Movement in pension scheme (2,941) (2,355)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
Net cash inflow from operating activities 9,226) 8,735)<br />
_______) _______)<br />
(b)<br />
Reconciliation to short-term cash:<br />
Short-term cash at 31 March 2011 5,689) 3,872)<br />
Increase in cash in the year 1,029) 1,817)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
Short-term cash at 31 March <strong>2012</strong> 6,718) 5,689)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
Analysis of short-term cash<br />
1 April)<br />
2011)<br />
£’000(<br />
Cash flow)<br />
£’000(<br />
31 March)<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000(<br />
Short-term cash 5,689) 1,029) 6,718)<br />
_______( _______) _______)<br />
5,689) 1,029) 6,718)<br />
_______( _______( _______(<br />
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22 Pensions<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong> operates a defined benefit scheme for the benefit of eligible employees. The assets of the scheme<br />
are held separately from those of the <strong>RSPB</strong>, being invested by professional fund managers, in accordance<br />
with guidelines issued by the Trustees of the pension fund.<br />
The Society’s contributions are determined by a qualified actuary on the basis of triennial valuations using<br />
the projected unit method. The contributions have been agreed <strong>and</strong> recorded in a Schedule of<br />
Contributions dated 30 June 2010.<br />
A full actuarial valuation is undertaken by the Pension Trustees <strong>and</strong> their advisors every three years <strong>and</strong><br />
the last full valuation was carried out as at 1 April 2009. In the years when a full valuation is not required<br />
an actuarial <strong>report</strong> is produced <strong>and</strong> the latest was carried out as at 1 April 2011. At this date the market<br />
value of the scheme’s assets represented 75% of the liabilities. This meant the deficit amounted to £33.8m.<br />
The assumptions that have the most significant effect on the results shown in the actuarial <strong>report</strong> are those<br />
relating to the rate of return on investments <strong>and</strong> the rates of increase in salaries, deferred benefits <strong>and</strong><br />
pensions in payment. It was assumed that investment returns before retirement would be 2.15% per<br />
annum greater than salary increases <strong>and</strong> 3.15% greater than increases to deferred benefits. It was also<br />
assumed that pensions in payment would increase at 3.5% per annum on pensions accrued after 5 April<br />
1997, at 2.5% on pension accrued after 1 September 2007 <strong>and</strong> at 3.0% on pensions accrued prior to 6 April<br />
1997. Investment returns after retirement would be 4.95% per annum.<br />
Following the results of the last actuarial valuation <strong>and</strong> a consultation with affected members, the benefits<br />
provided to members of the Final Salary Section were reduced, with effect from 1 July 2010. In future, all<br />
members’ benefits’ accrue on a 1/80 th basis.<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong> runs a Salary Sacrifice Scheme where members can opt to reduce their salaries by the amount of<br />
their pension contribution <strong>and</strong> in return the <strong>RSPB</strong> will pay their contribution to the Pension Fund.<br />
Contribution rates are: 7% of pensionable salary for members of the Final Salary Section <strong>and</strong> 6% for<br />
members of the Cash Balance Section.<br />
Changes in scheme assets, within Actuarial (loss)/gain, include an adjustment of £1.0m reflecting the<br />
treatment of an advance contribution made by the <strong>RSPB</strong> in 2010 which was previously recognised as a<br />
deficit recovery payment.<br />
Financial Reporting St<strong>and</strong>ard 17 – Retirement Benefits (FRS 17) requires the following disclosure.<br />
Changes in the present value of the defined obligation:<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000(<br />
2011)<br />
£’000(<br />
