## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01/07/2023 Period start date To 30/06/2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: London Retired Police Dogs Trust Charity registration number: 1188072** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference||| |---|---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17||**To promote humane behaviour towards**
**retired police dogs by providing**
**financial assistance to owners of retired**
**police dogs who have charge of animals**
**that are in need of appropriate care and**
**attention by reason of sickness, poor**
**circumstances or welfare.**| |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||**London Retired Police Dogs Trust**
**launched in November 2019 with**
**ongoing fundraising through public**
**events as a priority and then affected by**
**the worldwide Covid pandemic we were**
**forced to re-evaluate and find other**
**ways of fundraising.**
**Online Shop and Merchandise**
**We run a successful online shop within**
**our websitewww.lrpd.uk**
**where we sell**
**merchandise directly via the shop and**
**also through third party volunteers**
**attending public facing fundraising**
**events.**
**Yearly LRPD Calendar**
**Our yearly Calendar is produced and**
**paid for by Metfriendly, supporters of**
**LRPD, with all profits from sales going**
**direct to the fund.**
**Give as You Earn Initiative**
**With the assistance of the Charities Aid**
**Foundation we successfully run a give**
**as you earn scheme within the**
**Metropolitan Police Service where**
**employees can sign up to contribute a**
**monthly donation direct from source to**
**LRPD.**
**Ongoing Volunteer Supporter**| ||||**Fundraising Activities**
**Throughout the year supporters have**
**undertaken a variety of events with**
**fundraising on behalf of LRPD being the**
**driving force, we have had volunteers**
**run the Great North Swim, London**
**Marathon, Brighton Marathon, Ride**
**London, Open Days, Fetes, Fairs, Cake**
**Sales, and Raffles to name a few.**
**These are our staple fundraisers to date.**| |---|---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18||**In the initial Chaired AGM all trustees**
**were introduced to the guidance on**
**public benefit issued by the Charity**
**Commission which is applicable when**
**exercising any powers or duties to**
**which the guidance would be relevant.**
**This was reviewed again in the last**
**AGM.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Every application received for financial**
**assistance is reviewed on an individual**
**basis. Once the application has been**
**reviewed by an independent vet and**
**verified then the trustees discuss the**
**individual application details and the**
**current financial position of the charity**
**and thus a decision on reward is**
**reached. We are proud to be in a**
**position to offer 100% of the claim**
**amount requested in the majority of all**
**claims to date.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Volunteers are integral to LRPD and**
**have assisted in fundraising by various**
**ways. Volunteers have shaken buckets,**
**sold merchandise, held raffles and taken**
**on enormous challenges all in efforts to**
**assist us being able to meet**
**applications for assistance relating to**
**retired police dogs.**| |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|**Since the launch of London Retired**
**Police Dogs Trust and registration as a**
**registered charity LRPD have continued**
**to grow.**
**LRPD has overcome obstacles and**
**developed new and innovative ways to**
**be able to continue to fundraise.**
**We have awarded over £157,400 since**
**our launch in direct response to**
**applications received for assistance**
**with regards to the welfare of retired**
**police dogs up to 30/06/2024. (In this**
**accounting period our award**
**settlements totalled £63,278). The**
**number of applications increases month**
**on month as to be expected as a new**
**charity with more people becoming**
**aware of LRPD month on month and to**
**30/06/2024 we have assisted with 172**
**separate applications for support.**
**Since launch, the London Retired Police**
**Dogs Trust has grown to include retired**
**City Of London Police Dogs and retired**
**London Fire Brigade dogs.**
**LRPD has also secured a working**
**partnership with Goddards Veterinary**
**Group who are able to offer a %**
**discount on fees relating to retired**
**police dogs treatment.