All charities struggled through the pandemic and we were no exception.
We kept our doors open throughout and continued to take in cats. We were unable to fundraise for most of 20/21, unable to rehome cats during lockdowns and also had to close our shop thereby losing over 90% of our income.
We still had existing vet bills to pay plus new bills for the cats we continued to help. Our vet bills are, on average, 6K per month.
The Government made no provision for charities or animal welfare so we had to look for funding elsewhere.
Two organisations really stepped up and helped many animal charities with emergency grants, including us : The Pets at Home Foundation gave us 4K and The Jean Sainsbury Trust gave us 5K.
We received 1K from Giftshare and were unexpectedly left 5K in someone's will. This kept us limping along, with some minor fundraising eg our annual calendar and our regular monthly donors along with donations of food.
We received all the possible grants for retail from the Government which enabled our shop to survive and re-open when restrictions were lifted.
Huge numbers of people wanted to either foster or adopt cats and our fosterhomes rose to over 70 in number enabling us to take in every cat on our waiting list and keep them safe. Once restrictions were lifted we resumed rehomings - homechecks etc were done over the phone and people met their potential cats via video calls and Zoom meetings before collecting on the doorstep.
It was an incredibly difficult and stressful time but we still rehomed over 400 cats. Vets were only seeing emergencies and pet ownership went through the roof meaning appointments were hard to come by, therefore delaying our rehomings. Also routine neutering was suspended - unfortunately this was throughout most of "kitten season". Coming out the other end we had many more abandoned cats and kittens to deal with as new owners lost interest.
Nearly a year later we're still dealing with the aftermath - inundated with unwanted cats and with vet bills we're struggling to pay.
## Registered Number 06493877
BRISTOL AND WALES CAT RESCUE LTD
Micro-entity Accounts
31 March 2020
BRISTOL AND WALES CAT RESCUE LTD
Registered Number 06493877
Micro-entity Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2020
2020
2019
Note
|Fixed Assets
Intangible assets
Tangible assets
Investments
Current Assets
Stocks
1
Debtors
Investments
2
Cash in bank and in hand
3
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Net current assets
Total assets less current liabilities
Provisions for liabilities
4
Accruals and deferred income
Total net assets (liabilities)
Reserves
Other reserves
5
Income and expenditure account
Members Funds|£
£
-
-
-
-
-
-|
|---|---|
||-
-|
||-
-
2,750
2,467
-
-
14,945
11,918|
||17,695
14,385|
||-
-|
||17,695
14,385|
||17,695
14,385|
||-
-
10,389
10,741|
||7,306
3,644|
||-
-
7,306
3,644|
||7,306
3,644|
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BRISTOL AND WALES CAT RESCUE LTD
Registered Number 06493877
Income and Expenditure Account
Year 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020
|Income
Donations
Grants
Shop
Other Fundraising|28,846
20,000
30,806
42,340|
|---|---|
||121,992|
|Expenditure
Vet Bills
Shop
Cat Costs
Proft/(Loss)|83,779
23,414
11,136|
|---|---|
||118,329|
||3,663|
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BRISTOL AND WALES CAT RESCUE LTD Registered Number 06493877
- For the year ending 31 March 2020 the company was entitled to exemption under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
- The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
- The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
- These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the micro-entity provisions
and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
Approved by the board on 9th July 2020
And signed on their behalf by **Margaret Brittan, Director**
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BRISTOL AND WALES CAT RESCUE LTD
Registered Number 06493877
Notes to the Micro-entity Accounts for the period ended 31 March 2020
## **Accounting Policies**
Basis of measurement and preparation of accounts
The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordancewith the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities effective April 2008.
## **Company limited by guarentee**
Company is limited by guarentee and consequently does not have share capital.
|1|Debtors||
|---|---|---|
||Prepaid shop rental|2,750|
|2|Bank||
||Per bank statements|14,945|
|3|Creditors falling due within one year|0|
|4|Accruals||
||Supplier acccruals|10,389|
|5|Income and expenditure account|7,137|
This document was delivered using electroniccommunications and authenticated in
accordance with the registrar's rules relating to electronic form, authentication and manner of delivery under section 1072 of the Companies Act 2006.
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Independent In connection with my examinalion, no material matters have come to my
examinerfs statement attention £ethe>¥
.which gives me cause to believe
that In, any materi81 respect,.
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130
of the Act, or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting reoords., or
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements
onGerning the form and conlenl of accounts set out in the Charities
IAccounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement
that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which Is not a matter
considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should b8 drawn In this report in
order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
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Date:
Name: i Alan C
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Section B
isclosure.
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of Goncern (see CC32.
Independent exam4Dation of charity accounts,. directions and guidance for
examiners).
IER
May 2018