**A focus on strategic priorities**
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## **Contents**
|Welcome from our Chair|**3**|
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|Welcome from our Executive Director|**4**|
|Achievements in 2022|**5**|
|Success stories|**7**|
|Global Champions Programme|**19**|
|Plans for 2023|**21**|
|Public beneft|**22**|
|Financial review|**23**|
|Structure, governance and management|**23**|
|Financial statements|**30**|
|Notes to the accounts|**32**|
|Thank you and contacts|**39**|
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**We’re working towards the day when all dogs across the world can enjoy a happy life, free from the threat of unnecessary destruction.**
**Annual Report 2022**
## **Welcome from our Chair**
As the world started to emerge from the grip of the pandemic in 2022, Dogs Trust Worldwide embarked on a new International Strategy. We set out to focus on three geographic regions plus a small grants programme and an ambitious global rabies elimination goal. And we’ve already made huge strides. In 2022, our small team supported our in-country partners to run amazing projects in 27 countries. Working with incredibly dedicated and resourceful partners on the ground, we facilitated the vaccination and care of hundreds of thousands of dogs and educated more than a million children.
I am particularly proud of the support provided by Dogs Trust Worldwide to the dogs and dog owners of Ukraine — both those who managed to flee the terrible fighting, and those who were forced to remain.
This work towards our mission, to see all dogs in the world living a safe and happy life, is only possible because of the generosity and kindness of our supporters. In these challenging times and through a cost of living crisis, our supporters have still been there alongside us, providing us with the means to help more and more dogs around the world every year. More than ever, we are so very grateful.
**Graeme Robertson**
Chair
## **Welcome from our Executive Director**
2022 was an exciting year for Dogs Trust Worldwide. With Dogs Trust’s International Strategy in place and the world coming slowly out of the pandemic, we were able to focus on the building blocks to implement our strategic objectives. We were finally able to meet our on-the-ground partners face-to-face again. After a difficult few years, we felt a great sense of optimism to focus on joint planning and developing long-term programmes with the greatest impact on dog welfare forefront in our minds.
Alongside our strategic programmes in Thailand, India, Sri Lanka and the Balkans, and our wider global objective to eliminate human deaths due to dog bite mediated Rabies, we also initiated our Small Grants programme, ensuring we could still support dog welfare organisations and shelters globally.
Emerging from the pandemic, our partners were eager to continue growing their work and achieved impressive results. We saw great progress in stabilising and reducing roaming dog populations, achieving high rabies vaccination coverage, engaging with communities on responsible dog ownership, and teaching a greater number of children than before to stay safe around dogs. Plus, the numbers of vets trained through the various programmes we support started to ramp up again. These are all good indicators for more dogs living free of injury and disease and with accessible vet care.
We also held our 22nd International Companion Animal Welfare Conference (ICAWC), in Sofia, Bulgaria. This was a wonderful event, creating the opportunity for animal welfare organisations to come together to support and learn from each other. After a three-year gap, it was fantastic to meet in person again, and the event had clearly been missed. We are already well underway with planning for the 23[rd] ICAWC, to be held in Cyprus in October 2023. We’ve launched a partnership with Purina Europe and will be working together to provide organisations across Europe with the tools and financial resources to improve animal welfare.
Of course, the world was not all rosy in 2022. The cost of living crisis hit hard around the world, impacting not just dog owners but organisations who care for dogs. This makes our Global Champions programme — including our small grants, online International Training Programme and ICAWC — more important than ever.
I was so proud of the team and our partners who worked quickly and collaboratively to get help to dogs and their owners affected by the terrible war in Ukraine. Food and essential medicines were provided to dogs trapped in the country as well as those that managed to cross the borders with their owners. To support dog owners coming to the UK from Ukraine, Dogs Trust also set up two emergency quarantine facilities, where we cared for 60 dogs until they could be safely reunited with their families.
After the challenges of the previous two years, 2022 was a big step forward for our new global strategy and I’m excited to see what we can accomplish for dogs around the world in 2023.
**Karen Reed** Executive Director
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## **Achievements in 2022**
**Thanks to the hard work and dedication of our partners around the world, we’ve achieved great results in 2022, including:**
## **Neutering and vaccination**
**88,970 dogs neutered**
**dogs vaccinated 263,824 against rabies**
## **Training and education**
**694 vets trained**
**children educated about 1,018,065 staying safe around dogs**
## **Small Grants Programme**
**applications for grants of up to £10k for improvements 47 to shelters and local rehoming work**
**applications selected for funding from organisations in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Australia, Canada, 12 Poland, Palestine, Romania and Portugal**
**Grant Agreements signed in 2022 25 (small grants plus others)**
## **Bosnia**
**2022 marked 10 years of Dogs Trust Worldwide working in Bosnia and Herzegovina and saw us reach an impressive milestone — 100,000 dogs neutered since the start of the project.**
## **This year**
- **More than 220 dogs and their owners completed Dog School.**
- **100,000 children were educated on staying safe around dogs.**
- **We also reviewed our work with local authorities, encouraging them to play their part in supporting our efforts and continue to promote our responsible dog ownership messages in the media and on social media.**
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## **Success stories Making a difference**
**In 2022, we supported 51 projects**
**in 27 countries.**
## **GATO, Lithuania: 44.9% of all dogs in Lithuania microchipped and registered**
## **15 projects**
## **Europe**
UPAW (Ukranian Pet Association Worldwide), Ukraine GATO, Lithuania x 2 Animal I.D, Ukraine Animal Rescue Sofia; Bulgaria TAC.Social, Romania Red Panda, Romania x 2 Save the Dogs, Romania x 2 Fundacja Ostatnia Szansa (Last Chance Foundation) Poland
SOS Animal, Portugal Sharko Foundation, Bulgaria Asociatia Sache, Romania SPA Pomurje, Slovenia Dogs Trust Bosnia
**WVS,India: 527 vets trained in International Training Centres**
**GAAP, Guatemala: 407 dogs treated for illness or injury**
## **4 projects**
## **Americas**
Amici Cannis, Ecuador Canadian Animal Task Force, Canada GAAP (Global Alliance for Animals and People), Guatemala; Nova Scotia SPCA, Canada
**NSPCA, South Africa: 739 dogs rescued from dog fighting, illegal hunting and cruelty directly by and in coordination with the NSPCA**
## **10 projects**
## **Africa**
Mission Rabies, Malawi Aware Trust, Zimbabwe Buckaroo (A Marlene Neumann Initiative), South Africa NSPCA (National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), South Africa Funda Nenja, South Africa Dogtown, South Africa x 2 Animal Welfare Society Stellenbosch, South Africa Zambezi Animal Welfare Services, Zambia Mbwa Wa Africa Animal Rescue, Tanzania
**Wildlife and Welfare, Australia: 73% reduction in number of emaciated or obese dogs**
## **18 projects**
## **Asia**
Mission Rabies, India Soi Dog Foundation, Thailand Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS), India Dogstar Foundation, Sri Lanka Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS), Thailand Mayhew Animal Home, Afghanistan Help in Suffering, India Lanta Animal Welfare, Thailand BAWA (Bali Animal Welfare Association), Indonesia Animal Nepal, Nepal Sneha’s Care, Nepal ARK (Animal Refuge Kansai), Japan Wildlife Friends Foundation, Thailand Project Humane Nepal, Nepal Bethlehem Animal and Environment Association, Palestine
Darjeeling Goodwill Animal Shelter, India x 2 FIAPO (Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations), India
## **4 projects**
## **Oceania**
Fiji SPCA, Fiji Wildlife and Welfare, Australia RSPCA Victoria, Australia SPAW (South Pacific Animal Welfare), Tonga
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## **Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA), Bali**
Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA) is a charity based in Bali working to protect and improve the lives of animals there.
