## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01-01-2023 Period start date To 31-12-2023 Period end date** ## **Charity name: London Colney Hedgehog Rescue** ## **Charity registration number: 1191141** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|Conservation and preservation of the
hedgehog species in Hertfordshire and
surrounding areas| |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|To relieve the suffering and distress of
hedgehogs in need of care and attention by
providing a rescue, care and rehabilitation
service for sick, injured and orphaned
hedgehogs with the aim of releasing such
hedgehogs back into the wild wherever
possible and to also provide a safe refuge
for non native hedgehog species with the
necessary care and treatment.
To educate the public by promoting
awareness of the problems hedgehogs
encounter in relation to their future survival.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees are aware of the public
benefit guidance and have taken into
account this guidance when making
decisions when the guidance is relevant.| |**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|Every year countless hedgehogs are killed
and injured. As well as the pain and
suffering hedgehogs endure, many young
babies are left orphaned and need to be
hand-reared before release.
Humans cause many hedgehog deaths
and injuries through the irresponsible
disposing of litter, habitat destruction and
the use of garden tools and chemicals and
through speeding on the roads and
pointless cruelty. LCHR has continued
supporting hedgehogs with 373 hedgehogs
admitted for treatment during 2023.
LCHR has been microchipping hedgehogs
since 2016 and have continued to do so
and have to date microchipped 1746, this
has provided useful information when
hedgehogs have returned to rescue.
LCHR continue to study the benefits from
this, trying to understand the benefits of
releasing to different environments to assist
with survival rates.| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|At the end December 2023 the reserves for
the charity that were freely available
£25,486 which exceeds 12 months of our
planned level of expenditure for the period
commencing January 2024.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The charity’s reserve policy is to maintain
but not exceed adequate level of reserves
to support the charity’s activities. The aim
of the charityis to ensure that it has| |||sufficient reserves to maintain at least one
years planned expenditure.| |---|---|---| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£25,486| |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|N/A| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|Constitution adopted 15thJanuary 2020| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|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|Apart from the first charity trustees, every
trustee must be appointed by a resolution
passed at a properly convened meeting of
charity trustees.| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|London Colney Hedgehog Rescue| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1191141| |Charity’s principal address|Kings Road
London Colney
Herts
AL2 1EN| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5
6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Esther Chant|Trustee||| ||Heather Wilson|Chairperson||| ||Paul Burford|Trustee||| ||Jane Smith|Trustee|3rd March 2023 term
ended|| ||C Sian Pritchard|Trustee||| ||Rosemary Jackson|Trustee||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** N/A |Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity|Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity|Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity| |---|---|---| |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |N/A||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets N/A 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 ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Esther Chant ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details N/A ## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Carey Sian Pritchard|| ||
Trustee|| ||6thOctober 2024|| ||6thOctober 2024|| |**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---| |**London Colney Hedgehog Rescue**|||| |**Receipts and payments accounts**|||**CC16a**| |Period start date
**For the period**
**from**
01/01/2023|Period end date
**To**
31/12/2023||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**15,832**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**

**15,832**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,832**
**12,631**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,631**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,631**
**3,201**
**-**
**22,285**
**25,486**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**15,832**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,832**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,832**
**12,631**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,631**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,631**
**3,201**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Donations|**15,832**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**21,128**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**15,832**||||**21,128**| ||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||| ||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**||| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||| ||||**-**||**21,128**| ||||||| ||**12,631**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**16,894**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**12,631**||||**16,894**| ||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**|||||| |**,**|**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**||| ||**-**||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||| ||||**-**||**16,894**| ||||||| ||**3,201**||
**-**||**4,234**| ||**-**||**-**
**-**|**-**
**22,285**|**-**| ||**22,285**||||**18,051**| ||**25,486**||
**-**|**25,486**|**22,285**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 10/10/2024 1 ## **Section B Statement of** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
NW
NB
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**15,245**
**-**
**10,241**
**-**
**-**
**25,486**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
CareySian Pritchard|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due (optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of approval| |||CareySian Pritchard|6th October 2024| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 10/10/2024 2