Scampdoodles Charity Charity number 1170674
Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31st December 2022
Scampdoodles Charity
Charity number 1170674
Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31st December 2022
| Unrestricted funds £ Receipts Grants - Donations 5 Loan from Trustee - Sub total 5 Total receipts 5 Payments Website and marketing - Rates - Light & heat - Animal upkeep costs - Life Vests - Telephone, computer and IT costs - Printing, postage and stationery - Insurance - Small computer equipment 428 Hydropool maintenenace - Garden tools and equipment - Sub total 428 Asset and investment purchases Equipment - Sub total - Total payments 428 Net of receipts/(payments) 423 - Transfers between funds - Cash funds last year end 423 Cash funds this year end - £ |
Restricted funds £ - - - - - - - - - - - - 1,812 396 816 - 3,024 - - 3,024 (3,024) - 9,556 £6,532 |
Total funds £ - 5 - 5 5 - - - - - - - 1,812 824 816 - 3,452 - - 3,452 (3,447) - 9,979 £6,532 |
Last year £ 8,675 63 8,648 |
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| 17,386 | |||
| 17,386 | |||
| - 420 1,800 5,807 - 876 168 2,075 - - 192 |
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| 11,338 | |||
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| - | |||
| 11,338 | |||
| 6,048 | |||
| - | |||
| 3,931 | |||
| £9,979 |
Scampdoodles Charity Charity number 1170674
Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period As at 31st December 2022
| Categories Unrestricted funds £ Cash funds - - £ (agree balances with receipts and pa Fund to which asset belongs Assets retained for the charity’s own use Dolphin Dogs Rosebank Gardens Fund to which liability relates Liabilities Unrestricted Funds Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees Signature Lawn Mowers Details Bank Current Account Total cash funds Details Hydropool Details Loan from Trustee Print Name Laura Hill Paul Garrod |
Restricted funds £ 6,532 |
Restricted funds £ 6,532 |
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| £6,532 | ||
| Cost £23,674 £1,899 Amount due £8,648 Date of approval |
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Report of the Trustees
For the year to 31st December 2022
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 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.
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.
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 a 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.
We continue to help people and pets locally but providing ad hoc emergency respite.
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 formal induction to the work of the trust and provided with the information they need to fulfil their roles, which includes information 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 charity’s management and development.
Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements
The trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Report and the Financial 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 statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; observe the methods and principles of the Charities SORP; make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and prepared the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is in appropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The Trustees are responsible for keeping accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the charity and enable them to ascertain to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 1993, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
In the interest of transparency and accountability 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 information included on the charity’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
Approved by the trustees and signed on their behalf by:-