Bali was free of rabies until an outbreak in 2008, when the disease quickly spread throughout the island. Since then, animal and human contraction of the disease has been a considerable threat to Balinese communities and resident dogs. Sadly, in 2022, rabies soared throughout all of Bali’s regencies, with 960 positive rabies cases identified in dogs, and 22 human deaths.
Since 2017 (with a short hiatus during the pandemic), we have supported BAWA to deliver its school-based education programme. It is well established that children’s behaviour around dogs is a likely cause of higher dog bite risk and subsequent rabies contraction, so this intervention is essential. The programme teaches children safety around dogs and dog bite wound management to reduce the chance of rabies transmission. The project has provided lessons to more than 340,000 learners across the island since 2017, and through evidence-based research was shown to have a significant positive impact on the knowledge of participants regarding dog safety and rabies.
Janice Girardi, Founder and CEO of BAWA, said:
**Dogs Trust Worldwide has been supporting BAWA’s Education Programme in Bali since 2017, enabling BAWA to deliver workshops on dog welfare, safety around dogs and rabies prevention in public schools. Through this project, students are taking their empathy, compassion and knowledge of dog care and bite prevention into their communities. I and the BAWA team are so grateful for this cooperation, helping to create sustainable change for healthy dogs and safe communities.**
## **Dogstar Foundation, Sri Lanka**
We’ve been working in partnership with Dogstar Foundation on a dog population management and rabies vaccination project in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka, since 2014, to tackle the large roaming dog population and number of rabies cases.
With an economy reliant on the tourist industry, Sri Lanka was severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving the country in economic turmoil, with massive inflation and fuel and energy shortages across the country during 2022. This has exacerbated dog abandonment and led to an increase in rabies cases as lockdowns, restrictions on travel, and reduced government budgets affected vaccination programmes.
Despite these obstacles, the team on the ground has continued to work tirelessly to help the local dog population, with 6,980 dogs sterilised and 6,770 dogs vaccinated against rabies in 2022. Since 2014, a total of 48,873 dogs have been sterilised and vaccinated. The latest population surveys carried out by Dogstar indicate that sterilisation coverage of dogs is 87.06% in Negombo, 63.06% in Katana, 57.20% in Ja-Ela and 46.50% in Wattala. High sterilisation coverage, such as that in Negombo, should result in a reduction in dog density and improvement of dog welfare over time. We will continue to work together to reach the same level of coverage across all Gampaha district over the next few years.
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## **GATO, Lithuania**
GATO, Animal Protection and Advocacy Organisation of Lithuania, is an organisation working to improve the welfare of animals in Lithuania. Their work includes the relocation of wild animals kept in poor conditions, development and implementation of animal protection laws, and active public education initiatives.
As a result of tremendous lobbying efforts which have been ongoing for the last 9 years, in 2021, the Lithuanian Parliament adopted an amendment to the Law on Animal Welfare and Protection which requires mandatory microchipping and registration of pets. This was GATO’s primary aim and an enormous step forwards for animal welfare in the country. With the amendment passed, GATO needed to ensure that the maximum number of pets were microchipped in a relatively short period of time, while managing possible aspirations of the parliamentary opposition to reverse the obligation. To support their work, we covered the salary of a new member of staff to be responsible for coordinating the compulsory microchipping campaign. This member of the GATO team was responsible for: liaising with the state institutions, all 60 municipalities, NGOs and veterinarians about the rollout of the law; compiling and analysing statistics on microchipped animals and the stray dog population; supporting the rollout of microchipping of pets from vulnerable groups; addressing problem areas and organising microchipping events.
We also provided financial support to develop adverts for television, social media and radio, and printed materials to inform the public about the new law.
During the grant period, 44.9% of all dogs in Lithuania were microchipped and registered in the national database — a 107% increase compared to the start of the project. While this is below their overall 60% target, in some municipalities the increase in registered dogs exceeded 300%.
GATO said:
## **Huge thank you from our small team to Dogs Trust Worlwide for helping financially in this long journey... without you it wouldn’t be possible! Thanks for trusting in us.**
## **Help In Suffering (HIS), India**
Help in Suffering has been delivering their sterilisation and rabies vaccination programme since 1994, with the aim to create a friendly, stable, rabies-free street dog population in the fast-growing city of Jaipur.
We have funded this work since 2015, and by the end of 2022, the partnership had vaccinated 54,704 dogs against rabies, sterilised 25,627 dogs, and treated 2,995 dogs for injury or illness.
The street dog population of Jaipur is now considered stable and is approximately half of what it was initially. Almost 70% of the adult dog population is estimated to be vaccinated against rabies and the prevalence of transmissible cancers in the female dog population has declined from ~5.5% to 1.5%.
This project is also having real life benefits for the city’s 4 million human population. The number of people bitten by dogs has declined from 7.2 bites to 2.2 bites per 1,000 people per year, meaning that people have a lower risk of exposure to rabies. This work has been calculated as having a total societal economic benefit of US$ 38.48 million between 1994 and 2017 and is judged to be a “very cost-effective intervention” by WHO definitions.
