Annual

Review
July 2014 to June 2015

Welcome
I have now been at Send a Cow for a full year and what an
incredible year its been.
We have been able to directly help 120,000 farmers in
Africa lift themselves out of poverty and change their futures,
which wouldnt have been possible without your support.
We work with child-headed households, womens groups, people suffering from
HIV/AIDS and the designated poorest of the poor in their communities. I remain
deeply humbled, and proud, of the farmers we work with. Im always amazed
by their passion, joy and energy.
Whats more these are individuals and community groups who have all committed
to pass-on knowledge, skills and livestock to others in need, so that even more
can benefit.
We talk of numbers and growth, as its imperative that we achieve our goals,
however we mustnt forget that one of the most important aspects of our work is
the very human challenge of giving hope to those who have long lived without it.
Hope is a transformative thing. It leads to self-belief and the realisation that the
power to change is in your hands, or under your feet.
I see the power of hope in farmers like Nelson from Kenya. An ex-professional
footballer, he lost his wife to HIV and is living with the disease himself. He had lost
all hope and was struggling to feed his children. Joining Send a Cow gave Nelson a
support group. His passion for life returned, not to mention his passion for football,
which he loves playing with his son, Rooney.
Thanks to our valued supporters, our income for the year rose by 7% to 6.7m.
We have taken a huge leap towards our goal of working with one million people in
the year 2020, a leap that wouldnt have been possible without this amazing support.
We know that we have a model that works. Our work is changing the way people
think about their lives and about themselves. We are bringing families and
communities together, turning their emphasis on the riches they already have
within and around them.
Its a message I bring home to my family every day, and one I know my colleagues
share. We are all helping to plant so much more than seeds; we are planting hope.

Simon Barnes, Chief Executive

PLANTING HOPE IN AFRICA

Our vision is for a confident and thriving rural Africa, and our mission is to give
communities and families the hope and the means to secure their own futures
from the land. Were not talking about a hand out here; its a hand up.
Founded by Christian farmers in the UK at the height of
the milk crisis in 1988, Send a Cow is an international
development charity with a difference. It works hand
in hand with some of Africas poorest communities,
encouraging them to decide which families many
of them widowed or child-headed households - need
help to thrive.
It provides a proven package of on-going support over
three to five years and practical training, including
farming skills, gender equality, sanitation and money
management - alongside livestock and tools - to ensure
some of Africas most marginalised people have the
confidence, knowledge and skills to help themselves.

Community worker Amino Shallo with the Misoma Gudina Self Helf
Group in Ethiopia

Its with this support that families watch the land

beneath their feet begin to thrive. Within a few months
malnourished families are eating regularly and are able
to pay for children to attend school. Within a year
farmers are diversifying their income streams to ensure
they survive the hungry months and unexpected
disasters like drought. As a result the cycle of
poverty is broken.
As soon as they are able, families pass on their resources,
such as seeds and the first female offspring of their
livestock, and what theyve learned to others. Some
farmers are trained to be peer farmers, which means
they go out to others to show them the richness of their
land, no matter how small. This pass on principle helps
to build thriving communities, and enables us to work
very cost effectively.

Where we work

in Africa
Within the home, women and men start sharing the workload
and the decision-making. Its a transformative and powerful
thing that brings harmony, love and a more secure future.
We dont do all this for the families we work with, they do it
themselves; however we help them plant the seed of hope,
which grows before our eyes into something extraordinary.

By tackling the emotional barriers alongside the practical, Send

Ammanuel and Felekech in Ethiopia who say they have no hope

of a future from their land

a Cow has helped transform more than a million lives in 25 years

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Our goals:Growing hope and building lives

In 2014/15, we set out to...

