## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1/4/24 Period start date To 31/3/25 Period end date**
## **Charity name:Bristol and Wales Cat Rescue**
## **Charity registration number:1127289**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To rescue and rehome**
**unwanted/abandoned/stray /feral cats**
**and kittens,**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**To provide safe, secure foster homes and**
**all veterinary care required including anti-**
**parasitic treatments, neutering, chipping**
**and vaccinating as a minimum.**
**To homecheck all adopters to confirm**
**their suitability.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Trustees have complied with Charity**
**Commission guidance in full.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|||**NA**|
||Para 1.38||
|Policy on grant making|||
|||**NA**|
||Para 1.38||
|Policy on social investment|||
|including program related|||
|investment|||
|||**NA**|
||Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by|||
|volunteers|||
|||**NA**|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Rescued and rehomed over 330 cats.**
**Paid for the neutering of around 70**
**owned cats to help their owners.**
**Provided lifetime fostering for**
**unhomeable cats eg old, those with**
**medical issues, aggressive, feral.**
**Provided many vet treatments for stray**
**and surrendered cats with health issues.**
**Taken in abandoned and stray cats living**
**on the streets and provided homes.**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|||
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**NA**|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**NA**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**NA**|
|Other||**NA**|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Income 156,539**
**Expend. 123,655**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**No reserves held.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**None**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**No excess funds due to unpredictability**
**of emergency care etc needed.**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**NA**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Adoption donations**
**Gift Aid**
**Legacies**
**Regular monthly donations**|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**None**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Rising vet bills.**
**Increase in cost plus more cats needing**
**veterinary treatment.**|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Memorandum and articles of association.**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Governing document**
**Trustees**
**Committee members**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Proposed and seconded by committee**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|
Para 1.51||
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Bristol and Wales Cat Rescue Ltd|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1127289|
|Charity’s principal address|24 Beaufort Road
Staple Hill
Bristol
BS16 5JX|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Margaret Brittan|Trustee|||
||Carol Hounslow|Trustee|||
||Sarah Smith|Secretary|||
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets None held in this capacity
Name and objects of the None charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for NA safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** M Brittan **Full name(s)** Margaret Frances Brittan
**Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc)**
**Date**
04/01/2026
Registered Number 06493877
BRISTOL AND WALES CAT RESCUE LTD
Micro-entity Accounts
31 March 2025
## BRISTOL AND WALES CAT RESCUE LTD
## Registered Number 06493877
Micro-entity Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2025
|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 liabilites
Provisions for liabilites
4
Accruals and deferred income
Total net assets (liabilites)
Reserves
Other reserves
5
Income and expenditure account
Members Funds|2025
2024
£
£
-
-
-
-
-
-|
|---|---|
||-
-|
||-
-
2,750
2,750
-
-
73,243
40,451|
||75,993
43,201|
||-
-|
||75,993
43,201|
||75,993
43,201|
||-
-
7,420
7,532|
||68,573
35,669|
||-
-
68,573
35,689|
||68,573
35,689|
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BRISTOL AND WALES CAT RESCUE LTD Registered Number 06493877
Income and Expenditure Account
Year 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025
|Income
Donatons
Grants
Shop
Other Fundraising
Expenditure
Vet Bills
Shop
Cat Costs / Exp
Proft/(Loss)|31,320
49,000
28,376
47,843|
|---|---|
||156,539|
||79,081
32,187
12,387|
||123,655|
||32,884|
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BRISTOL AND WALES CAT RESCUE LTD
Registered Number 06493877
- For the year ending 31 March 2025 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 12th December 2025
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 2025
## **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|73,243|
|3|Creditors falling due within one year|0|
|4|Accruals||
||Supplier acccruals|7,420|
|5|Income and expenditure account|68,573|
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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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Indepondent Examiner's Report
Report to the truste881
members of
Bristol and Wales Cat Rescue Ltd
On accounts for the year
ended
31 March 2024
Charity no
lif any
1127289
Set out on pages
1 to4
1.Ir8mprr*er to includ8 th8 oaoe number$ Dfarldilion81 sheèisi
I report to the trustees on my examination of
charity I't) for the year ended 3d63
As the Gharily trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation
Responslbilities and of the accounts in accordance wilh the requirements of the Charities Act
basis of report 2011 ('the Act.).
he accounts ofthe above
I report in respect of my examination of the**acCOuntS carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5}Ib) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
Come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me
cause lo believe that in, any material respect
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
Independent
examiner'8 Statement
I have no concerns and havè come across no other matters in connection
with the examination lo which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts lo be rea¢hed.
Please d618tg the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
zoi
Name..
ALAN CAVILL
Relevant prof88$ional
quallflcatlon{8} or body
{if anyl:
Institut8 of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Addr88S:
ALAN CAVILL LTD
7 QUEENSHOLM CLOSE
DOWNEND
BRISTOL
BS16 6LD
IER
October 2018