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2023-03-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 01 April 2022 To 31 March 2023

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1178977

Good Life Dog Rescue

Charity's principal address Pinn Fold, Great North Road

Micklefield Leeds Postcode LS25 4AG

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20		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole
**year **		 Name of person (or body) entitled
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Victoria Bastow Secretary Victoria Bastow
Karen Fletcher
Nicholas Harker Treasurer

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

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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

CIO Foundation Constitution

How the charity is constituted

Trust

Trustee selection methods

Appointed by existing trustees

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Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

For the benefit of the public, to relieve the suffering of animals in need of care and attention. In particular to provide and maintain rescue homes or other facilities for the reception, care and treatment of such animals. To promote humane behaviour towards animals by providing appropriate care, protection, treatment and security for animals that are in need of care or attention by reasons of sickness, maltreatment, poor circumstances or ill usage. To educate the public in all matters pertaining to animal welfare in general and the prevention of cruelty and suffering among animals.

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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)

Our charity has continued to support local stray kennels in order to help many dogs at risk. We have rehomed over 140 dogs. Due to the over breeding of dogs and other contributing factors we have seen an increase in neglect and abuse towards animals. We have supported more dogs in need of rehabilitation than previous years along with many more dogs in need of veterinary support. This has been overwhelming resulting in higher kenneling bills and veterinary costs than previous years. An increase in support and from social media, grants and fund raising from online auctions has been increased and well received to help many dogs. Volunteer Mrs Ashton has been amazing and submits grant applications on a regular basis. We have been happy to receive more grants from animal support organisations than in previous years. Our donations have increased enabling us to save many more dogs from put to sleep situations. We continue to help a huge proportion of bull breeds from local pounds along with many senior dogs who are rehomed and supported by ourselves. We provide essential veterinary care and an individual assessment of each dog. We pride ourselves in matching each rescue dog with a suitable adopter and home depending on the dogs individual needs. Our rehoming process and care to match suitable owners takes precedence as does the daily welfare of our dogs. Our support, aftercare and veterinary assistance for ongoing health conditions once each dog is rehomed is also part of our procedure. All potential adopters are home checked and all the dogs are neutered, fully health checked and vaccinated. Microchipping, defleaing and worming is also an essential part of our adoption procedure. Due to an increase in support we are now able to help many more dogs from local stray kennels. We continue to have a good relationship with local stray kennels and local dog wardens. Our priority remains predominately for stray dogs in council pounds, however we do take dogs into our care from homes where people have passed away or unforeseen circumstances put an animal at risk.

Our online fund raising this year and an increase in support from donators has enabled us to help many more dogs with specific needs due to cruelty. An online auction by volunteers has also been an asset in fundraising. We have been able to carry out our main objectives of rescuing mistreated, neglected and abandoned strays in 2022/2023.

Our trustees remain the same and comply with the duty of the charities act 2006 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the commission.

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The charity continues to exist without paid staff despite an overwhelming workload and growth. Founder and trustee Victoria Bastow reduced her own paid job to support the charity unpaid in order to help the increase of unwanted dogs. She is responsible for all admin, intake of dogs, media, website, photographs and rehoming. Along with other volunteers essential walking and stimulation is also an essential attribute. Our volunteers are mainly walkers however we have two ladies who help fundraising, via grants and online auctions. We also have support from individuals who raise funds for ourselves and other smaller charities. This is a huge attribute to the funding so we are able to have resources in place for the dogs in our care needing medical help.

Good Life still exists with very few volunteers whom we are indebted too. Their contribution is greatly received and we have acquired more volunteers. All the following support is voluntary and has helped not only to raise funds but to publicise the aim of our charity. In particular we would like to thank the following:

Our dog walking volunteers. Ian Ward, Trevor Dawson, Richard Beaumont, Claire Mylett who are regular walkers. We have walkers who are able to walk on a less regular basis however are still extremely appreciated and important. These are too many to mention.

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Sue Nichols and Paula Raynes for essential fundraising via All Dogs Matter Auction website. This has raised crucial funds throughout the year by selling unwanted gifts and goods to support charities.

Sandra Longbottom who raises funds and has supported our rescue for many years by her own fundraising efforts. Michelle Hennon also arranges her own fundraising events to help fund smaller rescues like ours.

