**To** ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 1 Jan 2024 31 December 2024 **From** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1162047 Rochdale Dog Rescue **Charity's principal address** 13 Tavistock Road Rochdale **Postcode OL11 2JB** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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Armstrong||Full Year|| ||Coryn Shields||Full Year|| ||TracyFlowers||Full Year|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
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**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) Unincorporated How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods By Existing trustees - (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** To rescue and rehome abandoned dogs from the streets and general public. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** March **2012** **TAR** 2 Prevent the local authorities putting to sleep and preventing the sale of unwanted dogs online by the public. **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)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 ## Section D Achievements and performance We take approximately 50 dogs per year and find loving homes or **Summary of the main** additional rescue spaces for **achievements of the charity** We cover all vets, kennels, transport cost from donations from the **during the year** general public. Again we have seen an increase in sign over dogs due to change in circumstances and behavioural issues from the general public and a reduction in stray dogs coming in via council facilities. We have successfully rehomed or found rescue places for approx.85 dogs and provided rescue back up for the rest of their lives. We have provided extensive medical treatment for particular dogs and successfully gone on to rehome them We have a group of regular walkers who help to exercise and assess our kennel dogs, they provide detailed feedback from their outings and photos which really help in finding the perfect home March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** No reserves policy **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** **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: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); Our principal sources of funding comes from the general public in the form of regular donations. We have successfully set up a dedicated fundraising page on social media, where volunteers run charity auctions and attend local community dog shows and Fetes to raise funds. - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - 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)** **Full name(s)** Katharine Armstrong **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc) Date** 30/10/25 March **2012** **TAR** 5 ## **Rochdale Dog Rescue** ## **Registered Charity 1162047** ## **Financial Summary for Year Ended December 2024** Opening Balance £98138.12 Cash In Donations and fundraising £23906,38 **Total £122044.50** Cash Out Vet Bills £13092.05 Boarding £12761 Adoption refund £340 Admin charges £416.40 Insurance £300.53 Miscellaneous £361.86 **Total £27271.83** **Closing Balance £94772.67** **Bank Details** Rochdale Dog Rescue HSBC 40-39-01 21621319 March **2012** **TAR** 6