We achieved

Grow the programme in all 7 countries to be working with

21,000 households approximately 145,000 people
in developing sustainable farming livelihoods

Supported 21,187 households, of which just under 4,000

were new starters

Increase the size of our programmes

in Burundi and Zambia

In Burundi we secured funding to expand our pilot project

(65 households) to a 357 household programme,
and in Zambia we have core funding secured until June 2016
supporting 2,514 households

To complete the charity registration of Send a Cow, Inc.

in the US and have a successful first year fundraising

Forge new partnerships to expand programme delivery

and open new funding opportunities

We successfully registered Send a Cow, Inc. as a charity in

September 2014, have created a US board and are delighted
that they raised just under $300k in their first

financial year

We continue to work in partnership with Heifer

International in Kenya and Zambia. We also have a number
of local partnerships with government agencies
and civil society organisations

In EDUCATION we set out to...

We achieved

Strengthen our online offering for teachers through

the Lessons from Africa website, with 30 new
resources uploaded

Developed and uploaded 33 new resources to

Lessons from Africa with topics ranging from African
folk tales, to gender and education, to recycling

Expand the reach and engagement of Lessons from Africa

increasing number of unique visits and downloads by 20%

Lessons from Africa had 162,404 unique visits

with 96,341 downloads of our resources, reaching
1,060,000 children. This exceeded our 20%

growth target

Expand the African Garden Days network,

reaching 62 schools across England

with 11,160

Ensure Send a Cow is recognised as a respected

advocate in the global learning community

Send a Cow joined the Send My Friend

coalition, lending our voice to influencing

We delivered exactly 62 African Garden Days

children taking part

coordinated action

to School
global

Send a Cows Developing Farmers towards Food and Income Security project (Ethiopia) is a remarkable example of the kind of returns
that can be obtained as a result of intensive tending of landscape and household plots combined with the nurturing of peoples skills,
family relations and community bonds As a model for the implementation of intensive smallholder agro-ecological systems, the
DeFar programme could do much to contribute to the development of a coherent and coordinated approach to achieve scale-up in
environments such as southern Ethiopia.
Dr Wolde Tadesse, Visiting Scholar, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford

When I had my three children, we were just as poor. I could tell that they were malnourished, as they were very thin
and always getting illnesses that they couldnt get rid of. Their hair even started to go grey and they suffered from a
disease where they didnt have enough blood.
Then one day we heard about Send a Cow. I listened and acted out all the training they taught me and realised that I could
make things grow. Considering what my life was like before, I had no idea how to grow vegetables. Now we eat them with
every meal. I have a harvest that I sell with others.
I feel so much happier, I look forward to everyday. My neighbours are so surprised at how my face has changed.
They cant believe how happy I am. I used to be sad all the time. They comment on my face and say I now can
smile. They have never seen me like this. I am proud. I have done this myself.

Fabien and Ancille, both in their 60s, joined

Send a Cow a year ago and now have 8 goats
and productive land.

In the last year we have received many

different types of training; advocacy
which has encouraged us to speak out
among the community, hygiene which is
improving the health of our family and
gender. This has particularly been helpful
as now Fabien helps in the kitchen and
gathers firewood, which is great because
it is traditionally considered a womans
role. This means my time is freed up for
other tasks which are more productive.

ETHIOPIA

I have learnt to smile

I wanted my children to be much happier than I ever was, that was my
one wish. I had very poor parents. I never remember the feeling of being
happy when I was younger, only hungry and it wasnt uncommon for my
siblings and me to go for a day or more without food.

RWANDA

BURUNDI

My children are so much

happier than I was. I can do
the thing that my parents
never could and that is
provide for my family.

Pictured on page 4, Aberash Haile, aged 25,

a coffee farmer who was so poor her four
children had to live with their grandmother
before she became self-sufficient.

Before this project I used to really

beg clothes from other farmers
who drop them. Now I am able
to buy clothes for my children
and myself.

Matlai Thaba is a 34 year-old widow with some physical

disability and high blood pressure. She lives with her
seven year old daughter Rethabile.

I was registered to join Send a Cow

Lesotho by my chief as a disabled person.
We received vegetable seeds and social
development training. Now I see change,
as the women of my community have
been empowered and formed our group.
We as members also have dreams for our
families and our futures.

Life became difficult for us as

we didnt have a house instead
we lived in my grandmothers
thatched hut that she used as a
kitchen. I joined a womens group
and started receiving trainings.
Now we have our own home
and have expanded our crop
production. I also appeal to girls
in my community to refrain
from getting married young,
but to stay in school and get an
education to reduce the poverty
in our community.

