ANIMAL AID & ADVICE Page 1 RECEIPTS & PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR YEAR END 31 0ECEM8ER 2023 TOTAL FUNDS - 2023 TOTAL FUNOS - 2022 UNRESTRICTED- RECEIPTS DonatlonslGrants Grant Barnel Counol Donations Memberships Lend a Paw Stallslsales Charity Shop 7.877.85 151. 1,5e8.CO 9.308.70 166. 2,IX11.tJ) 31.536.86 33.198.84 Legacy 41.133.71 44.674.54 Recei ts from Assets Recel ts from Assets Coop 4.33 237.01 TOTAL RECEIPTS 41.375.05 44.874.79 PAYMENTS Olrect Charitabl Ex Veterinary Fees Fosler Fees Baskets & Traps C4 Neutering rtditurt 35,111.18 8.587.56 30,024.12 5.633.05 3.(YX).00 Other Ex enditure C05t of Slallsjsales Charity Shop Rent & Costs 10,276.86 9,789.76 Printing & Stationery Administration Car Expenseslcar Overhead5 Repairs & ￿￿1ntenart Advertising Insurance - Shops Insurance - Trustees Website Mainlenance Bank Charges 209.88 143.59 2,688.29 2.821.C6 216.72 8.47 249.47 2.272.13 2,771.05 .60 259.00 190.(J) 203.07 3TT.01 190.IX) 196.81 TAL PAYMENTS 60,707.21 54,876.47 Net of Recei - Pa ments .19,332.16 10,201.68 Cash Funds Last Ye¥r End 211.464.49 221.666.17 Cash Funds This Year End 192,132.33 211,464.49 ANIMAL AID & ADVICE Page 2 STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES CASH FUNDS Nal Wesl 8arclays Cash in Hand 76.054.54 28,122.93 12.36 Santsnder 8usiness 8ond Co-op Business Bond Total Cash Funds 87.172_05 riO.45 19Z.132.33 ASSETS RETAINED FOR THE CHARITY'S OWN USE Baskets Crush Baskets Traps Pens Hospitalisalion Pens Car Woods Larnp Shop Ti115 Desktop CompLrter ScannerlPrirrter Digilal Camera Micro-chip scanner Mobile phone LIABILITIES Vets Bills Expense Claims Signed on behalf of the Trustees.. Marilyn Dyson Treasuref Date.. 12th February 2024 ANIMAL AID & ADVICE NORTH LONDON Page One Registered Charrty No: 1039640 Working to promote responsible pet ovmership wwuV.animalaidandadvice.or Princi al Address.. 48Hi h Road East Finchle London N2 9PJ Annual Review - 1 January - 31 December 2023 Trustees.. Chair.. ut Chair-. Clara Colvin Marilyn Dyson Hon Treasurer Hon. Secreta Sally Sampaio Committee Members No others All our Trustees served throu hout 2023 Animal Aid & Advice North London is a registered Charity. Number 1039640, founded in 1971. The Charily's Airns and Objectives are the provision of care and sheller of stray. neglected and unwanted animals of all kinds. Most of our work currently involves iescuing stray, abandoned cats with some re- horning of unwanted ones. Some small mammals occasionally come into Ouf care but 99% of our work involves cats. We also promote how to be a responsible pet owner and the Importan￿ of neutering which gives a better qualrty of lrfe to cats. The Charity has a non-destruction policy. To achieve these aims the Charity encourages and helps people to have their animals neutered and disseminates information on responsible pet ownetship among the public. The Management Committee cornprises the Chairman. Deputy Chairman, Honorary Secretary, Honorary Treasurer and can be up to four other Commfftee Member5. All of these would be Trustees of the Charity. The Charity's bankers are: Barclays Bank PLC. PO Box 6549. Muswell Hill, London N10 and Nat West Bank PLC, 190 Musw￿l1 Hill Broadway. London N10 3TF There are no paid officials or staff and the group owns no premises. Elections of officers and committee members take place annually at the Annual General Meeting. Eligible outgoing members may stand for re-election. The Annual General Meeting is held within three months of the end of the financial year. Election of Officers and Committee Members for 2Q23. Clara Colvin was elected chair. Marilyn Dy50n Deputy Chair: Sally Satnpaio Hon. Secretary. Marilyn Dyson Treasurer. General: We would like to thank Accountants, Amir Associates Ltd of 39 Braemar Avenue. Wood Green London N22 7BY for their work in examining the accounts. The Trustees continue an on-going review of the systems of financial and administrative control and continued to introduce new procedures in respect of both income and expenditure, which the Trustees believe will ensure that the charity continues to operate in accordanTr with best practice. Page two Finano.. The accounts for the year ended 31 ' December 2023 are part of this review Donations.. The income from donations is down on the pyevious year but does tend to fluctuate We have had no legacies left to us this year. Membershi Renewals remain roughly the same bul we are extending our contads through email. We have only 48 life members and now down to 14 yearly ones. Our Lend-a-Paw scPEme still generates a regular Sour￿ of income and raised £1,568 this year. This is lower than P￿vIouS years dl￿ to tIE loss of (Tr of our more generou5 donors. Charit Sho The shop has been fully operational throughout 2023 and has generated an inccme of £31,537. The shop Is the mainstay for the charity arKI Is a still focal point for our regular customer5 who normally pop in hoping lo fnd a bargain. Wrth competrtion from attr￿r shops in the High Street we are forever grateful for their support. Recei ts from Asset5', We have had an increase this year on nonnally low interest rates in the pasl Velerina Fees. Are higher due to increasiro costs and the number of catslkrttens passiTr3 through our haThds Fosteri Costs.. As our in take of cats has risen our fostering costs