2023-03-31-accounts - Annie's Trust

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 01 04 2022 To 31 03 2023

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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Annie’s Trust

Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1186172

Charity's principal address The Old Rectory, Flixton Road Lound Suffolk Postcode NR32 5PN

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year
Diane Bowman	Chair
Scott Beaton	Treasurer
Lavinia Harrison
Helen Majkowski
Jade Moore















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 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

Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by Trustees Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

No funds or expenses are paid to Trustees. You may choose to include All members of Annie’s Trust donate their time to the charity freely. Access additional information, where to Annie’s Trust bank accounts is limited to active Trustees and all relevant, about: accounts are reconciled monthly using an accounting tool.  policies and procedures All sensitive information is held securely and is password protected. The adopted for the induction and most sensitive information, such as banking information is only available to training of trustees; the Trustees responsible for finance.

No paper copies of personal information are printed out or kept.
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

To relieve the suffering of stray and shelter dogs in Romania. Organising and funding spay campaigns in rural Romania to aid in the reduction of the stray dog population. Summary of the objects of the Our primary objective is to improve the lives of the dogs left behind in charity set out in its Romania. governing document Summary of the main activities undertaken for the Annie's trust strives to provide assistance to the poorest public shelters public benefit in relation to within Romania, currently focusing on Adjud Vrancea in the north east. TAR 2 March 2012

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these objects (include within
this section the statutory
declaration that trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit)

With a small team of trusted unpaid Romanian volunteers, we have been
able to increase the quality of life, living conditions, nutrition and medical
treatment for the dogs. By providing essential flea and tick treatment we
have eased the suffering caused by deadly mosquito and tick related
diseases like heartworm, babesia and anaplasma as well as controlling
the very serious skin condition demodex, which is rife.
We fund and provided sleep boxes and kennels for the dogs living
outside in arctic conditions to provide a safe, warm and dry place to
sleep.
Puppies are vaccinated and provided with regular food and milk. While
older and sick dogs receive more nutritious food to improve their
condition and recovery.
Dogs within Romanian public shelters receive very little medical care
when they get sick or injured. There is no medical care for the dogs on
the street who are left to suffer and die from common accidents, brutality
or disease.
We provide lifesaving medical treatment to all dogs in need, that would
otherwise suffer without our intervention.
We operate a stray feeding programme funding food for abandoned
dogs.
We believe that the most sustainable way of controlling the numbers of
dogs on the streets and in the shelters is to promote spay and neuter
campaigns throughout the country. We currently fund year-round
sterilisation programs for the public shelter dogs, strays and also to
owners with limited income for their pets. We educate to encourage
better welfare for their animals.
Annie’s Trust do not rehome dogs directly to the public, but instead we
liaise with trusted rescues and sanctuaries in the UK who find homes for
the dogs within their existing network. This ensures a responsible
approach to safely rehoming dogs.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

We continue our vaccination scheme where all abandoned and stray Summary of the main dogs are vaccinated when they are admitted to the shelter. This saves achievements of the charity funds in the long run as it prevents common, potentially fatal and during the year expensive diseases such as Parvovirus, Distemper and hepatitis from spreading throughout the shelter. This year we also had the difficulty of the UK placing a temporary ban on animals being imported from certain countries, including Romania. This led to a huge backlog of dogs in shelters and as a result an increase in vet bills etc. because of this. Despite these problems, the charity was able to manage its funds effectively.

Section E Financial review

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£20,000

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

The charity tries to maintain a reserve equivalent of an average twomonth expenditure. This is to protect the charity, and its responsibility to the animals and its donors.

Details of any funds materially Annie’s Trust has no debts. All bills and invoices are paid as received. in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

The charities principal source of funds are general donations from supporters. This is driven by a combination of online fundraising (i.e. Facebook) and auctions.

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G 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) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date	S A Beaton	D Bowman
	Scott Alexander Beaton	Diane Bowman
	Treasurer	Chairperson
	20/09/2023

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	Charity Name Annie's Trust	Charity Name Annie's Trust	Charity Name Annie's Trust	No (if any) 1186172
	For the period from	Period start date 4/1/2022	To	Period end date 3/31/2023

Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts General Donations 67,664 Grants 21,283 FundraisingCampaigns 39,427 CharityCashback websites 404 Not for Profit Support 3,880 Gift Aid 14,670 Lottery 179 Bank Interest 96 147,603 - - Sub total - Total receipts 147,603 A3 Payments Shelter Food 37,493 Vet Fees 56,113 Sterilisations 11,134 Parasite Treatment - Shelter Improvements 16,878 Foster Care 7,876 General Outgoings 17,596 Web hosting 223 Bankingfees 80 Sub total 147,393 - - Sub total - Total payments 147,393 Net of receipts/(payments) 210 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end 25,181 Cash funds this year end 25,391 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 £ 67,664 21,283 39,427 404 3,880 14,670 179 96 147,603 - - - 147,603 37,493 56,113 11,134 - 16,878 7,876 17,596 223 80 147,393 - - - 147,393 210 - 25,181 25,391	Last year to the nearest £
		- - - - - - - - -	67,664	59,969
			21,283	16,150
			39,427	51,077
			404	265
			3,880	9,341
			14,670	2,386
			179	506
			96	1,267
			147,603	140,961

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		-	147,603	140,961

		- - - - - - - - - -	37,493	14,186
			56,113	51,905
			11,134	7,038
			-	17,822
			16,878	10,139
			7,876	5,685
			17,596	39,942
			223	204
			80	-
			147,393	146,921

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		-	147,393	146,921

	-	- - - -	210	- 5,960
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	-		25,181	-
	-		25,391	- 5,960

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

Details Bank Account Fund Details Details Details Details Signature Scott Beaton Diane Bowman *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	to nearest £ to nearest £ 25,391 - - - - - 25,391 - OK OK to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Print Name Scott Beaton Diane Bowman 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
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		Date of approval
Scott Beaton	Scott Beaton
Diane Bowman	Diane Bowman

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustee61 members of Charify Nam¢ Annie's Trust On accounts for the year ended 3110312023 Charity no (if any) 1186172 Set out on page8 Irerrmber to indude the page nuners ol addrtional 5he8til I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trust.) for the year ended 3110312023. Responslbllltle8 and As the charity trusteès of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basls of report of the aGcounts in accordance with the requirements of the Chanties Act 2011 ('the Act.). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's a¢¢ount8 carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5){bl of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have come lo my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respéct.. accounting records were not kept in accordancè with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting words Independent •xaminerf8 Statement I have no COnm5 and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable proper understanding of th8 accounts to be reached. Please d8lete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Slgned: Dat•: 23 Name: Ross £ALP¥4 W£i&Hr Relevant professlonal qualification{s} or body (If any): CHAQTtQED ALcaJA/fAAfi IL4s Address: s GILNlooc pLE [43 qAIx Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidan for examiners). IER October 2018

Glve hore brlef details of any items that the examlnar wishes to disclose. IER October 2018