## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day05 Month05 Year2020 Day05 Month05 Year2021 **From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** DOGS FOR HEALTH **Other names charity is known by** N/A **Registered charity number (if any)**[1191801]
|**Charity's principal address**|26 Kendrick Close||
|---|---|---|
||WESTBURY||
||WILTSHIRE||
||**Postcode**|**BA13 3QT**|
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||JAMES LEWIS|CHAIR OF
TRUSTEES|||
||AMY WOOD|TRUSTEE|||
||ANN SWIFT|TRUSTEE|||
## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
||**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
|---|---|---|
||AS ABOVE||
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|**Name**
**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|**NONE AT THIS TIME**|||
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
(eg. trust deed, constitution)
DOGS FOR HEALTH is governed by a Constitution as laid out during its formation. The Constitution uses the Charity Commission standard template and was revised in April 2021
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The charity is an association as per the guidance of the charity How the charity is constituted Commission (eg. trust, association, company) Initial selection was the three Trustees who formed the charity. The Trustee selection methods charity plans to run in this form for two years with elections in March 2022 (eg. appointed by, elected by) to form the new board of Trustees. In 2022-23 however there was not any uptake in new trustees and the charity remains a three trustee charity as per its original set up. James was again voted in as chair of trustees for a third year.
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
During the forming phase of the charity the original policies and You **may choose** to include procedures will be maintained. additional information, where relevant, about:
- The Trustees will meet on a regular basis and review progress in the initial
- policies and procedures two-year formation term of the charity. adopted for the induction and training of trustees; The charity will seek to align itself with the working arrangements of partners, namely local doctors’ surgeries, the NHS and other charity
- the charity’s organisational groups that support the client group of the charity DOGS FOR HEALTH
- structure and any wider network with which the charity Partnerships will be formed, and methods of working documents drawn up
- works; when partnerships are considered. Including partnership with Alzheimer’s
- relationship with any related UK branches in Warminster, Trowbridge and Devizes. Wiltshire Council parties; have become a regular partner in relation to weekly visits and fund raising events on behalf of the charity by the council. Help for Heros and three
- trustees’ consideration of local doctors surgeries are forming partnerships to support the charity to
- major risks and the system develop into PTSD by end of 2023
- and procedures to manage them.
The partnerships forming include two Members of Parliament and several Ambulance Service organisations. Five new council requests for membership of the service have been received and by September 2023 these will come on board.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
To support people who are in need regardless of their age, disability, health or social circumstances. Particularly but not exclusively by the provision of pets and their volunteer owners or carers visiting individuals’ homes or visiting public places such as hospitals, workplaces, care and nursing homes and schools. To share learning and resources.
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
## We will do this by:
1. a) Organising pets to visit private homes, workplaces or public venues/spaces.
2. b) Providing training and education sessions.
3. c) Sharing resources and research findings.
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During 2023-24 the charity continues to offer the following
Paws at the door, a service providing free home visits and visits to care homes and hospitals etc. These visits are free at point of contact and continue to be the bulk of the work delivered by the charity. Each patient has an initial six week assessment and visits session followed by revaluation for further visits.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to 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)**
Pawamedics service, a fund raising part of the charity where the dogs and handlers deliver group work sessions in business and wider community, a donation is obtained which is used to fund the ongoing work of the charity and negates the need to fund raise by traditional methods.
Search Dog Unit. PTSD patients traditionally refuse help but are happy to work alongside the charity to train and operate search dogs.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- further statements, where Dogs for Health is seeking to align itself with local vets practices and to relevant, about: support the health and wellbeing of animals as well as supporting the policy on grantmaking; community. In 2023 we continued to develop links with groups such as pets for vets and encouraged our volunteers to receive training in animal
- policy programme related first aid. investment;
contribution made by Volunteers continue to develop their practice, we focused on mental health and delivered this in person alongside online learning and support volunteers. to access further training as volunteers wish to meet patients with different conditions such as end of life.
2023 our predicted spending is rising as we take on more volunteers, the charity now funds all the costs of support and also DBS and other checks. WE subsidise uniform and now cover travel to certain locations.
Our website has been an issue during this year as we try to adapt to the changes the trustees have put in place, the site needs some work and the challenge is to develop this further over the coming year so that in 2024 we can have a new web presence and also a Youtube presence..
The target in 2023-24 is to further expand the services of Paws at the Door and other parts of the charity, to work on branding and by the end of the period to have new branding and IT to bring us into the future.
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The trustees have plans to recruit a further three trustees by April 2024 and this will involve some PR and local events presence to make this work
Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Fund raising for training was boosted by Social Care TV awarding us a prize of 600 course credits for our volunteers.
Good connections with local support networks continue to grow, these connections have allowed us to receive grants from a local council and to be included in events within the community.
The web presence is to be a major project that will involve a new site built from the ground upwards. WE have meetings planned to look at Apps and to continue to increase how we promote the therapy dog theme within the community.
To continue the assemblies, provide support in classrooms and to explore the wider community in which the charity operates, guides, scouts, beavers and cubs to name a few. To maintain a presence in the town and start to promote our work through dog shows in association with the local councils.
The PTSD project has been presented to the member of parliament responsible for Veterans and this has now grown into the army requesting regular visits in support of the training of the Ukraine army.
## **Section E Financial review**
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2023-24 increased revenue and also increased costs, the charity **Brief statement of the** account shows us increased bank balance of an additional £1,935 at the **charity’s policy on reserves** end of the year, this comes despite increased insurance cover, DBS costs and training costs. The purchase of new equipment and signage. Our reserve stands at in excess of £5,000 at the year end
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
NIL deficit
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- 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.
Sponsorship via text to donates, QR code donations, donations from business in return for well-being visits will be the main source of income unless funding is secured for projects. The charity has regular income from school and care home visits, Paws at the door continues to be free but the Pawamedics has increased income by its visits
Expenditure continues to be focused on the development plan for the growth of DFH at events and to this extent we have purchased new boards, chairs, gazebo, signage and other resources. New logos, clothing for special events and clothing to sell have been designed as well.
New insurance in 2023-24 focused on increasing public liability, insurance for Trustees and accident insurance for volunteers. Online training now accounts for over £1000 a year of expenditure.
## **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**|||
|---|---|---|
||James Lewis|Amy Wood|
||Chair|Trustee|
||01/04/2024||
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**Charity Name No (if any) DOGS FOR HEALTH 1191801 Receipts and payments accounts For the period To from** 01.04.2022 31.03.2023
**For the period To from** 01.04.2022
## **CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
DONATIONS
**3,600**
INVOICED WORK
**1,570**
VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTIONS
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,170**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 5,170**
**A3 Payments**
PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE
**324**
EVENTS
**290**
EQUIPMENT
**750**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 1,364**
**790**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 790**
**_Total payments_ 2,154**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 3,016**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 3,016**
**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)**
**LAPTOP, MOBILE PHONE,**
**DISPLAY BOARDS, SIGNAGE,**
**PRINTED MATERIALS**|**to the nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**|**3,600**
**1,570**
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**-**|**324**
**290**
**750**
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**-**
**-**
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**1,364**|**-**|
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**-**|**3,016**
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## **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**
NIL ASSETS
**Details**
NIL ASSETS
**Details**
NIL ASSETS
**Details**
NIL ASSETS
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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Print Name
JAMES LEWIS
AMY WOOD
**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**
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**funds**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||JAMES LEWIS|4/1/2023|
|||AMY WOOD|**4/1/2023**|