## GUARDIAN ANGELS BIRD SANCTUARY
## Trustee’s Annual Report
For the Year ended 31[st] March 2023
Registered Charity Number: 1162553 Registered on the Register of Charities on 7[th] July 2015
## Administration
**Trustees:** Mrs. R. Blagg Mrs. R. Smith Ms. N. Barsby Ms. V. Avery **Treasurer:** Mr. D. Blagg **Patron:** Ms. Ann O’Neill, Veterinary Surgeon **Principle Address:** 26, Wood Street, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire NG16 3DD **Telephone:** (01773) 770891
## **Acknowledgements:**
We would like to thank all our volunteers and supporters who give up their muchvalued time and efforts to help our cause.
**Aims and Objectives:**
Our principal objectives are:
~ to promote humane behaviour towards birds.
Providing appropriate care, protection, treatment
and security for birds which need care and
attention by reason of sickness, maltreatment, poor
circumstances or require rehoming. Whereby
legitimate reasons are given by people who can no
longer look after them.
~ to rehabilitate traumatised, disabled, sensitive and
aggressively difficult birds with a view to finding
permanent, loving homes.
~ to educate the public in matters pertaining to bird
welfare and to increase awareness in general for
the prevention of cruelty and suffering among
birds.
~ to provide and maintain rescue homes and other
facilities such as fostering for the reception, care
and treatment of such birds in need.
~ to promote responsible ownership, offering help,
support and guidance in the general health and
welfare of birds where required.
**Our Values:**
~ we aim to find the best adoptive home for each
individual bird in our care and will support each new
owner, if required, to care for their new bird,
offering help and advice if necessary.
~ we value our volunteers and all supporters without
which we would struggle to continue.
~ we pride ourselves on our commitment and our
honesty in the work we undertake.
**Review of our Activities for the Given Period:**
## **Fundraising Activities/Income Generation**
We are extremely grateful to all our supporters,
especially in today’s financial climate, who continue to
donate and visit our stalls and stands at our various
fundraising events.
## **Fundraising events**
10/04/22 GABS Easter Fair at Awsworth Village Hall
21/05/22 Hucknall Rotary Club Spring Event
30/05/22 Greasley Gathering
09/07/22 Hucknall Dog Show
16/07/22 Horsley Woodhouse Carnival
07/08/22 Guardian Angels Bird Sanctuary Open Day
20/08/22 Lenton Abbey Park Fun Day
28/08/22 Brinsley Animal Rescue Open Day
09/10/22 GABS Autumn Fayre at Greasley Sports Hall
- 26/11/22 Stapleford Xmas Lights Switch On event
- 29/11/11 Eastwood Xmas Lights Switch On event
02/12/22 Greasley Christmas Cracker
03/12/22 Beeston Christmas Lights Switch On event
Our income generation is based almost solely on our fundraising activities and these funds are primarily used to feed and house the birds and for aviary maintenance. The majority being spent on necessary feed and vet fees. Obviously, during this period, especially April until August.
## **Current membership numbers:**
Number of current members as of 31[st] March 2023 = 166
Number of bird sponsors as of 31[st] March 2022 = 15
## **Educational Events:**
We endeavour to undertake more educational outreach talks and events in the coming year to various groups and societies to help promote care, advice, support, guidance, and general awareness on caring for pet birds.
Every three months we attend Melbourne House Care Home in Nottingham and take with us some of our more friendly birds for a “Meet and Greet” and put a smile on most
of the residents’ faces. We regularly go into Brinsley Primary School to let the children stroke the birds and ask questions about them.
All “Meet and Greets” and educational talks that we do are totally free of charge and feel we, in a small way, are giving something back to the community.
## **Publicity:**
When we have a big event on the horizon, we kindly ask BBC Radio Nottingham to publicise it. They gladly agree but almost insist that we go in and have a chat on air. Not that we mind.
## **Future aims:**
Our aim for the future is to raise our profile within our community. We are currently setting up an improved website, and we have an established Facebook page and endeavour to keep these up to date with information and upcoming events.
We hope to include more use of social media in the future, including Twitter and YouTube videos.
