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WINTER 2025/2026 FUNDRAISING TARGET…

  • Nov 16, 2025
  • 3 min read

You can see our ‘Winter 2025/2026 Plans’ in detail HERE.


WINTER GOALS:

The end goal of our ‘Winter 2025/2026 Plans’ is to be as ready for Spring/Summer 2026 as we can be, so that we can help even more animals - at least 1000 - to emergency care next year, as we have done this year [774 in 2025 so far.]


Before Spring, the aim is to:


  • Double our Drivers Database from almost 300 Drivers, to 500.


  • FROM our newly boosted Drivers Database, we will expand Driver Numbers in our 30 Drivers Teams, who are already allocated to specific Wildlife Rescues & Vet Practices, so that there is always someone who can say ‘yes’ to a transport request, to get wildlife to emergency care.


  • We have 14 currently ‘inactive’ UKWT WhatsApp Groups, dedicated to different localities in the UK, that are growing in Driver numbers up to 20, to then provide Teams of Drivers to local Vet Practices.  (It’s always helpful to start a Vet Practice off with a Team of at least 20 Drivers).  FROM our newly boosted Drivers Database, we will finally be able to set up NEW Drivers Teams to support Vet Practices (moving wildlife from them, onto local Wildlife Rescues) in… Surrey, Hampshire, Essex, Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Berkshire, Reading, West London, Somerset, Kent, Manchester, Norfolk, Southport, Gloucester, Leeds, Sheffield, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Bristol, Bath, Dorset, Anglesey & more.



WINTER COSTS, THAT I’M FUNDRAISING FOR…

MINIMUM TOTAL TARGET: £6844.20


  • £1000 - Driver Recruitment Adverts [Doubling our Driver Database]


  • £2614.20 [£653.55 x 4 : Monthly running costs for November, December, January & February (£300 raised towards this already)]


  • £430 to purchase Driver ID kit materials, in advance of Drivers buying their Driver IDs from us.


  • FUEL COSTS: [These will be very low over the winter months but we will still have some.  The more funds we have in the bank to cover them, without needing to fundraise for each one separately, the better we can run.]


  • POP UP COSTS: [These are costs like sudden Vet fees for an emergency case.  It is unlikely we will have many of these at all over the winter, but it helps to have funds in the bank to cover them, just in case.]



MY SALARY: [As much as can be taken, leaving funds in the bank for running costs & against ‘pop up costs’, like surprise vet fees, up to £1047.50 a month.  I always take as little as I can each month, to fund my most basic living costs while leaving all that I can in the UKWT bank for our running costs.]


*My salary (I have started taking a salary for the first time in 5 years, and I published a blog post on why I was doing so in advance - see WHY - this July).  If you would like to donate to UKWT but very specifically NOT put funds towards my salary, while I run UKWT, there is a button dedicated only to ‘Running Costs’ on the donations page.   


*Hours worked by myself so far this year (an approximate minimum, based on an average of 50 hours a week before Spring & 80 hours a week since May): 3546.


My salary so far:


  • July: £648.51

  • August: £611.95

  • Sept: £519.47

  • Oct: £719.01



HOURS DUE TO BE PUT IN:

The hours that I am going to put in over the winter months, to meet our Winter goals, will be at least full time: 40hrs a week, until Spring 2026, when we start getting even busier again.


*UKWT might be experiencing our quietest annual season (Spring, Summer & Autumn being our busiest seasons) but the Wildlife Care Badge, which I also run, which provides the Map that UKWT runs off - see HERE - will be having its busiest season, with more Rescues taking the steps to become WCB Holders & more support for Wildlife Carers in general being provided, across the UK.



HOW ARE WE GOING TO RAISE THESE FUNDS?



 
 

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