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

**From 1[st] April 2021 Period start date   To 31[st] March 2022 Period end date** 

## **Charity name: SPINONE OVERSEAS FOR ADOPTION** 

## **Charity registration number: 117984** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|**(1) Advancement of animal welfare**<br>**(2) Specifically, assisting homeless, or**<br>**abandoned, or otherwise in need dogs**<br>**in poor health,**<br>**mistreated or otherwise at risk to:**<br>**i) Better health**<br>**ii) Be found safe and appropriate**<br>**homes throughout the UK and Europe**<br>**iii) Long term monitoring of their care**<br>**(3) The CIO will focus but not be limited**<br>**solely to the care of Italian Spinone**<br>**breed.**|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|**Trustees use the following criteria for**<br>**the animals/people surrendering the**<br>**animals:**<br>**Dogs of Spinone breed, mix or type**<br>**outside of the UK.**<br>**Dogs who have been abandoned,**<br>**neglected or abused.**<br>**Dogs which, after initial veterinary**<br>**check, are shown to be free from deadly**<br>**disease and able to withstand**<br>**travel.**<br>**Dogs who are available to be rehomed**<br>**outside of the home nation.**<br>**Trustees use the following criteria for**<br>**the new owners wishing to adopt a dog:**<br>**Owners who have appropriate space**<br>**and lifestyle to care for the dog.**<br>**Owners who have experience in the**<br>**breed or who have experience in dog**<br>**ownership and care.**<br>**Owners who are open to guidance on**<br>**behaviour challenges.**|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity|Para 1.18|**In setting objectives and planning for**<br>**activities, the Trustees have given due**<br>**consideration to general guidance**<br>**published by the charity commission**<br>**relating to public benefit.**|





Commission on public benefit 

## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

||SORP reference||
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38||
|Policy on social investment<br>including program related<br>investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38|**The charity is run by volunteers without**<br>**whom, we could not undertake the work**<br>**we do**|
|Other|||



## **Achievements and Performance** 

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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|**During the period 1st April 2021 to 31**<br>**March 2022, Spinone Overseas For**<br>**Adoption has successfully rehomed 23**<br>**dogs from Italy to the UK.**<br>**The charity has also continued to focus**<br>**on education and has developed the**<br>**website to include information about**<br>**caring for, training and tackling past**<br>**trauma in Spinone dogs.**|



**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41|
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Performance of fundraising activities against objectives Para 1.41 set Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other 



## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|**During the period, Spinone Overseas for**<br>**Adoption raised £34,317 in donations**<br>**and fundraising and spent a total of**<br>**£21,212 on transport costs and vets**<br>**fees.**|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Any surplus funds are held in reserve to**<br>**be used in future years to fund**<br>**increasing veterinary bills and transport**<br>**costs.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£28,390**|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Donations**<br>**These are individual donations from the**<br>**public.**<br>**The majority of the donations have**<br>**come from publicised appeals to social**<br>**media sources and from adopters of**<br>**dogs.**|
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|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:||**N/A**|
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|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO Foundation Constitution**|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|**In selecting trustees, the existing charity**<br>**trustees take into account their skills,**<br>**knowledge and experience to ensure the**<br>**effective administration of the charity.**|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

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|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction<br>and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|Spinone Overseas for Adoption|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|117984|
|Charity’s principal address|The Homestead<br>Rivar Road<br>Shalbourne<br>Marlborough<br>Wiltshire<br>SN8 3QE|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<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|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Sarah-Jane Newton|Chairman|||
||Claire Hazel Vanessa<br>Chapman|Treasurer|||
||Martha Tullberg||||
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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 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)**<br>**Full name(s)**<br>**Position (eg Secretary,**<br>**Chair, etc)**<br>**Date**|||
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||Sarah-Jane Newton||
||<br>Chair||
||28thDecember 2022||
||28thDecember 2022||





||**SPINONE OVERSEAS FOR ADOPTION**|**SPINONE OVERSEAS FOR ADOPTION**|**SPINONE OVERSEAS FOR ADOPTION**|**SPINONE OVERSEAS FOR ADOPTION**|**SPINONE OVERSEAS FOR ADOPTION**|**117984**|**117984**|**117984**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**<br>**from**||01-Apr-21||**To**||31-Mar-22|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**<br>**6,920**<br>**5,301**<br>**22,096**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **34,317**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **-**<br>**34,317**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**6,920**<br>**5,301**<br>**22,096**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**34,317**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**34,317**||**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|Adoption Donations|**6,920**||||||||**-**|
|Other Donations|**5,301**||||||||**-**|
|Auction|**22,096**||||||||**-**|
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||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**34,317**||||||||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**||||||||||
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|Transport Costs|**13,418**||**-**||**-**||**13,418**||**-**|
|Vets Bill|**6,424**||**-**||**-**||**6,424**||**-**|
|Auction|**1,370**||**-**||**-**||**1,370**||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**21,212**||**-**||**-**||**21,212**||**-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
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||**13,105**||||||||**-**|
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||**15,285**||||||||**-**|
||**28,390**||||||||**-**|



CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

29/01/2023 

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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|Bank Account<br>PayPal Account<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))|Bank Account<br>PayPal Account<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**12,998**<br>**15,392**<br>**28,390**<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**12,998**<br>**15,392**<br>**28,390**<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
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||**Details**<br>**Details**||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
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||Signature<br>2||Print Name<br>CHV Chapman|||||
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 



Independent examlnevs report to the trustees of Spinone Overseas for Adoptlon
Trust
I report to the trustees on my exanination of the ￿￿ntS of SF¥none Overseas for AdoOion
Trust (the Trust) for the year ended 31° March 2022.
Resp￿$11￿111leS and basis of rep(xt
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are resFAThtAe for the preparatN)n of the ￿ount$ in
a(%0rdan￿ with the requirements of the ChaiTties Ad 2011 (Ihe Ad.).
I reFx)rt in ￿SpeCt of my exarrin&K>n of the Trust's &o)urrts cat[1￿j out uThJer s&#ion 145 cf
the 2011 Act and in c*rying out my eX￿ninatIon I have fdl¢xed all the 4)FliCat￿e Direcxions
given by the Charity C(Knmission under sedion 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent examinerfs statement
I have cxxnpleted my exarin*ion. I confinn that no maerial matters have cx)me to my
attention in connei*ion *ith the examinalion giving me cause to believe tha in any material
1. acC￿nti￿ re￿rdS were not keFI in resp•X of ttr￿ Trust as required by sgxion
130 of the Ad., or
2. the accounts do not a)￿[d Ythh those r￿rds.
I have no concerns and have come acro&8 rn other matters in connec*Ir￿ vthh the
examination to which attents'on should be drawn in this report in c*der to enatle a proper
understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed
Name:
David Phillips(
Address..
50 West Side Rise
Olney
BuckFngh8mshire
MK46 5HP
Date: