FELINE CARE,, rescue sanctuary advice rehoming Annual Report 2021- 2022 Reglstered Charlty No 144830 Year endln8 31st March 2022 ## **Trustees Report** ## **Welcome from our Chair** On behalf of the trustees I am pleased to present our Annual Report. As is common in animal rescue, we have experienced heart-warming highs and endured painful lows, but the cats, the cause and the fantastic staff and volunteers keep us going. It has been another challenging year, we have moved towards normal following the pandemic but there has been ongoing uncertainty and the new challenge of the cost of living crisis. We have been able to welcome volunteers back on site and have kept on helping hundreds of cats in need, but we have not been able to fully resume all our pre-COVID activities. Our charity shop has continued trading but we have not been able to run any of our big fundraising events, such as the on-site open days. These events have been missed both in terms of their financial contribution, and their social engagement functions for staff, volunteers and the local community. The longer term impacts of COVID on the charity include supply shortages, a lack of availability of veterinary care due to staff shortages and rising costs (the latter exacerbated by the cost of living crisis.) Our waiting list for people wishing to surrender a cats has grown, after a lull during COVID. This rise in relinquishment relates both to changes in peoples routines following COVID and struggles to afford pet care costs alongside other rising outgoings. We have also seen an increase in people asking for help with their cat's behaviour. We are worried that next year we will see an influx of kittens coming into the shelter following reduction in neutering procedures related to both the limitations of the pandemic and cost concerns. However despite these ongoing issues, and whatever 2023 may bring, I firmly believe that with our amazing staff, volunteers and supporters we will be able to rise to meet the challenge and continue to help the cats that need us. Ken Hill Chair **Annual Report 2021 – 2022 1** **Feline Care** ## **Who we are** Feline Care Cat Rescue (FC) began life as Feralands. We were part of another cat rescue charity based in East Sussex, set up to provide lifelong sanctuary to cats from that area, who for various reasons were not able to find homes. Over time we began taking in cats from the local area and facilitating our own adoptions. In 2012 our parent Charity decided to end the practice of sending cats to us and made plans to sell our site. This left us with the choice of returning all our residents to their main site or purchasing the land and becoming a charity in our own right. With huge support from volunteers, donors, and the local community, we were able to raise the funds in the extremely tight timescales given to us and Feline Care Cat rescue became a charity in its own right. Feline Care is based in a purpose-built sanctuary at Roudham, Norfolk, and can accommodate upwards of 150 cats. We are governed by a board of trustees, with the Charity founder Molly Farrar, responsible for day-to day management of the site. We employ a small team of staff to assist with the daily care of the cats and to manage our Charity shops. FC is proud to be one of a few cat charities in the UK which aims to support feral and stray cats, as well as domestic cats, through rescue, re-homing, neutering and educating the public on the responsibilities of owning cats as pets. The staff work tirelessly to relieve the suffering of cats by providing temporary and permanent accommodation for their care and treatment and in the hope of finding them permanent homes. FC sanctuary set-up includes animal bedrooms and communal pens in a purpose-built single storey building. These communal rooms allow us to keep multi cat families together, while we asses which cats are bonded to each other. We also have isolation units, a mum and kitten quarantine and an intensive care room for those admitted with medical needs. We have purpose built ‘Jellicle’ pens that are unheated and enable us to shelter colonies at familiar temperatures, crucial for TNR (Trap Neuter Return) cats to retain their outdoor coats. For the outdoor residents, including our feral cats, there is ample outside space with over 3.5 acres of woodland and meadowland which provides a green, pleasant and stimulating environment for those preferring to reside outdoors. For the outdoor cats we also offer numerous shelter options, including a large timber frame building with loft area. All our outdoor residents have access to a heated bedroom **Annual Report 2021 – 2022 2** **Feline Care** as well should they wish to use it. Our entire site is fully enclosed with ProtectaPet fencing, ensuring those that live on site are safe from roads and external factors. All traffic on site is controlled and kept in a lower car park which the cats do not have access to, meaning our residents never have to worry about the dangers from vehicles. We take in cats on a temporary or permanent basis, regardless of age, health, and behaviour. None of the cats we take in are put to sleep unless professional medical advice suggests it is in their best interest, and many residents