2025 Income / Expenditure - And Our Impact - So Far…

ANIMALS HELPED: 553 animals gone out to / transported to emergency care. You can see info on them all HERE.  [And LOTS more animals helped in other ways too.]

HOURS PUT IN: Hours worked by myself this year (an approximate minimum, based on an average of 50 hours a week before Spring & 80 hours a week since May): 2666

MILES DRIVEN: Miles driven by Drivers from 1st June - up to 20th August: 10,651

While we are called ‘UK Wildlife Transporters’ we actually do a HUGE amount behind the scenes, just to make it possible for us to transport wildlife at all, to the emergency care that they need, across the UK.

As well as running UKWT, I also founded the Wildlife Care Badge, in January 2021.

Wildlife Rescue is unregulated in England & Wales.  The WCB is a self licensing scheme (it’s the industry self regulating itself). [I founded the WCB because, when I began UKWT in 2020, I realised that UKWT effectively didn’t have a map to run off, so I either created one or closed down.  Check out why the WCB is so important & the difference it makes, HERE.]

The WCB is currently the ONLY Wildlife Rescue map/database in the UK that features Wildlife Rescues who have proven standards of care, akin to actual licensing (annual onsite checks, exams on wildlife care passed & high welfare practices proven through record keeping and an ongoing vet relationship, every quarter throughout the year).  Without the WCB Map, UKWT cannot run.  We rely on it - completely - to know where to take wildlife to.  If we were to take an animal to the wrong place, they would not receive any of the care that they actually needed, either to survive and/or to ideally go onto release.

• So, UKWT funds the Wildlife Care Badge.  £545.52 (approximately) funded WCB basic running costs, this year so far.

• £1458 has been invested this year in supporting Wildlife Rescues (through the WCB) to help wildlife themselves.  This was done through WCB Grants, the funding of supportive/ongoing training & access to specialist advice for trickier cases.  This has helped 100s of wild lives get great care, totally separate to UKWT transports.

• RE our specific ‘impact through transports’: our UKWT costs - having helped 553 animals - mean that our impact works out at about £11.02 per animal gone out to / transported to emergency care.

• We have 44 (almost 45) Drivers Teams now, getting wildlife to emergency care in different parts of the UK.

• OUR BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT THIS YEAR: We have gone out to / transported more than 500 animals this year.  This is more (in under 9 months) than we transported in 22 months, from August 2020 - June 2022 - when we first started.  (When we started we used to coordinate all transports, whereas now we have evolved to provide Drivers Teams that can help on a much bigger scale).

This is SUCH a big milestone, because it proves to me properly that we are having a much bigger impact now than we ever have before. AND it's upscalable, with new Drivers Teams being created, to support more Wildlife Rescues & Vet Practices, so that soon, ‘no wild life will be left without care.’

5 years of work, learning and adaptations have gone into developing this structure that can help - in a VERY high welfare and a cost effective way - 1000s of wildlife casualties & orphans get to their best go at a second chance.  As we grow more, we can enable UKWT to help 10,000s of wild lives in need every spring/summer, at a funding cost of a few £s per animal.

• £188 has been donated by UKWT to support local rescue efforts, in trickier areas.

• £42 was paid for our own vet fees (to get a Sparrow Hawk ‘fit for travel’).

• £720 was for the Wildlife Care Badge Grant that we fund (£100 a month normally) to Wildlife Rescues: funding equipment, vet fees & more, to help them to help wildlife.

• £350 to support Wildlife Rescues through giving them access to supplementary training resources, funded by us.

• £200 to a Wildlife Care Advisor - We have started funding a monthly ‘Wildlife Care Advisor’ who works very hard, providing advice, as a RVN and a highly experienced Wildlife Rehabber, herself,  to Veterinary Practices and Rehabbers around the UK on certain cases - saving wild lives.  She has especially been advising on wildlife cases in the Bristol/Bath area this summer.

• £1141.94 - fuel (and a bit more on other transport charges).

• £504.86 - Driver Recruitment Adverts on instagram.

[ABOVE TOTAL: £3146.80]

• My salary (I have started taking a salary for the first time in 5 years - see WHY - this July): £648.51 in July and £485.58 in August so far.

• And lots of general ‘behind the scenes’ running costs, like our websites, maps, databases, communications, driver recruitment posters etc. [£3,816.78.]