Dr. Sanjay Singh, B.V.Sc. & A.H. and Jack Reece, B.Sc., B.V.Sc., F.R.C.V.S., Veterinary Surgeon, Help in Suffering said:
- **The professional support and guidance of Dogs Trust Worldwide’s team has enabled us to make changes to the daily running of our programme which directly improves the care and welfare of the thousands of street dogs we deal with each year. With their support we have provided veterinary care, vaccination and sterilisation for over 55,000 street dogs of Jaipur. Without our partnership these dogs would receive no veterinary attention at all.**
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## **Lanta Animal Welfare (LAW), Thailand**
Lanta Animal Welfare (LAW) is an established charity running a shelter, a vet clinic and mobile CNVR clinics on Koh Lanta and adjacent islands in Southern Thailand.
Having previously given grants to LAW to purchase equipment for their clinic in 2017, and for the emergency treatment of 63 dogs during the pandemic, in 2021/2022, we provided a grant for a Catch-Neuter-Vaccinate-Release (CNVR) project in two subdistricts of Khlong Thom district (Khlong Thom Nuea and Phru Din Na), aiming to sterilise over 80% of the roaming dog population.
Prior to this project there was no free, accessible sterilisation service in Khlong Thom. With a high proportion of unsterilised owned dogs allowed to roam in the area, there is a high breeding potential leading to population growth and dog abandonment. In Khlong Thom, street dogs are viewed as a public nuisance and a cause for concern over hygiene and disease, with the lack of rabies prevention in roaming dogs providing a significant human health risk.
At the end of October 2022, LAW completed the first year of the programme. A total of 1580 dogs were sterilised and vaccinated, reaching 78.5% sterilisation coverage. The team is currently back in the same area for a second intervention in order to reach the required 80% threshold. They aim to liaise with owners who have so far declined sterilisation for their male dogs, as well as target puppies that were too young to sterilise during the first round.
## **Mayhew Animal Home, Afghanistan**
Mayhew Animal Home delivers a range of community-based outreach programmes, working to prevent neglect and abandonment of dogs, provide preventative veterinary health and welfare services, and offer training to veterinary and animal care professionals in the UK and via branch offices overseas in Afghanistan and Georgia.
We have been supporting the charity since 2017, funding their mass rabies vaccination programme in Afghanistan, designed to vaccinate at least 70% of all roaming dogs each year, across 16 districts of Kabul. The overall aim of the project has been to achieve a rabies-free Kabul and develop a sustainable maintenance plan for the city.
2021-22 were challenging years for Mayhew as they experienced several significant setbacks caused by the regime change in Afghanistan in 2021. The fourth cycle of their mass rabies vaccination programme began in May 2021, but in August, all programmes were suspended as the Taliban reached the outskirts of Kabul. Following concern from residents about dogs and reports of bites, Kabul Municipality asked Mayhew to resume operations, which they did in September, with written permission to carry out their work from the new Taliban authorities.
In December 2021, a new vaccination team were able to resume the programme almost at full capacity, and by October 2022 had managed to complete all rounds of vaccinations, vaccinating 23,762 dogs in total across 16 districts of Kabul.
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## **Mission Rabies, India**
Our long-term programme with Mission Rabies in Goa continued in 2022 with 56,337 dogs vaccinated during the year, as well as ongoing surveillance and education work. Thanks to these efforts, Goa maintained its official rabies-controlled status (and is the only state to have that status in India). The Goa Rabies Hotline continued to be the central route for reporting suspected rabies cases from across the state and surrounding areas, answering 3,882 calls over the year. The impact of the Goa project reaches beyond the regions vaccinated. Demonstration of the success of dog vaccination has motivated the governments of two of India’s largest cities, Bengaluru and Mumbai, to increase their own efforts. And in October 2022, the state government of Karnataka launched a state-wide campaign, recording over 160,000 dog vaccinations.
Similarly in Malawi, we achieved our target of vaccinating 70% of dogs in the project areas, which required additional community sensitisation work to counteract the vaccine hesitancy that was seen in some places due to Covid-19. Through a combination of teacher training and school lessons delivered directly by Mission Rabies Education Officers, 100% of government primary schools in the project area received a lesson about rabies.
## **Sneha’s Care, Nepal**
Sneha’s Care focuses on rescue and rehoming, education, and lobbying and campaigning work in Kathmandu, Nepal. At their shelter in Lalitpur, Nepal, they care for around 200 dogs, as well as other animals.
The growing population of community dogs in Nepal is a major problem, affecting both human and dog welfare. Lifethreatening diseases like rabies have a high risk of transmission because of overpopulation of dogs. Particularly in urban cities like Lalitpur, dogs are at risk of motor vehicle accidents, chronic skin issues, cancer and heavy parasitic infestation.
Since 2020, we have supported the Sneha’s Care mobile treatment programme in Lalitpur Metropolitan City, Godawari and Mahalaxmi municipalities. The programme, which runs every day of the year, administers minor treatments such as cleaning wounds, vaccinations and deworming, and transports dogs with more serious injuries or illnesses to their shelter clinic for treatment. The programme also actively involves the local community and teaches people how to dress and care for simple wounds, through distribution of after-care leaflets.
In 2022, Sneha’s Care treated 1,800 street dogs from three different Municipalities of Lalitpur, with 1,491 dogs treated infield and 446 taken to the clinic.
In 2022, the Mission Rabies truck and its expert team travelled over 2,000km to remote locations across the state of Maharashtra and across the border to Karnataka. The team worked tirelessly to carry out 2,500 sterilisations and deliver training to over 150 vets.
**At a focus group in Blantyre, a resident shared a story about her daughter being bitten by a dog. She was surprised to learn from her daughter how to wash the wound and what information to take to the hospital. She was amazed by her daughter’s knowledge and acknowledged how important this education is for children, as they are the ones who usually get bitten. She thanked Mission Rabies for their education work and community programmes.**
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## **Ukraine**
## **Ukrainian Pet Association Worldwide (UPAW), Ukraine**
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine. The ensuing war has caused devastation for millions of people, with many forced to flee their homes. For pet owners, protecting and caring for pets often meant putting themselves at significant risk, or making desperate decisions like relinquishing their pets at the border.
To address this enormous challenge, in March 2022 we teamed up with Four Paws International, Animal ID Ukraine and a local volunteer group Tailed Hostages of War to set up a logistics network called UPAW (Ukrainian Pet Association Worldwide). UPAW aimed to provide urgent support to families and their pets in Ukraine through funding and coordinating the aid efforts on the ground and providing food and other supplies to the animal shelters, vets and individuals in desperate need.