Defined benefit obligation at start of year 134,066) 121,075)<br />
Current service cost 4,130) 4,055)<br />
Interest cost 7,412) 6,951)<br />
Member contributions 66) 48)<br />
Actuarial losses 9,732) 4,304)<br />
Benefits paid (2,697) (2,367)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
Defined benefit obligation at end of year 152,709) 134,066)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
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22 Pensions (continued)<br />
Amounts recognised in the balance sheet:<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000(<br />
2011)<br />
£’000(<br />
Present value of funded obligations (152,709) (134,066)<br />
Fair value of scheme assets 105,957) 100,565)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
Net liability in the balance sheet (46,752) (33,501)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
Changes in scheme assets:<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000(<br />
2011)<br />
£’000(<br />
Fair value of scheme assets at start of year 100,565) 86,417)<br />
Expected return 7,550) 6,702)<br />
Actuarial (loss)/gains (6,460) 3,106)<br />
Employer contribution 6,933) 6,659)<br />
Member contributions 66) 48)<br />
Benefits paid (2,697) (2,367)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
Fair value of scheme assets at end of year 105,957) 100,565)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
Amounts included in Statement of financial activities:<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000(<br />
2011)<br />
£’000(<br />
Current service cost 4,130) 4,055)<br />
Interest cost 7,412) 6,951)<br />
Expected return (7,550) (6,702)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
Amount charged within net movement of funds 3,992) 4,304)<br />
Actuarial loss 16,192) 1,198)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
Amount charged to statement of financial activities 20,184) 5,502)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
The major categories of scheme assets as a percentage of total scheme assets:<br />
<strong>2012</strong>) 2011)<br />
Equities, hedge funds <strong>and</strong> commodities 80.0%) 81.0%)<br />
Bonds 10.5%) 10.0%)<br />
Property 7.0%) 7.0%)<br />
Cash 2.0%) 1.5%)<br />
Insured policies 0.5%) 0.5%)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
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Notes to the <strong>accounts</strong><br />
22 Pensions (continued)<br />
Actual return on the scheme assets during the year:<br />
<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
£’000(<br />
2011)<br />
£’000(<br />
Actual return on the scheme assets during the year 1,090) 9,808)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
Principal assumptions expressed as weighted averages:<br />
<strong>2012</strong>) 2011)<br />
Discount rate 5.10%) 5.50%)<br />
Rate of increase in salaries 3.85%) 4.05%)<br />
Rate of increase of pensions in payment 3.20%) 3.40%)<br />
Rate of increase of pensions in deferment 3.20%) 3.40%)<br />
Inflation 3.20%) 3.40%)<br />
Expected long-term return on plan assets 6.10%) 7.35%)<br />
_______( _______(<br />
To develop the expected long-term rate of return on assets assumption, the trustees consider the current<br />
level of expected returns on risk free investments (primarily government bonds), the historic level of the<br />
risk premium associated with the other asset classes in which the portfolio is invested <strong>and</strong> the<br />
expectations for future returns of each asset class. The expected return for each asset class is then weighted<br />
based on the asset allocation to develop the expected long-term rate of return on assets assumption for the<br />
portfolio.<br />
Weighted average life expectancy for mortality tables used to determine benefit obligations:<br />
<strong>2012</strong>) 2011)<br />
Years)<br />
Years)<br />
Member aged 65 (current life expectancy) – male 22.7) 22.0)<br />
Member aged 45 (life expectancy at 65) – male 25.0) 23.9)<br />
Member aged 65 (current life expectancy) – female 25.5) 24.8)<br />