live well into old age in the comfort of this safe haven. If the cat's medical or behaviour needs mean they cannot be re-homed, they too will live out life as a permanent member of the FC family. The numbers of permanent residents with us fluctuates, but we generally have around 60 cats living free on site. We always have 5 - 10 residents needing more specialist attention who reside in our reception area and who still have free access to our grounds. Some of our reception cats have been with us many years and are well known by staff, volunteers and visitors alike. Big Ginge is one of our reception cats who although extremely friendly and lap loving, suffers from a few medical conditions and despite all our efforts still feels the need to toilet in unusual places indoors. The office computer has suffered Big Ginge’s attentions far too many times. Reception is also home to Plug, who came to us over eight years ago, emaciated, feral, and with a broken jaw from having been shot in the face. He had been seen visiting a garden for over six weeks in that state, before his rescuer caught him and brought him to us. His tenacity to survive meant we couldn’t deny him treatment. Possibly the cat that has cost us the most money to save, he underwent various treatments to and along the way he transformed into a dribbly lap cat. While he was suitable for rehoming into an understanding home, by the time all his treatments had finished, he had become so popular with supporters and volunteers it didn’t feel right to put him up for adoption. He remains with us and is known as the office manager. We also have a group of girls, Sharni, Lulu, Adalida, Tufty and Muffin, currently living in reception, that despite coming in separately at different times, have bonded together and are almost always found snuggled up near each other. While the charity always aims to help as many cats as possible, it’s work can never be quantified by numbers alone as the priority is and will always be, to help those most in need. FC promotes high standards of companion animal ownership and responsible management of domestic, stray and feral cats through neutering. FC is active in promoting responsible ownership both in the **Annual Report 2021 – 2022 3** **Feline Care** home and in a business environment. Work undertaken with groups of feral cats often includes the control of growing colonies on business premises where cats are captured, neutered and returned to the working environment. The FC team covers primarily the local Breckland area but works closely with other cat and animal charities whenever possible to deal with feral colonies and difficult to re-home animals. None of this work could be done without the generous support of cat lovers not only across the UK but from across the globe. ## **Our mission** To relieve the suffering of domestic, feral and stray cats that are unwanted, abused or abandoned, regardless of their colour, breed, temperament, age or medical conditions, by providing shelter, medical aid and care. To find permanent, loving homes for the cats that come into our care and to offer lifelong care and shelter for those that cannot be re-homed To promote high standards of companion animal ownership and responsible management of domestic, stray and feral cats, through neutering. To advance education in need for responsible ownership. ## **Structure Governance and Management** Feline Care began operating as an independent charity on 1 April 2012. The Trustees, as charity trustees, have control of FC, its property and funds. They are governed by the Trust Deed signed on 7 September 2011; Trustees were appointed for varying terms of office to ensure continuity. At the end of each term of office, the remaining Trustees agree either to reappoint or to appoint a new Trustee. Should a Trustee resign mid-term, a new Trustee may be appointed. New or reappointed Trustees have a three-year term of office. ## **Our Trustees 2021/2022** Kenneth Hill (Chair) Molly Farrar Stephanie Kayne Carrianne Freeman-Hall Lisa Bailey James Thurston Both Molly and Kenneth were re-elected to the trustee roles in December 2021 All Trustees undertake their duties in a voluntary capacity and receive no remuneration or other **Annual Report 2021 – 2022 4** **Feline Care** benefits for their work as Trustees. In addition to volunteering as a Trustee, Miss Farrar is employed by FC as the charity’s full time manager. The Trustees hold quarterly meetings, presided over by the Chairman or a nominated deputy. At least three of the five appointed Trustees are present at each meeting. The agendas for meetings have as routine business: matters arising, updated financial report, fundraising and staffing issues. Other matters are included for discussion and agreement as necessary. Day to day operational decisions are delegated by the Trustees to the full time manager. Responsibility for significant strategic decisions remains with the trustees. Rick Wakeman and Ian Lavender continue to be Patrons of the charity. The independent review of the FC accounts was undertaken by SCS Accountancy Solutions Ltd of Dereham. Payroll is managed Becky Potiphar who manages it voluntarily in house. ## **What we do** Animals arrive at the sanctuary in