||Trustee name|Trustee name|Office (if any)||Dates acted
ear|if not|for whole|Name of person (or
to a
oint trustee|Name of person (or
to a
oint trustee|body) entitled
ifan|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Pamela|Weaver|Rescue Manager||||||||
||||/Chair||||||||
||Elaine Lame||PR / Fundraising||||||||
||||Manager||||||||
|3|Maureen|Killip|Social Media
Manager||||||||
|4|Louise Gammon||Webshop
/ Website
Manager||Appointed
current|20/05/2020—|||||
||Names|ofthe trustees for the charity,||if|any, (for example,||any custodian||trustees)||
||¹me||||Dates acted if not for whole||||ear||
|**Tr** **st**
I
ti
n **methods**
u ee selection
i d &|Trustees are aPPointed
or reaPPointed
every 3years, or
i required,
by current Trustee panel|sooner
if|
|---|---|---|
|Additional
governance
issues|(Optional
information)||
|You may choose to include|CoVID 19policy for adoptions,
collections and handovers.||
|additional
information,
where
relevant,
about:|Conflict-of. Interests
Mitigation
Policy and Money Handling
place.|Policy are in|
|~
policies and procedures|||
|adopted
for the induction
and|Regular
risk assessments
are carried out by the Trustess|and trained
H&S|
|training
oftrustees;|Manager.||
|~
the charity's
organisational|Fluffy Retreat Ferret Rescue works with other small rescues and||
|structure
and any wider
network
with which the charity
works;|sanctuaries
around the country and does on occasion provide
small
donations
/ funds to these rescues / sanctuaries
to assist them
in meeting
veterinary
needs for ferrets
in their care, when there has been a big influx||
|~
relationship
with any related
parties',|or a particularly
challenging
case, or when they take in ferrets that we are
unable to help with due to capacity.||
|~
trustees'
consideration
of
major risks and the system--|All trustees
give their time voluntarily
and other than occasional
training
opportunities,
receive no remuneration
or other benefits.||
|and procedures
to manage|||
|them.|||
||~ ~
a
~
r||
||To promote humane
behaviour
towards ferrets by providing
appropriate||
||care, protection,
treatment
and security for ferrets which|are in need of|
|Summary
ofthe objects ofthe
charity set out in its
governing
document|care and attention
by reason of sickness,
maltreatment,
poor
circumstances
or ill usage, and to educate the public
in matters
pertaining
to animal
welfare
in general
and the prevention
of cruelty and
suffering
among ferrets.||
|||||||||To offer rescue placement,
rehabilitation
and rehoming
of stray and||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||otherwise
unwanted
ferrets, found by or surrendered
by the general||
|||||||||public, vets or other animal organisations.||
|||||||||To carry out home-checking
and advising
potential
new owners to ensure||
|||||||||the ferrets safety and care, and that the new owners are prepared.||
|||||||||PR events and ferret racing to raise awareness
and remove the stigma||
|||||||||attached to ferrets, as well as raising funds for the rescue.||
|Summary|of the|||main||||Education
days / Training
/ Volunteering
—where possible to provide||
|activities undertaken||||||for|the|volunteering
opportunities
to suitable candidates
to learn aspects of||
|public benefit|||in|relation|||to|animal
husbandry
as weil as many aspects of running
a charity.||
|these objects|||(include|||within||||
|this section||the statutory||||||Where possible to work with and support
other rescues.||
|declaration||that||trustees|||have|||
|had regard|to||the guidance|||||Where possible to work with other animal organisations
and veterinary||
|issued by|the||Charity|||||organisations
to promote welfare and teaching.||
|Commission||on||public||||||
|benefit)||||||||To disseminate
information
from government
organisations
regarding||
|||||||||specific legislation
or changes
in legislation
that affect ferret keeping,|or|
|||||||||changes to known
information
regarding
zoonotic diseases.||
|||||||||The Trustees have had due regard to the Charity Commission
guidance||
|||||||||on public benefit.||
|Additional|details of||||objectives|||and activities (Optional
information)||
|||||||||2020 was a very challenging
year, with a lot of short notice changes|in|
|||||||||government
advice regarding
CoVID. The way that we do everything||
|||||||||changed,
repeatedly,
and this meant that we were unable to offer much||
|||||||||in the way of volunteer
opportunities
on site. However,
our volunteers||
|||||||||were still so critical to the day to day aspects of rescue life, picking
up||
|||||||||strays, doing vet runs and even shopping
for the rescue. Without this||
|||||||||contribution
from our volunteers
we would have struggled
to meet all|of|
|You may choose
further statements,
relevant,
about:||||to include
where||||the demands.
We welcomed a huge input to improvements
in the rescue
led by volunteer
carpenters,
which has had a massive
impact on
improving
set ups for our ferrets, and those working
with them.||
|~
policy on grantmaking;||||||||Whilst 2020 was abnormally
quiet during the early part of the financial||
|~
policy programme|||||related|||year, we took in more ferrets than we have
in any previous
year.||
|investment;||||||||We would also like to recognise here the benefit that our foster carers||
|~
contribution|||made||by|||bring to the rescue, enhancing
the lives offerrets that cannot be||
|volunteers.||||||||rehomed,
or short term foster in emergencies.
