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Registered charity 1170025 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NATIONAL PARK RESCUE

The charity advances environmental protection and animal welfare by preventing poaching and promoting law enforcement in national parks in Africa.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF ANIMALS WHICH ARE IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION IN THE WILD, PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, ELEPHANTS, RHINOCEROS AND LIONS WITHIN NATIONAL PARKS IN AFRICA.

Area of benefit: AFRICA

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity faced substantial financial uncertainty in 2024, resulting in a deficit on unrestricted funds of £106,214 and negative free reserves of £116,735. The trustees noted that institutional funding was deficient and public fundraising stagnated, forcing reliance on bank reserves. However, they confirmed that additional funding was secured post-year-end, providing a reasonable expectation of adequate resources to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10037212

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HILEY, Mark David — director, appointed 02/03/2016on trustee list
• LORENZ, James Scott — director, appointed 02/03/2016on trustee list
• MAHDAVI, Kamran — director, appointed 02/03/2016on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARK HILEYchair
• JAMES LORENZ
• KAMRAN MAHDAVI

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

Operates in: Botswana · Congo · Kenya · Malawi · Mozambique · Namibia · Rwanda · Tanzania · Zambia · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Sheldrick Wildlife Trust UK.

• Sheldrick Wildlife Trust UK income £10.4m
• ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND UK income £1.4m
• ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION AGENCY income £332k
• INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE (IFAW) income £17.4m
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ISLE OF WIGHT BRANCH income £583k
• THE FERNE ANIMAL SANCTUARY income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.