The platform provides a way for those in need to request pet food and other humanitarian aid. Between March and December 2022, 1 million kilos of pet food were distributed across most regions in Ukraine. Altogether, the team made hundreds of deliveries covering 165,206 kilometres of roads in Ukraine.
UPAW is now a registered charity which continues to distribute aid and is running over 20 other projects for animal welfare in Ukraine.
Copyright: UPAW, 2022
## **Save the Dogs, Romania for Ukraine**
When the war in Ukraine broke out, Save the Dogs spent weeks in Isaccea on the southern Ukraine-Romania border, providing aid for refugees. Although Romanian authorities didn’t let NGOs into Ukraine, Save The Dogs distributed carriers, leads, blankets and food at the Isaccea border and at Bucharest airport. Supplies were also brought to a football gym in Isaccea and then transported across the border to a distribution centre in Ukraine, where the government was handing them out to organisations and people in need.
On some days, more than 1,000 people crossed the border, many carrying cats and dogs. To support Save the Dogs’ work, we provided a grant which helped 430 dog owners arriving in Romania.
## **Red Panda, Romania for Ukraine**
Red Panda’s project ‘Help for Ukrainian animals in Romania’ provided food and essential items for Ukrainian dog owners who became refugees in Romania.
We supported their work with a grant which helped them distribute 5,500 portions of dog food, 150 dog crates, leads, harnesses, collars, and 800 parasite treatments in Bucharest, Brasov and Ilfov.
## **GATO, Lithuania for Ukraine**
Since the beginning of the war, GATO has helped Ukrainian refugees who settled in Lithuania with their dogs by providing free vet care through their partner clinics.
Through two grants we provided, 99 dogs were neutered and several received vet consultation and treatments, microchipping and vaccination services paid for by GATO.
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## **Global Champions Programme**
## **Small Grants Programme**
## **International Companion Animal Welfare Conference (ICAWC)**
In July 2022, we launched our new Small Grants Programme, which awards grants to help dog welfare organisations build their capacity to improve the lives of the dogs under their care and within their community.
We provided 12 grants to organisations in Romania, Portugal, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Poland, Canada, Australia and Palestine. These included:
Last Chance Foundation in Poland received a grant to insulate one of their main shelter buildings, improving conditions for the resident animals and reducing their fuel bill by 40%
Animal Welfare Society Stellenbosch in South Africa received support to purchase a vehicle to aid dog rehabilitation, rehoming and the day-to-day running of their kennels.
Zambezi Animal Welfare Services in Zambia needed access to a permanent, reliable, and clean water source. With a grant from us, they were able to install sufficient capacity water tanks, piping to kennel blocks and a generator, as well as a pool to help dogs cool off after walks.
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The 22nd ICAWC, held in Bulgaria, welcomed 252 delegates from 121 organisations and 36 countries to a three-day programme of knowledge sharing through presentations, workshops and networking events. Interactive sessions covered subjects including digital fundraising, enrichment for dogs and cats, dog population management, tips for lobbying, how to tackle disease outbreaks in shelters, and advice on achieving organisational goals.
150 delegates also took up the opportunity to visit the local shelter of Animal Rescue Sofia where they learnt about their great work to rehome abandoned dogs. They were also able to observe training and behaviour work carried out with the dogs at the shelter by Dogs Trust staff.
The 23rd ICAWC will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus, from 3–5 October 2023.
## **International Training Programme (ITP)**
In March 2022, we delivered an online International Training Programme, sharing our expertise and providing a platform for delegates to discuss their work and the issues they face in their respective countries. We virtually hosted 18 delegates from 16 countries including Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Singapore, Nigeria, Lithuania and the Philippines. Based on feedback from previous participants, our programme has evolved and now includes sessions on dog population dynamics, ecology and surveys, fostering, governance, and the role of the veterinary nurse. Over the next couple of years, we plan to evolve further by delivering separate training programmes for organisations based within Europe and the rest of the world, with the subjects covered in each programme being tailored more to the issues faced within those geographic regions.
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## **Plans for 2023**
In 2023, our flagship partnership projects will be ramping up their work to stabilise free roaming dog populations. They will also continue programmes engaging with communities to encourage responsible ownership, to improve the welfare of dogs and humans in those communities.
The vital work to eliminate human deaths due to rabies will continue, expanding even further with rabies surveillance, education, and mass dog vaccination campaigns — including a targeted programme aiming to vaccinate 100,000 dogs in 10 days in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Our partnership with Purina will provide the opportunity to fund more small grants and tailor our online training offering to different contexts.
ICAWC 2023 will be held in Cyprus and will build on the success of 2022’s conference in Bulgaria with an exciting agenda and internationally renowned speakers.
We are also expecting Dogs Trust and Dogs Trust Worldwide to be working much more closely together in future, with assets of Dogs Trust to be transferred to Dogs Trust Worldwide. This will make Dogs Trust Worldwide into a stronger and broader charity. The planning for this change is currently underway.
We will remain flexible to opportunities to support organisations doing vital work for dog welfare around the world. We are currently in contact with groups in Turkey in the wake of the devastating earthquake there.
## **Public benefit**
Dogs Trust Worldwide exists to ensure that all dogs around the world get the care they deserve and live happy lives, free from the threat of unnecessary destruction.
Dogs can play a vital role in keeping humans physically and mentally happy and healthy, so while Dogs Trust Worldwide’s charitable activities focus firmly on dog welfare, we believe our contributions towards public benefit (as defined by the Charity Commission) also extend into the following areas:
- Reducing the risk of death from rabies carried by dogs, through our mass vaccination programmes, such as Mission Rabies in India and Malawi and through our engagement with coalitions such as United Against Rabies.
- Effectively managing dog populations in key strategic regions, reducing human-dog conflict and creating an environment where people and dogs can live happily together in the community.
- Funding training courses to improve the surgical and post-operative care skills of veterinary professionals, thus enabling them to provide greater support to dog owners.
- Helping individual animal welfare practitioners, and those from smaller non-profit organisations, to feel supported and reassured that they are not alone, through our small grants programme, international training programmes and international companion animal welfare conference.
- Encouraging and inspiring individuals overseas to have the confidence, knowledge and financial support to improve canine welfare in their own countries.
- Helping people (especially children and teenagers) to create a strong bond with their dog, by funding projects such as the Dog School in South Africa and improving the wellbeing of these individuals.
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## **Financial review**
In the year ended 31 December 2022, Dogs Trust Worldwide received a grant of £6,354,537 (2021: £4,242,582) from its parent Dogs Trust, as well as other donations of £83,152 (2021: £84,329).
