## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] April 2024 Period start date To 31[st] March 2025 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 2024 to 31**
**March 2025, Spinone Overseas For**
**Adoption has successfully rehomed 28**
**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
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |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 £62,056 in donations**
**and fundraising and spent a total of**
**£58,056 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 to fund**
**increasing veterinary bills and transport**
**costs.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£45,538**| |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)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**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
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |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||| ||Claire Hazel Vanessa
Chapman|Treasurer||| ||Martha Tullberg|||| ||Tracey Ceaton|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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|| ||22ndOctober 2025|| ||22ndOctober 2025|| ||**SPINONE OVERSEAS FOR ADOPTION**|**SPINONE OVERSEAS FOR ADOPTION**|**SPINONE OVERSEAS FOR ADOPTION**|**SPINONE OVERSEAS FOR ADOPTION**|**SPINONE OVERSEAS FOR ADOPTION**|**117984**|**117984**|**117984**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**||01-Apr-24||**To**||31-Mar-25||| ||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**25,281**
**3,172**
**33,603**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**

**62,056**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**62,056**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**25,281**
**3,172**
**33,603**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**62,056**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**62,056**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Adoption Donations|**25,281**||||||||**-**| |Other Donations|**3,172**||||||||**-**| |Fundraising|**33,603**||||||||**-**| ||||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**62,056**||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| |Transport Costs|**16,070**||**-**||**-**||**16,070**||**-**| |Vets Bill|**35,916**||**-**||**-**||**35,916**||**-**| |Insurance|**1,012**||**-**||**-**||**1,012**||**-**| |Fundraising|**5,057**||**-**||**-**||**5,057**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**58,056**||**-**||**-**||**58,056**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**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_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**4,000**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**41,537**||||||||**-**| ||**45,538**||||||||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 07/01/2026 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**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Bank Account
PayPal Account
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**|(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Bank Account
PayPal Account
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**8,414**
**37,124**
**45,538**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**8,414**
**37,124**
**45,538**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||OK| ||||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**
**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||Signature
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CHV Chapman||||| ||||||||Date of
approval| ||||||||31-Oct-25| ||||||||| ||||||||07/01/2026| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) Ind?￿ndent oxamlnor'• r•port to the tru8too• of Splnone Ovor•o48 for Adopllon Trust I report to the tN8tee8 on my examlnalion of the accountg of S&Mnone Overseas for Adoption Trust (the Trust) for the year ended 3111 March 2025. Responsibilities and basig of report As the charity trustees of the Trust you are respon8ibSe for the preparation of the acoyjnts in a(wrdance with the requiremenls of the Chatities Act 2011 (Ihe Act,). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's ac￿unIS carried out under sedion 145 of the 2011 Ad and In carrying out my examination I have foll¢wied 811 the applicable Dire(lions given by the Chaiity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Ad. Independent •xamlner's statement I have completed my examination, I confimi that no material matter8 have come to my attenlion in connection wth the ex8mination giving me cause to believe that in any material resped: 1. a¢xounting records were not kept in respect of ihe Trust as required by sedion 130 of the Ad: or 2. the accounts do not accord viith those re￿rds. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connedion 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: Dabid Phillipson Address: 50 West Side Rise Olney Buckinghamshire MK46 5HP Date: J$