Member aged 45 (life expectancy at 65) – female 27.9) 26.7)<br />
Analysis of amount recognised in the Consolidated statement of financial activities under FRS 17:<br />
<strong>2012</strong>) 2011) 2010) 2009) 2008)<br />
£’000) £’000( £’000( £’000( £’000)<br />
Benefit obligation (152,709) (134,066) (121,075) (84,710) (89,462)<br />
Fair value of scheme assets 105,957) 100,565) 86,417) 62,577) 78,498)<br />
_______) _______) _______) _______) _______)<br />
Deficit (46,752) (33,501) (34,658) (22,133) (10,964)<br />
_______( _______( _______( _______( _______(<br />
Actual less expected return on assets (6,460) 3,106) 15,085) (26,391) (12,848)<br />
% of scheme assets (6%) 3%) 17%) (42%) (16%)<br />
Experience loss arising on liabilities<br />
-) - (1,139) -) -)<br />
% of scheme liabilities 0%) 0% (1%)) 0%) 0%)<br />
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How you can help the <strong>RSPB</strong><br />
How you can help the <strong>RSPB</strong><br />
There are many ways you can help <strong>and</strong> this section<br />
outlines the most common ways people support us -<br />
just choose whatever suits you.<br />
Join the <strong>RSPB</strong><br />
Whether you want membership for yourself or<br />
someone else, why not join today?<br />
Remember nature in your will<br />
If you have had a lifetime's pleasure from nature, why<br />
not help ensure its future by leaving a legacy to the<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> in your will? Any amount, large or small, will be<br />
put to excellent use.<br />
Campaigns <strong>and</strong> appeals<br />
Support our campaigns <strong>and</strong> appeals <strong>and</strong> you can help<br />
our work to secure a healthy environment for birds<br />
<strong>and</strong> wildlife. We need your support to help wild birds<br />
<strong>and</strong> the wild places they live in - <strong>and</strong> to dem<strong>and</strong> better<br />
laws to protect them.<br />
Shopping<br />
Buy your gifts, bird food, binoculars <strong>and</strong> a range of<br />
other products. Or support us through <strong>RSPB</strong> Energy,<br />
holidays <strong>and</strong> more. All sales benefit the <strong>RSPB</strong>.<br />
Get involved<br />
Writing letters <strong>and</strong> e-mails direct to your MP <strong>and</strong> other<br />
decision-makers can really make a difference for birds<br />
<strong>and</strong> wildlife. Join other <strong>RSPB</strong> campaigners <strong>and</strong> make<br />
sure your voice is heard.<br />
Fundraise for wildlife<br />
Have fun <strong>and</strong> meet like-minded people. Learn new<br />
skills <strong>and</strong> put old ones to good use. And help birds<br />
<strong>and</strong> wildlife while you do it.<br />
Local groups<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> local groups are a great way to meet new friends<br />
<strong>and</strong> help out the <strong>RSPB</strong> where you live. They are open<br />
to all <strong>and</strong> you will receive a very warm welcome.<br />
Volunteering for the <strong>RSPB</strong><br />
Looking for an exciting <strong>and</strong> interesting way to make a<br />
difference for wild birds <strong>and</strong> the environment? Why<br />
not consider volunteering? You don't have to know<br />
anything about birds to volunteer with the <strong>RSPB</strong>.<br />
For more information on how you can support the<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> please visit our website www.rspb.org.uk or<br />
telephone Membership Services on 01767 693680.<br />
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Acknowledgements<br />
Acknowledgements 2011-12 – thank you for supporting us<br />
Members<br />
The support <strong>and</strong> loyalty of our members is critical to<br />
the success <strong>and</strong> achievements of the <strong>RSPB</strong>. Meeting<br />
the rigorous conservation targets that we set would<br />
not be possible without the enormous contributions<br />
that members make. Members help in many ways,<br />
all of them equally important: financially, through<br />
