## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 06/04/2022 Period start date To 05/04/2023 Period end date**
**Charity name: Kent Horse Rescue**
## **Charity registration number: 1173911**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: 1. FOR**
**THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO**
**RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF EQUINES**
**IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION,**
**PROVIDING ‘INTO-CARE’ RESCUE**
**FACILITIES FOR THE RECEPTION,**
**CARE, TREATMENT AND**
**REHABILITATION OF SUCH EQUINES**
**UNTIL THEY ARE WELL ENOUGH FOR**
**SUITABLE RE-HOMING. 2. TO**
**PROMOTE HUMANE BEHAVIOUR AND**
**CARE TOWARDS EQUINES BY**
**PROVIDING EDUCATION TO THE**
**PUBLIC IN MATTERS PERTAINING TO**
**EQUINE WELFARE IN GENERAL AND**
**THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY AND**
**SUFFERING AMONG EQUINES.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**1. Advice to public: receiving calls**
**from the public via telephone,**
**social media or website,**
**regarding their concerns of**
**suffering / abandoned equines.**
**2. Providing advice regarding**
**equine welfare; practical,**
**procedural, legislations and**
**DEFRA codes.**
**3. Providing a call out physical**
**response service**
**4. Providing equine rescue /**
**transport service for suffering /**
**abandoned equines to a place of**
**safety / welfare care.**
**5. Providing welfare care /**
**veterinary assistance etc. for**
**immediate welfare issues.**
**6. Providing rehabilitation of**
**sick/suffering equines**
**7. Providing re-homing advice and**
**assistance**|
Statement confirming Para 1.18 **The services provided by Kent Horse** whether the trustees have **Rescue are for the benefit of the public** had regard to the guidance **where they have concerns for equine** issued by the Charity **and public safety / welfare.** Commission on public benefit
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38||
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Kent Horse Rescue is operated entirely**
**by volunteers**|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Kent Horse Rescue has achieved a lot in**
**the sixth year as a registered charity:**
•
**The cost of living crisis has**
**impacted on the care of equines**
**as owners find it more difficult to**
**afford their upkeep. This also has**
**had an impact on donations from**
**the general public to charities.**
**However, we continue to receive**
**the support of grant trust**
**organisations and Kent Horse**
**Rescue followers, who trust in**
**our work, ethics and objectives.**
**We are so grateful to have**
**received some assets from the**
**North Essex Horse Rescue**
**charity, who sadly closed; their**
**trustees felt we have very similar**
**objectives and values – this helps**
**us continue to help more horses**
**throughout Kent, Essex and**
**beyond.**|
|•|**We have continued our services,**|
|---|---|
||**support and advice for members**|
||**of the public whom are struggling**|
||**to care for their equine/s due to**|
||**unforeseen circumstances**|
||**(financial and/or health**|
||**problems), and have assisted**|
||**with advice and taking into care**|
||**equines for rehabilitation and re-**|
||**homing.**|
|•|**We have received and assisted**|
||**with an increased number of calls**|
||**again over last year; from the**|
||**public, landowners and local**|
||**authorities, concerned for the**|
||**welfare and support of horses**|
||**locally.**|
|•|**We rescued / received into care**|
||**more horses and ponies than last**|
||**year, and attended, assisted and**|
||**helped to resolve many more**|
||**cases through advice on welfare,**|
||**procedure, legislation and local**|
||**resources to assist horses in**|
||**need.**|
|•|**We have rehabilitated all horses**|
||**brought ‘into-care’, and have had**|
||**great success in re-homing to**|
||**suitable homes.**|
|•|**The Website continues to provide**|
||**a valuable source of assistance**|
||**for the public: The Charity has**|
||**received more daily calls and**|
||**emails from the public via the**|
||**website, responding with advice,**|
||**contacting relevant land owners /**|
||**authorities and attending on site**|
||**where possible.**|
|•|**Social Media has in excess of**|
||**4,000 followers and growing, and**|
||**provides an almost instant**|
||**contact point and response**|
||**facility.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**We are pleased with the number of call**
**outs responded to and the number of**
**equines we have been able to**
**rehabilitate, helped hugely by the**
**support of local Vets, our successful**
**rehabilitation programme, and the**
**income and donation funding as**
**mentioned above.**|
|---|---|---|
||Para 1.41|**Fundraising has been affected by the**
**cost of living crisis, but supplemented**
**by grant funding from various charitable**
**trusts. Donations received were mainly**|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set||**as the result of members of the public /**
**supporters donating from their own**
**pockets, rather than fundraising**
**activities.**|
|---|---|---|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**We have maintained overheads at a low**
**level, to a very efficient level by**
**reducing rent last year. Expenditure**
**was less than income, and we sustained**
**adequate cash flow. We were able to**
**invest in a horsebox ambulance which**
**has been invaluable. We also had**
**exceptional costs for vehicles,**
**equipment and facility maintenance,**
**which was accommodated. Veterinary**
**costs, feed and bedding were higher due**
**to the larger number of horses coming**
**into care**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22||
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22||
