**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **From 6 April 2023 To 5 April 2024** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** ## **Settusfree** **Other names charity is known by** |**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---| |Caitlin Lloyd|Chair
Adoptions Co-ordinator|From 13/08/2023|| |Thelda Bryant|Chair
Adoptions Manager
Fund-RaisingManager|06/04/2023 – 13/08/2023|06/04/2023 – 13/08/2023| |Keith Bowden|Treasurer
MembershipSecretary||| |4 TerryBryant|Secretary||| |5 Valentina Vennarini|Adoptions Co-ordinator||| |6|||| |7|||| |8|||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address** Training & Behaviour Valerie Burns (until February 2024) Training & Behaviour Ray Ward (joined March 2024) ~~oo~~ **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution dated 12 May 2016 - (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) Under Constitution Clause 13.1, trustees will seek re-election at the AGM. A new trustee can be appointed at any time under Clause 13.4 ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; The management committee was re-structured at the AGM (August 2023) and now consists of five trustees, and a change of Chairperson. There are, also, four administrators and one consultant trainer/behaviourist. The charity works closely with a number of recognised rescue organisations throughout mainland Europe in the pursuance of rescuing and caring for abused and abandoned Setters and Setter cross breeds, offering financial and moral support. Allocation of donations are considered on merit and agreed by trustees’ vote. Settusfree reserves the right to sever any relationship with a rescue partner whose operating procedures do not meet the standards required by this charity. - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. March **2012** **TAR** 2 ## **Section C Objectives and activities** |**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects (include within**
**this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|For the public benefit to promote humane behaviour towards
animals by supporting European rescues in the provision of
appropriate care, protection, treatment and security for
abandoned Setters and Setter mix breeds which are in need of
care and attention by reason of sickness, maltreatment, poor
circumstances or ill usage.
To ensure that all dogs that we help are either neutered or
spayed before adoption or if too young then we ensure that the
adopter does this at the appropriate age.
Securing safe permanent homes within the United Kingdom by
matching appropriate dog owners living in suitable settings as
adopters of such animals and facilitating their relocation.
Raising funds to support these activities.| |---|---| ||All dogs coming into the UK are imported in compliance with the
DEFRA/APHA regulations on the import of animals.
All adoption homes are checked for suitability, safety and security and
are made aware of escape behaviour of Setters that have been used for
hunting.
All new owners are encouraged to take out pet insurance.
All adopter homes are contacted by the charity’s animal behaviourist at
the earliest opportunity to discuss any issues that may have come to light
together with general advice on exercise etc. The charity reserves the
right to re-home the dog should it feel it necessary to do so.| ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 All grants and donations made by the charity are ratified by the trustees and fully documented with regard to how these funds were used. All volunteers and members of the Admin Team, of which the trustees are a part, give of their time freely without pecuniary reward. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: Home checks carried out by outside volunteers are done at no expense to the charity and all work to a set of guidelines agreed and laid down by the trustees. - policy on grant making; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 4 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** In this fiscal year a total of 81 abused or abandoned Setters have been helped by Settusfree. All rescue dogs taken under the wing of the charity have a home to go to before they travel from their country of origin, and all are properly prepared for travel following health checks and vaccinations and all travel documentation is checked for compliance with border regulations. Our financial support for our European partners was increased early in 2023 to help meet the ever-increasing costs of kennelling and health care. Fund-raising remains robust and the charity’s financial situation remains healthy thanks to careful management. ## **Section E Financial review** We have no set policy on holding reserves, but allocations are made with **Brief statement of the** a knowledge of what the bank balance is and what we are likely to **charity’s policy on reserves** receive in the way of donations. **Details of any funds materially in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)** The charity’s funds are raised in the following ways; You **may choose** to include additional information, where The generous donations of our supporters, some by monthly standing relevant about: orders. • the charity’s principal sources of funds (including Annual membership fees – current membership any fundraising); • how expenditure has Fund raising events such as fun-day get togethers, coffee mornings, raffles, auctions, competitions etc. supported the key objectives of the charity; Sale of charity branded goods and other items displayed in the on-line • investment policy and shop. Individual appeals for a specific purpose such as emergency objectives including any veterinary treatment. ethical investment policy adopted. Monies bequeathed upon the death of a supporter. March **2012** **TAR** 5 ## ~~a~~ **Section F Other optional information** ~~ee~~ **Section G Declaration The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** **Caitlin Lloyd Full name(s) Terry Bryant** ~~a~~ **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Secretary Chair etc)** ~~ee~~ **Date 11 April 2024** ~~|~~ March **2012** **TAR** 6 **Charity Name No (if any) Settusfree 1173327** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **CC16a** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from 06-Apr-23 05-Apr-24** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**|**Last year**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**to the nearest**
