Trustees Annual Report 2022-23
Reference and Administratve Details
Charity Number: 1090006
Registered Office: 68 Whitefields Drive, Richmond, North Yorkshire, DL10 7DL.
Charity Chair: Gwendoline Butler
Trustees: Jonathan David Clarke, Anne Hulda Ericssen Suttie, Audrey Anne Simpson
Achievements and Performance
Several trips have been made to Darwin’s Auctioneers with the car full of donations to sell. These auction sales are going well, and Mike Darwin has agreed to sell our items with zero commission since we are a charity. Unsold items are either returned to Bunny Burrows or kept and entered in future sales.
Online sales through Facebook Marketplace and eBay have decreased significantly this year as a direct result of the cost-of-living crisis. We are hoping this will improve in the 2023/24 financial year and will continue to look at different revenues for fundraising.
Easy Fundraising and Amazon Smiles have been a successful in raising additional income however, Amazon has stopped their Amazon Smiles program.
Deficit in funds has been covered by Charity Chair Gwendoline Butler using her personal finances.
Charity Chair Gwendoline Butler, volunteer Moira Barker and Fliss the dog took part in the filming of The Yorkshire Auction House to raise awareness and funds for Bunny Burrows. The show was aired on Really on 12[th] March 2023 and raised £544.91.
Volunteer numbers have remained the same and the decision was made between the trustees that we would no longer accept volunteers under the age of 18, those wanting to do work experience unless they are studying to become a vet or veterinary nurse and those who are wanting to do voluntary work as part of the Duke of Edinburgh program.
Once again there has been a noticeable increase in the number of people wanting to surrender their pets and fewer people wishing to re-home through rescues. We have noticed and been alerted to more adverts on social media where animals are been given away for free. The number of rabbits that have been dumped in the nearby area is heartbreaking and not all have been found alive. Due to this we have had to become more selective with the animals that we take in, focusing on those most in need. Re-homing is no longer the main aim of Bunny Burrows as most of the animals taken in require complex on-going medical care.
The rearing and rehabilitation of wild rabbits is a high priority for us, with no limits set on the amount of baby wild rabbits we take in.
We enter the 2023/24 financial year looking for new suppliers for hay and newspapers. The Northern Echo has moved to smaller premises and is no longer able to supply us with left over newspapers. The farmer who we buy our hay off has retired and closed his farm supplies shop.
Receipts and payments 2022-23
| receipts donations bank interest fund raising food/medication rehoming Grants HMRC Holiday boarding deficit check: diff in bank accounts depreciation |
13317.74 4207.36 560.75 270.00 5000.00 8929.34 4126.00 |
| 36411.19 3062.02 |
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| 39473.21 | |
| 2496.52 565.5 3062.02 |
| payments vet fees food/animal products postage Car fuel General expenses depreciation building Dec 2016 5655 10years |
12232.95 19250.46 1236.01 864.96 5323.33 565.50 39473.21 39473.21 0.00 |
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Independent Examfners Report Flnandal Year. 01 April 2022- 31 March 2023 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above chafity I'the Trust'l for the year éndèd 3V0312023. As the charity trustees of the Trus¢ you are responsible for the preparatlon of the accounts in acrorthnce with the requirements of the (harities Act 2011 {'the Act ). Independent examiner's statement I feport kn respett of my eXamon of the Trust's accounts carried out under sectioTr 145 of the 2011 Act and in carryin8 Out my examinatTron, I fcAlowed the applicable Directions 8iven by the Charity Commission under sertion 14515)Ib) of the Att. Indwnd•nt Sx•mlnorfs Statement: I have completed my examinatlon. I confim) that no material matters have come to my attention in £onne£tion with the eXaMin whth giyes me £ause to believe that in, any n1ater1 respect: accountlng records were not kept In accordance with sectlon 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records. I hwe no concerns and hwe come across no other matters In connecllon wlth the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper unde_rstanding of the accounts to be reached. Prfnt Name: £ iAfPJI> Relevant Profe10n31 uafffiotionls) or body (ff any): LzoALc1 12 r/ l-l+ty