We hope to make better use of digital media, which should help to promote us more to the public giving greater awareness regarding the services we offer and the help we are able give.
We also aim to increase our membership and sponsorship numbers.
We also intend to source opportunities for grant applications with a view to supplementing our fundraising activities. We hope to put at least one grant application forward in the coming year.
Since last year we helped several school and college students with work experience and have many more booked in for the coming year. We are also in the act of helping adults gain experience to help with their university course.
Now, we are offering a boarding service to the public covering sickness, holidays and hospitalisation whereby help is required by the public to look after their birds.
BBC Radio Nottingham have invited us back in the future year to advertise our forthcoming events.
## **Financial Review:**
As a small charity, we feel it is in the public interest to provide our accounts.
**Accountant:** Mr. Howard Jones
HPJ Bookkeeping
39, Plumptre Road,
Eastwood
Nottinghamshire
NG16 3LP
Telephone: 07891164542
**Charity Name Itambira Island Trust**
**No (if any)**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
## **CC16a**
**For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1.4.22 31.3.23
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
**32,531**
Donations for trainingcourses
**-**
Donations for communityoutreach
**-**
Guestpayments and regional retreat
**-**
**-**
Land Purchase
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,531**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 32,531**
**A3 Payments**
**14,229**
**628**
**860**
Guestpayments and regional retreat
**-**
Rainwater harvesting programme
**-**
Landpurchase
**27,000**
Bank Charges
**170**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 42,887**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 42,887**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 10,356**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**30,683**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 20,327**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
General donations incuding gift aid
received duringtheyear
Donations for Rainwater Harvesting project
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
Itambira Island Seeds of Hope General
Fund
Itambira Island Seeds of Hope - Training
Programme
Itambira Island Seeds of Hope -
Community Outreach
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**1,242**
**5,659**
**3,560**
**1,530**
**68,000**
**-**
**-**
**79,991**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**79,991**
**-**
**1,242**
**5,659**
**3,560**
**1,150**
**68,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**79,611**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**79,611**
**380**
**-**
**598**
**978**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**32,531**
**1,242**
**5,659**
**3,560**
**1,530**
**68,000**
**-**
**-**
**112,522**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**112,522**
**14,229**
**1,870**
**6,519**
**3,560**
**1,150**
**95,000**
**170**
**-**
**-**
**122,498**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**122,498**
**- 9,976**
**-**
**21,305**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|||||**13,879**|
|||||**493**|
|||||**2,374**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**2,280**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**19,026**|
||||||
||||||
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
||||||
|||||**19,026**|
||||||
|||||**11,850**|
|||||**1,675**|
|||||**3,125**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**2,200**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**75**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**18,925**|
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||**-**|
||||||
|||||**18,925**|
||||||
||**380**|**-**|**- 9,976**|**101**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**598**|**-**||**31,281**|
||**978**|**-**|**21,305**||
**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,327**
**978**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
SallyBotteley
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||SallyBotteley|16.1.24|
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Assessors Re
to Ihe Trn5tees of Itarnbira IslAnd Trust
J have carried out an &ss¢ssm¢nt of the Slai¢m¢nt of Financia] Activities for the period
ended I l March 2023 and the Balances of funds Rr thai date. Thi5 assessni¢nt did noi
constitute an audit in accordance with approvd Audilillg Slandards 8nd was r¢stricted io
the following areas:
l. Assess whether the finan¢i4115taicments correclly refleci the activiti¢s of the
charity and aw in agreement with the books and records maintained.
2. Ass¢ss wh¢th¢r acttjal ¢xpendiTurc was consistent with projects approved by
the Trustees.
3. AsS whether income received for specific PTojects was correctly sp¢nt on
those projects.
In my opinion the financial statements give a true and fair view ot" th¢ slaie of the
charity's atlairs at thal dare and ot" its incomc and ex[lluTe during the period from I
April 2022 to 31sr March 2023 and arL' in agreemenl with the books and records of the
charity. In m). opinion expenditure has been consistent with the proj¢cts approved by thc
Trustees and income for specific projects has becn WTrectly spent.
R D Yielder
16th January 20?4