a number of ways and for a number of reasons. They maybe found as strays, litters from unneutered mothers, brought to the centre, (sometimes dumped at the gates) or relinquished by owners no longer able to care for them or unwilling to treat medical conditions (and we’ve even had a few who self-admitted by climbing over our fences and onto site.) We are also asked to trap strays and sometimes colonies of feral cats. We engage with other organisations to take in large numbers of cats from ‘hoarder’ situations. Feline Care remains technically full all year round. Admissions are purely on a priority basis and are entirely dependent on availability of spaces. We operate an active waiting list of cats whose owners wish to re-home their pets. We tend to focus our admittance on the cats that other rescues may not prioritise, specifically feral or elderly cats and those with medical or behavioural issues. On arrival, all animals undergo a full health check and any entire males or females are neutered. We scan every cat admitted for a microchip, in case it has become separated from it's owners. Any un-microchipped cats are microchipped, these are then dual registered to us and the eventual new owner. Microchipping is essential in reuniting lost cats with their owners, and it gives us peace of mind that for any animal we have chipped, should the owner not be found, the cat will return to us. **Annual Report 2021 – 2022 5** **Feline Care** All cats admitted are also vaccinated and given parasite treatments for fleas and worms. If other veterinary treatments are required, we will engage appropriate veterinary professionals, including referrals to specialist centres. It is not uncommon for the veterinary costs for some of the cats we admit to run into thousands of pounds. Our willingness to treat cats with medical needs means we can save the lives of cats that might otherwise be euthanised. Each animal admitted spends three to four weeks in quarantine, either in one of our quarantine units, or in a separate bedroom area, before being allowed into any communal cat area. During this time we monitor the cat's behaviour, if we discover they dislike other cats, they won’t join a communal area but will remain in an individual bedroom. Many of the cats we take in will have suffered former trauma and abuse and have resulting behavioural issues. For these cats we work with an animal behaviourist to develop a behaviour plan. These written plans are followed by all staff and volunteers and are monitored and adapted as required. We have had great success in transforming angry, scared cats into loving lap cats. We have also successfully toilet trained many cats. For behavioural and socialisation reasons, we only re-home kittens in pairs, and under a neutering deposit scheme to ensure that they will be neutered at the appropriate stage. Our adoption fee remains a standard amount regardless of the length of time an animal has been with us or the amount of money we have spent on their care. In some circumstances we may reduce or waive the adoption fees, for example for very elderly cats being adopted out for end-of-life care, it is more important for us to get them into the right home environment, than to receive the standard adoption fee. For cats with complex medical issues, we may offer ongoing support for a proportion of their care, if the new owners use our veterinary teams. Where possible, colonies of feral cats are trapped by us or 3rd parties, then brought into the centre, neutered, left ear clipped, microchipped and then returned to the location they came from. Where returning or re-homing is not possible, feral cats are allowed join our outdoor colony and to roam free on site. All our outdoor cats are fed twice a day and have free access to indoor areas. Veterinary care for all our cats is managed sympathetically with the help of Cherry Tree vets in Diss our primary provider, who undertake regular visits to the sanctuary. We continue to use Knotts Yard Veterinary Practice in Watton and as a result of diminishing veterinary appointment availability, have also used a number of other veterinary practices this year including Breckland vets, Wymondham vets. Our free roaming colony of around 60 cats comprises mostly **Annual Report 2021 – 2022 6** **Feline Care** of those who are not people friendly. As their trust grows over time, we never rule out re-homing these cats provided to homes suitable homes. However, over the years we have several of these non-people friendly cats decide they actually quite like people and go on to be adopted and live out their life as pampered domestic cats. We operate on a basis of a lifelong rescue back up for any cats that are admitted and adopted out through us. We hope that every animal adopted out has successfully found their forever family, but understand that life can provide unexpected challenges, so if an owner's circumstances change and they can no longer look after the cat, we take the animal back into our care, regardless of how much time has passed since the adoption. People often contact us for our expert advice, even for cats that were not adopted from us. We are happy to give offer this advice; in some situations, it can result in a simple change