2025 Income / Expenditure - And Our Impact…

This amount has funded not just one but TWO organisations (separate but mutually complementary, with UK Wildlife Transporters funding both itself & the other too: the Wildlife Care Badge).

An approximate breaking down of funds between each organisation (as far as I can, with my salary, for example, being split between) sees it as:

• WCB: £5323.24 [£443.60 a month, on average, with the busier months requiring a lot more funding and others less].

• UKWT: £9329.61 [£777.47 a month, on average, with the busier months requiring a lot more funding and others less].

[Our funding in 2025 was raised through raffles, ‘Getting Prepared To Help Wildlife’ online events, sales of our ‘Getting Prepared’ E-Booklets, other digital products in our Ko-fi ‘wild living’ shop,  and, most especially, incredibly generous donations].  Thank you!  As well as the featured breakdown below, of impact/cost, you can also see the reach that your donations are having HERE.

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.  UKWT went out to / transported 793 animals to emergency care in 2025 AND we ALSO helped 100s more, indirectly, through the funding of the Wildlife Care Badge and especially the WCB Grant Scheme & our Wildlife Care Advisor…

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) overseeing BOTH the WCB & UKWT: 3741.

WILDLIFE CARE BADGE:

As well as running UKWT, I also founded, amongst lots of others - and UKWT funds - the Wildlife Care Badge, in January 2021.

Wildlife Rescue is unregulated in England & Wales.  The WCB is a self licensing scheme: a collective of Vet Professionals, Wildlife Professionals & Wildlife Rescuers who represent the wildlife rescue industry newly regulating itself from the inside out (self regulation).  [The WCB is SO important because it shows us which Wildlife Rescues UKWT can confidently take wildlife casualties/orphans to.  Check out the difference it makes, HERE.]

The WCB is currently the ONLY Wildlife Rescue map/database in the UK that features Wildlife Rescues - lots of whom are ‘Wildlife Care Badge Holders’ - 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.

UK WILDLIFE TRANSPORTERS:

ANIMALS HELPED: 793 animals gone out to / transported to emergency care.  [Factoring in all of the ‘behind the scenes costs’ keeping UKWT going & growing, it cost approximately £11.76 to get each animal to emergency care, wherever they were in the UK and however much the organisation/how far the distance].  You can see info on them all HERE.

MILES DRIVEN: Miles driven by Drivers, in 2025: 11,893.

• OUR BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT THIS YEAR: We have gone out to / transported 793 animals this year.  This is a few hundred more (in just one year) than we transported from the whole period of August 2020, when we began, to December 2024.  (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 upscaling continually - whereas most of our costs won’t rise as the structure grows - with new Drivers Teams being created, to support more Wildlife Rescues & Vet Practices, so that soon, ‘no wild life will be left without care.’  We started 2025 with 35 Teams & are starting 2026 with 53 now, so I am expecting 2026 to be a very busy year, with a possible prediction of over 1000 wildlife casualties & orphans got to emergency care / a second chance). 💚 See our Drivers Teams HERE.

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.

• So, UKWT funds the Wildlife Care Badge.  £1023.48 funded WCB basic running costs (websites, maps, databases, communications, exam software & more) this year so far.  [Approximately £85.29 a month].

• £148.55 has been donated by UKWT to support local rescue efforts, in trickier areas, like paying for taxis for members of public to rush a wildlife casualty to a Vet or donating to Rescues (when we had asked them to take animals, to go towards their care, for example).

  
  

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

  
  

• £1300 was for the Wildlife Care Badge Grant that we fund (£100 a month normally) to WCB Holders: funding wildlife housing, equipment, vet fees, medications & more, to help them to help wildlife.  See exactly what was funded HERE.

  
  

• £550 went to support WCB Holders through giving them access to supplementary training resources, funded by us.  This is part of the benefits for WCB Holders.  See the full benefit list HERE.

  
  

• £1000 to a Wildlife Care Advisor - We have started funding a monthly ‘Wildlife Care Advisor’ who works very hard - see HERE - 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.

  
  

• £1905.80 - Fuel (and a bit more on other transport charges, like a one off hotel for a fox cub transport & parking/congestion charges & safety breaks for Drivers doing longer distances, once the animal had been dropped off).

  
  

• £556.86 - Driver Recruitment Adverts on instagram.  This has led not only to many wonderful new Drivers welcomed on board in 2025 BUT most are still on board, to keep helping us in 2026 and beyond.  You can check out how cost effective these adverts are HERE.

  
  

[ABOVE TOTAL: £6546.61]

• My salary (I have started taking a salary for the first time in 5 years - see WHY - this July).  The total for this year is £3899.51. [JULY: £648.51 / AUGUST: £611.95 / SEPT: £519.47 / OCT: £719.01 / NOV: £858.92 / DEC: £541.65].

  
  

• And lots of general ‘behind the scenes’ running costs for UKWT, like our UKWT website, maps, databases, communications, accounting software, some insurance, banking fees, driver recruitment posters & more. [£4226.73 (approximately £352.23 a month).]

• [Our full 2025 costs were £14,652.85.  We ran at a loss of £164.31 in 2025, that I funded myself.]