This also means that we||
|||||||||can free up much needed emergency
space at the rescue, whilst
still||
|||||||||supporting
the foster carer with challenging
cases.||
|||||||||Any surplus
funds are placed into our Business Savings Account to future||
|||||||||proof the rescue as it continues
to grow.||
|a|~|~||a
a
a
~
~
~|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Summary||ofthe main||Our main goals this year were very limited due to CoVID:|||
|achievements
of the charity
during the year||||To promote ferret welfare and understanding.|||
|||||This year.we have concentrated
on providing
more updates
via social|||
|||||media and our website on ferret care. We did not know at the start of||the|
|||||year that we would become a vital resource for the government
to get|||
|||||information
out to ferret owners
with regards to risks posed to ferrets|from||
|||||CoVID and then later to participating
in a government
level meeting|with||
|||||a view to establishing
a GB Ferret Owners
register,
and dissemination||of|
|||||the outcomes
ofthose meetings.|||
|||||To continue to improve our storage facilities.|||
|||||This year we had planned
to focus on improving
our storage facilities||to|
|||||reduce risk of manual
handling.
We worked
with volunteer
carpenters||to|
|||||bring ideas to life and have installed a number
of improved
storage|||
|||||areas.|||
|||||Toadapt to safe working
with CoVID.|||
|||||Adoptions
proved to be very difficult
within the CoVID restrictions,
and||we|
|||||were unable to carry out adoptions
for the first quarter, as these are|||
|||||usually
carried out indoors. We worked
hard with our carpenters
to|||
|||||change one of our sheds
into a safe adoption
area, and also to improve|||
|||||access to the ferret garden
for outdoor adoptions.
This has played a|||
|||||critical part in our being able to function
in the last year.|||
|||||We hold cash in our main bank account of approximately
E2,000, all of||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Brief statement
of the||||which is unrestricted
funds. These funds are held
in order to meet all day||
|charity's
policy on||reserves||to day running
costs, including
emergency
vet costs, incurred
by the||
|||||rescue.||
|||||As trustees we have set out guidance
that we need to hold a cushion of||
|||||F2,000 to protect us against
immense
vet fees in the case of an outbreak||
|||||of illness. The rescue should
not continue to take in any further
animals|if|
|||||the overall funds go below this amount.||
|||||Any funds over E2,000 will be placed
in our Business Savings Account,||
|||||this account can be accessed when funds have run low, or big purchases||
|||||are required.
This account
is to help future proof the rescue and continue||
|||||to im
rove facilities.||
|Details of any funds|||materially|We had anticipated a loss due to CoVID 19and restrictions
of what we
were able to do, but in fact we found support
rallied and we did not make||
|Further financial
review details||||(Optional
information)||
|You may choose to include
additional
information,
where
relevant
about:
~
the charity's
principal||||In this financial year we gifted 225 to another rescue (this was the last
shared
payment
from the collection of donation
in lieu of flowers for a
dearly departed
volunteer —these donations
were to be split between
ourselves
and GEM Ferret Rescue as per his wishes).||
||sources of funds
(including
any fundraising);|||We were unable to hold any ferret shows or to carry out any face to face
fundraising
in the financial year. Our funding
primarily
came in the form of||
|~|how expenditure
has
supported
the key objectives|||donations
and sales of our charitable
purpose goods to promote ferret
welfare.||
||ofthe charity;|||We took in more ferrets
in the last financial year than
in any year||
|~|investment
policy
objectives
including
ethical investment||and
any
policy|previous. We saw a lot more extreme cases of neglect than
in any
previous
year, but our vets supported
us by offering discounts
where
possible.||
||adopted.|||||
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|||Categories||||||Details||||funds|||funds||||funds|
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|B1Cash||funds||||||Bank accounts||||||24,057||||||
|||||||||Floats||||||75||||||
|||||||||paypal||||||||||||
||||||||||||Total cash funds|||24,132||||||
|||||||||(agree|balances||with receipts and payments|||||||||
||||||||||||account(s))|OK|||QK||||OK|
|||||||||||||Unrestricted|||Restricted||||Endowment|
|||||||||||||funds|||funds||||funds|
|||||||||Details||||to nearest
R|||to nearest|||2|to nearest 2|
|B2Other||monetary assets||||||Post office|prepay|postage||||||||||
|||||||||Details||||Fund
asset|to which
baton s||Cost|(optional)|||Current value
o tional|
|B3Investment||||assets||||||||||||||||
|||||||||Details||||Fund
asset|to which
bslon s||Cost|(optional)|||Current
value
o tional|
|B4Assets retained for||||||the||Car YT10OYJ||||Unrestricted||||||3,000|1,500|
|charity's||own use||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||Fund|to|which|Amount||due||When due|
|||||||||Details||||liabilit|relates||o|tional|||o tional|
|B5Liabilities||||||||Accountant|Fees|||Unrestricted||||||820||
|||||||||Hills Waste||||Unrestricted||||||45||
|Signed by one or two trustees
behalf of all the trustees||||||on|||Signature|||||Print Name|||||Date of
ap
roval|
|||||||||||||||Maureen|Killi||||21/12/2021|
|CCXX||3||nt|SS|||||||||Pamela Weaver||||||
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