**LOTUS STRAY RESCUE Registered Charity Number 1177717 Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2025** 




## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 

Period start date Period end date **01 April 2024 31 March 2025** 

**From To** 

## Section A                        Reference and administration details 

**Charity name** Lotus Stray Rescue **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1177717 **Charity's principal address** 8 Brambledene Close 


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Woking<br>Surrey<br>Postcode  GU21 3HE<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>


## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 


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Dates acted if not for whole  Name of person (or body) entitled<br>Trustee name  Office (if any)<br>year to appoint trustee (if any)<br>1 Christina Anderson<br>2 Laura Skingle<br>3 Susan Gosling<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>


## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** 


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Name Dates acted if not for whole year<br>Christina Anderson<br>Laura Skingle<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>


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Susan Gosling 

## **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) 

Association How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by existing trustees Trustee selection methods 

- (eg. trust, association, company) 

   - (eg. appointed by, elected by) 

## **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; 

- Trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. 

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## **Section C                    Objectives and activities** 

For the benefit of the public to relieve the suffering of stray dogs and cats in need of care and attention in England and Europe in particular by: a) Providing homes, care and treatment. 

**Summary of the objects of the** b) Engaging in spay & neuter campaigns to reduce the stray population. **charity set out in its governing document** 

To promote humane behaviour towards animals by providing care and treatment and to educate the public in matters pertaining to prevention of suffering among animals. 

Promote humane behaviour and educate the public to prevent cruelty and the suffering of animals. 

Support and conduct spay & neuter campaigns to reduce the stray population. 

Rescue and rehome stray animals in need of protection to prevent suffering. 

**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)** 

## **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. 


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## Section D                      Achievements and performance 

**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

During the year ended 31 March 2025 Lotus Stray Rescue has worked hard to achieve the following: 

- 14 dogs rehomed in the UK 

- 12 stray dogs newly rescued 

Lotus have found it increasingly difficult to find suitable forever homes during this financial year, and we have worked with other rescues to find suitable homes, meaning adoption fees were not received by us for some dogs. Due to the lack of suitable adoption applications received our main focus was to provide for the dogs already in our care. 

Fundraising income was generated via online auctions, raffles and other activities. We also held 4 stalls at community events throughout the year to promote the charity and provide educational information and leaflets relating to animal welfare. 

## **Section E                    Financial review** 

Currently we do not have a reserve set, nor is it our intention to set one **Brief statement of the** up within the next financial year. **charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially** None. **in deficit** 

## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** 

During the year the charity received £2,000 in grant income from a fellow You **may choose** to include rescue charity, Great Dane Adoption Society. This was used in the year additional information, where to pay for Kennel costs, in accordance with the charity’s application. 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 

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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)**<br>**Full name(s)** <br>**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**<br>**etc)**<br>**Date**||
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||Laura Skingle|
||<br>Trustee|
||26/01/2026|
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** 

**Report to the trustees/ members of** Lotus Stray Rescue **On accounts for the** 31 March 2025 **Charity no** 1177717 **Period ended (if any) Set out on page** 8 -9 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity for the period ended 31 March 2025. 

**Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011. 

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. 

**Independent** I have completed my examination.  I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: 

- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or 

- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records 

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. 

**Date:** 26.01.26 **Signed: Name:** Louise Mounsey **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 25 Hillsleigh Mews, Colchester, CO1 2QU 

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||**Lotus Stray Rescue**|**Lotus Stray Rescue**|**Lotus Stray Rescue**|**Lotus Stray Rescue**|**Lotus Stray Rescue**|**1177717**|**1177717**||**CC16a**|
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||**01-Apr-24**||**To**||**31-Mar-25**|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest**<br>**£**||**to the nearest**<br>**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Adoption Fees Received|**2,090**||**-**||**-**||**2,090**||**3,900**|
|General Donations Received|**26,954**||**-**||**-**||**26,954**||**22,532**|
|Fundraising& Events Income|**3,280**||**-**||**-**||**3,280**||**7,026**|
|Grants Received|**-**||**2,000**||**-**||**2,000**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_** _(Gross income for AR) _|**32,324**||**2,000**||**-**||**34,324**||**33,458**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Total receipts_ **|**32,324**||**2,000**||**-**||**34,324**||**33,458**|
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Vets Fees, Kennels & Transportation Costs|**28,762**||**2,000**||**-**||**30,762**||**31,377**|
|Bank Charges|**29**||**-**||**-**||**29**||**37**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**28,791**||**2,000**||**-**||**30,791**||**31,414**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Totalpayments_ **|**28,791**||**2,000**||**-**||**30,791**||**31,414**|
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**3,533**||**-**||**-**||**3,533**||**2,044**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**3,985**||**-**||**-**||**3,985**||**1,941**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**7,518**||**-**||**-**||**7,518**||**3,985**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Cash at Bank||||**7,518**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**7,518**||**-**<br>OK||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and<br>payments account(s))||||OK||||OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
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|**Signed by one or two trustees on**<br>**behalf of all the trustees**|**Signature**||||**Print Name**||||**Date of**<br>**approval**|
||||||Laura Skingle||||26/01/2026|
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