2022-12-31-accounts - Homeless Cat Rescue Bedfordshire

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 01 01 2022 To 31 12 2022

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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

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	JACKIE BEAN	TRUSTEE
	VIKKI MILLER	TRUSTEE
	ALISON MORRELL	SECRETARY

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 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

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

HOMELESS CAT RESCUE BEDFORDSHIRE (hereafter referred to as “HCR” for brevity) is a charity concerned with the treatment, rescue, rehabilitation, and re-homing of cats in the Beds, Herts and Bucks areas. We provide veterinary care as well as rehabilitation for cats and kittens in our foster care. Our foster carers are provided with food, cat litter, bedding and all expenses are covered by HCR.

We also operate a trap, neuter and release scheme for 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.

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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.

HCR spay / neuter all cats and kittens in our care before they are available for adoption.

All cats over the age of 12 weeks are microchipped by the charity. This is to promote and educate responsible pet ownership, as well as to Summary of the main identify owners should a cat be found injured or deceased. activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to All involved with the running of Homeless Cat Rescue abide by the these objects (include within guidance issued by the Charities Commission. 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)

ALL CATS AND KITTENS ARE NEUTERED, MICROCHIPPED AND VACCINATED BEFORE BEING REHOMED

Grants are only ever submitted to trusts which meet and uphold the ethics that we believe in.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

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.

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

The key objective of HCR is to rescue as many homeless or abandoned Summary of the main cats as we can; providing them with the very best care and allowing them achievements of the charity time for rehabilitation, so that they find the best home possible for their during the year circumstances. 2022 began with a very slow adoption rates and sadly, extremely high veterinary bills. This was mainly due to a cat in our care that required extensive tests on what was suspected to be a neurological disorder and therefore required specialist veterinary care. Sadly, due to the diagnosis of an aggressive tumour on her spine, the cat had to be euthanised. 12 hours of specialist care came to approximately £3000, which put a large dent in the bank account, but as we always put aside a reserve for such, this was not unexpected. A continuing struggle in 2022 was securing veterinary appointments, due to the reduction in available vet practices, shortage of practising vets and therefore reduction in available appointments. Therefore HCR had to continue to make appointments to out of area vets, which, in itself, increases expenditure in petrol and also in volunteer’s time. Due to the onset of war in the Ukraine, HCR saw, as everyone did, the knock on effect of price increases, in both petrol, energy prices and food prices. This was reflected in our monthly expenditure. Fundraising always picks up in Springtime, due to being able to raise extra monies from local boot sales, cake sales etc. Our loyal followers have continued to support us by ordering off our Amazon wish list, which saved a great deal of costs for food and litter supplies. HCR continued to run the Feed a Homeless Cat eBay listing throughout the year bringing in a small but 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 and picked up towards the end of the year. Once again, 2022 brought with it some very distressing cases of animal neglect. In particular, one cat “Magnum” which was found by a member of the public with ruptured eyeballs. The owner was identified, and the cat was signed over to our care. Magnum had to have both eyes removed and was also found to be FIV positive. Sadly, both his eye condition and his FIV diagnosis could have been avoided had the owner not neglected him. Thankfully, Magnum made a very good recovery and has adapted extremely well to being blind. He has now found a very loving indoor only home and is adored by his new owners. Fue to the extent of veterinary care required for Magnum, we opened a specific fundraiser for his care, which proved very successful.

We have continued to fully prioritise our Trap, Neuter and Release campaign in 2022, 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.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Feeding of the feral cat community in Luton continued as normal, as it does 365 days a year, and helps to gain trust to be able to trap feral cats for neutering and veterinary care. 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.

Section E Financial review

No official reserve, but in 2022, we agreed to maintain the reserve of Brief statement of the £10000 to cover the ever increasing costs of emergency veterinary charity’s policy on reserves treatment during the ongoing issues caused by the pandemic and Brexit (lack of resources, veterinary shortages, 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

Further financial review details (Optional information)

HCR’s expenditure has again seen an increase in cost for veterinary care
You may choose to include – in essential treatment, spay/neuter operations, emergency treatment.
additional information, where We have also needed to rent a garage to store our trapping equipment
relevant about: and bulky items.
the charity’s principal sources of funds (including Several rescue cases required extensive veterinary treatment (as
any fundraising); mentioned above)
how expenditure has supported the key objectives Our Trap, Neuter, Release scheme is sometimes costly in respect of of the charity; veterinary bills, but extremely worthwhile, so we accept that cost entirely.
investment policy and Principal sources of fundraising this year continued to be from adoptions,
objectives including any online donations (via Paypal / fundraising sites and a link on our website)
ethical investment policy and selling donated items on eBay and Facebook selling pages. Boot
adopted. sales throughout Summer continued to bring in a small but steady income and also has a positive effect on the environment by recycling goods no longer required, meaning less goes into landfill.

Facebook has been an invaluable way of raising both the charity’s profile and for fundraising. This secures donations on a monthly basis. Supporters also choose to give a monthly donation via PayPal, which is invaluable.

Towards the end of 2022, we also launched our “Moggy Monday” campaign on Facebook; a request every Monday for our followers to donate £1. The campaign has taken off very well and we are very grateful to our followers for their continued support.

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 in order for us to make a claim with HMRC.

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, Chair, SECRETARY etc) Date 27/10/2023

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Charity Name		No (if any)
HOMELESS CAT RESCUE BEDFORDSHIRE		1153052
Receipts and payments accounts			CC16a
Period start date For the period from 01/01/2022	To	Period end date 31/12/2022

Section A Receipts and payments	Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 2,854 12,284 9,177 - - - - - 24,315 - - - 24,315 19,691 5,178 - - - - - - 24,869 - - - - 24,869 - 16633.00	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Total funds to the nearest £ 2,854 12,284 9,177 - - - - - 24,315 - - - 24,315 19,691 5,178 - - - - - - - 24,869 - -	Last year to the nearest £
ADOPTIONS	2,854				3,810
FUNDRAISING	12,284				7,856
DONATIONS	9,177				12,161
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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	24,315				23,827

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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VETERINARY BILLS	19,691				14,223
OTHER EXPENSES	5,178				3,269
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**Sub total **	24,869				17,492

A4 Asset and investment purchases (see table)
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*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*

				24,869
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	16633.00	-	-	16,633

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 B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B1 Cash funds	Details Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Details Details Signature	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 £
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			Date of approval
		Alison Morrell	27/10/2022

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

27/10/2023