volunteering, by supporting <strong>RSPB</strong> campaigns<br />
through letter writing, <strong>and</strong> by helping to deliver<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> projects on the ground through local groups.<br />
Community Groups<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong> local groups, <strong>RSPB</strong> Wildlife Explorer groups<br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>RSPB</strong> Phoenix groups worked unstintingly over<br />
the year. Local groups provide a great focus for us in<br />
local communities, involve many people in our<br />
work, <strong>and</strong> raised over £431,500 for <strong>RSPB</strong><br />
conservation projects. Wildlife Explorers (our junior<br />
members) raised more than £23,000 to help Save<br />
Birds of Prey.<br />
On behalf of the <strong>RSPB</strong>, <strong>RSPB</strong> local groups <strong>and</strong><br />
Wildlife Explorer groups throughout the UK, we<br />
would like to thank Awards for All (supported by<br />
the “good cause” Lottery distributors across the UK)<br />
for their continued support of local projects through<br />
their community grants scheme.<br />
Volunteers<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong> enjoyed the support of over 17,600<br />
volunteers last year, giving the <strong>RSPB</strong> a gift of time of<br />
over 1,017,782 hours. This is equivalent to an extra<br />
591 full-time staff working for nature conservation.<br />
These volunteers helped with virtually every aspect<br />
of the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s work, <strong>and</strong> we cannot thank them<br />
enough for their generous support. Additionally,<br />
594,684 people gave an hour of their time to<br />
participate in the <strong>RSPB</strong>’s Big Garden Birdwatch, <strong>and</strong><br />
90,043 took part in our new survey Make Your<br />
Nature Count.<br />
Legacies<br />
This year, as ever, we are grateful to individuals who<br />
generously remember the <strong>RSPB</strong> in their wills. The<br />
income generated in this way makes a significant<br />
impact on the amount of conservation work we are<br />
able to carry out throughout the year. Whilst it is<br />
impossible to thank each <strong>and</strong> everyone of our<br />
benefactors, there are a few we would like to<br />
mention:<br />
Ronald Charles North<br />
Vera Constance Messam<br />
Eileen Nora Campbell White<br />
William John Else<br />
Stephen Cooper Shepherd<br />
James William Hardcastle<br />
Anna Margaretha Moesker<br />
Mary Collins<br />
Kathleen Mary Davidson<br />
Stanley James Baldry<br />
Heritage Lottery Fund <strong>and</strong> Big Lottery Fund<br />
The Heritage Lottery Fund has provided essential<br />
support for <strong>RSPB</strong> projects to restore <strong>and</strong> secure<br />
natural heritage for current <strong>and</strong> future generations<br />
to discover, learn about <strong>and</strong> enjoy. Big Lottery has<br />
helped us create opportunities for people from all<br />
backgrounds to have greater access to the natural<br />
environment, involve local communities <strong>and</strong><br />
provide sustainable energy initiatives. The <strong>RSPB</strong> is<br />
indebted to HLF <strong>and</strong> BIG for their continued<br />
support for our work.<br />
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Acknowledgements<br />
Charitable Trusts, Non-Governmental Organisations <strong>and</strong> Individual Donors<br />
We are grateful for the support received <strong>and</strong> would particularly like to acknowledge the following:<br />
Adessium Foundation<br />
Agreement for the Conservation of Albatrosses <strong>and</strong><br />
Petrels<br />
Arrowgrass Capital Partners LLP<br />
A J H Ashby Will Trust<br />
Geoff Ball<br />
The Banister Charitable Trust<br />
Basel Zoo – Across the River<br />
The Gordon & Ena Baxter Foundation<br />
BBC Wildlife Fund<br />
BirdLife International<br />
BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme Lost<br />
Species Fund<br />