Grant expenditure for the year was £5,785,162 (2021: £3,648,869) relating to grants committed to partner organisations, while direct costs incurred for the annual ICAWC conference, as well as for monitoring and administering grants, totalled £525,308 (2021: £440,987). Support costs totalled £89,318 (2021: £226,361) of which £84,480 (2021: £103,052) were recharged from Dogs Trust, representing the work performed by Dogs Trust staff in relation to the activity of Dogs Trust Worldwide during the year.
Dogs Trust Worldwide therefore reported a surplus of £37,901 (2021: surplus of £10,694), with £258,395 (2021: £220,494) retained in unrestricted reserves at 31 December 2022.
## **Structure, governance and management**
## **Governing document**
Dogs Trust Worldwide is a private company limited by guarantee (company number 09365971) and a registered charity (charity number 1167663), governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 23 December 2014. The sole member, Dogs Trust Trustee Limited (company number 08996564), agrees to contribute £10 in the event of the Charity winding up.
## **Directors (Trustees) of Dogs Trust Worldwide:**
**Graeme Robertson** Chairman **Philip Daubeny** Vice Chairman **James Monteith** Honorary Treasurer **Joanne Howard** Non-Executive Director **Phil White** Non-Executive Director
The Dogs Trust Worldwide Board provides oversight of Dogs Trust Worldwide’s finances and operations, delegating the dayto-day management to the Executive Director. The Executive Director of Dogs Trust Worldwide, Karen Reed, does not have voting power on the Board and acts in an advisory capacity.
The Dogs Trust Worldwide Board meets twice a year at minimum, but as often as necessary to guarantee effective oversight.
When a seat on the board becomes available, candidates are nominated to the board by current trustees based on relevant skills and expertise and undergo a review process and due diligence check. New trustees receive an induction course covering all the operations and activities of Dogs Trust Worldwide and may attend seminars and training courses on relevant subjects.
Dogs Trust supported Dogs Trust Worldwide with a grant in the year as noted in the Financial Review above.
Dogs Trust Worldwide Foundation Bosnia is a deemed subsidiary of the Charity as the Charity is the Founder of Dogs Trust Worldwide Foundation Bosnia and the members of the steering committee of Dogs Trust Worldwide Foundation Bosnia are all appointed by the Founder. The Charity has taken advantage of the exemption under S.400(1) of the Companies Act 2006, to not prepare consolidated financial statements as its results are included in the consolidated financial statements of its parent entity, Dogs Trust.
Mission Rabies Limited is a charity deemed to be an associate of the Charity as one of the four trustees of Mission Rabies Limited is also a director of Dogs Trust Worldwide. The Charity has taken advantage of the exemption under S.400(1) of the Companies Act 2006, to not prepare consolidated financial statements as its results are included in the consolidated financial statements of its parent entity, Dogs Trust.
## **Reserves policy**
Dogs Trust Worldwide’s policy is to maintain reserves (“the free reserves”) approximately equal to six months of nongrant operating expenditure based on current budgets. This will enable Dogs Trust Worldwide to meet the requirements of ongoing projects and to operate effectively. As of 31 December 2022, Dogs Trust Worldwide has £258,395 of reserves at the year end, representing six months of operating expenditure.
## **Grant making process**
Dogs Trust Worldwide awards grants to other organisations (“partner organisations”) for specific projects as part of delivering its charitable activities. Dogs Trust Worldwide undertakes a formal appraisal of each project and partner organisation before making the grant. All grants are subject to a specific grant agreement. Dogs Trust Worldwide monitors and evaluates progress and if it is not satisfied that the grant is being managed according to the agreement, it can delay or discontinue it. In 2022, Dogs Trust Worldwide spent £5,785,162 (2021: £3,648,869) in grants to partner organisations in relation to its work. Further detail is shown in note 4 of the Notes to the Accounts.
## **Risk management**
The trustees have identified and assessed the major risks to which Dogs Trust Worldwide is exposed, in particular those related to its operations and finances. These include:
- The challenges associated with leadership being remote from the operations of the grant recipient organisations The higher risk of fraud within international activity and the impact on Dogs Trust Worldwide’s reputation due to possible misappropriation of funds or fraud, bribery and corruption by overseas grant recipient organisations
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- The potential lack of awareness and compliance with international rules and regulations Staff and volunteer safety when travelling internationally
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- The potential for international partnerships to not materialise as expected and Dogs Trust Worldwide’s animal welfare and veterinary standards are not upheld by grant recipient organisations.
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The key controls used by Dogs Trust Worldwide to manage these risks:
- The implementation of remote leadership and video conferencing platforms to communicate
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- Thorough due diligence on prospective grant recipients using a risk-based framework for grant selection
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- Financial reporting procedures in place for all grant recipients and regular reviews of current projects and staged payment contingent upon progress
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- Awareness of the UK government and wider sanctions lists for updates and continued engagement with online training and webinars including internationally
- Obligations to comply with anti-bribery, corruption and business ethics made clear to all staff and a Business Ethics and Bribery Prevention clause is included in all grant agreements
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- Detailed annual budget overseen by the Board
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- Monthly comparison of actual results with budget, previous years and forecasts
- Competent skillset built up within the Dogs Trust Worldwide team, enhanced by expertise from other teams within Dogs Trust, such as Governance and Finance
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- Travel safety policy and procedures in place including personal risk assessments
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- Travel safety courses available for all staff
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- Twice a year Dogs Trust Worldwide Board meetings and reports to Council on a quarterly basis
- Strategy approved by Dogs Trust Worldwide Board and Council of Dogs Trust
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- High level International partnership contingency plans.
Dogs Trust Worldwide operates under the principles of the Charity Governance Code.
## **Related parties**
It is recognised that systems can only provide reasonable but not absolute assurance that major risks have been adequately managed. The trustees are satisfied that adequate systems are in place to manage these risks.
None of the trustees receive remuneration or other benefit from their work with Dogs Trust Worldwide. Graeme Robertson, Philip Daubeny and James Monteith are Directors of Dogs Trust Trustee Limited, the sole corporate Trustee of Dogs Trust, referred to as the Dogs Trust Council. As Dogs Trust Trustee Limited is the sole member of Dogs Trust Worldwide, and the majority of trustees are also Council members of Dogs Trust, Dogs Trust Worldwide is deemed a subsidiary of Dogs Trust.
