Scampdoodles Charity Charity number 1170674
Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31st December 2021
Scampdoodles Charity Charity number 1170674
Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31st December 2021
| Unrestricted funds £ Receipts Grants - Donations 63 Loan from Trustee 8,648 Sub total 8,711 Total receipts 8,711 Payments Website and marketing - Rates 420 Light & heat 1,800 Animal upkeep costs 4,801 Life Vests - Telephone, computer and IT costs 876 Printing, postage and stationery 168 Insurance 391 Small computer equipment - Hydropool maintenenace - Garden tools and equipment 192 Sub total 8,648 Asset and investment purchases Hydropool - Mowers - Sub total - Total payments 8,648 Net of receipts/(payments) 63 Transfers between funds - Cash funds last year end 360 Cash funds this year end £423 |
Restricted funds £ 8,675 - - 8,675 8,675 - - - 1,006 - - - 1,684 - - - 2,690 - - - 2,690 5,985 - 3,571 £9,556 |
Total funds £ 8,675 63 8,648 17,386 17,386 - 420 1,800 5,807 - 876 168 2,075 - - 192 11,338 - - - 11,338 6,048 - 3,931 £9,979 |
Last year £ 29,024 6,120 - 35,144 35,144 5,872 150 216 4,411 723 851 168 913 284 167 321 14,076 23,674 1,899 25,573 39,649 4,505 - - 8,436 £3,931 |
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Scampdoodles Charity Charlty number 1170674 Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period As at 31st December 2021 Unrostrlcted Restricted funds funds Categories Details 423 9,556 . ,Cash funds Bank Current Account Total cash funds £423 £9,556 Fund to which asset belongs . Dolphin Dogs Rosebank Gardens Dotails Cost Assets retalned for the charltys own use Hydropool Lawn Mowers £23,674 £1.899 Fund to which Detalls relates Unrestricted Funds Amount due Liabilitles Loan from Trustee £8.648 Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees . Date of approval Slgnature Prlnt Name Laura Hill elioliL Paul Garrod
Report of the Trustees
For the year to 31st December 2021
The Trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity. The financial statements have been prepared based on accounting policies and comply with the charity’s foundation model constitution document. Scampdoodles Charity is a charity registered with the Charity Commission 1170674.
Mission Statement
Scampdoodles helps people of all ages who have special educational needs or disabilities, are terminally ill or undergoing medical treatment, are recently bereaved, or who feel vulnerable, socially isolated and alone by providing a broad range of services. We help people of all faiths, and no faith, and any nationality or race, but especially like to help those people who feel most isolated from the community. We do this through Scampdoodles (helping people in crisis find help for their pet), Dolphin Dogs (hydrotherapy support dogs), and Rosebank Garden (helping people grow).
We also help relieve the suffering of animals in need of care and attention. We do this by providing and maintaining rescue homes or other facilities for the reception, care and treatment of such animals, and educate the public in matters pertaining to animal welfare in general and the prevention of cruelty and suffering among animals.
Our aims
Our aims are to:-
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Help improve people’s physical and mental health.
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Help improve people’s quality of life.
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Help people feel less vulnerable, or socially isolated and alone.
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Help reduce feelings of anxiety, stress and depression.
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Help people learn new skills leading to employment, reducing unemployment and financial hardship.
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Help give people a sense of empowerment through improved choices.
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Provide volunteering opportunities to people.
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Help relieve the suffering of animals in need of care and attention.
Activities
Our three core activities are Scampdoodles, Dolphin Dogs, and Rosebank Garden. In order to help kick start activities following COVID restrictions, the trustees have decided to move all activities to Scampdoodles CIC, with all assets remaining with Scampdoodles Charity. This will took effect from August 2022.
Dolphin Dogs
Our hydrotherapy support dogs provide non-judgemental friendship, comfort and listening ears. Our hydrotherapy dogs can help children develop feelings of compassion, empathy, and interpersonal skills, muscle tone and strength, improve balance, coordination, spatial awareness, and motor skills. Older people can experience many benefits including improved mobility, flexibility, bone density, muscle strength, circulation and blood flow, relief from chronic pain, and reduced blood pressure that can lead to heart attacks and strokes.
Although a difficult year due to COVID restrictions we continued to deliver sessions when possible. We are developing a training programme for hydrotherapy support dogs which will enable other people to train and deliver the project in their local area.
This year our therapy dogs were joined by Milly, Molly, and Mandy our therapy Ouessant sheep, which have been a tremendous success with people of all ages and have provided entertainment and support during difficult times throughout COVID.