KENYA

LESOTHO

ZAMBIA

UGANDA

Teacher Betty has nice clothes. She

has shoes. I want to be a teacher
like her. Id like a nice new dress for
Christmas with yellow flowers on it.
I also want knickers.

Agness was married at just 16, which led

to her having difficulties in managing her
home. Now 30, Agness has two daughters
aged 14 and five.

Merida Nakajumba is 12 years old and only has one

dress, which is faded and caked with dirt and sweat.
She treks the 10km return journey to school every
day and dreams of being a teacher, and of getting
a new dress for Christmas.

Emily Odhiambo is 57 years old. Her husband died

in 2003 leaving Emily alone to support 10 children.
Two of her children live with her now, two of her
own children and two grandchildren. Emily is
HIV positive.

I am living positively. I am taking

anti retro-virals (ARVs), which
are free from the government
clinic nearby. The vegetables Im
growing are really helping, I feel
much stronger.

Why do we fundraise?
Send a Cow only exists because a group of dairy farmers came together
nearly 30 years ago, and took action to do something they believed in.
They worked within their local communities to engage others in their
idea and raised the funds to turn their vision into a reality.
And that culture is still alive today as everyone involved is an advocate and a fundraiser, helping more people
to capture our passion. This is especially important as we work towards our goal of working with one million
of Africas poorest people in the year 2020, but to achieve this we need to double our income.
Its an ambitious challenge, however by investing in fundraising, we can build a growing movement
of people who, together, can help to lift some of the worlds poorest people out of poverty.

How we fundraise
Most of our staff are African and based in Africa, however here in the UK we have a team of professional,
dedicated, fundraising staff and volunteers who engage with a wide audience of supporters, including individuals,
community groups, trusts, foundations, and institutions to generate nearly 7m in 14/15. Our role as fundraisers is
to inspire people who care about Africas future and give them the opportunity to take action through Send a Cow.
Fundraising can often be seen as a cost but delivered effectively, its a vital investment in growing income in
the future. Last year for every 1 invested in fundraising, we grew that five-fold to 5.52. We fundraise in a wide
variety of ways from running appeals, church and school fundraising, one to one meetings and networking,
sponsored events, company support and grants. Whatever the audience, we are guided by our core values of
integrity, stewardship and accountability.

Our fundraising principles

Send a Cow takes its responsibility to those who support our work, and their data, very seriously. Our professional
fundraising team, overseen by our Trustee Board, have always ensured that we work to best practice and legal
frameworks, including the Institute of Fundraising Code of Fundraising Practice and the Data Protection Act 1998.
We are also members of the Fundraising Standards Board and The Public Fundraising Regulatory Association.
We have never shared our supporter data with any other organisation and we will always listen to supporters
wishes about how they want to be contacted, as our priority is to build relationships to harness the potential
of the passion that connects us.

To read more about our Supporter Promise and get to

know our fundraising and supporter care team, please
visit www.sendacow.org/supporterpromise
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Some of our UK and Africa based teams

A huge thank you

Funding
partnerships
Major donors,
trusts and
corporate partners
Our major partners helped the
people we work with to build a
future free from poverty by
providing the crucial funding
required to secure the impact and
future of our projects. Thank you for
your partnership and generosity
We want to say thank you to
The Innocent Foundation, who
helped us kick start our project to
support 1,000 households in
Oromia, Ethiopia, The Maitri Trust
who have been long-term supporters
and helped us work with more
families in Zambia and Riverford
Organic Farms who achieved their
goal of raising 75,000 for our work
in Northern Uganda

to all the individuals, families, groups, organisations, charitable trusts and

foundations, businesses, schools, churches and others who have invested in us
in 2014/15. Thanks to your support this year thousands more of Africas
poorest people have the hope and the means to build a brighter future

Individual givers

Spreading the word

Regular giving
Regular Givers donated over 505,000
providing help every month
to families across Africa

