FRIENDS OF INTI WARA YASSI

Registered charity 1124355 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF INTIWARA YASSI

Friends of Inti Wara Yassi supports the work of the Communidad Inti Wara Yassi (CIWY) by raising funds and awareness of their work. CIWY is a Bolivian organisation created in defence of human and animal rights, and environmental justice. It manages three separate refuges for wild animals in different parts of the Bolivian Amazon and is devoted to the education of environmental awareness.

Objects

TO SUPPORT THE PRINCIPLES OF THE BOLIVIAN INTI WARA YASSI COMMUNITY, THAT IS TO SAY:1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, YOUNG BOLIVIAN PEOPLE FROM DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS, IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL ISSUES.2 FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF WILD ANIMALS IN NEED OF CAE AND ATTENTION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE RUNNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTI WARA YASSI COMMUNITY'S WILD ANIMAL REFUGES IN BOLIVIA, WHERE ANIMALS AE RESCUED AND, WHERE POSSIBLE, REHABILITATED AND REINTRODUCED INTO THE WILD.

Area of benefit: BOLIVIA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £26,379 and restricted reserves of £59,838 at the end of the period, resulting in total funds of £86,217. The trustees' report indicates a reserves policy of retaining no more than £5,000 to cover minimal UK costs. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• BBVA Foundation — “The Inti Wara Yassi Community (CIWY) received the BBVA Foundation Biodiversity Conservation Award for its sustained work over more than thre…” (source page)
• CBN — “None of this would be possible without the Guardians of the Forest campaign, led by Alas Chiquitanas and Fundación Socioambiental Semilla, w…” (source page)
• Casa Ideas — “None of this would be possible without the Guardians of the Forest campaign, led by Alas Chiquitanas and Fundación Socioambiental Semilla, w…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matty Sowinski-Brownchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carola Rosa Gehring
• Clara Salinas Pallares
• Jonathan Cassidy · trustee of 2 other charities
• Kasia Kilvington · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Coleman · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bolivia · East Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUTH WITH A MISSION, BOLIVIA.

• YOUTH WITH A MISSION, BOLIVIA income £169k
• Wild Life Foundation income £187k
• INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE (IFAW) income £17.4m
• THE WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE COALITION TRUST income £253k
• NATUREWATCH FOUNDATION income £720k

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