Scampdoodles
Scampdoodles helps connect people who are seriously ill or approaching the end of life with volunteers who provide dog walking, respite, or rehoming for people’s pets. For many people their dog, cat or other pet is often their sole companion and a real priority for people in crisis is their pet’s welfare. The thought of giving up their pet to a rescue centre and unknown future is heart breaking for them. Scampdoodles helps people keep their pet for as long as possible and helps them choose a new home when the time comes. And once a new home has been chosen, we help a dying person keep in touch with their pet through phone calls or visits to either home or hospice. Our aim is for pets to be pre-homed rather than rescued at much less heartache, stress and confusion for both owner and pet, and much less expense than a rescue centre. We help give people more choices, a feeling of empowerment and peace of mind by ensuring continuity and care for their much-loved pet.
Due to the COVID epidemic the trustees decided not to put volunteers at risk, although the trustees continued to deliver support. Our biggest cry for help was a massive Leonberger which we were able to temporarily home until she could be reunited with her owner. Our smallest cry for help was from a Chihuahua cross who won many hearts before being reunited with her owner.
Now COVID restrictions are lifted we are looking at ways to better engage with volunteers and publicise the service to engage with more service users.
Rosebank Garden
Rosebank Garden helps people grow heritage roses, vegetables and fruits. We give people a safe, peaceful environment where they can meet others, or potter alone. Our workshops help people learn how to propagate different plants for themselves, and people also learn about good nutrition through eating vegetables and fruits that they grow.
Our future aims are to make our heritage projects available to people digitally so that they may be enjoyed by people globally from the comfort of their armchairs.
Voluntary help and gifts in kind
The trustees are very grateful to everyone who volunteers to help people in crises and their pets by providing friendship, pet care, respite and adoption. We are also grateful for the continued support of Hill Park Vet Group who help with veterinary costs and occasionally boarding, and to Garrod Beckett & Co Ltd for accountancy and business advice, and Jacks Fencing & Garden Solutions for fencing and groundwork.
Reserves Policy
The Trustees are working towards holding six months operating costs in reserves.
Objects, Structure, Governance, and Management
Our Legal Objects
The relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial or other disadvantage by providing care, support, education, facilities, respite care, equipment, recreational and leisure-time activities, practical advice and in particular tailored services for the reception, care and treatment of their animals which are in need of care and attention due to their owners’ specific needs and circumstances in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (the charity trustees will support people of any age who are terminally ill, or disabled, or undergoing medical treatment, or who have special educational needs, or who are living in poverty, or who are isolated and/or socially excluded from society or part of society due to social and/or economic circumstances and who have charitable needs).
To promote humane behaviour towards animals by providing appropriate care, protection, treatment and security for animals which are in need of care and attention due to their owner’s specific needs and circumstances; and to educate the public in matters pertaining to animal welfare in general and the prevention of cruelty and suffering among animals.
Scampdoodles Charity is a charity registered with the Charity Commission 1170674.
Registered Office
Scampdoodles Charity 1170674 Rosebank Kidby Way Weeley Heath Essex CO16 9FG
Trustees and Organisational Structure
The maximum number of charity trustees is 12. The charity trustees may not appoint any charity trustee if as a result the number of charity trustees would exceed the maximum. There must be at least three charity trustees. If the number falls below this minimum, the remaining trustee or trustees may act only to call a meeting of the charity trustees, or appoint a new charity trustee. Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.
Charity trustees
The current charity trustees are as follows and are appointed for 3 years: Laura Jane Hill Paul Garrod Josie Pyatt
When new trustees are appointed they will be given a fomial induction to the work of the trust and provided with the information they need to fulfil their roles, which includes infomation about the role of trustees and charity law. New trustees are nominated by members of the board of trustees, interviewed by a panel of three trustees and appointed where they have the necessary skills to contribute to the Charits management and development. Trustoes, rosponsibilitios In rolation to the flnanclal statements The trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees, Report and the Fiinancial Statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards. The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the trustee(s) to prepare financial ststements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the stste of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that period. In preparing these financial ststements, the trustees are required to:_ Select suitsble accounting policies and then apply them consistenuy. observe the methods and principles of the Charities SORP. make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; stste whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any departures disclosed and explained in the financial ststements; and prepared the financial statements on the going concem basis unless it is in appropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business. The Trustees are responsible for k88plng accountlng r8cords whlch dlsclos8 wlth reasonable accuracy the flnanclal positlon of the charlty and enable them to ascertaln to ensure that the financial ststements comply wlth the Charities Act 1993. the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulatlons 2008 and the provlslons of the trust deed. They are also responslble for safeguardlng the assets of the charlty and for taklng reasonable steps for the preventlon and detection of fraud and other Irregularitles. In the interest of transparency and accountsbility to our donors we publish our annual report, accounts and scrutiny report on the website. The Trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the charity and financial infomiation included on the charitys website. Legislation in the United Kingdom goveming the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions. Approved by the trustèes and signed on their behalf by:"