## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Doris Banham Dog Rescue **Other names charity is known by** The Doris Banham Sanctuary **Registered charity number (if any)** 1103372 **Charity's principal address** Doris Banham Dog Rescue, Wells Lane Cottage, Wells Lane, Cottam.
**Postcode** DN22 0EZ
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
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## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
To relieve the suffering of abandoned dogs who are in need by reason of being unwanted, unhealthy, sick, old, abused, maltreated, disturbed, unpredictable, in poor circumstances or similar causes by the provision of a home, care, medication and veterinary attention with the aim of rehabilitation and rehoming or enabling the dogs to live out their lives in a comfortable and caring environment
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**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
Our Charity is always vigilant in adhering to the Charity Commission’s Guidelines on public benefit. We provide a service to society by saving the lives and alleviating the suffering of society’s lost, stolen and abandoned dogs which have been placed in council pounds and have not been claimed by their owners within the statutory seven days and other dogs in life threatening situations. We actively seek to locate original owners, working with dog lost sites. We also provide healthy and homeable dogs to the qualifying public who are looking for a loving pet. All our rehomed dogs are neutered and vaccinated and re-educated if necessary. Our full lifelong rescue back up provides the public with peace when taking on a canine companion. We also provide help and advice for dog owners. We co-ordinate rescue placements for lost and abandoned dogs with appropriate rescue centres. Over-breeding of puppies for profit has caused a significant problem within our society particularly as a large proportion of the dogs bred by non-reputable breeders are homed without proper care and responsibility. This has led to a large number of dogs being abandoned and ultimately ending up as stray dogs in council pounds. We extend our compassionate ethos to and provide a flexible people friendly service to those in tragic and unfortunate circumstances such as the homeless and evicted, terminally ill, those going into care and prison etc who have to give up loved pets and we ease human pain by keeping in contact with original owners and providing updates, pictures etc. We are often the last port of call for vets, the police and social services who do not wish to euthanase an animal. Alongside our frontline active rescue work, we also strive to highlight the stray situation in order to seek solutions. We work with dog wardens and councils to seek improved pound conditions and animal welfare standards. Our work within the pounds enhances compassion and changes ethos thus improving the position of the stray dog. We also helped to promote compulsory micro chipping. Our volunteers are trained to microchip and microchip our own dogs. We also use our community-based shops as centres to promote awareness of the stray situation and as education centres giving advice on pet welfare.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Front line pound rescue where lives are at stake and euthanasia deadlines have to be beaten is a very painful task and can only be carried out by those who truly believe in what they are doing. Our Charity seeks to operate as an animal welfare rescue operation saving the lives and alleviating the suffering of dogs who are due to die because they have not been reclaimed by their owners within the 7 statutory days that the law gives an owner to find and reclaim their dogs. We also save the lives of: at the request of the police, dogs who had been released from police kennels; at the request of vets, dogs who had been brought in by their owners for euthanasia; at the request of social services, the dogs of people who are in dire circumstances or had contracted covid - (fear of infection from covid made these dogs at risk due to the reluctance to go in to pick them up and what they might carry on their fur); dogs at risk because their rescues had been forced to close down or they were unable to manage the dog; dogs in dangerous life-threatening situations such as those at risk of being used for baiting and fighting, owned by drug gangs or back street breeders.
We are always the dogs’ ‘Last Chance to Live and we exhaust all alternative options for a dog before we take them into our care. All the dogs in our kennels would have died if we had not rescued them.
The Charity has no defined hierarchy but is run by a superb team of extremely dedicated volunteers who give their services free of charge. In this way 100% of the donations and grants are spent on rescuing and rehoming the dogs thus enabling us to maximise the service we can provide on the funds received. We are dependent on the dedication of these volunteers who believe in what we do to enable us to continue our work.
Through their shared love of dogs, their sense of injustice at what is happening to them and their belief in the value of all life they perform an exceptional service to animals and to the society. So very much is demanded of them as they may be called upon to save a life at any time day or night. Journey times are long and the work within the pounds is very harrowing.
Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance Our Charity did not batten down the hatches and merely attempt to **Summary of the main** survive during the pandemic but still actively continued to undertake its **achievements of the charity** life-saving work. We saw that dogs were also the victims of the pandemic **during the year** and that they were suffering an acute welfare crisis and sought to help other services such vets, the police, pounds, social services etc who were struggling to operate without the normal full back up of dog rescue services and we have continued to work in the same way during 2021. It has been a terribly hard and overwhelming time but we have battled on however hard it has become. The homeless, those suffering from covid and people in other dire circumstances were even more in need of help with their dogs. We felt it was morally right to play our part to the very best of our ability and we are very proud of what we have achieved and the lives we have saved. As we are ‘The Last Chance to Live’ for dogs, all the dogs we take in are facing pts. They are almost always in dire need of urgent veterinary treatment or retraining which has stopped other rescues from wanting to take them into their care – hence their desperate plight. Thus our job has always been a harder one as our kennels are already filled with dogs who would have died without our help and who are undergoing retraining, rehabilitation, veterinary treatment, recuperation and tlc before they are ready for rehoming. The present crisis in rescue has made our job almost impossible. The pandemic’s crazed search for ‘lockdown dogs’ particularly puppies has added to our overwhelming workload as these dogs are abandoned when owners go back to work or resume their busy lives or are unable to cope with their growing dog. We are approached to help, as we have retraining facilities, if their only other alternative is to be put to sleep. These dogs, back street bred or shipped into the country to feed the demand, have been homed without checks to families unsuitable for the dogs. Post the pandemic these dogs are being abandoned in massive numbers, often unsocialised and needing retraining spaces, and have flooded the rescue world. Rescues have collapsed through lack of funds and many rescues who would have taken complex and untrained dogs have become overwhelmed and closed their doors. This crisis in rescue has been greatly exacerbated by the financial situation in the UK with people unable to make ends meet and abandoning their dogs simply because they can no longer afford to keep them. Because we are one of the very few rescues offering retraining, rehabilitation, socialisation and recuperation, we have always been the final chance for dogs who have suffered abuse, neglect and mismanagement. Rescuers have always tried to keep our rescue spaces for the most demanding dogs but come to us for help if the dog is imminently due to be put to sleep and there are
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no other rescue offers for them. Because of the pandemic’s demand for puppies, unscrupulous breeders have been able to sell any puppy and have taken to breeding many specialised large dogs needing experienced homes as they grew such as the Cane Corso. These have been sold as delightful small puppies without any care to unsuitable homes. Some homes have simply abandoned them when the restrictions of the pandemic were lifted and they were able to resume their busy lives and some have been totally unable to cope with them as they grew especially if this was coupled with the family resuming normal life after lockdown. We have always helped with large dogs needing retraining and due to be put to sleep but now we are being overwhelmed with them. We have at present 10 adolescent untrained cane corsos in our care to name just one of the breeds that have flooded the rescue world. Many rescues have closed their doors to them making the pressure on us even greater.
Also the number of requests from other rescues who have taken in dogs whom they are unable to cope with is greatly accelerating and placing a massive pressure on us as we are the last chance for these dogs before their rescues put them to sleep. At the same time there has been a surplus of emergency boarding kennels available at private boarding kennels because of the pandemic affecting the taking of foreign holidays and reducing private boarders. These emergency boarding kennels are a means of saving lives for rescues desperate to save a dog and totally full at their own kennels but even at charity rates the costs can strain rescues finances to the limit causing collapse. Because our main kennels have been continually refilled during the pandemic we have taken a large of number of emergency boarding kennels as it was the only way to save a dog’s life but the cost of this has put us under very considerable financial strain. We have 140 dogs in our care at the moment with 40+ in emergency boarding kennels. The aim is to move the emergency boarding dogs into our main kennels as we rehome but because of the retraining needs of the majority of dogs this process is a slow one.