the owner needs to make or follow and can result in a happier cat and family. Giving our expert advice helps to reduce the numbers of cats being given up by owners, reducing the burden on rescues and freeing up spaces for those cats that really need them. Where we are engaged in removing cats from multi-cat households, if the situation allows and the owners want, we will work with them to return a limited number of cats to the home, following neutering and medical care. This prevents the owner filling up the home again with more unwanted and un-neutered cats. Unfortunately, we have been involved in some situations where we have had to remove all the cats and been unable to return any, and then have had to repeat the process again down the line. Regardless of our feelings on these situations, the cat’s welfare is the most important thing. The largest volume of cats we individually ever had to take out of one household was 44. This quickly turned into 48 as one cat was heavily pregnant and gave birth the following day. We had been contacted by the owners as they were overwhelmed with the 14 cats they had. All the cats were black, or black and white and the owners hadn’t realised they actually had 44 cats, not 14. The ‘Domino’ group as they became known were unneutered, underweight, suffering from varying medical conditions and very nervous. We successfully re-homed the majority of these cats, with only 4 remaining on site with us. FC meets regularly with the RSPCA and a group of other rescue centres to discuss local challenges and ways to support each other in helping more animals. FC is also a member of the Association of Dog and Cats Homes (ADCH) which promotes best practice in animal welfare for dogs and cats and is dedicated to dog and cat rescue. We believe our presence in the ADCH is important as a voice for independent rescue organisations. We feel that promoting good cat welfare is essential, especially the importance of neutering, microchipping and adopting rather than buying cats bred for sale. Our Founder/Manager is often called on to discuss cat welfare issues through radio and TV broadcasts. We also use our social media platforms of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to deliver these messages. **Annual Report 2021 – 2022 7** **Feline Care** Our social media presence continues to grow, and we have over 1,200 supporters on Facebook. We have found Facebook to be extremely helpful as an educational and communication tool. In 21/22 our Facebook posts reached over 274,200 people up 378% on the previous year. Our Twitter community is also growing, and we have around 1,000 followers. Our Instagram account reached 3,714 which was up 468% on the previous year. During the COVID pandemic we set up a FC shop page on Facebook. Initially used to facilitate ‘click and collect’ orders we now use this page to promote items for sale and advertise our shop events. Currently we have over 700 people following this page. To keep supporters engaged we also send out three e-news updates a year to our mailing list of around 1700 people, with around 500 people opening each of these updates. We have a FC team page on Facebook used purely for our volunteers. This continues to be an extremely useful site to share cattery operational information with volunteers that we don’t share with the wider public on Facebook. Volunteers have high levels of engagement with this team page. Having lost our regular donation of food from Whiskas a few years ago and still having no luck in sourcing a bulk tinned food supplier, we continue to bulk purchase pouch food from Purina via their charity scheme. To set our kittens up with good oral health, we feed Smilla, a sugar free food. Our core biscuit used is Royal Canin. Both Smilla and Royal Canin are purchased from various suppliers. We give treats to our residents in moderation, (we find Dreamies are always popular). We are fortunate to be supported by very generous public donations of various cat foods and treats, these are essential when we have picky cats arrive and we need to transition them onto our standard diets. In the past we have had cats arrive who will only eat one brand or flavour of food. We’ve even had a cat who had been a much-loved neighbourhood stray brought to us who would only eat human food. After much effort we did manage to transition him across to a selection of cat appropriate foods. Our web-based application for potential adopters (implemented as a result of COVID) proved so successful, we continued to use this as the primary source for initial adoption enquires. The use of this multi question form provides us with an initial view on the home situation and animal requirements and allows us to assess if potential adopters might suit any of our residents. This process reduces the volume of people attending site and reduces stress on the feral cats that call Feline Care home. Potential adopters are then contacted via phone to discuss cats and, if all goes well, a virtual home check is then completed via video call. If this is successful, they are then invited to the site to meet their potential new family member. Arrangements to collect the cat will be made after the site visit, with most people collecting their