**£**|**to the nearest**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||| |**Donations**
**11,754**
**-**
**-**
**11,754**
**29,941**
**Fund raising events**
**955**
**-**
**-**
**955**
**3,198**
**Baloo Fund Raising Page**
**11,735**
**11,735**
**10,417**
**Dog costs**
**31,534**
**-**
**-**
**31,534**
**45,231**
**Membership**
**3,347**
**-**
**-**
**3,347**
**3,201**
**Gift Aid**
**1,522**
**-**
**-**
**1,522**
**2,393**
**Commision**
**2,746**
**2,746**
**5,871**
**Miscelanious receipts**
**117**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**- 117**
**368**
**Interest to savings**
**142**
**142**
**Interest from savings**
**1,094**
**1,094**
**-**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_
**64,712**
**-**
**-**
**64,712**
**100,620**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**Sales of items from shop**
**1,690**
**-**
**-**
**1,690**
**2,168**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 1,690**
**-**
**-**
**1,690**
**2,168**
**_Total receipts_**
**66,402**
**-**
**-**
**66,402**
**102,788**
~~_.~~
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~~|~~
~~ee~~
~~—~~
~~——————~~||||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||||| |**Vet fees**||**5,620**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**5,620**|**13,268**|| |**Transport**||**23,744**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**23,744**|**42,847**|| |**Dog costs including fostering**||**19,493**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**19,493**|**26,163**|| |**Donations to other charities**||**709**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**709**|**229**|| |**Postage**||**447**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**447**|**261**|| |**Sundries**||**1,372**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**1,372**|**662**|| |**Stationary**||**70**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**70**||| |**Governance**||**697**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**697**|**678**|| |||||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **||**52,152**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**52,152**|**84,108**|| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**Purchase of stock for resale**
**580**
**-**
**-**
**580**
**813**
Postage on Sales
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 580**
**-**
**-**
**580**
**813**
**_Total payments_**
**52,732**
**-**
**-**
**52,732**
**84,921**
~~—————~~||||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**13,670**
**-**
**-**
**13,670**
**17,867**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**64,056**
**- -**
**64,056**
**46,189**
**77,726**
**-**
**- 77,726**
**64,056**
~~===>~~|||||||||||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 14/09/2024 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** ||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**| ||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|**227**
**-**
**-**
**21,896**
**460**
**-**
**-**
**55,143**
**-**
**-**
**77,726**
**-**
**-**
**Old Natwest Bank 33664757**
**Paypal new account**
**Savings Account**
**New Natwest Bank 41683439**
**_Total cash funds_**
~~ee~~||||||| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments|(agree balances with receipts and payments|||||| ||account(s))||OK||OK||OK| ||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**| ||||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**| ||**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|**547**
**-**
**-**
**150**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Stock valuation of items for sale**
Postage Stamps
~~————~~||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|**55,143**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Savings account
~~ee~~||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~mie~~||||||| ||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**||**When due**| ||**Details**||**liability relates**||**(optional)**||**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~ee~~||||||| |Terry Bryant Secretary|||||11-Apr-24||| |CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|2||||||14/09/2024| Caitlin Lloyd Chair 14-Apr-24 ~~a ee ee~~ CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 14/09/2024 3 (HARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examlner's report on the accounts Sectlon A Indepoiidoiil E xan71ncT'5 Rcpon Report to th• Iru81••• Settusfree On •ccount• for th• year •nd•d April 2024 Charlty no Ilf any) 11n327 S•t out on pag•• CCXXRI. R2 and R3 I report to the tru8le88 on my examlnallon ol the accounts of the above charty (the Tru8f) for the year ended Ro•pon81bllltl•• •nd ba•ls of rnport As Ihe ch8dty8 trustees, you are responsible for the preparalon ol tho accounts In 8ccord8nce wllh the requlrernents of the Ch8ntle8 Acl 2011 ("the Act"). l Trport In respect of my examln8tion ol iho Trusl'8 accounts carrled oul under Section 145 of the 2011 Act and In carrylng out my exarnlnation, I have lollowed all the appll¢abl8 Dlrectlon8 glven by the Chartty Commlsslon under Section 14515)(b) of the Acl. Indep•ndont •xamlner'J statement I have Gompleted my examlnallon. I conflmi that no materfal m8tt8r8 have come to my attention In connectlon wlth the oxamlnatlon (other than that dlsclosed below ') vthlch gives me cause lo b¢llevts that In, any m8lertal re8POth: ihe 8txountlng records were not kept In accordancé wtth 8ect*on 130 of lh8 Charllles Act,. or the accounts dSd noi accord wlth tho ac%ountlng racords; or the accounts dld nol cc#nply wlth the appllcable requlrements concernlng the forn and contenl of 8ccounl8 sel out in the Charitles (Accounts and Report8) Regulauons 2008 olher than any requlrement that thè accounts glve a 'true and falr, vlew whlch Is not a malter con81dernd a8 part of an Independent examlnatlon. I have no concerns and have come acr068 no other m8tter8 In connecllon wlth the ex8mln81ion to which 8ttenllon 8hould be drawn In thi8 roport In order lo enable 8 proper underslandlng of th6 accounts to be reached. ' Ple88e elete Ihe 4wnYs In the brnGkels M they do not 8ppIy, Slgn•d' Date: 0210712024 J W Southerinaion R•l•vant profe8•lon•l quaiincatlon(•) or body Ilf any): Addm•: 47 Tro0 Crescent IER Oct 2018 Metton Mowbr8y LeSce8tershlre, LE13 1LN So¢tloi) 8 Dlsclosiire Only complele If the examiner needs to hlghlighl matenal matters of concern (8ee CC32, Independent examlnauon of charfty account8.' direc￿0￿8 and guldance for examlners). Glv• h•r• brlof d•lall• of any Ilems that th• examln•r wl•hM to IER Oct 2018