We also undertake, and have continued to do so throughout the pandemic, many miscellaneous welfare actions such as checking the chips of dogs picked up by members of the public and returning the dogs to their owners; working with organisations trying to locate stolen dogs by going out to check the chips of suspected stolen dogs and then transporting them back to their owners; giving free training advice to owners to
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enable them to keep their dogs; holding dogs whilst owners are temporarily unable to look after them.
We extend our compassionate ethos to humans in pain because through circumstances beyond their control they have to give up much loved pets. Hence we have taken in dogs owned by people with serious or terminal illnesses and suffering with covid who are no longer able to care for them ; dogs belonging to the homeless and those who have been evicted, been imprisoned, suffered family breakdowns and domestic violence.
We are increasingly inundated daily with desperate calls from the public who are in trouble with their dogs and thinking of putting them to sleep as they have tried every rescue and everyone has said no. We try to help in every way we can to attempt to keep the dogs in their homes if it is a good home. We do this with free retraining advice, advice to get their dogs checked at the vets in case the problems they are experiencing are due to veterinary issues, emotional support and back up in every way we can. This is a very emotionally exhausting process but it is a means that lives can be saved.
Stress and lack of funds have led to family breakdowns and evictions often moving to places that do not allow their dog to come too.
We do not charge for our compassionate work and update the owners regularly with videos and photographs to try to ease their pain.
Just a few examples of our work are Rosco (Covid Cane Corso pup) owners had lost control and we had to go in and get the dog to safety; Jasper (rescued from the pound needing extensive veterinary treatment) Duke (seized by the police for incident in home and the police released into our care); Toby (partially sighted dog whom his rescue could not manage and was due for pts); Dusty (young dog believed to have been tied to a pole by his behaviour due for put to sleep at the vets); Bruno (owner was undergoing operations for a brain tumour ); Stella (abandoned traumatised ex breeding bitch); Boo (out of control covid pup); Narla (out of control Covid Cane Corso pup) Amber (13 year old GSD whose owner was not coming out of hospital and she was alone in the house) Snoop (rescued from the pound) Minnie (abused and beaten ex breeding bitch) Blaize (owner too ill to keep him) Milo (helping his homeless owner).
The pandemic has been a time when rules have been rewritten and a whole new way of working to the optimum to save as many lives as possible has had to be devised. We have tried in every way to be there to catch as many dogs as they fall but the strain and the workload has been overwhelming.
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Working truly on the front line of rescue we are known for going where others fear to tread. We rescue dogs abandoned in empty houses, gardens and where people have been taken to hospital with covid. We go out at night and enter undesirable areas. We do whatever is needed simply because the dogs need us to be brave. Our dedicated kennels are manned by an amazing team of animal lovers who provide a complete care, retraining and rehoming package. Their loyalty and love of our charity’s dogs has driven this level of support. Rehoming has been constant during covid but restricted to DEFRA guidelines and we have filled empty kennels with new intake and paired up where possible. Our policy is for potential adopters to meet the dogs as many times as needed before they are able to take the dogs home as we feel that this is an essential part of making sure that the adopters and the dogs themselves are both happy that the match is the right one. We have continued to do this but the pandemic has made this harder to arrange The situation with our charity shops is that we permanently lost our most profitable charity shop in Sheffield. Our lease expired on 1[st] April 2020 and the landlord refused to renew it unless we paid full rent and guaranteed this for three years which was impossible for us. Our second shop is now open again and doing really well. Our third shop was manned by elderly vulnerable volunteers who are not yet happy to risk returning to work. Because of the pandemic we replaced our social activities with online fund raising and we have continued to operate this high degree of online activities. We have extended our Friends of Doris Banham membership package, held auctions, raffles, sales and continuous appeals on facebook and local media. Our lottery is just about to start. We do appeals which allow supporters to fund specific dogs and have promoted our kennel sponsorship scheme. We are still being supported with some of our food by Jack Robinson a Manchester United footballer who approached us during the pandemic and many rescues and organisations send us their surplus food because of the role we play and get some amazing food donations from dog food manufacturers. We are constantly following up any avenues which would produce more income for the charity in our desperate attempt to survive to carry on our lifesaving work. Under the expert guidance of our kennels team our dogs are placed into stable forever homes that are suited to the needs of both the dog and the adopters. These are dogs who without Doris Banham would definitely have died, and it is very motivating what can be achieved through care in our throw-away society and how we can restore to these dogs their rightful importance and value. However, the whole process is a huge and overwhelming challenge but one that we are dedicated to meet. When we take a dog into our care it is impossible to ascertain how long that dog will be with us before they are ready to go into a
