## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] April 2020 Period start date To 31[st] March 2021 Period end date** ## **Charity name: SPINONE OVERSEAS FOR ADOPTION** ## **Charity registration number: 117984** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**(1) Advancement of animal welfare**
**(2) Specifically, assisting homeless, or**
**abandoned, or otherwise in need dogs**
**in poor health,**
**mistreated or otherwise at risk to:**
**i) Better health**
**ii) Be found safe and appropriate**
**homes throughout the UK and Europe**
**iii) Long term monitoring of their care**
**(3) The CIO will focus but not be limited**
**solely to the care of Italian Spinone**
**breed.**| |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|**Trustees use the following criteria for**
**the animals/people surrendering the**
**animals:**
**Dogs of Spinone breed, mix or type**
**outside of the UK.**
**Dogs who have been abandoned,**
**neglected or abused.**
**Dogs which, after initial veterinary**
**check, are shown to be free from deadly**
**disease and able to withstand**
**travel.**
**Dogs who are available to be rehomed**
**outside of the home nation.**
**Trustees use the following criteria for**
**the new owners wishing to adopt a dog:**
**Owners who have appropriate space**
**and lifestyle to care for the dog.**
**Owners who have experience in the**
**breed or who have experience in dog**
**ownership and care.**
**Owners who are open to guidance on**
**behaviour challenges.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity|Para 1.18|**In setting objectives and planning for**
**activities, the Trustees have given due**
**consideration to general guidance**
**published by the charity commission**
**relating to public benefit.**| 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|**The charity is run by volunteers without**
**whom, we could not undertake the work**
**we do**| |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|**During the period 1st April 2020 to 31**
**March 2021, Spinone Overseas For**
**Adoption has successfully rehomed 38**
**dogs from Italy to the UK.**
**The charity has also continued to focus**
**on education and has developed the**
**website to include information about**
**caring for, training and tackling past**
**trauma in Spinone dogs.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41| |---|---| Performance of fundraising activities against objectives Para 1.41 set Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**During the period, Spinone Overseas for**
**Adoption raised £34,738 in donations**
**and fundraising and spent a total of**
**£22,275 on transport costs and vets**
**fees.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Any surplus funds are held in reserve to**
**be used in future years**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£15,285**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Donations**
**These are individual donations from the**
**public.**
**The majority of the donations have**
**come from publicised appeals to social**
**media sources and from adopters of**
**dogs.**| |---|---|---| |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:||**N/A**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO Foundation Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |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|**In selecting trustees, the existing charity**
**trustees take into account their skills,**
**knowledge and experience to ensure the**
**effective administration of the charity.**| ## **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|Spinone Overseas for Adoption| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|117984| |Charity’s principal address|The Homestead
Rivar Road
Shalbourne
Marlborough
Wiltshire
SN8 3QE| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Sarah-Jane Newton|Chairman||| ||Laura Norris|Secretary|1 April 2020 – 14 January
2021|| ||Claire Hazel Vanessa
Chapman|Treasurer||| ||Martha Tullberg||14 January 2021 – 31 March
2021|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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 N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A 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 ## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Sarah-Jane Newton|| ||
Chair|| ||28thSeptember 2021|| ||28thSeptember 2021|| ||**SPINONE OVERSEAS FOR ADOPTION**|**SPINONE OVERSEAS FOR ADOPTION**|**SPINONE OVERSEAS FOR ADOPTION**|**117984**|**117984**|**117984**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|01-Apr-20|**To**||31-Mar-21||| ||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**14,340**
**3,598**
**16,800**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**34,738**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**34,738**
**13,429**
**8,846**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,275**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,275**
**12,463**
**-**
**2,822**
**15,285**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**14,340**
**3,598**
**16,800**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**34,738**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**34,738**
**13,429**
**8,846**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,275**
**-**
**-**
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**22,275**
**12,463**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Adoption Donations|**14,340**||||||**-**| |Other Donations|**3,598**||||||**-**| |Auction|**16,800**||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**34,738**||||||**-**| ||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||| ||**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||| |Transport Costs|**13,429**||||||**-**| |Vets Bill|**8,846**||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**22,275**||||||**-**| ||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||| ||**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||| ||**12,463**|**-**|**-**||**12,463**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**2,822**|**-**|**-**||**2,822**||**-**| ||**15,285**|**-**|**-**||**15,285**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 29/09/2021 1 ## **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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Bank Account
PayPal Account
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**5,565**
**-**
**9,719**
**-**
**-**
**15,285**
**-**
OK
OK
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**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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CHV Chapman|**Endowment**
**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
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approval| |||CHV Chapman|25-Sep-21| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 29/09/2021 2 Example 4.2: examinerfs unqualified report (for a non-company charity preparing receipts and payments accounts) with a gross income of £250.000 or less in the relevant financial year Independent examinerfs report to the trustoes of Spinone Overseas For Adoption Trust I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the SKMnone oVe￿eaS For Adoption Trust (Ihe Trust) fLY the year ended 31st March 2021. Re8pon8ibilities and basis of report As the charity trustees of the Trust you a￿ ￿5￿nsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance ￿1th the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (the Act.). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under se(Xion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination I have follo￿j all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under s￿.On 145(5){b) of the A(* Independent examinerfs statement I have completed my examination. I COnfi￿n thal no material matters have come lo my attention in connection with the examinats'on giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1. accounting reo)rds were not kept in respect of the Trusl as required by section 130 of the Act., or 2. the a￿￿untS do not accord with those records. I have no concems and have come auoss no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: Name: Address: Mr. David Phillipson 50 West Side Rise. Olney, Bucks. MK46 5HP 291h January 2022 Date.. Independent examination of charity acco¢Jnts.' Difections and guidan￿ for examfners {CC321