Danny Hobkinson, Mike Thompson who are work colleagues of Victoria Bastow have also contributed. The website continues to generate interest and help to rehome many of our rescue dogs. Thanks to Danny the website works extremely well and is user friendly and informative and very creative. Victoria and Danny continue to maintain a very user friendly website with their design skills. This has helped increase rehoming of many more dogs with special needs.

PAWS Charity shop for their regular donations to our veterinary costs. This charity shop raises funds for charities helping animals in need locally and has supported us through the year by donating extra funding to our increased veterinary bills.

Stephanie at Pounds for Hounds Charity Shop in Mexborough who has also helped to donate us in 2022/23.

Due to our charity helping many Staffordshire Bull Terriers we have been supported this year by some donations from The Gallimore Trust.

The Spotted Cow at Drighlington have continued fundraising events at their public house. Julie Horne and her staff and daughter have donated and have many raffles and fun days which has brought funds in throughout the year.

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We have received some incredible larger overwhelming donations this year. The continued support for the welfare of local dogs left waiting at council kennels has helped us to pay increasing kennelling bills and veterinary care. Continued support from our regular donators has increased due to support from adopters in 2022/23 with standing regular donations. With some incredible followers and supporters and more regular donators our charity in 2022/2023 have helped more stray dogs that have struggled with serious neglect and abuse. However small any contribution we receive we are extremely grateful for.

We have now support from foster people volunteers. Sue and Malcolm Nicholls and Greg and Louise Wright have been an assett and been an amazing help for the sick and vunerable dogs that have come into our care in 2022/23.

Section D Achievements and performance

2022/2023 has been a very busy year and we have supported more Summary of the main large breed dogs left at council kennels. We have still managed to achievements of the charity rehome a large amount of strays dogs after rehabilitating them. This during the year year we have supported more seniors due to a higher abandonment of older dogs. The majority of these dogs are from local stray kennels. We continue to help Flushdyke Stray kennels and Carlton Forest stray kennels. Our priority remains for the stray dogs however we have continued to offer support to the public to help with a proportion of dogs left in difficult circumstances. Our aim has been to improve our charity and rehabilitate m o r e dogs that otherwise would of been left behind at council kennels. We have been successful in doing so. The huge knock on effect of the Pandemic is still about with a huge amount of dogs of three and four years with behaviour issues and serious anxiety. We have supported and helped these dogs and managed to find dedicated rescue adopters. Our efforts to match our rescue dogs within the right home environment has been achieved via updates and essential advertising. We have continued to help many senior dogs who faced uncertain at council pounds in Yorkshire. We remain extremely hands on with our dogs and our aim and passion is for the Yorkshire strays. With an increase in regular donations we have managed to help more dogs needing surgery and urgent veterinary care than previous years. Due to better facilities and improvements at kennels we have helped more dogs with behavioural issues and managed to turn them round. Our thanks also go to Jo Ashton who has supported us greatly in 2022/23 by applying for grants to help with our increas ing kennelling and veterinary bills. Emergency funding has been essential and also helped us due to the ever increasing number of unwanted dogs. The grant funding during the year generated enough funds to increase our resources to benefit more abandoned dogs than previous years.

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Section D Achievements and erformance p

Due to our website advertising and various social media platforms we have increased our network of support greatly. This along with Facebook and our self-created website has increased more awareness of our charity and the work we do without paid staff. Our rise in regular donations, large donations from individuals and mainly grants has contributed immensely which in turn helps us with our primary objective of relieving the suffering of stray and abandoned dogs.

When possible we have still continued to support our funding by fundraising events and fairs at larger fayres in local counties. This also contributes to raising awareness and education for the welfare of animals that are waiting in stray kennels. As well as providing essential care for the dogs in our care we have also managed to help and transport over 40 dogs into the care of other larger organisations. This has been much less than previous years as due to our increase in funding we are now able to support more dogs ourselves that otherwise we would not of been able to help in recent years due to lack of funds.

Section E Financial review

Our aim was to build up our reserves to allow us a buffer to cover Brief statement of the essential kennel costs and veterinary costs in case of illness etc. We charity’s policy on reserves have been very successful in achieving this. Details of any funds materially None in deficit

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The key objectives to alleviate suffering to unwanted animals has been achieved. We have saved more digs due to grant funding and more regular donations. Fundraising and online auctions have increased funding also which has allowed us to help manyy more dogs with special needs and in need of operations and emergency vet care.