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home or what problems we will have to overcome to make them ready for rehoming In addition to truly unconditional rescue, we also ensure that 100% of funds are spent directly on rescuing the dogs to whom they belong. In this way the more funds we raise equates directly to the number of dogs that we can afford to save. We just see ourselves as a hub through which the funds pass enabling them to be changed into what the dogs need. We are all unpaid volunteers with no administration costs and owning no property. We are open to help a dog in need 365 days a year, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Our commitment to providing the best possible veterinary treatment for our rescued dogs and the fact that many of them have been abandoned because of an acute or chronic veterinary condition which needs treatment, means we have established excellent relationships with many veterinary practices, whose discounts have enabled us to maximise our veterinary treatment. In 2013 we were awarded the Burgess/Wetnose Best Dog Rescue Centre, in 2019 the IFAW Animal Action Award for Dog Rescue and in 2020 Charity Champion Award – Amplifon Awards for Brave Britons. Our rescue has been featured on Panorama, Inside Out and in newspapers and magazines such as Dog’s Today, and Dog’s World. We were the only small rescue invited to be featured alongside the RSPCA, Battersea Dogs Home and Dog Trust in the Panorama programme entitled Britain’s Unwanted Pets and Tom Heap spent days travelling with us and experienced saving 8 dogs from pounds on just one of those days who would definitely have died without our help Social media and all administration has in the past been carried out by our volunteers who are also front line because of the extent of our frontline work but now with the help of dedicated administrative volunteers we have a thriving facebook - dorisbanhamuk with 26,000 likes and followers which is gathering support and momentum every day. We have a 5-star rating. We also have an auction and fundraising group and a happy ever afters group for updates on rehomed dogs. Through our facebook, supporters see and become involved with the dogs we rescue from death and witness how they are transformed into lovely homeable dogs. Many fund-raising events, auctions and challenges are organised. Many supporters have dedicated their weddings and birthdays to us and we receive 80% of the proceeds of one holiday chalet and 50% of another. We also have jewellery makers and crafters making goods free of charge to enable us to raise 100% of the proceeds for the Charity. We can sometimes have as little as a couple of hours’ or less notice by telephone that a dog is due to die and it is vital to us to know that we have a kennel that we can fund available immediately to be a safe house for that dog. If we say yes the dog lives and if we say no the dog dies and that is a terrible burden as we are literally the last chance for that
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dog to live. We are constantly seeking sponsorship for our kennels so that we know that we have a funded kennel available for a dog due to be pts. Our quarantine kennels continue to be a Godsend to us and we are constantly searching for increased funding for them. Isolation should always be the first responsible step for any dog coming into rescue especially from the pounds. A two-week isolation period for veterinary treatment including vaccination, worming, defleaing etc. and temperament assessment is of paramount importance to protect the existing dogs in the kennels and also potential adopters and their existing pets. Our kennels need to be experienced and dedicated enough to care for dogs direct from the pound who are frightened, traumatized and may have ailments or veterinary conditions. It is vital that they should be admitted to an experienced kennels where the level of care, skill and dedication is amply sufficient to meet the needs of these dogs. Our kennels allow us to securely house, care for, nurse, medicate, retrain, socialize, walk, exercise, and rehome the dogs rescued by the Charity. The kennels need to be able to deal with all variety of dogs - x breeding bitches, abused dogs, x bait dogs, dogs in need of veterinary treatment, emaciated dogs needing multiple small feeds, untrained young dogs, frail elderly dogs, dogs who have lived in sheds, gardens and alleys and provide them with everything they need to make them well, happy dogs ready for rehoming. Our care package for each dog includes in addition to the services normally provided by a kennels a complete welfare package: positive reward based retraining, socialisation, logging and organising neutering, vaccination, worming and microchipping, visits to the vets, administration of medication and special diets, nursing and recuperation, collection of dogs from the pounds, rehoming, home checking and administration of all these services etc. - all this is included in the daily rate. At our kennels the dogs thrive and become happy dogs again and are found stable loving forever homes. People often remark how shiny and waggy-tailed the dogs are and how amazed they are, when walking our dogs, that the dogs pull back to kennels so keen are they to get home! Rarely does a dog have to come back into our care and then it is usually because family circumstances have changed rather than any fault on the part of the dog. We offer every dog whom we home a lifelong guarantee to come back into our care should they need to so that they never end up in the pound again. The two weeks they spend in the isolation kennels is the vital starting point both for veterinary treatment and retraining needs. Each dog is different and will be with us as long as it takes for us to complete the final piece of the jigsaw of saving their lives and that is finding them a forever home. During this time an individual tailored plan is devised which is suited to the needs of that particular dog.