new cat one week later. We provide ongoing support, advice and assistance to adopters if they require it. **Annual Report 2021 – 2022 8** **Feline Care** ## **Staff and Volunteers** We have a small team of part-time and Full-time staff. ## **Paid staff** 1 x full-time manager 1 x full time operations manager (10 weeks) 1 x full-time shop manager 1 x part-time shop assistant 1 x full-time cattery assistants 2 x part-time cattery assistants Our staffing situation fluctuated this year, with existing experienced cattery staff moving on to new opportunities and new staff joining us. Our cattery assistants and manager work from our Sanctuary site and between them provide full time 7 day a week coverage. We always have someone on site overnight. Our team collectively have a great deal of specialised cat care knowledge, including the ability to hand rear kittens and give minor medical treatments under the supervision of veterinary professionals. As the Charity has grown the demand on our full-time manager has increased substantially, both from an animal care and administration perspective. To relieve some of this pressure and help move the charity forward, we recruited a full-time operations manager. Unfortunately, the new manager decided ultimately that the role was not a good fit and left our employment after just over 2 months in the role. We still feel the full time operations manager role is a necessity so we re-advertised the operations manager role in March 2022. We are hopeful we can find the right candidate this time. As with all charities, FC relies heavily on a large number of volunteers who dedicate anything from a few hours to a few days a week. Ranging from 16 years to over 80 years and including people of all abilities, our volunteers are valued members of the FC team and undertake everything from the daily cleaning out of cats, manning stalls at fundraising events, serving in the charity shops, standing for hours shaking collection tins at supermarkets and other stores, driving cats to vet appointments, carrying out home checks, to helping with site maintenance. We lost a significant number of our volunteers because of the site and shops closing during COVID, although our dedicated core of volunteers remained and continue to be an essential part of the Feline care team. As the world starts to get used to the new normal, our overall volunteer numbers have been slowly increasing. **Annual Report 2021 – 2022 9** **Feline Care** ## **Our Shops and Fundraising** We receive no government funding and adoption fees cover only a fraction of our costs. Most of our funding comes from our Attleborough shop and other fundraising activities. Our Attleborough shop was able to trade normally this year with our shop manager and part time shop assistant being supported by a dedicated core of shop volunteers. We continued running pop up shops once a month from the Sanctuary, these generally raise funds of over £300 each time. Our shop manager also continued to sell more specialist donations via the eBay platform, where we generally have around 250 ‘lots’ on eBay at any one time. Currently 234 people have us on their saved seller list. We were only able to do a few fundraising events this year at fetes and fairs, but we hoping to do more in for 2022. As we no longer have the Diss shop our storage facilities for donations has been limited. As a result, we have arranged for a new shipping container to be brought to site and to be located in our front carpark area. This new container is due to arrive in April 2022 and will enable us to run pop up shops and fundraising events more easily, as well as providing us with additional storage and sorting space. Even though COVID restrictions were lifted this year, we continued to be mindful of the concerns around COVID and the health of our staff, visitors, adopters and supporters. As a result we didn’t hold any of our large fundraising open days. These events require a great deal of advanced planning and commitment, and we didn’t feel comfortable go ahead with these this year. We still very much hope that one day these can resume as well as being a great source of income, they are well supported and enjoyed by volunteers, supporters and the wider community. The open days also allow us to raise awareness of cat rescue and adoption. We once again ran a huge Easter hamper raffle, with hundreds of Easter eggs donated we had 23 hampers and raised over £3000 from this event. ## **Financial Review** In 2021/22, our tenth year of operation, both our income and expenditure increased as compared to the previous year, with an income of £193,562 and expenditure of £157,626. The end of year difference between income and expenditure was down from £56,170 to £35,936. The total held in cash and bank balances was up to £269k. Full financial details can be found in a separate report. **Annual Report 2021 – 2022 10** **Feline Care** ## **Reserves** FC’s official reserves policy was confirmed at the Trustees meeting on 24 July 2016. ## Noting that; the amount of reserves will be kept under constant review by Trustees, taking into account future fundraising activities and expenditure. no precise amount of reserves can be indicated but if reserves are anticipated