Patrons and celebrities

Thanks to all those patrons and
celebrities who lent us their support
in time, endorsements, tweets and
more this year

Gift buyers
Over 17,000 gifts such as chickens, goats
and fruit trees were bought last year,
raising smiles both in the UK and Africa

In the community

Volunteers
A big thank you to our
118 amazing ambassadors
who undertook 343 talks and event
engagements last year, directly raising
over 53,000 and spreading the Send
a Cow story to all those they met

Gift of Legacies
Over 340,000 was donated through
legacies, thanks to the generosity
of supporters and their families

Fundraising
Thank you to all the churches, schools,
rotary clubs, individuals and community
groups across the UK who joined
together to raise over 234,000
Challenges
We are hugely grateful to all those
who ran, cycled or took on other
sponsored events for us. Your efforts
raised an amazing 60,000
Development Education
Thanks to all the schools that
encouraged their pupils to think about
Africa and their role as active
global citizens

Spreading the work

Farmers in Africa
Congratulations to the farmers in our
projects who passed on livestock,
knowledge, skills and advice to others
in their communities
Partners
We are grateful for the support
of all our partners, including
Government of Rwanda, Heifer
International, Heifer Netherlands,
Oxfam, Tearfund and The Brooke

Thank you to all our supporters

Who attended Send a Cow events last
year, including the drinks reception at
the New Club in Edinburgh for new
supporters and those who welcomed
people to the Holbourne museum in
Bath as part of our annual giving
programme, Kebele
Finally, a big welcome to our two
new patrons, Jonathan Dimbleby
and Guy Watson of
Riverford Organic farms!

Institutions
This year we have been able to significantly increase our income from institutional funders to 3,116,000 due to the generosity
of the Department for International Developments UK Aid from the British People, Big Lottery Fund, European
Commission, Jersey Overseas Aid Commission, Isle of Man International Development Committee, Guernsey Overseas
Aid Commission, the United Nations Development Programme and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation amongst others
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A confident and thriving rural

AFRICA
Burundi continues to be troubled by violent conflict
which has led to a large number of men being killed over
the decades and the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS. Officially
recognised as the hungriest country in the world, an
estimated 7 out of 10 people live below the poverty
line of $1.25 a day. Around 70% of under five year olds
are suffering from malnutrition. There are also
considerable pressures on the land owing to the growing
population, a legacy of political instability at all levels,
and environmental degradation due to climate change.
Officially launched in 2014, we have established a successful
pilot phase with 357 households taking part in our livestock and
farming programme in two provinces. These are quickly delivering
change to some of the countries most malnourished families.

Zambia has one of the fastest growing populations in sub Saharan Africa,
but also one of the youngest. An estimated 44% are under 15 years of age,
while just over 32% are aged 15 24. Extreme poverty is much higher
in rural areas, 57% against 13% in urban. Despite an abundance
of natural resources and a proactive poverty reduction strategy,
60.5% of the population still live below the poverty line.
And while nearly 60% of Zambias total land area is classified
as having potential for agriculture, less than half that land
is cultivated.
Send a Cow Zambia is jointly managing a programme with the
US charity Heifer International working with 2,514 households to
bring them out of poverty through social development, training, the
placement of goats and improved access to markets.

9 References: The CIA World Factbook, the Global Hunger Index, The United Nations Human Development Index, The World Bank and in-country sources.

Lesotho is the smallest of our small countries, and a unique and

special kingdom in the sky. A mountainous country, it experiences a
wide range of weather from hot, humid summers to cold, dry winters
punctuated by thundershowers, hailstorms and snow. Approximately
58% of the population live below the poverty line and dependency
is deeply embedded. Of the 70% living in soil eroded, rural areas,
30% are living in extreme poverty which is compounded by very
high levels of HIV/AIDS and families split by migration as people
seek employment in neighbouring South Africa.
Since its formal establishment in 2004, Send a Cow Lesotho has
established a reputation for effective project management and is
now leading and/or partnering in four EU funded projects, in total
supporting 2,939 households.

