# **Report and financial statements for the period ending 31 March 2024**
## **Contents**
Reference and Administrative information
Trustees annual report
Statement of financial activities
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## **Reference and administrative information for period ending 31[st] March 2023**
Charity number 1183108 Operational address c/o 12 Derby Road, Cambridge, CB1 7BU Trustees Trustees who served during the period from formation up to the date of this report were as follows: Grace Dolman (Chair) Rebecca Morley Jennifer Sutton Staff No staff were employed during this period Bankers Santander Plc. 2 Triton Square, Regent’s Place, London, NW1 3AN Triodos Bank UK, Deanery Road, Bristol, BS1 5AS
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## **Report of the Trustees for the period ended 31 March 2023**
## **Objectives and activities**
The objectives of the charity as registered with the Charity Commission are as follows:
- i. To advance the education of the public in the subject of hedgehog preservation
- ii. For the benefit of the public to relieve the suffering and distress of hedgehogs in need of care and attention by fundraising to provide a rehabilitation service for sick, injured and orphaned hedgehogs with the aim of releasing such hedgehogs back into the wild wherever possible.
We use a range of methods to provide education to the public about hedgehog preservation on a local, national and international scale. We have spoken to community groups of all ages and attended community events. We are active on Facebook and use this to engage with the public as well as other hedgehog charities and rescue centres.
We have been actively exploring potential sites for a hedgehog hospital and have now begun preliminary discussions about a suitable site. We provide benefit to the public by addressing concerns for hedgehogs in trouble. Where this is out of our region, we offer advice and links to find local hedgehog rescues. For hedgehogs in our region, we link to a local network of home carers for hedgehogs, who provide rehabilitation and safe release wherever possible. At present we do not provide charitable grants to these individuals.
## **Achievements and performance**
We have led activities with children and adults in the local community to raise awareness and interest in helping hedgehogs. We continue to raise awareness more widely through campaigns on Facebook.
We have also fundraised through online and local sales of donated, handmade and branded goods.
## **Hedgehog hospital**
We are now exploring a viable option for permanent premises as a hedgehog rehabilitation facility. In the interim, we continue to link to home carers for hedgehogs. When we identify a suitable site and have provisional agreement, we intend to fundraise specifically for capital funds.
## **Public benefit**
The Trustees confirm that they have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission in exercising their powers and duties. The public benefit of the Charity’s activities is to raise awareness of the endangered status of hedgehogs in the UK and to provide information about how to preserve this species.
## **Financial Review**
This is the 5th year that the charity has been in operation.
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We do not pay any staff and we do not hold premises. However, we do incur some administrative costs for software for accountancy, customer relationship management and IT security. This ensures that we can fulfil our legal obligations to protect the personal data of our supporters and maintain accurate financial records for Charity Commission returns and taxation purposes.
At the end of the reporting period, the charity has adequate funds to continue to operate throughout the next financial year and continue to pay for attendance at community events. Our longer term aim is to raise funds to build a hedgehog hospital, but at present we do not feel it is appropriate to build a restricted fund for this purpose as of end of financial year 2023-24. We hold reserves to be used for this purpose when we are able to move this project forward. We do not have concerns about the charity’s financial stability at this point.
Charitable accounts have been prepared using Receipts and Payments and are attached separately.
## **Structure, governance and management**
Cambridge Hedgehogs was formed in April 2019 as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation and operates under the constitution dated March 2019 as registered with the Charity Commission.
We had not recruited any new Trustees at the end of financial year 2023-2024.
We certify that the information held in this report is accurate to the best of our knowledge.
Grace Dolman
Jennifer Sutton
Rebecca Morley
13 Mar 2025
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**Charity Name No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**1,216**
Sales
**20**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,236**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total receipts 1,236**
**A3 Payments**
Administrative costs
**1,120**
Costofgoods sold
**99**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total 1,219**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total payments 1,219**
**Net of receipts/(payments)**
**17**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**13,570**
**Cash funds this year end 13,587**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**Sub total**(Gross income for AR)
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,216**
**20**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,236**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,236**
**1,120**
**99**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,219**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,219**
**17**
**-**
**13,570**
**13,587**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**1,216**|**1,847**|
||||**20**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**1,236**|**1,847**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**||**1,847**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**1,120**|**1,034**|
||||**99**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**1,219**|**1,034**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**1,219**|**1,034**|
||||||
||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**17**|**813**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**13,570**|**-**|
||**-**||**13,587**|**813**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**Total cash funds**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**11,586**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,586**
**2,000**
Agreement Error
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Grace Dolman
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Grace Dolman|23-Mar-25|
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