2022-08-31-accounts - Ty-Nant Cat Sanctuary

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Ty Nant Cat Sanctuary

Ty Nant Lane

Cymmer Port Talbot SA13 3NR No:1169025 June 2022

Charity Trustees

Teresa Ahmed – Chair

Nicola Morgan – Manager

Paula Beeforth

Julia Thomas

During this year 1 Trustee (Libby Bickham) resigned due to work commitments. All remaining trustees were voted back in. It was decided that no further trustees were required at this point, but this would be revisited in a few months.

Trustees have met in person but more so online due to the pandemic to discuss complex cases, fundraising and finances.

Adoptions have continued to be done online as this system worked better than the pre covid system. It is a more effective use of time and allows better matching to the adopter.

The charity is managed and run by a voluntary manager and approximately 30 part time regular volunteers, who oversee the day-today requirements of the cats as well as fundraising, paperwork, vet visits, sponsorship, website management, email and social media management. Grant applications and fundraising events.

Objectives of the charity

Ty-Nant is now in its 32nd year of helping cats and kittens throughout the area. These are predominantly cats that are in desperate need of help.

These are cats that are abandoned, neglected, disabled, with health conditions or unwanted or kittens born outside. We offer a place of safety and will provide healthcare, sanctuary and love to these felines in need. It is also our objective to educate people on responsible cat ownership as well as consider the overpopulation of unwanted cats in the area. It is our objective to reduce these numbers through humane methods of neutering all adult cats and following up on all kittens adopted to ensure they have been neutered between 4 and 6 months. We are aware the type of cats we mostly admit to the sanctuary are in need of expensive treatment and vet attention, however we refuse to treat these cats with any less respect or love than that of a healthy cat and will not lower our standards of care by taking the euthanasia step when we are able to help.

Review for the last 12 months

We are aware of the new regulations currently being discussed with the Welsh Assembly Government/Senedd, so are looking at ways in which we can prepare for this. Our paperwork and records are thorough. We have introduced further record keeping measures for vet visits and cat health recording.

We continue to keep the numbers down where possible to ensure a stressfree environment for the cats in our care. We provide food, water and enrichment for all our cats and kitten and our vet visits on a 3-weekly basis, this increases to fortnightly during the kitten seasons due to the high number of health checks required.

Cats and kittens are taken to the practice between visits for operations or further treatment/emergency care.

We continue to neuter all adults and kittens over 4 months, who come in to help towards reducing the number of unwanted cats in rescues. For kittens under 4 months adopted out, we ask adopters to sign a contract stating they will neuter between 4 and 6 months and provide evidence of this.

In the last 12 months we have admitted, treated and rehomed over 215 cats and kittens. Mostly adults, this has included a great deal of elderly, disabled and FIV positive cats. We are very proud of our achievements and the difference we have made to the cat’s quality of life and future prospects. We have rehomed 176 cats in this period, this is a breakdown of 63 adult cats and 113 kittens. 81 male and 95 female. 3 of these were FIV positive cats who went to indoor homes, 5 cats with complex needs, 9 elderly cats over 15 years, 10 feral cats were relocated to excellent outdoor homes. All adult cats were neutered whilst with us and we have

followed up on all the kittens to ensure they were also neutered between 4 and 6 months. Taking to our vet to have this done where no vet availability was found by the adopter.

Charities Organisational Structure

The charity is managed and run by a manager and approximately 20 part time regular volunteers and approximately 10 occasional volunteers. The regular volunteers oversee the day-to-day requirements of the cats as well as fundraising, paperwork, vet visits, sponsorship, website management, email and social media management. Grant applications and fundraising events. There are no paid staffs at the sanctuary including the manager who is also a volunteer.

Fundraising and income

This year we have raised funds through adoption fees, grants and sponsorship of some of the cats in our care. We have received grants from Pets at home foundation, Amazon Smile, PayPal Just giving and donations amounting to a total of £9,417:46 in the bank account. We received further £9,999.00 via sponsorship, where sponsors will receive a monthly newsletter explaining where the donations are spent. What cats they have helped etc.

We were nominated as the Pets at Home Port Talbots store charity of the year and they had a Santa paws appeal fundraiser. Our remaining funds were acquired through adoption Fees. It has been a difficult time as we were still restricted with fundraising due to the Covid restrictions and we have also had an influx of cats needing expensive treatments.

We have made changes to ensure we have enough funds to care for the cats in our care by reducing the number we admit as we need to make sure we are able to provide them with the medical care they need.

Reserves

We currently have a reserve of £33,260.00 in our HSBC account, we moved the balance from the Barclays account we had last year to the HSBC account so that we had just the one account. We will monitor our

reserves and adjust our intake where required or look at alternative fundraising routes.

Financial Review

In the financial period we had an income of £48,516.00 HSBC £9171.30 PayPal Account

(£2548.73 of which was transferred to the HSBC account)

The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose accuracy at any time in the financial position of the charity. They are also responsible for safeguarding any assets of the company and taking steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Risks

The Trustees have assessed the major risks to which the charity is exposed during the Covid 19 pandemic, in particular those relating to being unable to undertake the usual fundraising activities and as a result receiving fewer donations by the public. Financial controls on Income and expenditure will be monitored on a monthly basis and remedial steps taken where necessary.

Other risks include the financial implication on bringing the sanctuary up to the new regulation codes that are due to come in, meetings are planned to scrutinise the licencing documents to ensure we are ready for when it comes in. Also, there is an increase of cats being abandoned due to the high number of adoptions during lockdown which has seen an increase on cats needing help and finances required to help. There are also concerns on a boom in kittens being born in the kitten season and a huge shortage of vets in the South Wales urban areas, resulting in more feral colonies being created from unwanted cats.

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any) go2S Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (Ihe Trust-l for the year ended Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance wlh the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 {'the Acl"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's aCCOLJnts carried out under seclion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination. I have followed the applicable Direclions given by the Charity Commission under seclion 145(51{b} of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come lo my attention (olher than that disclosed below ') in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material fespect= accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examinerfs statement I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounls to be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets if ihey do not apply. Signed: Date: Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Fccp, Address". IER October 2018

Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concem Isee CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examlner wishe5 to disclose. IER October 2018

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