Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date 6 April 2021 5 April 2022
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Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name ANIMAL FRIENDS OF TURKEY (AFOT) Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1182513 Charity's principal address 31 Honeypot Road Brompton on Swale Richmond, North Yorkshire Postcode DL10 7HT
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
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1 Carol Holbrook Chair
2 Andrew Gough Secretary
3 Gail Tyson Treasurer
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name Dates acted if not for whole year
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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 TRUST DEED
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is TRUST constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
ELECTED BY OPERATING COMMITTEE (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Section C Objectives and activities
Summary of the Charity’s Objectives:
- To assist in the relief of suffering of animals in desperate need of intervention as a result of abandonment or abuse.
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
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To provide a safe haven for rescued animals during their period of recovery, rehabilitation and preparation for rehoming.
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To seek where relevant high quality permanent homes for rescued animals and to oversee their transition from rescue care into their new forever homes.
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To continue to provide lifetime back-up guarantee to all dogs rehomed through the charity in the event that any adopter is no longer in a position to provide suitable longterm care.
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Main activities of charity during the year designed to meet these Objectives:
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Maintained the reach of the charity’s rescue operation to areas outside the immediate Fethiye region to dogs in urgent and dire need.
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Continue and maintain the sanctuary on the outskirts of Fethiye,
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The offering of full veterinary and rehabilitation care to all
Summary of the main dogs in need that came into our care either into our activities undertaken for Sanctuary or through placement within our foster care the public benefit in network. relation to these objects 4. Continuation of successful rehoming of dogs into (include within this thoroughly vetted homes following completion of their section the statutory period of recovery, rehabilitation and preparation in declaration that trustees accordance with regulations. have had regard to the 5. Confirmation that the Trustees have had regard guidance issued by the throughout the year to the guidance issued by the Charity Charity Commission on Commission in the execution of the charity’s work. public benefit)
Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
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Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
Summary of the main achievements and challenges of the charity during the 2020-21 year:
The financial year ending 5[th] April 2022 had continued to be a challenging and difficult year post covid with the first half of the year still seeing some restrictions.
New animal laws set by the Turkish government saw thousands more animals in dire situations and the demand for our rescue work was incredibly high, many more animals needing help than we had ever seen previously. Although we had increased the number we could help with the opening of our sanctuary in the previous year, we still found ourselves with overfill’s both in the sanctuary and our foster care network. The re-introduction of AFOT’s fund-raising events in Turkey did not re-commence again until after they year end and our capability for submitting grants was not yet within our grasp as had been hoped. All of the above stretched our resources, yet we were able to help a great number of animals despite this.
We have continued in most instances to keep the form of virtual home-checking using live video streaming technology to allow us to continue our practice of detailed inspections of potential homes which we introduced during the covid restrictions. During the second half of the year this proved to continue to be successful and has allowed us to quicken up our checking procedures and permitted the re-homing section to visually see potential adopters, their resident animals and their homes and location rather than receive a written report. All of this has been constructive.
The previous year had seen travel restrictions in Turkey due to the stand the activists had made, This had resulted in the implementation of new animal export rules and regulations being changed regularly by the authorities, eventually culminating in the domestic animal export regulations banning any UK transport company from exporting even though they were DEFRA recognised.
We therefore were unable to continue to use our regular UK transporter from transporting from Turkey who had always given us a subsidised charity price and this left the Charity with a serious issue as the prices the few legal Turkish Transport companies were charging was more than double what we had been previously paying and far exceeded anything the charity could afford per dog and almost impossible long term. One solution was to have our own charity transport facility. The Trustees looked into this, evaluating costings etc and came to the conclusion that long term this should in effect be cost effective.
Under the leadership of the newly recruited fundraising committee we were able to launch a national appeal for our own transport facility which would be governed by Turkish law enabling us to deliver AFOT animals in AFOT transport. The appeal was hugely successful and we were able to purchase and
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Section D Achievements and performance
start work on refitting a vehicle for this purpose.
Thanks to the efforts of the new fundraising operation and consequent appeal we were able to prepare our transport facility in preparation for the summer of 2022 despite the costs in complying with the Turkish regulation side of things being much more expensive than we had predicted or facilitated for.
