**Here for Cats** Cat Rescue for Surrey
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## **Charity Number 1172317**
**Report of the Trustees and Independently Examined Accounts for the Year Ended 31st December 2021**
Ref: HFC Accounts 2021
## **Here for Cats Index**
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|Company Information|3|
|---|---|
|Trustees’ Report|4|
|Independent Examiner’s Report|7|
|Balance Sheet|8|
|Notes to the Accounts|9|
|Detailed Trading and Proft||
|and Loss Account|11|
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HERE FOR
## **Here for Cats Company Information 31st December 2021**
**COMPANY NUMBER** 1172317 **VAT NUMBER** 336 8150 96
## **TRUSTEES**
Jan Watson appointed 22.2.17 Lesley Baughan appointed 22.2.17 Lorraine Wishart appointed 22.2.17 Sally Wilson appointed 21.9.20
## **PRINCIPAL OFFICE**
Here for Cats PO Box 338 Hampton TW12 9DS
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER**
Michele Sutcliffe Park Associates 2 Wolsey Drive Walton on Thames KT2 3AY
## **Here for Cats Trustee’s**
## **Report For the Year Ended 31st December 2021**
## **Governing document**
Here for Cats (HFC) is a Charitable Incorporated Organization registered on 29 March 2017. No amendments have been made to date.
## **Charity Trustee Selection Methods**
The charity was formed by a small group of individuals with many years of experience in cat rescue and rehoming. We are actively looking for additional trustees with wider experience to help grow our charity to the next level. Trustees must be appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the existing trustees. Trustees will be selected with regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.
## **Summary of the Objects of the Charity**
The charity aims to rescue and rehabilitate cats and kittens without homes, to find them loving new homes and to assist the public to rehome animals they can no longer care for. A further aim is to promote higher welfare standards through public education and involvement in the care of animals.
## **Main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects**
Figures for the year
- 8 Direct Rehome
- 128 Neutered
- 15 Assisted with vet fees
- 10 Released back into the wild (TNR)
- 187 Rehomed
We have garden pens in homes, dedicated pens in a local cattery and space in others when available, and a growing and flexible network of caring foster homes throughout Surrey and neighbouring counties to enable us to take cats into our care.
In addition we operate a direct rehoming service to rehome cats from existing homes where possible. This policy makes it a less stressful process for the animals and owners and allows HFC to help more animals as our pen spaces can be used for homeless animals and urgent cases.
## **Main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects cont.**
HFC works with a number of veterinary practices, in Surrey and surrounding counties. We also work in cooperation with other local charities thus maximizing our ability to help members of the public and animals in need.
Trustees have regard to Section 17(5) of the Charities Act and the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 in the operation of the charity and work hard to ensure that the money raised is spent to benefit the animals, either directly on their health and welfare, or to raise the profile of the charity to attract more homes, supporters and volunteers.
**Our vision statement is:** To give every cat its best life.
**Our mission statement is:** Working together to improve the lives of cats now and in the future.
## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Covid restrictions continued to have a big impact on our charity. Fundraising opportunities were limited. We were fortunate to receive a substantial legacy from a long-standing supporter which helped us to balance the books for the year and took the pressure off fundraising. We have continued to use online home-checking where appropriate using a combination of, questionnaire, phone interview, Google maps and video tours of homes and their environs to assess the suitability of potential adoptees.
Our Golden Oldies policy continues to be popular where we will cover certain conditions in older cats to increase our ability to find them suitable homes.
The main fundraising events for the year were the Cranleigh Carnival and the Christmas event at the Lightbox in Woking. We also asked for sponsors for the pens we use at 5 Acres cattery near Guildford
Cats coming into our care are health checked, neutered, vaccinated and microchipped before rehoming. We follow up to ensure the animals and new owners are happy in the new relationship. We can offer behavioural advice, animal communication and bereavement counselling should the need arise. These services have allowed a significant number of animals to remain with their original owners. We are really proud to have been awarded a Certificate for the completion of a fantastic pilot programme with International Cat Care - Becoming a Cat Friendly Homing Centre. The programme took place
over five months from February and our Operations Manager and one of our Trustees completed the course as a team. We have been looking at all aspects of our intake and assessment procedures with the main aim to improve the outcome for each individual cat we care for and also those about whom we give advice. We were also very excited and honoured to have worked with Vicky Halls and Kim Horsford, two renowned cat welfare advocates. Working together as our coaches on this project their aim was to help charities like ourselves, who work with unowned cats across the world.
## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year cont.**
We know that what we have learned from the programme will benefit our cats and the people we work with moving forward and are very grateful to have been able to take part.
To attract legacies we are members of Remember a Charity. We are also members of the ADCH, the Association of Dogs and Cats Homes. ADCH represents the views of animal welfare charities to the government and is an excellent resource for the charity. Our data is provided annually to the Association of Dogs and Cats homes (ADCH) for analysis and will be used in their own impact and strategic plan.