We have calculated that this is the most cost-effective way for us to give the maximum benefit to the maximum number of rescued dogs. The expert services the kennels provide and the dedication they exhibit to the dogs in their care is outstanding and this combined with their
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professional skills means that we can offer to our dogs a service which far outweighs anything we could afford to provide at a centre run by volunteers and also at a cheaper cost than it would cost to run a centre providing the same facilities and funding the extra services provided. In fact our kennels operate a complete service from collection and newly admitted dog (who is unknown territory when they arrive as to what we will have to deal with) to dog ready in every way for their forever home. If we had to pay separately for all these included additional services we would not be able to save the lives of so many dogs. Retraining is undertaken daily by the same people thereby building trust and consistency. The trainers are producing fantastic results with the dogs with positive reward based training methods and turning dogs around and giving them a fresh new start in life. The kennels also welcome our team of volunteers using PPE to visit the kennels to walk and interact with the dogs giving the dogs extra exercise, lead training and human interaction. The kennels can when required offer 24 hr care for a poorly or traumatised dog. They are also happy to be on call 24 hour a day 365 days a year to go out and pick up or admit a dog in need. . Our rescue are the last people who are contacted to save the life of a dog before they are destroyed. This means that we daily carry the burden of knowing that if we say yes the dog lives and if we say no the dog dies. Thus, we can never relax 24 hours a day 365 days a year as we never know when the next urgent dog will come. We sometimes have very short notice by telephone that a dog is due to die. There are no dogs in our kennels who would not be dead if we had not taken them into our care, as they had no options left to save their lives and no time left to search for any as we seek other rescue spaces right up to the day the destruction is due to ensure that there are no other avenues available to save the dog’s life. Our kennel team of trainers and carers is second to none and work tirelessly to mend the dogs in body and spirit and we are very proud of our rehoming rate. Front line dog rescue is extremely physically hard and emotionally demanding work and we are really proud of our brave and dedicated volunteers who make many personal sacrifices to carry out their life saving work. Often witnessing the condition of dogs arriving from the pound is very painful but being able to help them and seeing these dogs, who suffered and definitely would have died, thriving and finding loving homes reinforces and heartens them. The pandemic has merely added an additional challenge to the challenges we were already facing – saving dogs from being put to sleep in the pounds. The UK has a serious and heart-breaking stray problem that still needs to be addressed simultaneously with the crisis caused by the pandemic. UK strays are kennelled away from the public eye and their desperate plight is not always appreciated by the public in general as the dogs and their condition are not visible on the streets. We continue to strive to highlight their plight with the goal of improving their dire situation. We also seek to raise public awareness of the dangers of irresponsible over-breeding and promote high standards of animal
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welfare, neutering and the adoption of rescue dogs We are proud of what we do, as we are successfully rehoming dogs who may not be immediately rehomeable when they first come from the pounds and need veterinary treatment, patience, expert positive reward based retraining, skill and TLC after the bad start in life they have experienced. Under the expert guidance of our kennels team our dogs are placed into stable forever homes that are suited to the needs of both the dog and the adopters. These are dogs who without Doris Banham would have died, who often had only numbers not names and whose death would only have been marked by a log in a book and it is very motivating what can be achieved through care in our throw-away society and how we can restore to these dogs their rightful importance and value. However, the whole process is a huge but one that we are dedicated to meet. Our Charity was set up in dedication to the founder’s Mother Doris Banham and will always rigidly reflect the compassionate ethos by which she lived her life. We are proud to say that we have stayed rigidly steadfast to our founding principles of unconditional rescue of the most needy pound dogs regardless of breed, age or veterinary condition, giving them whatever they need and finding them the forever homes that they always