Our July Income/Expenditure

I am not sure yet if I am going to share an income/expenditure breakdown every month but I want to do it this July as it's the first month that I have taken a salary. If you hadn't seen the post announcing this new way of working, it's HERE...

July Income: £2987.30

July Costs: £2563.61

• Instagram Adverts (Driver Recruitment Advert): £89.89

• Carriers & postage (equipping new Drivers - these are paid back to us over the next 3 months): 51.04 / 9.99 / 49.07 / 51.04 [£170.13 in total]

• Fuel: £553.52

• Parking: £5

• Congestion / Clean Zone: £9.00

• ‘Safety Break’ Funded For Long Distance Drivers: £85

• Donations to Rescues: £63

• Monthly running costs - see a breakdown HERE.  (Funding the Wildlife Care Badge, without which UKWT wouldn’t have a map to run off and couldn’t exist) and then the basics of maps/databases, websites & a lot more): £553.55

• Extra bank fees (because of lots of small transfers to fund fuel): £22.62

• Exam software: £19.20

• Extra rescue costs (supporting the actual rescues of specific animals - funding costs in situe): £65.00

• Trip to visit a specific Rescue & take them ‘thank you’ gifts (and donate in person at their event) for taking so many animals from remoter areas in 2025: £35.39

• Extra one off administrative costs (printing up to date maps of Rescues/Vets/Drivers & more): £41.80

• Insurance: £14.50

• Accounting costs (paying an invoice for accounting for the year): £187.50

MY JULY SALARY: £648.51 [I debated sharing what I took it for but felt it worth explaining, at least on this one occasion, as I would have left more in the bank otherwise, in July: my dog had an operation that needed covering.]

• STILL IN UKWT BANK AT END OF JULY:  £45.05

• STILL IN UKWT PAYPAL AT END OF JULY: £378.64

• Hours worked by me (an approximate minimum of 344 over the month, at a minimum of 80hrs per week).

• Our costs work out at £11.15 per animal provided with a chance to get to emergency care.  [This does NOT factor in all of the wildlife helped through the WCB and the funding of grants AND the formal wildlife care advice support for Vet Practices - especially - that we’re now funding AND the funding of rescue efforts in trickier areas.]

IMPACT:

THROUGH THE WCB:

• Wildlife Rescue is unregulated in England & Wales. The WCB itself 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 to know where to take wildlife to, entirely. That's why UKWT funds it.

• Through the Wildlife Care Badge we have funded a £100 grant to one Hedgehog Rescue to help purchase a new nebuliser, to save hedgehog lives.

  
  

• We have also funded a ‘Wildlife Care Advisor’ who has worked very hard in July, providing advice to veterinary practices around the UK on certain cases - saving wild lives - and especially advising on wildlife cases in the Bristol/Bath area.

  
  

• We have funded additional training for WCB Holders & specific training to support another Rehabber in a particular case.

  
  

• And more.  Check out why the WCB is so important & the difference it makes, HERE.

THROUGH UKWT:

• 230 animals were assisted with transport to emergency care in July, in Scotland, England & Wales.

  
  

• We have contributed funding to local rescue efforts in different parts of the UK, in July.  This has, in part, led to wildlife in remoter areas especially being got to care instead of being PTS because they had nowhere to go.

  
  

• 4 more Driver Teams were set up in July to help more animals (supporting Vets and Rescues).

  
  

• 37 new Drivers were recruited in July who have already transported wildlife to emergency care.