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**As a charity our biggest aim is to meet**
**the needs of the retired police dogs of**
**London requiring help and assistance**
**financially to enable them to live their**
**retirement in the best welfare position.**
**We have been able to meet the needs of**
**every application received thanks to**
**ongoing fundraising on behalf of**
**London Retired Police Dogs Trust.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Every fundraising activity undertaken to**
**date has been successful in securing**
**donations.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Statement of Assets and Liabilities at**
**the end of this accounting period – Cash**
**funds this year end £46,258.**
**Unrestricted cash funds of £152,577**
**available combined Natwest and Paypal**
**balance 30/06/2024.**
**(Total received for this accounting**
**period which includes fundraising via**
**direct fundraising events, donations,**
**give and you earn and merchandise**
**sales totals; £143,397)**
**(Total deductions for this accounting**
**period for application settlement awards**
**totals £63,278)**
**Total deductions for this accounting**
**period which includes advertising,**
**printed materials, sundries, cost price**
**meds, insurance, IT costs, Paypal fees,**
**postage and purchase of merchandise**
**totals £33,862)**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**A decision was made and agreed by all**
**trustees that a reserve of £5,000 to**
**remain where possible for any**
**emergency unforeseen applications that**
**require urgent assistance.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£5,000**| |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|**None**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: The charity’s principal sources of funds (including Para 1.47 any fundraising) Investment policy and objectives including any Para 1.46 social investment policy adopted A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Foundation Model 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|**First Charity Trustees in position until**
**retirement, appointment of new trustees**
**is available but to be appointed for a**
**term of 3 years by a resolution passed**
**at a properly meeting of the charity**
**trustees.**| ## **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|London Retired Police Dogs Trust| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|LRPD| |Registered charity number|1188072| |Charity’s principal address|30 Hazlewell Road
London
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||PhilipWells|Chair||| ||Kristian Leighton|Secretary||| ||Emma Dignam|Treasurer||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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 None 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)** Emma DIGNAM **Position (eg Secretary,** TREASURER **Chair, etc)** **Date** 12/04/2025 **Charity Name No (if any) London Retired Police Dogs Trust 1188072 Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts** **Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/07/2023 30/06/2024 |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**26,045**
**2,925**
**71,586**
**28,901**
**33**
**13,906**
**-**
**-**

**143,397**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**143,397**
**6,566**
**6**
**324**
**1,821**
**96**
**1,184**
**358**
**63,278**
**525**
**74,158**
**22,982**
**-**
**22,982**
**97,139**
**46,258**
**-**
**-**
**46,258**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**26,045**
**2,925**
**71,586**
**28,901**
**33**
**13,906**
**-**
**-**
**143,397**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**143,397**
**6,566**
**6**
**324**
**1,821**
**96**
**1,184**
**358**
**63,278**
**-**
**525**
**74,158**
**22,982**
**-**
**22,982**
**97,139**
**46,258**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Sale of Merchandise|**26,045**|||||**7,741**| |Fund Raisingevents|**2,925**|||||**30,027**| |Donations received|**71,586**|||||**30,841**| |Give asyou earn|**28,901**|||||**26,296**| |Other|**33**|||||**-**| |Paypal Donations received|**13,906**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**143,397**|||||**94,905**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**94,905**| |||||||| |Advertising|**6,566**|||||**100**| |Stationery|**6**|||||**1,308**| |Sundryexpenses|**324**|||||**855**| |Cost Price Meds|**1,821**|||||| |Insurance|**96**|||||**96**| |Postage|**1,184**|||||**1,583**| |IT Cost|**358**|||||**478**| |Application Award|**63,278**|||||**53,282**| |Sundry gifts||||||**-**| |Paypal cost|**525**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**74,158**|||||**57,702**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| |
Cost of Merchandise|**22,982**|||||11,601| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**22,982**|||||**11,601**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**69,303**| |||||||| ||**46,258**|**-**||**46,258**||**25,602**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**46,258**|**-**||**46,258**||**25,602**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 12/06/2025 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