deserved. Our path is a very hard one as we almost totally rescue dogs from pounds and secondly, we unconditionally take into our care those who have not received any other rescue offers and are due for destruction. We have never ever selected a dog – we are always told by the pounds which ones need us. We seek other rescue spaces right up to the day the destruction is due to ensure that there are no other avenues available to save the dog’s life. Dogs fail to get rescue spaces for many reasons. They may simply be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Even young dogs under a year with no problems sometimes are due to die needlessly simply because a rescue space is not available at that point in time to save them. Some may need veterinary treatment or retraining and many are the exploited popular breeds - victims of irresponsible overbreeding. Our mission is to save their lives and then turn them around into loving rehomeable dogs ready for forever homes. We consider every homing is a minor triumph in righting the wrongs our throwaway society has caused and we are so very proud of our constant rehoming rate. Our Charity works at the very front line of dog rescue. The task of raising funds to continue our life saving work is getting harder and harder whilst the burden of what we are being asked to deal with is getting heavier and heavier. The burden on our Charity has become greater as more dogs are given up to the pounds because of inability of owners to pay veterinary fees, evictions, family breakdowns and increased irresponsible breeding. Sold without home-checks the dogs often end up in the pound system. Thus, the specific problems caused by today’s difficult financial times have hit
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our Charity massively because we take many of the type of dogs that the hard times have threatened the lives of and made homeless. The increase in both the incidence of owners abandoning their dogs due to the cost of veterinary treatment and the practice of overbreeding by irresponsible breeders in order to produce quick cash has vastly increased our workload. Sold without home-checks the dogs often end up in the pound system. The current difficult financial situation also continues to make people more reluctant to make charitable donations or commit to standing orders etc. This has made the task of raising funds to carry on our vital life-saving work substantially harder. Our policy of giving lifelong backup to our rehomed dogs **,** should their circumstances change in their new homes, is one of the cornerstones of our Charity. It is our greatest desire that the dogs should have us as a safety net for the rest of their lives, being able always to come back into our care so that they never re-enter the pound system again. We are totally non-destruct whilst quality of life can be achieved and we are relentless in our pursuit of this. Dogs with manageable veterinary conditions who do not receive homing offers are moved to long term foster and attempts to find them the right home are continued from that foster home. The ultimate and overriding goal of everything that we do is to reunite the dogs with their original owners who had not been able to locate them in time to save their lives in our complicated pound system. But if this is not possible, we strive to find the dogs the loving forever homes that they deserve providing them with whatever veterinary treatment, rehabilitation, socialization or retraining they need to make this possible. All our dogs are neutered vaccinated and micro-chipped. In addition to our work rescuing dogs already in the pound system, we also continue to work to reduce the number of dogs entering the pound system in the first place. To this end we have put in place some specialist volunteers who respond to owners who have tried every avenue to place the dog that they feel unable to keep and have come to us as a last resort before they hand their dog into the pound. First establishing if this is a loving and stable home that they would want the dog to stay in, these volunteers discuss with the owners the problems that have led to the situation where they feel they are forced to give up their loved pet - be they social or behavioural and attempt to assist them to keep their pet in their family. This can entail giving free behaviourist training for problems such as barking or chewing or training a puppy or if the problem is a social one such as the owner having to go away to care for a relative for a while or is searching for housing that will permit animals, organising for the dog to be cared for in the meantime. Every case is different and is always managed with the dog’s well-being of paramount importance. Many owners have responded very positively to this, grateful to have found a way to keep a pet they did not really want to lose but could not see a way around their problems. Many owners have gone on to become volunteers for the charity themselves.