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## **Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements**
The Charity’s trustees (who are also the directors of Dogs Trust Worldwide for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing a trustees’ annual report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
Company law requires the Charity’s trustees to prepare financial statements for each year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently
- observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent
- state whether applicable UK accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charity and hence taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
In so far as the trustees are aware at the time of approving our trustees’ annual report:
- there is no relevant information, being information needed by the auditor in connection with preparing their report, of which the Charity’s auditor is unaware, and
- the trustees, having made enquiries of fellow directors, have each taken all steps that he/she is obliged to take as a director in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the auditor is aware of that information.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.
By order of the Board of Trustees
**Graeme Robertson Chair 18 April 2023**
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## **Independent auditor’s report to the Members and Trustees of Dogs Trust Worldwide**
## **Other information**
## **Opinion**
We have audited the financial statements of Dogs Trust Worldwide (‘the charitable company’) for the year ended 31 December 2022 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, Balance Sheet and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
In our opinion the financial statements:
- give a true and fair view of the state of the charitable company’s affairs as at 31 December 2022 and of its income and expenditure, for the year then ended;
- have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
- have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.
We have nothing to report in this regard.
## **Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006**
## **Basis for opinion**
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
In our opinion based on the work undertaken in the course of our audit
- the information given in the trustees’ report, which includes the directors’ report prepared for the purposes of company law, for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
- the directors’ report included within the trustees’ report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
## **Matters on which we are required to report by exception**
## Conclusions relating to going concern
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustee’s use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.
In light of the knowledge and understanding of the charitable company and their environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the directors’ report included within the trustees’ report.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
- adequate and proper accounting records have not been kept; or
the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
-
- Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
certain disclosures of trustees’ remuneration specified by law are not made; or
-
- we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or
- the trustees were not entitled to prepare the financial statements in accordance with the small companies regime and take advantage of the small companies’ exemptions in preparing the trustees’ directors’ report and from the requirement to prepare a strategic report.
## **Responsibilities of trustees**
As explained more fully in the trustees’ responsibilities statement set out on page X, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
## **Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements**
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion.
Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
Details of the extent to which the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations are set out below.
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: **frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities** . This description forms part of our auditor’s report.
## **Extent to which the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud**
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of noncompliance with laws and regulations. We identified and assessed the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements from irregularities, whether due to fraud or error, and discussed these between our audit team members. We then designed and performed audit procedures responsive to those risks, including obtaining audit evidence sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks within which the charitable company operates, focusing on those laws and regulations that have a direct effect on the determination of material amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The laws and regulations we considered in this context were the Companies Act 2006 together with the Charities SORP (FRS102) 2019. We assessed the required compliance with these laws and regulations as part of our audit procedures on the related financial statement items.
In addition, we considered provisions of other laws and regulations that do not have a direct effect on the financial statements but compliance with which might be fundamental to the charitable company’s ability to operate or to avoid a material penalty. We also considered the opportunities and incentives that may exist within the charitable company for fraud. The laws and regulations we considered in this context for the UK operations were UK taxation legislation.
Auditing standards limit the required audit procedures to identify non-compliance with these laws and regulations to enquiry of the Trustees and other management and inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.
We identified the greatest risk of material impact on the financial statements from irregularities, including fraud, to be within the timing of recognition of grant income and the override of controls by management. Our audit procedures to respond to these risks included enquiries of management and the Directors about their own identification and assessment of the risks of irregularities, sample testing on the posting of journals, reviewing accounting estimates for biases, reviewing regulatory correspondence with the Charity Commission, and reading minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.
Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements in the financial statements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. For example, the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations (irregularities) is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely the inherently limited procedures required by auditing standards would identify it. In addition, as with any audit, there remained a higher risk of non-detection of irregularities, as these may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal controls. We are not responsible for preventing non-compliance and cannot be expected to detect noncompliance with all laws and regulations.
## **Use of our report**
This report is made solely to the charitable company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
**Nicola May Senior Statutory Auditor**
For and on behalf of **Crowe U.K. LLP** Statutory Auditor London
7 June 2023
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## **Statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 December 2022**
||Notes|**2022**
**£**|**2021**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Income**||||
|Grants and donations|3|6,437,689|4,326,911|
|**Total income**||**6,437,689**|**4,326,911**|
|**Expenditure**||||
|Expenditure on charitable activities|4|6,399,788|4,316,217|
|**Total expenditure**||**6,399,788**|**4,316,217**|
|**Net income and net movement in funds**||**37,901**|**10,694**|
|**Reconciliation of funds**||||
|Total funds brought forward||220,494|209,800|
|**Total funds carried forward**|8|**258,395**|**220,494**|
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year.
All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities. All gains and losses relate to unrestricted funds. The notes on pages 30 to 36 form part of these financial statements.
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## **Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2022**
## **Notes to the accounts**
Registered company number: 9365971
||Notes|**2022**
**£**|**2021**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Current assets**||||
|Debtors|6|216,765|131,634|
|Cash at bank and in hand||84,249|147,405|
|**Total current assets**||**301,014**|**279,039**|
|**Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**|7|42,619|58,545|
|**Total net current assets**||**258,395**|**220,494**|
|||||
|**Total net assets**||**258,395**|**220,494**|
|**The funds of the Charity:**||||
|Unrestricted funds|8|258,395|220,494|
|**Total Charity funds**|8|**258,395**|**220,494**|
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime. The notes on pages 30 to 36 form part of these financial statements.
The financial statements were approved by the Trustees and authorised for issue on the 18 April 2023:
**Graeme Robertson** Chairman
**James Monteith** Honorary Treasurer
## **1. Accounting policies**
The principal accounting policies adopted, judgements and estimates in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows:
## **Basis of accounting**
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) FRS 102 – ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities’ published in 2019, the Companies Act 2006 and applicable accounting standards.
## **Going concern**
There are no material uncertainties about the Charity’s ability to continue as a going concern, as Dogs Trust has expressed its willingness to support the work of the Charity and grant commitments are not made until funding is secured. Given the strength of the balance sheet, the annual grant provided to Dogs Trust Worldwide by Dogs Trust, and the very low fixed cost base, the Trustees consider it appropriate for the accounts to be prepared on a going concern basis.
## **Critical accounting estimates and judgements**
To be able to prepare financial statements in accordance with FRS 102, the trustees are required to make certain estimates and judgements that have an impact on the policies and the amount reported in the annual accounts. The estimates and judgements are based on historical experiences and other factors including expectations of future events that are believed to be reasonable at the time such estimates and judgements are made. There are no estimates deemed significant in the financial statements.