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23||
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|---|---|---|
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution of a Charitable**
**Incorporated Organisation (CIO)**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**(CIO) (‘Foundation’ model constitution)**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**As per Constitution**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|**Kent Horse Rescue**|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|**1173911**|
|Charity’s principal address|Kent Horse Rescue
5 Liberty Square, Kings Hill
West Malling, Kent
ME19 4PU|
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|**adviser**|||
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**All Kent Horse Rescue Trustees and Contacts details / Addresses have Dispensation from the Charity Commission, and we confirm the necessity to keep these Dispensations.**
• **We have in place Dispensation for withholding certain information from the Annual Report required by this section**
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** * **Full name(s)** Trustee **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc) Date** 05/02/2024
**CC16a**
**Charity Name No (if any) Kent Horse Rescue 1173911 Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 06/04/2022 05/04/2023
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|
Donations/Grants|67874.35||**-**||**-**||**67,874**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**67,874**||**-**||**-**||**67,874**||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**-**|
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|
Veterinary,Medical,Farrier|**10,369**||**-**||**-**||**10,369**||**-**|
|Fuel/Transport|**6,420**||**-**||**-**||**6,420**||**-**|
|Insurance|**1,889**||**-**||**-**||**1,889**||**-**|
|Rent|**720**||**-**||**-**||**720**||**-**|
|Feed/Bedding|**6,272**||**-**||**-**||**6,272**||**-**|
|Equipment|**2,642**||**-**||**-**||**2,642**||**-**|
|Telephone/Power/Sundries|**1,147**||**-**||**-**||**1,147**||**-**|
|Vehicles/Maintenace|**1,612**||**-**||**-**||**1,612**||**-**|
|Security|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**31,071**||**-**||**-**||**31,071**||**-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
|Horsebox Ambulance|**7,500**|||||||||
|Field Rescue vehicle|**3,250**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**10,750**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**-**|
|||||||||||
||**26,053**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**557**||||||||**-**|
||**26,610**||||||||**-**|
Page 1 of 2
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
05/02/2024
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
Bank Account
**Details**
**Details**
Field Shelter
Small Trailer
Power Supply Equipment
Electrical Equipment
Yard Tractor
Field Rescue Vehicle
Horsebox Ambulance
**Details**
Rent due in next accounting year
Signature
Trustee*|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**26,610**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,610**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**1,200**
**400**
**450**
**250**
**200**
**3,250**
**7,500**
**-**
**13,250**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Unrestricted
**720**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Trustee*|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**150**|
||||**100**|
||||**100**|
||||**50**|
||||**50**|
||||**1,500**|
||||**6,500**|
||||**-**|
||||**8,450**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||**01 July 2024**|
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||||Date of approval|
||Trustee*|Trustee*|05/02/2024|
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## **Page 2 of 2**
* Kent Horse Rescue has dispensation from the Charity Commission for withholding certain information from the Annual Report
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
05/02/2024
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Inde
nden
Examlners Re
Aeterence: Kent Ho
Rescu
No. 11
unts: Financial Year 6 A rll 202
To whom It May Concem:
Basls of Independent Examlnerfs Statement..
My examination was carried out in 3ccordènce with general direction5 given by the Charity
Commission. An emamlnation Includes a VIeW of the accounting records kept by the charity and
comp3rison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any
unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from the trustees concernin8
any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be
required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts presented a
true and falr view and the report is limited io those matter5 Sel out in the 5tatemenis below.
Independent Examinerfs Statement:
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my atientlon:
which gives me reasonable cause to be14eve that in, any material respect, the requirements..
to keep accounting recofds in accordance with section 130 of the charitles act.
to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the
accounting requirements of the charities act have not been met.. or
2. to which. in my opinion, attentlon should be drawn in order to enable a proper
understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed..
Date.. 51February12023
Name..
Relevant professional qualifitation or bodv". Q L ITY Co kiT£oU thANJ A or