TIGER TEMPLE - The $40,000

Cee4life is an Australian not-for-profit organisation ( NGO ) that claims to protect and rescue animals and wildlife.

Public records show that less than 10% of their income was used to care for and or help animals.

The following Cee4life income statements were obtained from the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) website. ACNC is the statutory body that regulates charities in Australia.

Activities for financial year 2015-2016:

Summary:

1) Total revenue $22,285.25.

2) Director’s Stipend (salary) of 7.18%

3) The portion spent on “Animals Care” was 7.19%.

4) Admin Fees and Charges which included “office rental” $613.59.

5) 92.81% of total revenue was spent on everything else.

6) $959.90 for vehicle registration and maintenance.

 

Activities for financial year 2016-2017:

Summary:

1) Total revenue of $17683.57.

2) Flight expenditure had dropped by 52.98% compared to previous year.

3) Despite a significant reduction in travel, with the exception of accommodation expenditure, taxis and car expenditures and food and sundries expenditures were higher than the previous year. In fact, food and sundries went up by 55.13%

4) Spending on “animal care” had nearly halved to 3.61% compared to the previous year of 7.19%.

5) 96.39% of total revenue spent on everything else.

6) Support loan from Director of $6123.21 (to be repaid).

The assessment of the 2 financial statements raises some questions:

1) Why did food and sundries cost rise drastically by 55.13% when travel expenditure had dropped by 52.98%? There are rumors that Foxcroft uses Cee4life income on herself. These financial statements would appear to support this.

2) Why was there an office rental since Foxcroft and her board members would have worked from home. Was Foxcroft charging rental space for using her own home?

3) Foxcroft claimed that she had been in Thailand investigating the Tiger Temple. So why was there an expenditure for $959.90 vehicle registration and maintenance for financial year 2015-2016? Was this an upkeep for her personal vehicle? If she was using taxis abroad and at home, why the need for a vehicle?

4) Why was there a 17.49% increase in Taxi and Fuel/Taxi and Car when travels had dropped by over 50%. For argument sake, let’s say that Foxcroft was home in Australia for the financial year 2016-2017, why didn’t she use the car?

5) What exactly is “animal care” expenses? This expenditure amount is more typical of what you would spend on your pets. Was Foxcroft using donations on her pets?

6) Was there really a support loan from Foxcroft to Cee4life or was it in paper only so that she can take that amount from Cee4life income from the next financial year to “pay” herself?

Also, contrary to claims made by Foxcroft that her organisation Cee4life would be “lucky if they raised $20,000 a year”, $22,285.25 was raised for financial year 2015-2016.

Foxcroft said that, “none of the board members ever received a wage”. The record indicates she paid herself a salary of $1600. Why was she not forthcoming about this? Whilst it may be legal for Foxcroft to pay herself a wage, as the director of Cee4life, she owes a legal “fiduciary duty of loyalty ” to her NGO, not to herself. Clearly there was a conflict of interest.

Despite Foxcroft’s repeated claims that the tigers “were in perfect health and doing excellent ”, the lives of the tigers she condemned to the DNP did not improve. Here is a post by an ex Tiger Temple volunteer who attended the DNP press conference about the death of one of the tigers back in September 2019: https://www.facebook.com/julianne.chisholm.5/posts/2741477492532117

Imagine what this money could have done for the tigers if it was actually spent on them. More than half of the 147 tigers are now dead.

Last year Foxcroft finally gave a paltry $1000 AUD (2.5% of the $40,000) to the tigers. This is a little too late. For someone who constantly claims that she loves the tigers, you would think Foxcroft would be pleased and welcomes the ex Tiger Temple volunteers working hard to ensure better enclosures and life for the tigers. Instead, she chooses to slander them with every opportunity she gets.

Having been exposed by two brave ex Cee4life volunteers, Foxcroft is trying very hard to dig herself out with theories that the tigers were sick before they were confiscated. She does not provide any evidence to support this. These theories appear to be nothing more than desperate attempts to absolve herself from her misdeeds. 

Foxcroft continues to deceive her followers and the National Geographic, exploiting the fact that these people do not do their due diligence.

Make no mistake, Foxcroft is forever bound to these dead tigers.

A. Tiger.