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|Section A||Reference and administration details|||||||||||||||
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||**Charity name**|||
Psychiatric Assistance Dogs Foundation|||||||||||||
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|**Other names charity is known by**||||PADs Foundation|||||||||||||
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|**Registered charity number (if any)**||||1173512|||||||||||||
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|**Charity's principal address**|||||4 Trenowth Terrace||||||||||||
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||||||**Postcode**||||||**TR2 4EB**||||||
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|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Trustee name**
**Office (if any)**
**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**
1 Malcolm
Seward
Chair
2 Zoe Norquoy
Treasurer
3 Mark Alexander
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16 17 18 19 20 **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 Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document Constitution (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Foundation (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Appointed
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
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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;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
The relief of those in need as result of having a psychiatric disability by:
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
a) Educating or training persons with a psychiatric disability in the proper and safe use of their psychiatric assistance dog; b) Raising public awareness of psychiatric disabilities and the benefits of assistance dogs to persons with such a disability;
c) Otherwise supporting persons with a psychiatric disability in particular with their ownership and use of an assistance dog with a view to promoting their independence in society.
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|**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)**|The benefts are to help anyone with a psychological condition, as mentioned in 3
below, to give them more independence, to lead a better life with less need of the
Mental Health and Hospital services. Which will help a signifcantly high proportion
of the general public to enter any public space, shops and restaurants and public
transport who at present may not be able to use.
A secondary beneft will reduce the pressures on the National Health & Mental
Health teams by;
Helping registered members of pads.foundation to gain independence through the
use of their Psychiatric Assistance Dogs and reducing the need for a carer which
will not only increases self-esteem and independence but also reduces care-costs.
**1**Providing education and information to support those with long term mental
health issues that require the use of an Psychiatric Assistance Dog;
The effect of an impairment is long-term if;
1.1 it has lasted for at least 12 months,
1.2 it is likely to last for at least 12 months,
1.3 it is likely to last for the rest of the life of the person affected;
**2**Providing access to PADs Foundation training advice appropriate to subscribers
needs with minimum training requirements based on the American's with
Disabilities Act 2014 (ADA);
Dogs need to be able to;
2.1 Be under control of the handler via harness, leash or other tether (if not the
assistance dog must be under con- trol by other means such as voice control)
2.2 House trained
2.3 Must remain quiet
2.4 Not interact with other people or dogs
2.5 Must sit, stay, lie down and recall on command;
**3**Providing a registration scheme/database for those with a diagnosed psychiatric
condition such as PTSD, Bipo- lar, Severe Depression, Dissociative states,
personality disorders and schizophrenia, with the foundation which is accessible to
police and health care service providers with;
3.1 A Bi-annual doctors letter confrming a psychiatric condition as mentioned in 3,
3.2 An annual health check from the Assistance Dog's vet;
**4**Providing the necessary tabards and ID cards to use when taking their
Psychiatric Assistants Dog out in public areas: by a bi-annual letter proving their
psychiatric disability and a vet's letter proving their Psychiatric Assistance Dog has
an annual health check;
**5**Providing the option of 3rd party dog insurance to protect PADs users;
**6**Raising public awareness of the issues affecting those with mental health issues,
both generally and in relation to their social exclusion;
**7**Providing blogs and forums, advocacy and general support;
**8.**Provide guidance with problems relating to the law;
**9**To ensure that only two questions may be asked of a PADs user when asked the
nature/extent of their disability as per the ADA.
9.1 Is the animal required because of a disability?
9.2 What work or task has the animal be trained for?|
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**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and performance
|**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|Secure membership database tested for public use.
Membership application system devised, paperwork prepared.
Volunteers recruited to help with assistance dog training guides,
marketing and database design.
Networking with other assistance dog charities at events and lectures.
Awareness of the charity is beginning to spread.|
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**Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the** NA **charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially** 0 **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include Principal source of funding is donations. additional information, where We are looking at how we could incorporate a fundraising volunteer. relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)** Malcolm Andrew Seward **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 30 January 2024
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|||||||**£8.00**
**£8.00**
**£8.00**
**£8.00**
**£5.00**
**£5.00**
**£5.00**
**£40.00**
**£5.00**
**£170.42**
**£5.00**
**£5.00**
**£272.42**|
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||Psychiatric Assistance Dogs Foundation||||||
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|||**inputs**|||**outputs**||
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||**April 2022**|||**April 2022**|||
||total inputs/outputs||**£0.00**|||**£8.00**|
||**May**|||**May**|||
||total inputs/outputs||**£38.80**|||**£8.00**|
||**June**|||**June**|||
||total inputs/outputs||**£0.02**|||**£8.00**|
||**July**|||**July**|||
||total inputs/outputs||**£0.00**|||**£8.00**|
||**August**|||**August**|||
||total inputs/outputs||**£0.00**|||**£5.00**|
||**September**|||**September**|||
||total inputs/outputs||**£0.08**|||**£5.00**|
||**October**|||**October**|||
||total inputs/outputs||**£173.65**|||**£5.00**|
||**November**|||**November**|||
||total inputs/outputs||**£0.00**|||**£40.00**|
||**December**|||**December**|||
||total inputs/outputs||**£0.19**|||**£5.00**|
||**January 2023**|||**January 2023**|||
||total inputs/outputs||**£29.10**|||**£170.42**|
||**February**|||**February**|||
||total inputs/outputs||**£0.00**|||**£5.00**|
||**March**|||**March**|||
||total inputs/outputs||**£0.14**|||**£5.00**|
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||**total**||**£241.98**|||**£272.42**|
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||**proft/loss**||**-£30.44**||||
||Balance||£227.54||||
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