British Birdwatching Fair<br />
British Trust for Ornithology<br />
Edward & Dorothy Cadbury Charitable Trust<br />
Cambridge Conservation Initiative<br />
Mr Ronald Glyn Carr Will Trust<br />
Mrs M M G Carter Deceased Will Trust<br />
Alfred Ch<strong>and</strong>ler<br />
Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey<br />
Miss Joyce Stephanie Collard Discretionary Trust<br />
Conservation International – Global Conservation<br />
Fund<br />
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF)<br />
Mrs Peter Edgson Trust<br />
Ellem Foundation<br />
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation<br />
Frankfurt Zoological Society<br />
A M Frost Discretionary Trust<br />
The Gannochy Trust<br />
The Helen <strong>and</strong> Horace Gillman Trusts<br />
The A B Grace Trust<br />
The Doris Louise Hailes Charitable Trust<br />
Richard Hale<br />
Peter Harrison MBE<br />
Mrs Iris Hulse Discretionary Trust<br />
J E V B Charitable Trust<br />
Henry Kenner & Deirdre Boyle<br />
The Kirby Laing Foundation<br />
The A G Leventis Foundation<br />
Mr Peter Lund <strong>and</strong> Mr David Lund Discretionary<br />
Trust<br />
Miss Helen Rachael Mackaness Discretionary Trust<br />
Miss J A Matthews<br />
Robert McCracken QC<br />
Joan Montague Discretionary Trust<br />
Mull <strong>and</strong> Iona Community Trust<br />
Nationale Postcode Loterij, Netherl<strong>and</strong>s<br />
The National Trust<br />
The Nature Trust (S<strong>and</strong>y) Limited<br />
Northern Irel<strong>and</strong> Environment LINK<br />
The Oglesby Charitable Trust<br />
Susan <strong>and</strong> Franklin Orr<br />
The Orr Mackintosh Foundation<br />
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation<br />
Mr Brian <strong>and</strong> Mrs Nancy Pattenden Discretionary<br />
Trust<br />
The Peacock Charitable Trust<br />
Charles Pettiward<br />
Mr A Rafinski<br />
Rapid Response Facility<br />
RBS CommunityForce<br />
Restore UK<br />
Alice Richie Irrevocable Trust<br />
The Robertson Trust<br />
The Rufford Foundation<br />
Save our Species (SOS)<br />
Scottish Environment LINK<br />
Scottish Power Green Energy Trust<br />
The Shears Foundation<br />
Smart Energy for Europe Platform (SEFEP)<br />
Nini Isabel Stewart Trust<br />
The Suffolk Foundation<br />
Sir John Swire CBE<br />
Teesside Environmental Trust<br />
The Tree Council<br />
Mrs C Tremeer<br />
The Tubney Charitable Trust<br />
Mrs Margaret Turner Discretionary Trust<br />
University of Cambridge<br />
University of Durham<br />
University of Leeds<br />
Vogelsbescherming Netherl<strong>and</strong><br />
Wales Environment LINK<br />
David <strong>and</strong> Christine Walmsley<br />
Michael <strong>and</strong> Rosemary Warburg<br />
Waterloo Foundation<br />
The Joan Whitehead Trust<br />
Whitley Animal Protection Trust<br />
Wildfowl & Wetl<strong>and</strong>s Trust<br />
Wildlife & Countryside LINK<br />
Geoff Woodard<br />
John Young Charitable Settlement<br />
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Acknowledgements<br />
L<strong>and</strong>fill Communities Fund<br />
We are grateful for funding support from the following organisations through the L<strong>and</strong>fill Communities Fund:<br />
Angus Environmental Trust<br />
Argyll & Bute Council<br />
Banbridge District Council<br />
Biffa Award<br />
County Durham Environmental Trust Ltd<br />
Down District Council<br />
EPAC through Groundwork Pride Ltd<br />
Fermanagh District Council<br />
Glasgow City Council<br />
GrantScape<br />
Highl<strong>and</strong> Council<br />
INCA<br />
Million Ponds project in association with Biffa<br />
Award<br />
Newport City Council L<strong>and</strong>fill Communities Fund<br />
Newry & Mourne District Council<br />
North Lanarkshire Council Environmental Key Fund<br />
Perth & Kinross Quality of Life Trust<br />
SITA Trust<br />
Smith Skip Ltd<br />
Staffordshire Environmental Fund<br />
Ulster Wildlife Trust L<strong>and</strong>fill Communities Fund<br />
Veolia Environmental Trust<br />
Veolia Havering Riverside Trust<br />
Veolia Pitsea Marshes Trust<br />