to fall, then fundraising activities must be prioritised. amongst other factors to be considered is the need to retain at least 50% of our annual expenditure in cash, in keeping with general guidelines from the Charity Commission; the amount of reserves is complicated by the fact that a substantial part of expenses relate to our charity shops which have an income stream which more than covers their expenses. - initiated by the Trustees last year, there is now a special ring-fenced reserve dedicated to maintaining and enhancing the buildings, including the provision of accommodation for staff who live on site. as it becomes available, from reserves and grants, funds will be continue to be allocated to subsequent phases of the Perfect Home Project to improve facilities and infrastructure at FC. As reported above, we aim to hold reserves of a minimum of half our annual running costs, taking into account the year on year fluctuations in income and expenditure. ## **Work Under Taken** In light of the lingering impacts of the COVID pandemic, economic climate and ongoing concerns on how this could impact the charity in the longer term, we were very reserved in our operational spending, pausing the majority of large projects again this year. With us continuing to have less volunteers on site, any time we had away from cat care, we focused on prioritising normal site maintenance and enriching things for the cats, which with 4 acres of land can be time consuming. With a wider environmental view in mind, and to encourage insects to thrive, we decided this year to not mow our front paddock and allow it to wild flower. The cats enjoyed the longer grass, as demonstrated by us finding several patches where cats have obviously made outdoor nesting areas. We were also extremely pleased that the rare wasp spider flourished in this paddock, with us spotting over 20 breeding females over the course of the summer. Unfortunately, we were impacted by the large storms this year and in October one of our beautiful trees in the carpark area came down. Luckily they caused no damage. We removed the old chicken pens area from site, as we no longer have hens and so have no need for the enclosure. The main spends this year were as follows; **Annual Report 2021 – 2022 11** **Feline Care** With our Jellice pen doors and windows having seen better days and these old units making the pens rather draughty, we replaced all the Jellicle doors and windows this year. The new units make the pens much more comfortable for the cats using them, keeping them warmer in winter and cooler in summer. We have had a rolling program of improving our main communal pens, and this year saw us plastering the walls and laying new easy clean flooring in communal pen one. Our current Van is nearing the end if it’s life, so we decided to purchase an estate car this year. This vehicle will enable us to transport cats in air-conditioned comfort, essential if we have longer journey’s in warm weather with stressed cats. With our new safety procedures on site, we restricted the number of volunteers who have the codes to our access gates. This means staff now have to walk 100 metres to the gate to let people in. To improve this situation, we began the process of getting an automatic electric gate entry system installed. This will allow staff to grant entry without the need to walk to the gate and manually allow access. We are hopeful this will be fully up and running soon. As part of ongoing maintenance, we employed an electrician to re-wire and improve various sections on site. We still have more work to get completed but, due to the lack of suitable tradesmen, are finding it difficult to arrange for someone to complete the work at this time. We had to nurse our ageing boiler again this summer and will start to make plans to get this replaced soon if we continue to see issues from it. Our health and safety plans were continually updated. We unfortunately suffered from a few repeat infestations of ringworm, we believe that originated from an abandoned kitten that came into us in a very poorly state. With a rigorous new bleach cleaning routine and strict quarantine procedures, we now have this firmly under control. **Annual Report 2021 – 2022 12** **Feline Care** ## **The Future** Every care continues to be taken to ensure that expenditure is kept under control, whilst ensuring that the well being of the animals does not suffer. However, substantial investment will still need to be made in continuing the programme of upgrading and increasing accommodation for the cats and for the building of permanent staff accommodation at the sanctuary; the charity continues to save for this purpose. The ring-fenced reserves mentioned above ensure the need for permanent staff accommodation is kept as an agenda item for the Trustees and remains a continuing priority in the longer term. Applications for grants and donations aimed specifically at the Perfect Home Project continue. Remaining long term elements of the project include: New reception area directly adjacent to our new car park: reducing the need for visitors to enter the cattery area and to made popping in with donations, admitting cats and visitors much easier. Covered pedestrian access