have increased. Mums and ktttens take up a large proportion of these costs but we are forever grateful to the fosterers who take ￿ this endless task of feeding and cleaning up after these little rogues. Some cats do sperKJ kjnger time with us before being re- homed or moved on but we have tned. where FX)ssible, to redu￿ the tsme that animals SFEnd with us arKI this has been reflected in our overall costs. Foster homes remained much the same as the previous year. C4: The changes to C4 by RSPCA, Cats Protection aTrJ Battersea has had such an impact on the smaller charities and independent rescuets. Where ￿fore, wrth the original Idea of C4 they were willing io neuter the cats for them, this is no longer the case. The wort( that they did was most beneficial as these people ycked up the strays that the larger groups w￿re not able to help or missed out altogelher. All of this contributed in reducing numbers of unwanted krtiens. un-neutered cats arKI strays. thich also ha& an effed on the cats passing through their and our hands. Re branded aThJ being njn by Cats Protection we feel very disappointed by the outcome of this new scheme as they seem to be concentrab'ng more on owned cat's and not supporting the strays. We feel we are unable to support this new scheme. Sho and Rent Costs have marginaly increased tArt to be exFected. Vehicle Costs are higher than last year. When car had rts usual MOT and seNice we were advised that rt needed new ￿akes. Overheads are slEhtly higher due to risiro costs all round is to te expected. Re airs & Maintenance. Regular serviong of tIE Fire ExliThJuishers ts camed out each year and other mincy expenses. . Page three Fieldwork.. The number of cats being homed is slightly higher than the previous year. Economic pressures of households sts'll affect the uptake of new pets and people have specific criteria for cats they wish to give homes to. Cats that have been neutered has increased. with microchips much Ihe same. Cats taken in by other animal charity groups is much higher as is cats being retumed back on site where safe lo do so. Cats in long and short term foster care remained constant. Our intake of FIV+ cats is much le55 than previous years. If anyone would be interested in giving a home to one of our rescue cats, please speak to us after the meeting. Fielthork Cats Homed Cats Neutered Cats Micro-chipped Cats into care wrth other groups Cats retumed back on site Cats in longlshort term foster care EuthanasialDied FIV+ FELV+ Guinea P. 2023 53 82 48 26 24 28 10 2022 43 49 40 28 We continue to test all cats that pass through our hands for the FIV and FELV virus. We vaccinate against Feline Enteritis: Influenza and Leukaemia and micro-chip them on re-homing. These measures offer cats the maximum possible prolection. Our figures show that our Fieldworker activities were busy throughout the year dealing with stray, feral and abandoned cats and we thank our fieldworkers for their continued ex￿pIlOnaI work. Social Media.. Our Website still generates interest in adopting our cats. Our Thanks: We are. as ever grateful lo The Hills Veterinary Practice. 178 Park Road, N8, and the Village Vet Potters Bar, for their continued support. The Scratching Post in Hertfordshire and our grateful thanks to the Rhodes Minnis Cat Sanctuary for taking in a number of cats from u5 this year. In Conclusion: At the end of 2023 shows thal we are down by £19,332 thereby reducing our resenjes to £192,132. In line with the Trustees, aim to hold a minimum reserve of at least two year's expenditure, we are still in a posits.on to do so. This would enable the charity to continue in full operation if any Sour￿ of income were lost until such time as a repla￿ment Sour￿ could be found in line with other charities. Finall as Chair I would like to thank our Trustees for their hard work and support. Our thanks also go to all our dedicated volunteer workers in the field. the shop. fostering. fund-raising and helping with social media. Volunteers are the lifeblood of a group such as ours without whom we could not continue our. work for the animals, Date. 14° APRIL 2024 A_NINL4L Air) & Ar)￿'lLE INDEPEbDENI" I,"XAMINERS REPORT"r()'I'l IF: I111.STEES or ANIMAI. AII) AND .4DIYIC.F.. I rel￿rt on thc accounls vl-Ih¢ C'liarit¥ fThr the )'car cn(k.d i l D¢Ltiiiber ?117.1 llespecti￿e reKkxinsihililiL% c)r'i'rusiees and min¢r IhL fharily's -I"rusie¢s are responsible l()r IhL pi"epi1f<1tinn ()l- dcci)unl%. '[ hL Charirk'< TTuslee4 Liin_¥idLr ihat the audit requ iremenl.% ()I' %LL'lii)n 4i(2) of L h rL'411ifLNd b)." Ilie L h41rilie% ,4LI ?1) I I ￿ld Lllarilies Act 21)06. iIAsis of Independent F.x¥miner's Keporl MN. e¥iim inalii)n i•'&s (arri￿d our in ac¢ord4ince M'ith IhL UL TILral directions g.1￿.¢￿ b).. the Charil!. C 4)ITIIIIIS>ioiiers. Ali exiirn inalion inLludL% a rLview of accoiinrin¢T re¢c)rd¥ klpl h> il)L L liariiv and a Lonipii ri%i)n (?l- IhL IILLI)uiiiS presenled i¥ ith thosc rcLI•Td%. I i also includes ¢onsideTation ()l- ￿n). iieiiis or d isclosiires in the dLL()unls aiid Si¢king. ¢xplcinrd.% and io Compl￿ with the KCLHJnlin4F rk4uifLmLnL% ufiliL ALI have not been Mer Dr tc) w h iLh in upift ion. fiirention shnuld bc draii n in vr¢Jcr lu enab le a proper understanding ol- thL dLLiJunL% 1¢) IK. rL'iiiliLxI Tiiiiseeq A N477 (if&AiA) ANIIK .4NI) AssnciATF.S