HELPING RHINOS

Registered charity 1175762 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We work with expert conservationists to create and expand Rhino Strongholds; ecosystems where sustainable populations of rhino and other critically endangered wildlife can thrive. By protecting the rhino and conserving their natural habitat we are securing rich biodiverse environments for the long-term and helping local communities to benefit and prosper from their natural heritage

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £20,320 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £270,499 to £250,179. Unrestricted reserves stood at £215,527, which the trustees note is above their policy target of six months of operational expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that the accounts give a true and fair view and no material matters were identified during the examination.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Helping Rhinos (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Intrepid Foundation — “Our Business Partners Helping Rhinos is enormously grateful to all of the companies and other organisations who have supported us to help p…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~6.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (63% 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: 25.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jeremy Michael Haywardchair
• Andrew Leuner
• Catherine O'Donovan
• Derrick SANYAHUMBI · trustee of 2 other charities
• Joanna Bega
• Mark Brassell
• Mark Pedrick
• Stuart Clarke

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

Operates in: Kenya · Netherlands · South Africa · United States

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 ENDANGERED RHINO CONSERVATION.

• ENDANGERED RHINO CONSERVATION income £253k
• SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL income £3.4m
• CARE FOR WILD RHINO SANCTUARY (UK) income £215k
• Sheldrick Wildlife Trust UK income £10.4m
• WATERBERG RHINO UK income £145k
• SHROPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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