THE ELEPHANT PROTECTION INITIATIVE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1182805 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ELEPHANT PROTECTION INITIATIVE

"The Elephant Protection Initiative" means the African led initiative for the protection of elephants, which was launched in London in February 2014. The Charity will carry out such activities as are necessary to promote the conservation and protection of the African elephant.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF ELEPHANTS THROUGH IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ELEPHANT PROTECTION INITIATIVE BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT."THE ELEPHANT PROTECTION INITIATIVE" MEANS THE AFRICAN LED INITIATIVE FOR THE PROTECTION OF ELEPHANTS, WHICH WAS LAUNCHED IN LONDON IN FEBRUARY 2014.

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

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

Registered contact address: Adur, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £67,009 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total reserves to £104,555. This unrestricted reserve level is slightly below the trustees' stated target of £120,000, though the accounts describe this as not materially so. The charity maintains a going concern status with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Affinia (Crawley). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Elephant Protection Initiative Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 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: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian Hamish Nevelle Craig
• Lee White
• Sharon Ikeazor

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

Operates in: Angola · Botswana · Chad · Congo · Ethiopia · Gabon · Guinea · Ivory Coast · Kenya · Liberia · Malawi · Mali

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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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 SAVE THE ELEPHANTS.

• SAVE THE ELEPHANTS income £5.3m
• Defend income £515k
• THE AFRICAN IMPACT FOUNDATION income £186k
• AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION income £894k
• ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION AGENCY income £332k
• THE CAPTIVE ANIMALS PROTECTION SOCIETY income £63k

Side by side with its peers

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