## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01 September 2021 To 31 August 2022**
**Charity name: ANIMAL SAVIOURS**
## **Charity registration number: 1174094**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**A charity that aims to help protect and**
**preserve wildlife by educating people**
**and providing aid to those who rescue,**
**rehabilitate and release such animals,**
**both in the UK and globally.**|
|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|**We provided funding for veterinary care**
**to a UK based hedgehog rescue and a**
**South African wildlife reserve, as well as**
**veterinary supplies for a South African**
**rhino orphanage.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Trustees have read CC CIO guidance**
**notes and news report issue 65.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Trustees must agree unanimously**
**whom grants will be made to.**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**The charity invests funding in causes**
**that promote it’s purposes.**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**none**|
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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|**A regular payment was made to a UK**
**based hedgehog rescue’s veterinary**
**practice until covid restrictions resulted**
**in the rescue centre closing down.**
**A single transfer of funds was made to a**
**South African wildlife reserve and**
**research centre to facilitate veterinary**
**care of their canine anti-poaching unit.**
**One trustee personally travelled to this**
**reserve to provide expertise in the**
**training and handling of the canine anti-**
**poaching unit.**
**Some funds were used to purchase**
**veterinary supplies for a South African**
**rhino orphanage, which trustees**
**personally delivered to this charity.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Due to covid pandemic, fundraising was**
**limited and some projects had to be**
**discontinued.**|
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Some small regular donations were**
**received but no significant fund-raising**
**projects were deemed feasible due to**
**covid.**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**None.**|
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## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Funds were largely depleted through the**
**course of the year.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Bank account run as normal.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£500**|
|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|**Covid restrictions limited activities**
**during this period.**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Donations**|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**none**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Low reserves currently held.**|
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Foundation**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**|
|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|**New trustees are appointed by current**
**trustees as required.**|
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**The goals and aims of our charity is**
**discussed at the first joint meeting and**
**the governing document provided to**
**read.**|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**All trustees have equal rights and voting**
**shares.**|
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**None**|
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|ANIMAL SAVIOURS|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1174094|
|Charity’s principal address|THE OLD DAIRY
HOME FARM LANE
GREAT WITLEY
WR66JJ
U.K.|
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||MIRIAM
LODEWIJKS|FOUNDER & CHAIR|||
||JASON KELLY|TRUSTEE|||
||SANDRA RAW|TRUSTEE|||
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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|NONE|
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|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/A|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own
assets|N/A|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
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**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|**charitys trustees**|**charitys trustees**|
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||MIRIAM LODEWIKS|JASON KELLY|
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CHAIR|TRUSTEE|
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