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**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
NatWest A/c 28263685
Paypal Account balance
**Details**
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**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**149,481**
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**3,095**
**-**
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approval| |||Emma Dignam|11/04/2025| |||PhilipWells|12/04/2025| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 12/06/2025 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to th• trustses Charity Narne LONDON REMRED POLICE DOGS TRUST On accounts for the year ended 30- June 2024 Charity no (If any) 1188072 Set out on pages Ir¢member lo inclvde th? page numbets of addRk)nal sheetsl I report to the trustees on my exarnination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trust'l for the year ended 3010612024. Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity's truslees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordanGe wth the requirements of Ihe Charities Act 2011 ('the Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounls carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent examiner's statemont I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below ') which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act., or the accounts did not accord with the accounting reGords I have no concerns and have come a￿osS no other matters in connection with the examination to which att ntion should be drawn in this report to enable a pro r understandin f the accounts lo be reached. Signed: Date: 11Th APRIL 2025 Name: MrLJFord Relevant professional qualiflcatlon{s} or body (if any): FCPA Address: HUNT FORD & CO OSBOURNE HOUSE, 143-145 STANWELL ROAD. ASHFORD, MIDDLESEX, TW15 3QN IER Oct 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of con￿rn (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners}. Glve here brief details of any items that the examinerwishes to disclose. IER Oct 2018 CHARITY COMMISSIO FOR ENGIAND ANII WALE Cli&irily Ndmg London Rgtlr8d Pollce Dog5 Trust Ilf Hnyl Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For th• perlrJd from P8riryl start da 0110712023 To Penod end d?te 301(￿2024 Section A Receipts and payments Unra¥lTlcted fLrnds tD tho ttearost Restrjctgd fund¥ Endowment funds Total fund8 Last year to thg nearèat £ to th• no4roSt£ to thg neare8t£ A1 Rpcelpts Sale of Mer¢handi8e Fund Raising events Oonaiion8 Fe¢elved &v8 as you ear to the neargstf 26,045 2,925 26,045 2,926 T1,586 28,90 33 13.906 7.741 30,027 30,841 26,296 28,901 33 Paypal Donallons recglwed Sub tot471 (Gross inwme lor AR) 143A97 I￿,397 94,gOS A2 Assèt and ￿n￿￿tment sales. <￿e table). Sub totsl Total recelpts 143,397 14J,397 94,905 A3Pa mgnts Advertising Slalronery Sundry 6,566 6.566 324 1,821 1.308 86 324 1.021 96 1,184 368 63,278 Posiage IT Co$1 AppIl￿tK)n Award dry gfls Vp￿ co81 1.184 358 63,27B 96 1,583 478 53,2B2 625 74,158 Sub total S25 74.158 57,702 A4 Asset and Investment purchases, (see table) Cost of Merchandise 22,982 22,912 11.601 Sub total 22,982 22,982 11,601 Totalpayments 97.139 97.139 69,303 Nel of rocelpts/{payments) A5 Tran5fer8 bètween funds AS Cash funds last year end Cash funds thls year end 46,258 46,258 25,602 46,258 46.2S8 25,602 CCXX R1 accounts ISSI f410412025 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestrlcted funds to ￿¥re$l £ R8strlct6d funds lo ne•r8$t£ Endowment funds Categorles Dtstalls 81 Cash funds Natwesl Wc28263685 149,481 P4ypal Account b£lance 3,096 Total cash funds 152,577 A¢counllJ)) I￿reeIn@l)I Error Unrestr5¢tod funds lo nearos¢£ OK Restrlcled funds OK Endowment funds Dotall$ to noarAst£ to nearest £ B2 Other monetary assats Fu￿d to whSch 888•¢ belon Detall¥ Co¥slloptlonall Currènt valu Ilonal B3 Investment assets Fund tD whlGh asgot b&lo Curronlvaluo tlona Detall8 Cost lopt10￿all 84 Assgts retained lor thè chaTity's own uso Fund lo whlch relates ounl When dug Dotalls B5 Llabilltles Slgned by on8 or ￿ IrusleB5 b8half ol all the Iru$188¥ Dale ol roval Siqnaiure Print Name Emma DI nam 1110412025 Phili Wells 1210412025 CCXX R2 accoun15 ISSI 141N12025