Viridor Credits Environmental Company<br />
Waste Recycling Group Ltd (WRG) through Waste<br />
Recycling Environmental Ltd (WREN)<br />
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Acknowledgements<br />
Business Supporters <strong>and</strong> Trading Partners<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong> enjoys successful partnerships with business supporters to our mutual benefit. We would particularly<br />
like to acknowledge the following:<br />
ACE UK<br />
Audioboo<br />
BBC Wildlife Magazine<br />
Bloomsbury Publishing plc<br />
BP through the Scottish Forest Alliance<br />
Bupa Care Services<br />
The Caravan Club<br />
Carillion plc<br />
CEMEX UK Ltd<br />
Chevron<br />
Co-operative Bank<br />
Co-operative Financial Services<br />
Cumnock <strong>and</strong> Doon Valley Minerals Trust<br />
Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund<br />
Dorling Kindersley Ltd<br />
The Famous Grouse<br />
Fulham Heating Merchants Ltd<br />
The Green Insurance Company<br />
Hartley Anderson Ltd<br />
Hoseasons Group<br />
JD Sports Fashion plc<br />
Jeanie Media Ltd<br />
Just Go! Holidays<br />
Northern Irel<strong>and</strong> Electricity<br />
The Otter House Group<br />
Paramo Nikwax Ltd.<br />
PD Ports<br />
Puffin Post<br />
PURE<br />
Questmark Ltd<br />
Ricoh Europe plc<br />
Scottish & Southern Energy<br />
Scottish Power<br />
Scottish Power Renewables<br />
Swarovski Optik<br />
Talisman Energy UK Ltd<br />
Tarmac Ltd<br />
The Telegraph Media Group<br />
Tesco Stores Ltd<br />
Two Ravens Press Ltd<br />
Turcan Connell<br />
United Utilities plc<br />
Vital Earth Ltd<br />
Zegrahm Expeditions<br />
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Acknowledgements<br />
Support from Statutory Sector <strong>and</strong> other Public Bodies<br />
We are grateful for co-operation <strong>and</strong> support from organisations of many kinds, <strong>and</strong> would especially like to<br />
thank the following:<br />
Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute<br />
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council<br />
Big Lottery Fund – Awards for All Programme<br />
Big Lottery Fund – Community Sustainable Energy<br />
Programme, distributed by BRE<br />
Bonn Convention for Migratory Species (CMS)<br />
Cairngorms National Park Authority<br />
Ceredigion County Council through Rural<br />
Development Plan Axis 3<br />
Coasts, Wolds, Wetl<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> Waterways LEADER,<br />
through the Rural Development Programme<br />
for Engl<strong>and</strong> (RDPE), joint funded by Defra<br />
<strong>and</strong> the EU<br />
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar<br />
Countryside Council for Wales (CCW)<br />
Danish Development Assistance Programme<br />
(DANIDA)<br />
Dedham Vale Area of Natural Beauty (AONB)<br />
Sustainable Development Fund<br />
Department for International Development (DfID) –<br />
Civil Society Challenge Fund<br />
Department for the Environment, Food <strong>and</strong> Rural<br />
Affairs (Defra)<br />
Defra – Darwin Initiative<br />
Department of Agriculture & Rural Development<br />
(DARD)<br />
Department of Energy <strong>and</strong> Climate Change (DECC)<br />
Department of Environment, Heritage <strong>and</strong> Local<br />
Government in the Republic of Irel<strong>and</strong><br />
Department of Environment in Northern Irel<strong>and</strong><br />
Dumfries <strong>and</strong> Galloway Council<br />
Dumfries <strong>and</strong> Galloway LEADER 2007–2013, jointly<br />
funded by the Scottish Government <strong>and</strong> the<br />
European Commission<br />
English Heritage<br />
Environment Agency<br />
Environment Agency Wales<br />
Environment Wales<br />
Environment Wales Biodiversity Fund<br />
European Agricultural Fund for Rural<br />
Development (EAFRD)<br />
European Commission – DG Environment<br />
European Commission – LIFE+<br />
European Commission – LIFE-Nature<br />
European Commission – LIFE-Information <strong>and</strong><br />
Communications<br />
European Commission (Seventh Framework<br />