from our reception area to the main cattery: giving us disabled access and making the experience of visiting, especially in a wet and cold Norfolk winter, much easier for our older or less mobile visitors. Storage area for donations at the front of our site: our current storage solutions are not ideal and invite extra vehicular traffic onto site which is something we hope to minimise (if not extinguish) except for emergencies. - Recycling and waste point for sanctuary and shop waste: to eliminate the need for skip lorries within the grounds, tidy us up and make disposal easier for staff and volunteers. Continued delivery of the Perfect Home Project will go a long way to future-proofing our work. ## **Declaration** The Trustees declare that they approved the Annual Report above Signed on behalf of the charity’s Trustees Signed : ………………………………………… Kenneth Hill, Chair Dated : 30[th] January 2023 **Annual Report 2021 – 2022 13** **Feline Care** ## **Feline Care** ## **Receipts and Payments Account for the Year Ended 31st March 2022** |**Income**
Donations
Fundraising Activities
Grants Received
Interest Received
**Expenses**
Wages
Vet fees/ neutuering
Animal food
Cat litter
Vehicle expenses
Waste disposal
Utilities / insurance
Heating Oil
Maintenance / renovations
Admin & Postage
Rent and rates
General Expenses
Storage
Subscriptions
Telephone and internet
Net Expenses
Balance of Receipts for the year
Cash and Balances B/Fwd
Cash and Bank Balances C/Fwd
**Represented by:**
Cater Allen Account
Co-operative Account
Santander Account
Skipton Building Society
Creditors
Debtors|70,873.79
98,187.37
24,314.40
187.20| |---|---| ||193,562.76
90,370.43
14,425.92
3,129.28
1,944.00
2,902.95
1,680.00
9,090.24
2,409.28
10,724.62
1,653.80
8,145.33
2,042.71
6,240.00
1,160.17
1,710.03| ||157,628.76
35,934.00
233,879.99| ||269,813.99| ||82,220.48
54,833.53
36,346.81
96,413.17| ||269,813.99| ## **Feline Care Cat Rescue & Homing Centre Statement of Assets and Liabilities 31st March 2022** The feline Care Assets comprise of:- Cash and bank balances - totalling £269,813.99 **Debtors** £0.00 Purchases paid for after Year End Equipment and Fixtures and Fittings - including the sanctuary and grounds. The Feline Care Liabilities comprise of: ## **Creditors** £0.00 Various supplies paid after year end. The Receipts and Payments Account and Statement of Assets and Liabilities were approved by the Board of Trustees on And signed on its behalf by: ……………………………………………….. Trustee **Feline Care Cat Rescue & Homing Centre Receipts and Payments Account Independent Examiners Report** **Registered Charity Number 1144830 For the Year Ended 31st March 2022** I report on the accounts of the Feline Care Cat Rescue & Homing Centre for the year ended 31st March 2022 which are set out on the following pages. ## **Respective Responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner** As the Charity's trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts; you consider that an audit is not required for the year (under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the Act)) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to: - Examine the accounts (under section 43 of the Act); - To follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 43 (7)(b) of the Act); and - To state whether particular matters have come to my attention. ## **Basis of Independent examiner's statement** My examination was carried out in accordance with General Directors given by the Charity Commissioners. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts. ## Independent Examiners Statement In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention: - 1 which gives me reasonable cause to believe that, in any material aspect, the trustees have not met the requirements to ensure that: - property accounting records are kept (in accordance with section 41 of the Act); and accounts are prepared which agree with the accounting records and comply - with the accounting requirements of the Act; or - 2 to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Sue Sheldrake SCS Accounting Solutions Limited Unit 5, Broadway Barns The Broadway, Scarning Dereham, Norfolk NR19 2LQ Signed ………………………………………………………… Date 28th January 2022 ## Invoice Feline Care Cat Rescue & Homing Roundham Road East Harling Norwich Norfolk NR16 6QN Invoice No: **10042** Invoice Date: **28/01/2023** Account Ref: FELINECA VAT Reg No: 250 8131 33 **Details Net Qty VAT% VAT Gross** _______________________________________________________________________________________________ To carry out internal audit and provide Financial Statements for £300.00 1 20 £60.00 £360.00 the year ended 31st March 2022 from client records. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Payment Terms: 14 Days from Invoice Date Transmission of Accounts, Tax Returns and other Data to Companies House or HMRC will only be made upon receipt of a signed authorisation form and **Total Net Amount £300.00** payment of this invoice. We reserve the right to charge interest on overdue invoices as per "The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998" **Total VAT Amount £60.00** BACS payments: **Invoice Total £360.00** SCS Accounting Solutions Limited Sort Code: 20-28-20 Account: 83112896