At the end of December 2021 we had over 6,500 facebook followers.
We use Shelter Manager to record and audit the trail of each cat that we help. This also provides us with valuable data for our impact and strategy going forward.
## **Policy on reserves**
Based on 2019 income and taking into account 1 year’s operating costs. HFC have agreed that one year’s operating costs will be kept in reserve to cover a full time operations manager, vet bills, catfood, litter and van lease.
Jan Watson Treasurer
## **Here for Cats Independent Examiner’s Report (for Year Ended 31[st] Dec 2021)**
**Here for Cats Balance Sheet**
## **At 31st December 2021**
## **Here for Cats BALANCE SHEET At 31 December 2021**
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**At 31 December 2021**|**Here for Cats**
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**At 31 December 2021**|**Here for Cats**
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**At 31 December 2021**|**Here for Cats**
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**At 31 December 2021**|
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|**Notes**
**2021**
**2020**|||||
|**£**||**£**
**£**||**£**|
|**Fixed Assets**
3||338||677|
|**Current Assets**|||||
|Debtors|1,896||2,204||
|Cash at Bank|299,726||250,128||
|**301,62**
**2**||**252,33**
**2**|||
|**Creditors:**amounts
falling due within one
year|||||
||1,250||1,566||
|**1,250**||**1,566**|||
|**Net Current Assets**||**300,3**
**72**||**250,7**
**66**|
||||||
|**Total assets less current**
**liabilities**||**300,7**
**10**||**251,4**
**43**|
|**Funds**|||||
|Unrestricted Funds
5||148,26
9||59,704|
|Restricted Funds||152,44
1||191,73
9|
||||||
||||||
|||**300,7**
**10**||**251,4**
**43**|
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on October 22nd 2022 and were signed on its behalf by
Jan Watson Trustee
## **Here for Cats Notes on Financial Statements At 31st December 2021**
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Basis of preparing the financial statements**
The financial statements of the charity, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015)’, Financial Reporting Standard 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland’ and the Charities Act 2011. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention
## **Income**
All income is recognized in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy.
## **Expenditure**
Liabilities are recognized as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from tax on its charitable activities.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the Trustees.
Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
**2. DEPRECIATION**
Depreciation has been provided on all fixed assets at rates designed to write off their cost or valuation less any residual value over their estimated useful lives.
Office Equipment 33% straight line basis
## **3. FIXED ASSETS**
|**3.**
**FIXED ASSETS**||||
|---|---|---|---|
||**Ofce Equipment**||**Total**|
|**Cost**||||
|As at 1stJanuary 2021|1016||1016|
|At 31st December 2021|1016||1016|
|**Aggregate Depreciation**||||
|As at 1stJanuary 2021|339||339|
|Charge for the year|339|339||
|As at 31stDecember 2021|678|678||
|**Net Book Value**||||
|At 31st December 2021|338||338|
## **4. TRUSTEES’ REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS**
There were no trustees’ remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 December 2021.
## **Trustees’ expenses**
There were no trustees’ expenses paid for the year ended 31 December 2021.
## **5. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
|**MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**At 1.1.21**|**Net Mvmt **|**At 31.12.21**||
|||**in funds**|||
|General Fund|59704|88565|148269||
|**Restricted Funds**|||||
|Felix Fund|191739||(39298)
|152441|
|Net movement in Funds|Unrestricted Fund||||
|includedin the above are as|||||
|follows:-|||||
## **Incoming Resources Movement Resources Expended in Funds** 122098 33533 88565
General Fund
## **Here for Cats Profit and Loss Account For the Year Ended 31st December 2021**
## **Here for Cats REVENUE ACCOUNT For the Year Ended 31st December 2021**
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**REVENUE ACCOUNT**
**For the Year Ended 31st December**
**2021**||||
|---|---|---|---|
||**2021**||**2020**|
||**£**||**£**|
|**Income**||||
|Donations|45656||45382|
|Fundraising|1797||4760|
|Gift Aid|7562||6395|
|Felix Cat Rescue|||237116|
|Legacies|66311||752|
|Interest Received|772||93|
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||122098||294498|
|**Overheads**||||
|Veterinary Fees|32495||37790|
|Food/Litter|2571||2722|
|Wages|23250||22500|
|Employers Pension|505||494|
|Class 1a NIC|574||564|
|Van Leasing|1744||1964|
|Motor|1122||1163|
|Boarding Fees|4232||4865|
|Equipment|241||752|
|Repairs & Renewals|||444|
|Software|365||611|
|Website costs|939||859|
|Telephone|365||585|
|Professional fees|||750|
|Insurance|958||858|
|Subscriptions|318||640|
|Postage & Stationery|693||663|
|Accountancy Fees|||295|
|Bank Charges|1398||1177|
|Depreciation|339||339|
|Sundries|722||625|
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||72831||80660|
|**Proft for the Year**|**49267**||**213838**|