Programme) – EuroGEOSS project<br />
European Commission – Tropical Forests <strong>and</strong> Other<br />
Forests in Developing Countries budget line<br />
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)<br />
ERDF – INTERREG IVA 2 Seas Cross-Border<br />
Cooperation Programme 2007-2013<br />
ERDF – INTERREG IVA administered by the<br />
Special European Union Programmes Body<br />
(SEUPB)<br />
ERDF – INTERREG IVB North Sea Region<br />
Transnational Cooperation Programme<br />
2007–2013<br />
ERDF – INTERREG IVB Atlantic Area<br />
Transnational Programme 2007–2013<br />
Event Scotl<strong>and</strong><br />
Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) / DfID –<br />
Overseas Territories Environment<br />
Programme (OTEP)<br />
Fife LEADER<br />
Forestry Commission Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
Forestry Commission Scotl<strong>and</strong><br />
The Forest of Bowl<strong>and</strong> Area of Outst<strong>and</strong>ing Natural<br />
Beauty (AONB)<br />
Forest of Dean Local Action Group, through the<br />
Rural Development Programme for Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
(RDPE), jointly funded <strong>and</strong> supported by<br />
Defra, Forest of Dean Partnership, LEADER<br />
<strong>and</strong> EAFRD: Europe Investing in Rural<br />
Areas<br />
Forth Valley & Lomond LEADER 2007–2013, jointly<br />
funded by the Scottish Government <strong>and</strong> the<br />
European Commission<br />
French Government’s Fonds Français pour<br />
l’Environnement Mondial (FFEM)<br />
The German Ministry for the Environment (BMU),<br />
via the German state development bank<br />
(KfW)<br />
Heritage Lottery Fund<br />
Heritage Lottery Fund – Your Heritage<br />
Highl<strong>and</strong> LEADER 2007-2013, jointly funded by the<br />
Scottish Government <strong>and</strong> the European<br />
Commission<br />
Homes <strong>and</strong> Communities Agency’s Parkl<strong>and</strong>s<br />
funding administered by Essex County<br />
Council<br />
Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council<br />
Lancashire County Council Green Partnership<br />
Awards<br />
Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park Authority<br />
National Heritage Memorial Fund<br />
Natural Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
Natural Engl<strong>and</strong> – Access to Nature, part of the Big<br />
Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces programme<br />
Natural Engl<strong>and</strong> – Action for Birds in Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
partnership<br />
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Natural Engl<strong>and</strong> – Nature After Minerals<br />
Natural Engl<strong>and</strong> – Wetl<strong>and</strong> Vision Grant Scheme<br />
Northern Irel<strong>and</strong> Environment Agency<br />
Northern Irel<strong>and</strong> Rural Development Programme<br />
administered by the Southern Organisation for<br />
Action in Rural areas (SOAR)<br />
Northern Irel<strong>and</strong> Tourist Board<br />
Orkney Isl<strong>and</strong>s Council<br />
Orkney LEADER<br />
Peak District National Park Authority<br />
Pennine Prospects<br />
Renfrewshire LEADER 2007–2013, jointly funded<br />
by the Scottish Government <strong>and</strong> the European<br />
Commission<br />
Ribble Valley Borough Council<br />
Rural Development Programme for Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
(RDPE)<br />
Rural Tayside LEADER<br />
Scottish Environmental Protection Agency<br />
Scottish Government Rural Payments <strong>and</strong><br />
Inspections Directorate<br />
Scottish Government Science Engagement Grants<br />
Scheme<br />
Scottish Natural Heritage<br />
Somerset Levels & Moors Local Action Group,<br />
through the Rural Development Programme<br />
for Engl<strong>and</strong> (RDPE), jointly funded <strong>and</strong><br />
supported by Defra, Somerset County<br />
Council, LEADER <strong>and</strong> EAFRD: Europe<br />
Investing in Rural Areas<br />
South West Action for Rural Development<br />