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We continue to work in cooperation with pounds, councils and dog wardens believing that building up a stable working relationship is the most beneficial means of saving the dogs’ lives and encourage them to approach us if they are going to destroy a dog with a treatable or manageable veterinary condition merely because of the cost
Despite concentrating our efforts on saving the lives of the dogs at present in the pounds and working to improve pound conditions and ethos, Doris Banham Dog Rescue also wishes to play a meaningful role in attempting to stem the problem at its source. We also actively seek to educate the public on the pound system in the UK and promote high standards of animal welfare and the principle that sentient animals are not disposable commodities to be exploited.
Our rehoming volunteers are continuing to work tirelessly to find stable and loving forever homes for our rescue dogs. The volunteers from breed rescues continue to be a very important asset for us and we are also being helped by breed welfare rescues themselves when we take into our care one of their breed dogs which they are unable to help themselves.
We stress to the public the unfair connotations of the term “stray” simply because pound dogs are merely lost, abandoned and stolen pets unclaimed by their owners within the 7 statutory days allocated before the council is empowered to destroy them. We continually strive to promote responsible dog ownership stressing the importance of neutering, micro chipping, vaccination and socialisation.
We are constantly grateful to our supporters who respond to our appeals, do challenges and runs and endurance events, donate their portraits etc. and to other rescues who donate food because of the contribution that we make in the rescue world. Volunteers are particularly attracted to our strict policy that 100% donations are spent directly on the dogs themselves as we have no administration costs. Volunteers know they are giving their precious time directly to the dogs and that encourages and motivates them. We operate a kennel sponsorship scheme whereby individuals or companies can sponsor a kennel for 6 months or a year giving a safe haven for dog after dog due for imminent destruction.
We encourage young people to take an active part in taking responsibility for the dogs. Many will save their pocket money or do sales to raise funds for a particular dog and follow that dog through until they are homed.
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## **Section E Financial review**
It is not the policy of the Trustees to maintain significant reserves.
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
The Charity’s principal sources of funds are donations, fund-raising online, grants from animal welfare organisations and sponsorships. The funds have been spent on veterinary fees, emergency kennelling and transport which support the Charity’s key objectives of saving lives and alleviating suffering.
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
100% of funds raised are used to save the lives and alleviate the suffering of unclaimed dogs due for destruction in council pounds or other life threatening situations who are imminently due to die. We work with veterinary surgeries, the police, social service and other organisations and owners in tragic circumstances. As the pandemic recedes we also are rescuing the abandoned ‘covid pups’ to save them from being put to sleep. We are all unpaid volunteers who believe in what we do. We offer a lifelong guarantee to dogs homed by us to take them back into our care to ensure they never enter the pound system again. We are also unique in that every single dog that is taken into our care would definitely have died without our intervention as we exhaust all other rescue options and often wait until the day that the destruction is due to take place to take the dog in. We believe that the criteria for rescue should be the need of the dog and not its breed or immediate homeability and take great pride in finding a loving home for a once traumatised dog who with our help and care has learnt to trust and find his place in the world again
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Trudie Elizabeth James **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc) Date** 19/10/2022
**TAR**
March **2012**
15
TAR
16
Mar¢h 2012
**Charity Name No (If any) Doris Banham Dog Rescue 1103372 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/01/2021 31/12/2021
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**215,223**
