## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 01/01/2024 Period start date. To 31/12/2024 Period end date.**
## **Charity name: Lancashire Cat Rescue**
## **Charity registration number: 1136938**
## **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 relieve the suffering of cats & kittens**
**in need of care & attention.**
**Also to provide and maintain facilities For**
**the reception, care and treatment of such**
**animals.**
**Rescuing & Re-homing.**|
|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|**Over the year we have taken in numerous**
**cats and kittens.**
**Some stay with us briefly and are found**
**homes quickly.**
**Other more difficult to home animals are**
**given longer term care.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Trustees have been made aware of the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission regarding public benefit.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policy on grant making||
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|Policy on social investment||
|including program related||
|investment||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The trustees acknowledge that a lot of**
**our continued success, in particular at**
**the Barton Village Hall Flea Markets is**
**largely due to the help afforded by our**
**various volunteers, without their help it**
**just wouldn’t work.**|
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|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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|**We found homes for 44 cats/kittens in**
**2024.**
**Again as with last year we have received**
**another significant legacy in 2024, as a**
**result we have had to have the accounts**
**independently audited again.**
**The £10 Snip & Chip campaign continues**
**to be well subscribed, during 2024 we**
**issued 357 vouchers. Average cost to**
**Lancashire Cat Rescue = £60 each).**
**We have continued to help cats & kittens**
**owned by local people in financial**
**hardship, by helping them with vet bills**
**from our Needy Cases fund.**
**We have also helped several local (And**
**some not so local) Cat Welfare**
**organisations with donations to help**
**them with their vet bills.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
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|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**We have continued to receive legacy**
**payments in 2024, we continue to be in a**
**healthy financial situation.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are held to ensure that**
**Lancashire Cat Rescue can continue to**
**help cats & kittens if we have a reduction**
**in income at any time in the future.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£100,000**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23||
## **Additional information (optional)**
|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Legacies are proving to be extremely**
**beneficial to LCR in recent times.**
**We continue to hold regular Flea Markets**
**at Barton Village hall (selling donated**
**items).**
**We also have the “Friends of LCR” that**
**make monthly donations of varying**
**ammounts by standing order.**|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**In view of the fact that investments can**
**go down as well as up, we think it would**
**be reckless to gamble with the LCR fund.**
**Some of us remember the Icelandic bank**
**collapse, some Charities lost millions.**
**Consequently we earn very little interest**
**in very safe accounts.**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Income reduction is a very real**
**possibility, there is no guarantee that we**
**will continue to receive legacy payment.**|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Trust**|
|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|**Appointed by committee.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|
Para 1.51||
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|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|Lancashire Cat Rescue|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1136938|
|Charity’s principal address|33, New Lane
Penwortham
Preston
Lancashire
PR1 9JH|
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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||Jennifer Coupe|Book Keeper|||
||Paul Donickey|Kitchen Assistant|||
||Alison House|General Assistant|06/04/24 - 31/12/24||
||Brian Lomax|Website &
MembershipAdmin|||
||Christine Lomax|Chair|||
||Sylvia Place|Book Keeper|||
||Dawn Swift|CateringManager|||
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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 held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for 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)**
**Full name(s)** Brian Lomax ~~le~~ **Position (eg Secretary,** Membership Secretary **Chair, etc)** ~~a~~ **Date** 30/10/2025 ~~ST~~
## Lancashire Cat Rescue
## Charity Reg No 1136938
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|||Statement|OfAccounts|||
|||01°Jan 2024-|- 31** Dec 2024|||
||Income||Expenditure|||
|NatWest|Balance|7655.47|Vets||40267.31|
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|Co-op 1|Balance|3805.35|Rents||1415.00|
|Co-op 2|Balance|220890.22|Adverts||270.72|
|Legacies / M/Ship|||Printing ItStamps||1967.28|
|Friends / Raffles||16668.24|Stationary|||
|Shows /Car|Carboots|3215.96|Cat Food&Needs||3379.92|
|B.V.H. Gross||8810.60|Refurb / Electric|||
||||Insurance||2148.04|
|eBay /Amazon||||||
|PayPal /|Virgin Etc|6320.90|Petrol /CarTax|||
||||Holiday Cover||2909.65|
|Interest|-HMRC||Help For Charities||14000.00|
|GiftAid|/Adjustments|22291.35||||
|Transfers|||Ebay /Amazon /PayPal||197.71|
|Sum Up||286.46|NatWest Balance||3327.27|
|Bank Overpayment||1438.15|Co-op 1 Balance||5312.12|
|Refunds||||||
||||Co-op 2 Balance||216382.70|
|||£291382.70|||£291382.70|
## Figures Prepared To The Best Of Our Knowledge
Signed: © (Xa Date: 15/06/2025 Signed: hee o=7-——_ _ a> & / Sa
## Trustees LCR
## | 8) | CHARITY COMMISSION) — Independent examiner's | Woy | FOR ENGLAND AND WALES report on the accounts
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Report to the trustees/ .
members of Lancashire Cat Rescue
On accounts for the year Charity no
ended 2024 (ifany)| 1136938
Set out on pages One Page Only
| report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/12/2024
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’).
| 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, |
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
independent | have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have
examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me
cause to believe that in, any material respect:
e accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
e the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
| have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection ~
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enablea |
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
= Pleas e delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Name: Sade Tolen .
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