Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date 05 July 2020 04 July 2021
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Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1133543
Action Aid for Animals
Charity's principal address 34 New House, 67-68 Hatton Garden London Postcode EC1N 8JY
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole **year ** |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany) |
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| Katie Thomas | ||||
| Sabrina Howell | ||||
| Rebecca Beardmore |
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name Dates acted if not for whole year
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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Constitution Adopted 05/07/2009 as Amended on 05/11/2015 Type of governing document
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
3 x Trustees You may choose to include 20 x Volunteers including admin and foster carers additional information, where relevant, about: • policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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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
Rescuing, caring for and rehoming victims of animal abuse, cruelty and abandonment in Croatia, Bosnia and the UK. Relieving the suffering of animals in Croatia and Bosnia by providing Aid.
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In this financial year we continued to build on our reputation for legally transporting dogs from Bosnia and Croatia and have undertaken numerous transports successfully in compliance with DEFRAs requirements. We have successfully adopted over 250 dogs. We have also been involved with helping numerous dogs within the UK getting them out of abusive homes and safe into fosters before finding them successful forever homes.
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)
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
We have continued to build our administration team and have gone from strength to strength with an extra 4 people helping with adoptions as well as building a strong foster home network
You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
Our main achievement in this financial year is we have successfully paid Summary of the main off majority of the charity debts and have been working towards being on achievements of the charity a better financial standing. We have also built our reputation to a point during the year where we are being swamped with adoption enquiries and people wanting to foster and support our work.
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Section E Financial review
We don’t have reserves as money is always spoken for
Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves
Details of any funds materially We have debts of £4000 which is from a debt from previous trustee as in deficit well as new vets bills for dogs in our care
Further financial review details (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:
Fundraising in this financial year has mainly been carried out through adoption plea’s for dogs in Croatia and Bosnia as one of our main focuses has been to ensure we can get debts paid off.
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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
Section F Other optional information
Section G Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s) Katie Thomas Full name(s) Katie Thomas Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Trustee etc) Date 05/05/22
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7th July 2020 - 6th July 2021
7868 account
Paypal account
| Open balance | 443.18 | |
|---|---|---|
| Income | 45,215.20 | |
| Expenses | - | 45,986.12 |
| Closing Balance | -770.92 |
Reconcilliation
Income breakdown Donations - 10,632.31 Adoption Fees - 68,542.00 Fundraising - 1,174.55 Bank refund - 13.77 Transfers from 8568 - 56,571.99 - 136,934.62 check with ac7868 £0.00 - 136,934.62
Expenses Breakdown
| Debt re payments Refunds Foreign transport UK transport/Boarding Bank/postage fees Vet fees Raffle prizes/event costs Transfers to 8568 |
2,035.62 |
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| 3,962.20 67,997.09 15,446.07 305.62 11,371.20 |
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| - | |
| 34,261.55 | |
| 135,379.35 |
Reconcilliation
| Reconcilliation | |
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| Income breakdown | |
| Donations (includes transport) | 11,409.57 |
| Adoption Fees | 12,896.93 |
| Fundraising | 953.25 |
| Bank refund/Currency fees | 19,955.45 |
| Transfers from 8568 | - |
| 45,215.20 |
Expenses Breakdown
| Expenses Breakdown | ||
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| Debt re payments | - | 571.00 |
| Refunds | ||
| Foreign transport | - | 11,163.04 |
| UK transport/Boarding/Fostering | - | 13,705.63 |
| Bank/postage fees | ||
| Vet fees | - | 2,079.47 |
| Bank refund/Currency fees | - | 18,466.98 |
| Transfers to 8568 | - | |
| - | 45,986.12 |
Independent examiner's report on the accounts
Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the trustees/ Charity Name Action Aid for Animals members of
On accounts for the year July 2020 – July 2021 Charity no 1133543 ended (if any) Set out on pages 1-2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 04 / 07 / 2021 .
Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s 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)(b) of the Act.
Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
- Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Signed: Jacqui Honour Date: 5.5.2022 Name: Jacqui Honour Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):
Address: 68 Lyndhurst Road, Amesbury Wiltshire SP4 7PG
Section B Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
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Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .
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