## **Income**
Income is recognised in the financial statements when Dogs Trust Worldwide is legally entitled to the income, receipt is probable, and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy.
## **Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT**
Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure on charitable activities includes the costs of grants and their associated support costs. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **Grant expenditure**
Grants payable are accounted for as expenditure in the year in which a binding commitment to make payment is entered into with the recipient. A binding commitment is made following submission and approval of reports from grant recipients at stated milestones during the period of the grant. Expected future grant payments to partner organisations are disclosed in note 9 if a payment has been agreed in principle but not yet approved as a binding commitment at year-end.
## **Allocation of support costs**
Support costs include office costs, finance, personnel, payroll and governance costs which support the grant programmes and activities. These costs have been allocated to expenditure on charitable activities, based on direct expenditure.
## **Foreign currency**
Foreign currency transactions are translated at the rates applicable on the transaction date. There were no foreign currency monetary assets and liabilities at the balance sheet date.
## **Debtors**
Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.
## **Cash at bank and in hand**
Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.
## **Creditors**
Creditors are recognised where Dogs Trust Worldwide has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.
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## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available to spend on activities that further any of the purposes of Dogs Trust Worldwide.
## **Cash Flow Statement**
Exemption has been taken from preparing a cash flow statement on the grounds that Dogs Trust Worldwide qualifies for the Reduced Disclosure Framework.
## **Taxation**
Dogs Trust Worldwide is exempt from tax on income and gains falling within section 505 of the Taxes Act 1988 or section 252 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 to the extent that these are applied to its charitable objects.
## **2. Legal status of Dogs Trust Worldwide**
Dogs Trust Worldwide is a company limited by guarantee and has no share capital. In the event of Dogs Trust Worldwide being wound up, the liability in respect of the guarantee is limited to £10 per member of Dogs Trust Worldwide.
## **3. Income from donations and legacies**
|**3. Income from donations and legacies**||
|---|---|
||**2022**
**2021**
**£**
**£**|
|Grants|6,354,537
4,242,582|
|Donations|83,152
84,329|
||**6,437,689**
**4,326,911**|
The grant income relates to a grant received from Dogs Trust (see note 10) in support of the activities of the Charity.
## **4. Analysis of expenditure on charitable activities**
||**Grants**|**Activities**|**Support costs**|**2022**
**2021**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**undertaken**||**Total**
**Total**|
|||**directly**|||
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**
**£**|
|Grant giving|5,785,162|416,550|87,779|6,289,491
4,268,414|
|ICAWC|-|105,638|1,495|107,133
38,743|
|Training programmes|-|3,120|44|3,164
410|
|Governance|-|-|-|-
8,650|
||**5,785,162**|**525,308**|**89,318**|**6,399,788**
**4,316,217**|
Support costs totalling £89,318 (2021: £226,361) have been allocated across the activities based on direct expenditure. These support costs include cost associated with IT, HR, finance, legal and other central functions. £84,480 of support costs were recharged from Dogs Trust. The cost of fees payable to the Charity’s auditor for the audit of the annual accounts was met by the parent Charity in 2022.
Grants are expenditure commitments to the following organisations:
||**Organisation/project**|**Delivery country (unless UK)**|**2022**|**2021**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Mission Rabies
Dogs Trust Worldwide Foundation Bosnia|India and Malawi
Bosnia|1,095,271
1,065,791|1,095,584
-|
||Soi Dog Foundation|Thailand|832,511|649,421|
||Dogs Trust USA|USA|817,439|274,630|
||WVS - International Training Centre|India|503,936|250,000|
||Dogstar Foundation|Sri Lanka|239,273|240,541|
||WVS - International Training Centre|Thailand|220,000|241,550|
||Aware Trust|Zimbabwe|201,384|171,746|
||Buckaroo MNI|South Africa|71,427|51,283|
||Mayhew Animal Home|Afghanistan|63,726|90,000|
||Help in Sufering|India|53,306|39,360|
||Amici Cannis|Ecuador|49,125|29,686|
||Fiji SPCA|Fiji|41,694|-|
||Lanta Animal Welfare|Thailand|39,317|26,890|
||NSPCA|South Africa|38,194|51,898|
||BAWA|Indonesia|34,902|33,889|
||Animal Nepal|Nepal|34,803|35,301|
||Sneha's Care|Nepal|32,108|13,692|
||Animal Refuge Kansai (ARK)|Japan|30,000|15,000|
||UPAW|Ukraine|30,000|-|
||Funda Nenja|South Africa|22,530|21,195|
||GATO (formerly ARPOL)|Lithuania|21,359|24,988|
||Animal ID Ukraine - IRS|Ukraine|18,135|-|
||AR Sofa|Bulgaria|18,036|-|
||Transylvania Animal Care|Romania|16,471|-|
||Wildlife and Welfare|Australia|15,638|-|
||Red Panda|Romania|15,606|-|
||Canadian Animal Task Force|Canada|15,250|-|
||Animals Asia Foundation|China|15,000|-|
||Dogtown|South Africa|14,680|30,000|
||Wildlife Friends Foundation|Thailand|14,630|-|
||Project Humane Nepal|Nepal|14,110|-|
||Bethlehem Animal and Environment Association|Palestine|13,478|-|
||Save the Dogs|Romania|11,010|-|
||Animal Welfare Society Stellenbosch|South Africa|10,760|-|
||GAAP – Global Alliance for Animals and People|Chile|10,188|41,046|
||Fundacja Ostatnia Szansa|Poland|10,167|-|
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|**Organisation/project**|**Delivery country (unless UK)**|**2022**|**2021**|
|---|---|---|---|
|SOS Animal Portugal|Portugal|10,049|-|
|Darjeeling Goodwill Animal Shelter|India|10,015|8,913|
|FIAPO (conference)|India|10,000|25,109|
|Nova Scotia SPCA|Canada|9,195|-|
|Sharko Foundation|Bulgaria|9,174|-|
|RSPCA Victoria|Australia|7,776|-|
|Zambezi Animal Welfare Services|Zambia|7,676|-|
|Asociatia Sache|Romania|6,003|-|
|SPAW (return of unspent grant)|Kingdom of Tonga|5,000|(2,700)|
|Pomujre SPA|Slovenia|2,524|2,681|
|Mbwa Wa Africa Animal Rescue|Tanzania|2,171|-|
|Forgotten Animals (return of unspent funds)|Russia|(45,678)|109,506|
|Mdzananda Animal Clinic|South Africa|-|25,396|
|LAPA|Russia|-|15,970|
|GAAP|Guatemala|-|12,800|
|RAY - Rescue Animals from Yoke|Russia|-|12,309|
|Animal Friends of Croatia|Croatia|-|9,112|
|Simabo|Cape Verde|-|2,508|
|Central Missouri Humane Society|USA|-|2,391|
|Rescue is Life|South Africa|-|449|
|LAPA (return of unspent grant)|Russia|-|(3,275)|
|||**5,785,162**|**3,648,869**|
Each organisation received one grant in the reporting period, with the exception of Mission Rabies which received five grants.