Ethiopia is geographically diverse but only 39% of the

population has access to safe drinking water and 90% have

no access to improved sanitation. The majority of its 90 million
population live in the highlands on smallholder farms. But
unpredictable rainfall, soil erosion and a shortage of grazing land,
means these farms have very low productivity which leads to
severe malnutrition, especially among women and children.

Uganda was the very first country we started to work with in 1988, sending cows to families
rebuilding their lives after the civil war. 28% of the population currently live below the poverty line
and while 75% of labour is in agriculture, land degradation means low productivity and poor yields.
Of the estimated 8 million youth aged between 15 and 30, 50% are unemployed. Of the
17 million children, 46% are experiencing child poverty. 14% of those children are orphans and
45.6% of those orphans have lost parents to HIV/AIDS.

We have successfully delivered a DFID funded project to

5,800 households that concluded in this year and which was
evaluated by Oxford University researchers (see Our Impact,
Ethiopia www.sendacow.org/ethiopia-impact). We are
also delivering four other projects targeting womens
empowerment, improvements in equine welfare and value
addition through the processing of the root vegetable taro.

We are currently delivering two Department for International Development (DFID) funded projects,
and with other funded projects the team are working with 3,587 households across the country,
including street children in a youth referral unit, and a community project linked to a school.

Kenyas population has tripled

Rwanda was seriously affected by 1994 genocide

and has high levels of widows and orphans. It also has a
disproportionate number of disabled people living with
HIV/AIDS. Up to 60% of the total population is believed
to be living below the poverty line and despite managing
to reduce poverty by 12% since 2010, 44% of under-fives are
stunted through malnutrition. Around 80% of the population
depend on agriculture for their livelihood, but the majority
are subsistence farmers on small land sizes and the sector
is very fragile.
Since 2002, Send a Cow Rwanda has been rebuilding communities
alongside increasing farming productivity and incomes. See Rwanda
impact report (www.sendacow.org/rwanda-impact-report).
The team are currently delivering two DFID funded projects,
contributing to a portfolio of projects supporting a total of
3,099 households.

Introducing two new

Country Directors,
Manthethe Monethi
in Lesotho and Patrick
Sambaga in Uganda.

My hope or vision would

be for the households of
Lesotho to be food secure,
and for people to have that
excitement when they see
their situation is changing,
Manthethe Monethi

in the last 35 years, increasing

pressure on the countrys resources
and leaving its youth especially
vulnerable to poverty. Its economy is
primarily dependent on agriculture and
two thirds of the population live in rural
areas on smallholder farms. But only 20%
of the land mass is arable and the
increasing frequency of droughts and
floods have undermined farmers ability to
feed themselves, which in turn has led to
increased sickness and inability to work.

Send a Cow Kenya became legally recognised

as a national NGO in July 2013, taking over the
Western Kenya programme. This is an area of
high agricultural potential, but also high
population pressure. The team is now half
way through delivering one DFID project
which will touch 2,891 households.

My goal would be to
grow the programmes of
Send a Cow Uganda to
impact as many people
as possible. That is my
dream, Patrick Sambaga

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Send a Cow's concept of enabling and supporting individual

African farmers to help themselves has been proved and
refined over many years: we know we have the right
methods and the right skills to make a real difference.
Now we have the responsibility and the opportunity to
apply them, to transform the lives of as many desperately
poor people as we possibly can.

This
year
we

Burundi, we secured funding to expand our pilot programme (65 households) to a

357 household programme, which will eventually grow to 800 households in 2015/16

In

Three years ago, the Trustees decided that now was the
time to force the pace, dramatically scale up our work on
the ground, find new sources of funding and grow the organisation to achieve these
objectives. We have tasked our new Chief Executive Simon Barnes with making this
growth happen and with helping one million people a year by 2020.

Created a new five-year Enterprising

This has been a transition year for everyone at Send a Cow, as Simon has set new
challenges for our people and placed his own stamp on our organisation, during his
first full year in the job. Despite all the changes, the team has achieved a further
significant expansion of our funding and of our operations on the ground - and
thereby started to implement the growth strategy we have committed to.