We maintained our policy of having no paid staff throughout this financial year. All work within the charity continues to be carried out by a small but active group of volunteers based in the UK and Turkey.
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Section E Financial review
Brief statement of the AFOT is still relatively young and has yet to build up any charity’s policy on meaningful reserves. We currently hold deposits sufficient to reserves cover the usual month to month running costs. Our aim is to build this up to initially get back to our 6 months reserves and extend to a 12 month period if we are able to and are hopeful that our new transport operation will help us in this area.
Details of any funds None materially in deficit
Section F Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s) Full name(s) Carol Holbrook Position (eg Secretary, Chair Chair, etc) Date 13/01/2023
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CHAR5TY COMMISSION FOQ ENGIANO ANO WALES Anlmal Friends Of Turkey IAFOTI Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Irom To cr040?1 0510412022 Section A Receipts and payments U.Iresiricto lund5 to t n•arMt RgsLri£tcd lund EndowrTronl funds Total funds Lasi year io th• noarosi £ to Iho n•are51 E to th& n•arost £ 10 the n•ar•si £ A1 R¢¢eipts Donations lor dog51C8ts othei donal15 evenis & meccnandise Gift aio Relnds Misc Gr3nis Dog Relun¢ Revernal Sub total (Gross income for ARI 10.30$ 101.73J 2.506 7.941 179 18.305 101.733 2.506 7,941 179 TB1 29.$68 46.300 9,177 9,759 992 1,000 1,395 lJ1.445 131,445 9e.191 A2 Asset and Inv•8tm•nt sales, Isee tsblel. Sub tot•1 Total receipts 131.445 131.445 98.191 A3 Pa mont8 Vei Ivv Fosier. kennJs & all frknj S¥n¢iu8ry costs Inc reilS Inot tooJl Trans Even15 & merch•116 009 DonaiioTh ReluThJs Dog Suooort Mi%ellaneovS Iposiage ei¢ I DonaiioD$ maae to oiher chaTiiie5 P8yPai Fees 19,845 26.595 18,316 76.J92 1.600 Jao 12.791 18.149 6.9Q7 45,45? 526 J.21S 25,5?5 18.J18 76,39? 1.6fKJ 781 100 782 10D 1.089 215 437 143,419 143.419 86,161 A4 Agset and in¥eslmeni urchase8, Isee table) Sub total Total payments 143,419 143,419 86,761 Net of receip(paYMentS) AS Tran51er5 betwèen lunds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end 11.974 11.974 11,430 17.790 17,790 5,816 5.816 11,430 CCXX R1 aCCnts ISSI 0110212023
Section B Ststement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted lunds lo Trea1 £ Restricted fund$ to neoresi Endowtnent funds to nearèst £ B1 Cash funds AFOT acut 37878(68 5.613 AFQT acctyjni 78827868 pa Pai 17J Total cash funds 5.B16 i•Jt•e ryctyr4S Payfnen15 Unregtrlctèd funds Restricted lunds Enilowment fund$ to n••ro$1 £ r.•all$ Fvnd lo which a•w b•lon Dt.'tJ.I urrenl valu• Coli ioplK+n•ll B3 Inv•8tmonl assots Fund to Co•t ioption•ll CUrn1 volu• 84 As8&ts retained for the charity'$ own use ¥4n ac01¢¢un1Yj yew Fynd 10 which Ikibili rel• Amovni duè Whpn du• 65 Liabilities Signed tsy one or rwo trustee5 on behalf ol a51 the Iru51ees Signatuie Print Name Dale of roval CCXX R2 ac¢ounts ISSI 0110212023
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Animal Friends of Turkey IAFOT) On accounts for the year ended 0510412022 Charlty no lif any) 1182513 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("Ihe Trust.) tor the year ended 0510412022. Rèsponsibilities and As Ihe charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requiremenls of the Charities Act 20111"the Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of Ihe 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. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have ome to my attention (other than that disclosed below ') in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any malerial respect.. accounling records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records. Independent examiner's statement 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. Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Signed: Date: 3010112023 Name: Martha E McGarry Relevant professional qualification(s} or body lif any): ACA Address: 26 Gilling Road Richmond North Yorkshire DL10 SAA IER October 2018