The grant to Forgotten Animals was suspended due to the sanctions which have been placed on Russia.
## **5. Analysis of staff emoluments**
|**5. Analysis of staf emoluments**|||
|---|---|---|
||**2022**|**2021**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Salaries and wages|317,003|302,771|
|Social security costs|36,147|32,058|
|Pension costs|38,532|34,741|
||**391,682**|**369,570**|
## Employees are contractually employed by Dogs Trust and granted to Dogs Trust Worldwide.
Number of employees granted from Dogs Trust whose emoluments including benefits were over £60,000 include:
||**2022**|**2021**|
|---|---|---|
|£90,001 to £100,000*|1|1|
|* this band contains the earnings of the Executive Director in 2022 and 2021.|||
||**2022**|**2021**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Employer pension contributions for the above employee|12,963|12,393|
|Key management personnel, defned as the Executive Director, received total remuneration as follows:|||
||**2022**|**2021**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Salaries and wages|98,013|93,959|
|Social security costs|12,213|11,099|
|Pension costs|12,963|12,393|
||123,189|117,451|
None of the Trustees, or any person connected with them received any remuneration during the year. No trustees were reimbursed for expenses in the year (2021: nil) covering travel, subsistence and accommodation. No allowances were paid to Trustees, and no direct payments to third parties were made on their behalf.
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## **6. Debtors**
|**6. Debtors**||
|---|---|
||**2022**
**2021**
**£**
**£**|
|Amounts owed by parent (note 10)|191,765
126,782|
|Prepayments and accrued income|-
4,852|
|Trade debtors|25,000
-|
|Total debtors|216,765
131,634|
## **9. Grant Commitments**
As at 31 December 2022, the following payments, which have not been accrued as liabilities, to partner organisations are expected, if conditions are met by the recipient as the grant falls due:
||**2022**|**2021**|
|---|---|---|
||**£**|**£**|
|Within one year|1,661,161|279,115|
|Between one and fve years|138,331|-|
||**1,799,492**|**279,115**|
## **7. Creditors**
|**7. Creditors**||
|---|---|
||**2022**
**2021**
**£**
**£**|
|Accruals|42,619
58,545|
|**Total creditors**|**42,619**
**58,545**|
|||
|**8. Analysis of charitable funds**||
||**Balance**
**1 January**
**2022**
**Income**
**Expenditure**
**Transfers**
**Balance**
**31 December**
**2022**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**|
|General fund|220,494
6,437,689
(6,399,788)
-
258,395|
|**Total**|**220,494**
**6,437,689**
**(6,399,788)**
**-**
**258,395**|
|||
||**Balance**
**1 January**
**2021**
**Income**
**Expenditure**
**Transfers**
**Balance**
**31 December**
**2021**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**|
|General fund|209,800
4,326,911
(4,316,217)
-
220,494|
|**Total**|**209,800**
**4,326,911**
**(4,316,217)**
**-**
**220,494**|
## **10. Related party transactions**
The trustees consider Dogs Trust to be a related party (see note 11). A grant of £6,354,537 (2021: ££4,242,582) was received from Dogs Trust during the year. Costs, including payroll, of £391,681 (2021: £369,570) were recharged from Dogs Trust during the year. Dogs Trust Worldwide was owed £191,765 by Dogs Trust (2021: £126,782) at the year end.
Grants totalling £817,439 (2021: £274,630) were paid to Dogs Trust USA, a non-profit entity (a registered 501 (c)(3) in the USA) whose President is the Chief Executive Officer of Dogs Trust. Of this amount none was outstanding at the year end (2021 - none). Dogs Trust Worldwide were owed £nil (2021 - £nil) by Dogs Trust USA at the year end.
Grants totalling £832,511 (2021: £649,421) were paid to Soi Dog Foundation, a charity whose trustees include Mr P Daubeny, the Vice Chairman of Dogs Trust Worldwide in 2022. Of this amount none was outstanding at the year end (2021 – none).
Grants totalling £1,095,271 (2021: £1,095,584) were paid to Mission Rabies, a charity whose trustees include Mr P Daubeny, the Vice Chairman of Dogs Trust Worldwide. Of this amount none was outstanding at the year end (2021- none). The Charity has taken advantage of the exemption under S.400(1) of the Companies Act 2006, to not account for Mission Rabies as an associate in these financial statements as Mission Rabies is recognised as an associate in the consolidated financial statements of its parent entity, Dogs Trust.
Grants totalling £1,065,791 (2021: £nil) were paid to Dogs Trust Worldwide Foundation Bosnia, a deemed subsidiary of Dogs Trust Worldwide. Of this amount none was outstanding at the year end (2021- none). The Charity has taken advantage of the exemption under S.400(1) of the Companies Act 2006, to not prepare consolidated financial statements as its results are included in the consolidated financial statements of its parent entity, Dogs Trust.
## **11. Controlling party**
The Charity is controlled by the board of trustees. As the majority of trustees are also Council members of Dogs Trust, the trustees consider the parent of the Charity to be Dogs Trust (charity number 227523, registered office 17 Wakley Street, London, England, EC1V 7RQ). The primary objective of Dogs Trust is to work towards the day when all dogs can enjoy a happy life, free from the threat of unnecessary destruction. Copies of the Dogs Trust consolidated accounts, which include the results of Dogs Trust Worldwide on a line by line basis, are available from **dogstrust.org.uk** .
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## **Thank you**
We are so grateful to our generous supporters and donors, without whom we couldn’t carry out any of this vital work. Thank you to our partners on the ground, who work incredibly hard in challenging environments and contexts — their dedication is exemplary and has been especially notable in the past year of continued uncertainty in the world. Plus, of course, thank you to our incredible Dogs Trust Worldwide Team and other supporting teams within Dogs Trust who complete this circle of care and support for a huge number of dogs around the world and the communities where those dogs live.
## **Image credits**
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## **How to help us**
We rely on donations from the public in order to continue our work. If you’d like to support us then please consider leaving a gift in your will, sponsoring a dog or making a donation.
## **External advisors**
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