Grew income 7% to 6.7m and were successful in an application for a UKAID

match for autumn 2015

Moving
forward
we will

Launch our new strategic plan and build on our core strengths of
helping people farm successfully, combined with social development work into other
areas including dependency, community, youth, enterprise and land
Run a successful UKAID

match campaign this Autumn to raise 2m

Continue to prioritise investing in our capacity and competence across all

country programmes to deliver

high quality and impactful programmes

Work towards Send a Cow being better known as an organisation producing high
quality work and a leader on rural African development

On behalf of the Donors and Supporters who make our work possible, of the Group
Trustees and of the members of our National Boards in Africa, the UK and the US,
I would like to thank Simon, our Senior Management Team and all our staff, as well
as our volunteer helpers, for their incredible dedication and hard work.
'Transition' has also come to the Group Trustees! After five years of committed service
to Send a Cow, our Chairman Michael Perreau is retiring from the Board. We thank
him for his wise leadership and hard work and are determined to pursue the vision
of a confident and thriving rural Africa which he has done so much to realise.

Africa Strategic Plan for growing our impact

Published and shared with stakeholders, excellent impact reports covering our work
in Rwanda and the results of a resilience and programme delivery project, and shared
with multiple stakeholders

But at the same time, we must be careful to maintain the high standards and the tight
focus on what we do best, which have long made Send a Cow a byword for successful
rural development in the countries where we operate.
Behind Send a Cow's achievements and ambitions lies a dynamic and growing team,
now working in seven African countries - where the staff are almost entirely African as well as the UK and most recently, the US. In total we employ 208 committed
individuals, all determined to do their bit to give the smallholders we work with the
hope and the means to lift themselves out of extreme poverty and secure their own
futures from the land.

Grew the programme in all 7 countries and worked with 21,187 households
approximately 120,000 people directly in developing sustainable farming livelihoods

We
will
also...

Continue to invest in engaging with our supporters and growing and

diversifying our income streams, through continuing growth in the US,
strengthening of our partnerships, and building our community focus

Create a country board in Kenya and develop the board in

Lesotho to support the further deepening and expansion of these

John Geake, Chairman Designate

Board of Trustees
Send a Cow Group
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country programmes

ENTERPRISING AFRICA
Our five-year strategy for a confident and thriving rural Africa
Send a Cow knows it cannot solve the worlds problems, but we are confident that our development
programmes, honed over nearly 30 years, are capable of helping many more people in Africa.
Thats why we have launched our new five-year strategy, called Enterprising Africa, which aims to
scale up our programmes to reach our goal of working with one million people a year by 2020,
whilst continuing to deepen our impact by addressing the strategic challenges.
You only have to look at the facts to understand the need for our work: Africas population is set
to double to over 2 billion people by 2040; an estimated 220 million people already go hungry
every day; 47% of the of the population live on less than 80p a day and young people are
a growing demographic.
Our solution is to evolve our programmes and build on our core strengths of training, social
development and the provision of livestock to deliver on five further key areas:

DEPENDENCY
We will demonstrate that a hand up works better
than a handout and help change mind-sets by
asking what do you have? instead of the usual
what do you need? We will encourage people
to envision a future which they can make
happen, rather than assume change can only
come from outside.

COMMUNITY
We will engage everyone, including
marginalised groups, in improving the
dynamics of the community to broaden
and strengthen the impact of projects.
Also improve gender relations at all levels
for a more equitable sharing of resources.

YOUTH
We will encourage the youth to see the
opportunities of rural life. Help them to
access and utilise education, identify
a vocation and develop business
opportunities. This will reduce migration
and unemployment as more young
people build their futures locally.

ENTERPRISE
Continue to encourage small businesses so
people have diversified and varied incomes
which will help secure their futures against
unexpected shocks like crop failures and
natural disasters. Also work with farmers to
develop markets and value chains so they
can bulk process, store and market produce.

LAND
Broaden our approach to enable all
members of rural communities address the
many and varied issues affecting the land
they live on from deforestation, water loss
and soil infertility to land ownership, land
tenure and land grabbing.