(SWARD) under the Rural Development<br />
Programme<br />
St Albans City & District Council<br />
Stoke-on-Trent City Council through the Future<br />
Jobs Fund<br />
Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB Sustainable<br />
Development Fund<br />
Suffolk Coastal District Council – Economic<br />
Development Support Fund<br />
Teignbridge District Council<br />
USAID/USFS STEWARD Programme<br />
US Fish <strong>and</strong> Wildlife Service<br />
Visit West Lothian<br />
Welsh Government<br />
Welsh Government Ecosystem Resilience, Diversity<br />
<strong>and</strong> Compliance Fund<br />
West Cornwall Local Action Group, through RDPE,<br />
jointly funded <strong>and</strong> supported by Defra,<br />
Cornwall Development Company, LEADER<br />
<strong>and</strong> EAFRD: Europe Investing in Rural Areas<br />
Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority<br />
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However you support the<br />
<strong>RSPB</strong>, whether as a<br />
member, a volunteer, a<br />
funder or a decision-maker,<br />
thanks for helping make<br />
possible all that we’ve<br />
achieved this year.<br />
Please help us win even more<br />
victories for wildlife:<br />
www.rspb.org.uk/supporting<br />
CONTACT US<br />
UK HEADQUARTERS<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong>, The Lodge, S<strong>and</strong>y, Bedfordshire,<br />
SG19 2DL. Tel: 01767 680551<br />
ENGLAND<br />
Midl<strong>and</strong>s Office<br />
46 The Green, South Bar,<br />
Banbury, Oxfordshire<br />
OX16 9AB<br />
Tel: 01295 253330<br />
Eastern Engl<strong>and</strong> Office<br />
Stalham House, 65 Thorpe<br />
Road, Norwich NR1 1UD<br />
Tel: 01603 661662<br />
London Area Office<br />
Second Floor, 65 Petty France,<br />
London SW1H 9EU<br />
Tel: 020 7808 1240<br />
Northern Engl<strong>and</strong> Offices<br />
Westleigh Mews, Wakefield<br />
Road, Denby Dale,<br />
Huddersfield HD8 8QD<br />
1 Sirius House, Amethyst Road,<br />
Newcastle Business Park,<br />
Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 7YL<br />
7.3.1 Cameron House, White<br />
Cross Estate, Lancaster<br />
LA1 4XQ<br />
For all offices, ring<br />
0300 777 2676<br />
South East Engl<strong>and</strong> Office<br />
1st Floor, Pavilion View,<br />
19 New Road, Brighton,<br />
East Sussex BN1 1UF<br />
Tel: 01273 775333<br />
South West Engl<strong>and</strong> Office<br />
Keble House, Southernhay<br />
Gardens, Exeter, Devon<br />
EX1 1NT<br />
Tel: 01392 432691<br />
NORTHERN IRELAND<br />
Northern Irel<strong>and</strong><br />
Headquarters<br />
Belvoir Park Forest, Belfast<br />
BT8 7QT<br />
Tel: 028 9049 1547<br />
SCOTLAND<br />
Scotl<strong>and</strong> Headquarters<br />
2 Lochside View, Edinburgh<br />
Park, Edinburgh EH12 9DH<br />
Tel: 0131 317 4100<br />
East Scotl<strong>and</strong> Office<br />
10 Albyn Terrace, Aberdeen<br />
AB10 1YP Tel: 01224 624824<br />
North Scotl<strong>and</strong> Office<br />
Etive House, Beechwood Park,<br />
Inverness IV2 3BW<br />
Tel: 01463 715000<br />
South <strong>and</strong> West<br />
Scotl<strong>and</strong> Office<br />
10 Park Quadrant, Glasgow<br />
G3 6BS<br />
Tel: 0141 331 0993<br />
WALES<br />
Wales Headquarters<br />
Sutherl<strong>and</strong> House,<br />
Castlebridge, Cowbridge<br />
Road East, Cardiff CF11 9AB<br />
Tel: 029 2035 3000<br />
North Wales Office<br />
Unit 14, Llys Castan, Ffordd y<br />
Parc, Parc Menai, Bangor,<br />
Gwynedd LL57 4FD<br />
Tel: 01248 672850<br />
The <strong>RSPB</strong> speaks out for birds <strong>and</strong> wildlife,<br />
tackling the problems that threaten our<br />
environment. Nature is amazing –<br />
help us keep it that way.<br />
We belong to BirdLife International,<br />
the global partnership of bird<br />
conservation organisations.<br />
www.rspb.org.uk<br />
Girl in bluebell wood by David Tipling (rspb-images.com)<br />
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (<strong>RSPB</strong>) is a registered charity:<br />
Engl<strong>and</strong> & Wales no. 207076, Scotl<strong>and</strong> no. SC037654 500-2289-11-12