**6,841**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**222,064**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**222,064**
**6,891**
**159,045**
**73,674**
**275**
**9,464**
**1,778**
**729**
**1,295**
**973**
**254,124**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**254,124**
**- 32,060**
**-**
**20,471**
**- 11,589**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**215,223**
**6,841**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**222,064**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**222,064**
**6,891**
**159,045**
**73,674**
**275**
**9,464**
**1,778**
**729**
**1,295**
**973**
**254,124**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**254,124**
**- 32,060**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**215,223**
**6,841**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**222,064**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**222,064**
**6,891**
**159,045**
**73,674**
**275**
**9,464**
**1,778**
**729**
**1,295**
**973**
**254,124**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**254,124**
**- 32,060**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Voluntary|**215,223**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**215,223**||**204,160**|
|Activities|**6,841**|||**6,841**||**5,260**|
|COVID19 Gov|**-**|||**-**||**30,000**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**222,064**|||**222,064**||**239,420**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
||||**-**|**222,064**||**239,420**|
||||||||
|Transport|**6,891**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**6,891**||**10,791**|
|Kenneling|**159,045**|||**159,045**||**109,519**|
|VeterinaryFees|**73,674**|||**73,674**||**58,956**|
|Misc|**275**|||**275**||**2,058**|
|CharityShops|**9,464**|||**9,464**||**8,342**|
|Fundraising|**1,778**|||**1,778**||**4,493**|
|RehomingPromotions|**729**|||**729**||**634**|
|Special Needs|**1,295**|||**1,295**||**7,949**|
|Bank|**973**|||**973**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**254,124**|||**254,124**||**202,742**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
||||**-**|**254,124**||**202,742**|
||||||||
||**- 32,060**|**-**|**-**|**- 32,060**||**36,678**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**20,471**|**-**||**20,471**||**- 16,207**|
||**- 11,589**|**-**|**-**|**- 11,589**||**20,471**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
19/10/2022
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Cash in Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**- 11,589**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**- 11,589**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
TrudieEJames|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||Date of
approval|
|||TrudieEJames|19/10/2022|
|||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
19/10/2022
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examinerfs Report
Roport to the trusteesl
members of
s £ REscvc
On acct)unts for the y•ar
ended
ai DEcErn6SQ aoai
Charlty no
lif any)
110Ss72
Set out on pages
Respective The ¢haritls Iru$tggs are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in
rnsponslbilities of accordance with the requiroments of the Charitses A 20111.the Acfl.
trustegs and examiner
The charity's trusteos consider that an audit is not required for this year
under section 144 of the Act and that an indepen(1ent examination is
needed.
It Is my responsibility to..
examine the accounts under secti¢)n 145 of the Charities Act,
to follow the applicable Directf'ons given by tho Charity Commission
(under section 14515llbl of the Act, and
to state ether particular matters have comg to my attention
Basis of Independent My examination was carried tsut in accordaKe with general DiredFons gwen
examingrfs statsment by the Charty Commission. An gxamination includes a review of thè
accounting e0rd$ kept by the charity and 8 comparison of Ihg accounts
presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual
items or disckisures in the accounts. and seeking explanations frorn the
trus199s Concerni any suth matters. The procedures undertaken do not
provide all the ewdence that would be required in an audit, and
consequently no opinion is given as lo whether the accounts prosenl a 'trL
and fairf view and the rèpgrt is limf(gd lo those matters sel out in the
statement below.
Indopondent In connection wrth rny examination, no material mattets hav8 come to my
oxamin•¢s statement attention (other than that disdosed b85ow'l whieh gives me cause lo believo
that in, any material respect..
accounting records wère not kept in accord8nca wth section 130 of
the Charitigs Act L)r
the accounts do not aecord with the accounting rerdS
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in ¢cneCtIOn
with the examinati¢)n to which attention should be drawn in order to enablo
proper understanding of the aeeounts to be reache<*.
se delete the words in the brack8ts if th&y do not 8ppty.
Signed..
Date:
Nam?..
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Relevant profo¥¥lonal
qualificationl$l or body
{if any):
SE£Lv ic£S
Coetrioed
IER
May 2018
Address:
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Sectior) B
Disclosure
Only complete Il the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern Isee CC32.
Independent examination of charity aoUnt$.. directr'ons and guidance for
examiners).
Give here brief detall$ of
any item$ that the
examiner wlshes to
disclose.
IER
May 2018