Its an ambitious strategy and we will need to treble our core programmes
and double our income to achieve it, but we are confident we have the
expertise and experience to deliver.
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Finance
Our income for the year was 6,712k,
an increase of 7% over the previous year.
We continue to diversify our income sources and have
again built on our institutional funding to increase our
impact of our programmes in Africa. Income included a
grant from Send a Cow, Inc of 120k and we secured
additional grants from the Department for International
Development (DFID).
Income from voluntary sources continues to be very
important to us as an organisation, raising money from
the general public as well as through partnerships with
corporates. It allows us the flexibility to direct these
funds to where theyre most needed and maximise our
organisational effectiveness.
Total charitable expenditure increased by 15% to 5.4m,
compared to 4.7m last year. Of this 4.9m was spent on
social development and agricultural projects, and 0.5m
was spent on education projects in the UK, together with
advocacy and campaigning on behalf of smallholder
farmers in Africa.
This increase in expenditure has enabled us to increase
our impact with the farmers that we work with and to
continue to provide quality programmes in Africa.
We are pleased to share that we continue to maintain
a tight control on our investment in raising funds and
as a percentage of our total income it was maintained
at 18%. This is in line with our five-year plan and we
expect to see it decrease as we benefit from efficiencies
and economies of scale as we grow.
Send a Cow has worked hard to maintain its income
sources and to control expenditure levels and ended the
year with a small surplus. The total assets were 1.9m
at June 2015.
Enterprise in action. Pictured are taro farmers in
southern Ethiopia that Send a Cow have been training
to process this type of yam into a flour. This innovative
project, extends the shelf life and adds value by
creating a food source farmers can eat during the
hungry months and sell for a high price
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Financial information (unaudited)

Year ended 2015

Grant and trust income

54%

Year ended
Year ended
30 June 2015 30 June 2014

In the year to June 2015,

Send a Cow

raised 6.7m

Voluntary
income

Other income 1%

45%
Investment in
raising funds to
deliver our work

income
...................
expenditure

18%

In the year to June 2015,

Send a Cow

spent 6.7m
of which

Governance costs 1%

Advocacy,
campaigning and
education projects

8%

5.4m

was spent on
charitable objectives

73%

Social development
and agricultural projects

Group incoming resources

000

000

Voluntary income
Grants and trust income
Other income

3,013
3,642
57

3,233
3,014
29

6,712

6,276

4,875
525
80
1,215

4,271
407
53
1,147

6,695

5,878

Group outgoing resources

Social development and agricultural projects
Advocacy, campaigning and education projects
Governance costs
Investment in raising funds to deliver our work

Balance sheet
as at 30 June 2015

As to
As to
30 June 2015 30 June 2014
000

000

Fixed assets
Current assets
Creditors: amounts due within one year

285
1,932
(292)

229
2,025
(346)

Net assets

1,925

1,908

Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds

1,280
645

1,139
769

Total funds

1,925

1,908

Statement from Trustees

The financial information presented here for the year ending June 2015
represents the Send a Cow Group figures. The information was taken from
our full financial statements, copies of which can be obtained from our office.
Adrian White, Treasurer, November 2015
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Send a Cow President

His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales

Send a Cow UK Patrons

Archbishop John Sentamu
Baroness Lynda Chalker of Wallasey
David Suchet OBE
Nick Park CBE
Rosemary Conley CBE
Sir John Houghton CBE
Jonathan Dimbleby
Guy Watson

Send a Cow Uganda Patron

Archbishop Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo
(retired)

Send a Cow Lesotho Patron

Prince Seeiso Bereng Seeiso
Thanks to all photographers, including Dom Aitken,
Rachel Bunce, Anna Campbell-Johnston, Mark Darrough,
Simon Doherty, Wayne Hutchinson, Ben Langdon,
Aggrey Nshekanabo, Wondwossen Teshome, Jane Futrell
Ric Rawlins and others.

Send a Cow,
The Old Estate Yard,
Newton St Loe, Bath,
BA2 9BR
UK
Telephone: +44 (0)1225 874 222
e-mail: info@sendacow.org
Send a Cow November 2015
Reg charity number 299717

www.sendacow.org