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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) Nicholas Harker Full name(s) Victoria Bastow Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Secretary Treasurer etc) Date 25.01.2023

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GOOD UFE D06 RESCUE CONTENTS OF THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 W4RCH 2023 CONTEP￿s PAGE RECEIPT5 AND PAYMENTS ACCOU BAWCE SHEET NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS INDEPENDENT EXAMINER5 REPORT

GOOD UFE DOG RESCUE RECEIPTS AND PAYMEpifsACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023 Unr•strl¢ted fund5 20Z3 2022 RECEIPTS Renomed do8 doThatlons Fund ra151ng Srants Other donations 30250 7109 25300 51894 27492 4975 41500 63096 137063 114553 LESS PAYMENTS Kenntsl fees & food Veterfnary Fees Dog training and Walkln8 Dog Fostering Telephone Insurances Webslte and advertlslng Motor Expenses Ucen Sundry expenses TOTALPAYMENTS 55705 47483 260 2104 39944 33518 ioio 790 30 185 314 20740 60 4120 1541 128333 L0116 89588 NET RECEIPTSIPAYMENTSI -13780 47475 OPENING BANKCASH BALANCE 1206S9 73194 CLO&NG YANK/CA5H 8ALANCE 106889 120669 PAGE I

GOOD UFE DOG RESCUE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023 Unrestricted funds Unrestrlcted funds 2022 2023 FIXED ASSETS CURRENT ASSETS 8ankAccount 106889 120669 C4sh in h8nd NET CURRENT ASSETS 106889 120669 TOTALASSETS 106889 120669 RESERVES OPENING BALANCE 120669 73194 NET PAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR CLOSING BALANCE -13780 106889 47475 120669 Approved by the trustees Signed 41 r•3 PAGE 2

GOOD UFE WG RESCUE NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THEYEAR ENDED31 MARCH 2023 I CHARITI REGISTRATION The welfare became registered as a charbtyon 28th June 2018 wlth reB151Y*on number 1178977. The trus￿5 are Vlctorta Baslow, Karen Fletcher & Nicholas Harker. 2 BAS15 OF PREPARATION OF THE ACCOUWS The acwunts have been Prepared in accordance with the CharftlesAct 2011 and the requirernents of the Statement of Recommended practice,. Accounllt)B forcharities. The account have been prepared on a recelpts and payments basls. PAGE 3

GOOD LIFE DOG RESCUE INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023 I report to the trustees Dn my examination of the accounts of the above charitvlthe trust) for the year ended 31 March 2023, which are set out on pages I to 3. Respettive re5ponsibllitie5 of trustees and examiner As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the account in accordance with the requirements of the Charitie5 Act 20111 the Act). The charity's tTUStees consider that and audit is not required for this year under the section 144 of the Art and that an independent examination is needed. I report in respect of my examination of the Trust'5 accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable direction5 given by the Charity Commission under section 145151 Iblof the Act. Basis of Independent examiner's report My examination was carried out in accordance with the general directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the Charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those record5. It a150 inclLJdes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning 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 present a true and fair" view and the report 15 limited to those matter5 set out in the statement below. Independent examiner's statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which give5 me cause to believe that in any material respect. the accounting records were not kept in accordance with Settion 130 of the att or the accounts did not accord with the accounting record,. or 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. Lilian Curley-AccoiJntant 28 Heathfield Lane Birkenshaw BDII 2DP PAGE4

GOOD LIFE DOG RESCUE INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPOR T FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023 I report to the trustees on my exarllination of the account5 of the above charitylthe trust) for the year ended 31 March 2023, which are Set out on pages I to 3. Respective responsibilitie5 of trustees and examiner As the charity trustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation of the account in accordance with the requirement5 of the Charities Act 20111 the Act). The charity's trustees consider that and audit 15 not required for thi5 year under the section 144 of the Act and that an independent examination 15 needed. I report in respert of my examination of the Trtjst's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act arid in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable directions given by the Charity Commission under sertion 145151 Iblof the Act. Basls of independent examiner's report My examination was carried out in accordance with the general directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination irTrcludes a review of the accounting record5 kept by the Charity and a comparison of the account5 presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanation5 from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedure5 ndertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a true and fair" view and the report is limited to those matters Set out in the statement below. Independent examiner's statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in any material respect. the accounting records were not kept in accordance with Section 130 of the act or the accounts did not accord with the accounting record,. or I have no Concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention 5hoiJld be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the account5 to be reached. Lilian Curley-Accountant 28 Heathfield Lane Birkenshaw BDII 2DP PAGE 4