## **FELINE FRIENDS LONDON** **ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS YEAR ENEDED 31 DECEMBER 2021** **CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER 1186959** ## **FELINE FRIENDS LONDON** ## **ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR 2021** The committee presents its annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021. The accounts have been prepared on the receipts and income basis as the charity is a non-company charity and had an income of less than £250,000 during the year 2020 and in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011. ## **Patron** Jerry Coyne ## **Executive Committee and Trustees** The executive committee members who served during the year were as follows: |Chair of Trustees|Barbara Read| |---|---| |Trustee|Irene Slegt| |Trustee|Milou de Castellane (appointed 2 January 2021)| |Trustee|Frances Bell| |Trustee|Nicola McGlennon (resigned September 2021)| ## **Charity number:** 1186959 ## **Bank** Lloyds Bank 31-33 Holloway Road London N7 8JU ## **Independent Examiner** Nicola McGlennon 78A Elgin Avenue Maida Vale London W9 2HB ## **Structure, governance and management** The charity is constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, whose only voting members are its charity trustees. The charity is administered by a management committee who have a shared and statutory responsibility to ensure that the charity carries out its functions in accordance with its constitution. Committee members were appointed with three members serving for a period of three years and two members for a period of four years, after which time they will retire and be eligible for reappointment. New members to be appointed by agreement with existing members of the management committee. All committee members are required to contribute to the management of the charity. The charity does not have a registered office and all members are unpaid volunteers who work from their homes. A copy of the charity’s constitution and accounts are available by emailing admin@felinefriendslondon.uk. Information about the charity can be found on the charity’s website www.felinefriendslondon.uk ## **What has been achieved over the year** Following on from the effects of COVID-19 lockdowns, when the bigger charities cut back on frontline rescue work, resulting in less stray and feral cats being neutered, as well as the closure of a major London veterinary hospital and some charity vet clinics, smaller charities and rescue organisations found themselves taking in and helping more abandoned, injured & feral cats and kittens. Some of the cats Feline Friends London took in were from vet practices, after the cats were brought in as strays or given up by owners. One such cat was a disabled kitten, Annie, brought to us by a vet, who wanted to save her life. She did so well in her foster care that her fosterers, decided to keep her and the vet who later neutered her described her ‘as a little miracle’. Two other success stories included Marshall, a cat we had rehomed in summer 2019 but who became diabetic after being overfed dry food. His adopter was unable to give him insulin and we took him back into our care in Spring 2021. By careful monitoring of his diet, his fosterer was able to get Marshall back to a healthy weight and into diabetic remission and we rehomed him as a healthy cat, no longer diabetic. Another cat, Sammy, was found to have a spinal cord tumour, after he became unable to use his back legs. We raised funds for his treatment, which enabled him to have radiation therapy at a referral centre and his fosterer was later able to post a most touching video on social media of Sammy climbing a tree. One of our mum and kitten families were rescued during a heavy downpour, the recently born kittens being rescued just in time from a space between a shed and a fence to save them from drowning. Other cats we rescued and cared for included cats with infected bite wounds, a cat who needed an eye removed due to a fight injury and cats with chronic health conditions, such as hyperthyroidism. Approximately 270 cats and kittens were rehomed over the year, with several more being rehomed to sanctuaries. We generally had around 100 to 120 cats and kittens in our foster care at any one time. We consolidated our social media and fundraising team, and a volunteer created a database of supporters to send mailouts for appeals. A cat we rehomed, Pickle, had her own Twitter account and she made a number of requests to her followers, asking them to donate to help our cats. Fundraising initiatives brought in £6,436 and adoption fees and donations accounted for £42,457 of our income. In all we managed to raise sufficient in funds to cover our vet costs, which remains our main item of expenditure. Total income for the year was £49,913 Total expenditure for the year was £47, 985, with £44,644 of this being spent on vet fees. Barbara Read Chair of Trustees 06 November 2022 document8116421990211562382 ## INCOMING RESOURCES Donations and Adoption fees Fundraising Commission on pet insurance Total incoming resources ## RESOURCES EXPENDED Vet fees Medical & food supplies Fostering expenses Fundraising Expences Other operating expenses Total resources expended NET INCOMING RESOURCES RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS Total funds brought forward TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD Bank balance as at 31 Dec 2021 Difference - accrual for Cat Cuddles cat rescue vet bill Page 1 document8116421990211562382 ## STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021 Unrestricted funds Year end 31.12.'21 GBP 42457 6436 1020 49913 44644 541 1409 71 1319 47985 1928 4562 6490 6500 10 Page 2 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name Feline Friends London **members of On accounts for the year** 31.12.2021 **Charity no** 1186959 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 and 2 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 / 12 / 2021** . - **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts 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)(b) of the Act. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records 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:** 02/11/2022 **Name:** Nicola McGlennon **Relevant professional** Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 78A Elgin Avenue Maida Vale, London W9 2HB **October 2018** 1 **IER** **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **October 2018** 2 **IER**