## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 01 2021 **To** 31 12 2021
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** HOMELESS CAT RESCUE BEDFORDSHIRE
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1153052 **Charity's principal address** 69 WATLING GARDENS
DUNSTABLE
BEDFORDSHIRE **Postcode LU6 3FD**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 JACKIE BEAN TRUSTEE
2 VIKKI MILLER TRUSTEE
ALISON SECRETARY
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MORRELL
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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 Type of governing document
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
CHARITABLE UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATION How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)
ELECTED BY MEMBERS Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
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HCR is a charity concerned with the treatment, rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of cats in the Beds, Herts and Bucks areas. We provide food, cat litter, bedding and veterinary **Summary of the objects** care as well as rehabilitation for cats and kittens in our foster **of the charity set out in** care. We also operate a trap, neuter and release scheme for **its governing document** feral cats, which helps to reduce the number of unwanted kittens, as well as reduce cross infection of diseases such as FIV and feline leukaemia. HCR operates via a network of foster homes. Currently, our fosterers only have the facilities to take just one or two cats in at a time, but still make a valuable contribution to the rescue and welfare of the cats and kittens that would otherwise be homeless and starving. As we rescue and rehabilitate within our own homes, we are in desperate need of more people who could foster for us, or provide use of safe and weatherproof sheds/outbuildings for us to house feral cats after neutering and so have had a year of vetting for suitable new foster carers. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for** HCR spay / neuter all cats (and kittens over 6 months or at 2kgs **the public benefit in** in weight) before they are available for adoption. Any kittens not **relation to these objects** meeting this criteria are adopted on the understanding that the **(include within this** owners will be contacted and chased up for confirmation that **section the statutory** the kitten has been spayed / neutered. All cats over the age of **declaration that trustees** 12 weeks are microchipped by the charity. **have had regard to the** This is to promote and educate responsible pet ownership, as **guidance issued by the** well as to identify owners should a cat be found injured or **Charity Commission on** deceased. **public benefit)** All involved with the running of Homeless Cat Rescue abide by the guidance issued by the Charities Commission.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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ALL CATS (INCLUDING KITTENS OVER 12 WEEKS OF AGE) ARE MICROCHIPPED AND VACCINATED BEFORE BEING REHOMED
ALL KITTENS AGED 6 MONTHS (OR WEIGHING 2KGS, WHICHEVER COMES SOONEST) ARE SPAYED/NEUTERED PRIOR TO BEING REHOMED
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
Grants are only ever submitted to trusts which meet and uphold the ethics that we believe in.
Our volunteers help in many ways; fundraising, fostering, donating, publicising the charity via our website and social media, making cat nip toys, holding bake sales, car boot sales, to name but a few.
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The key objective of HCR is to rescue as many homeless or abandoned cats as we can; providing them with the very best care and allowing them time for rehabilitation, so that they find the best home possible for their circumstances.
2021 began in lockdown, due to COVID-19 restrictions by the UK government, so virtual home checks with prospective new homes continued.
Adoptions started off very well in January 2021, which was unusual and we ensured that we were as thorough as possible, to ensure that cats were going to the correct homes, not just as a “distraction” during lockdown.
Feeding of the feral cat community in Luton continued as normal, as it does 365 days a year.
A continuing struggle in 2021 was securing veterinary appointments – mainly due to COVID, but also less appointments and generally less vets in practice meant that HCR had to make appointments to out of area vets, which in itself, increases expenditure in petrol and also in volunteer’s time taken travelling to and from other counties.
April 2021 saw HCR able to resume car boot sales, which proved to be very successful throughout Spring and Summer months. Once again, the general public were so very generous in ordering off our Amazon wish list, which saved a great deal of costs for food and litter supplies. HCR also decided to run the Feed a Homeless Cat eBay listing throughout the year, rather than just for Nov/Dec and this proved very popular; bringing in a steady supply of funds.
For cats in our care that became available for adoption, rigorous home checks and interviews continued, to ensure that we found the correct home for the cats and kittens in our care. Successful adoptions continued throughout the year.
During 2021, we saw some particularly upsetting cases; of “owned” cats being left without necessary veterinary care. Two cases in particular that both required life changing surgery, simply due to neglect of their previous owners. Thankfully, both cats were signed over, given the necessary veterinary care and are now happily rehabilitated and in the forever homes, as much loved members of their new families.
We have continued to fully prioritise our Trap, Neuter and Release campaign in 2021, to attempt to humanely control feral cat colonies in Luton and the surrounding area and to ensure feral cats get any additional veterinary care that they need.
We maintain our belief that no healthy cat should be euthanised and that reflects in the still very low number of cats which have had to be put to sleep, only upon the recommendation of our vets.
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Section D Achievements and performance
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**Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
No official reserve, but in 2021, we agreed to maintain the reserve of £8000 to cover increasing costs of emergency veterinary treatment during COVID-19,and having to travel out of area to secure veterinary appointments, or in case of any cat requiring extensive veterinary care or UK wide search campaign.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
N/A
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
HCR’s expenditure has again seen an increase in cost for veterinary care – in essential treatment, spay/neuter operations, emergency treatment.
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
Several rescue cases required extensive veterinary treatment, such as amputations and removal of ruptured eyes; all which drain our funds very quickly.
- how expenditure has supported the key Our Trap, Neuter, Release scheme is sometimes costly in respect objectives of the charity; of veterinary bills, but extremely worthwhile, so we accept that cost entirely.
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
Principal sources of fundraising this year continued to be from adoptions, online donations (via Paypal / fundraising sites and a link on our website) and selling donated items on eBay and Facebook selling pages. Thankfully, we had a successful summer raising money from selling at car boot sales.
Facebook has been an invaluable way of raising both the charity’s profile and for fundraising. 2021 saw an increase in monies raised through followers choosing HCR as their charity to support for their birthday fundraiser. This secures donations on a monthly basis. Supporters also choose to give a monthly donation via PayPal, which is invaluable.
Gift Aid from donations is extremely important to HCR and we always ensure that eligible people complete a form when they make a donation to the charity.
## **Section F Other optional information**
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## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** ALISON MORRELL **Position (eg Secretary,** SECRETARY **Chair, etc) Date** 22/10/2022
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**Charity Name No (if any) HOMELESS CAT RESCUE BEDFORDSHIRE 1153052 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/01/2021 31/12/2021
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,810**
**7,856**
**12,161**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**23,827**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**23,827**
**14,223**
**3,269**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,492**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**23,827**
**-**
**12,717**
19657.00|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,810**
**7,856**
**12,161**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**23,827**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**23,827**
**14,223**
**3,269**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,492**
**-**
**-**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|ADOPTIONS|**3,810**||||||
|FUNDRAISING|**7,856**|||||**-**|
|DONATIONS|**12,161**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**23,827**|||||**24,682**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**24,682**|
||||||||
|
VETERINARY BILLS|**14,223**|||||**19,851**|
|OTHER EXPENSES|**3,269**|||||**3,872**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**17,492**|||||**23,723**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**|||||||
|**,**|**-**||||||
||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||**23,827**|**-**|**-**|||**23,723**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**12,717**|**-**|**-**|||**12,717**|
||19657.00|**-**|**-**||||
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Alison Morrell|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Alison Morrell|22/10/2022|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
30/10/2022
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