Hector's House Cat Rescue Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 November 2022
## **Hector's House Cat Rescue**
## **Contents**
|Reference and Administrative Details|1|
|---|---|
|Accountants' Report|2|
|Balance Sheet|3|
|Notes to the financial statements|4 to 6|
|Income and Expenditure Account|7|
## **Hector's House Cat Rescue**
## **Reference and Administrative Details**
|**Charity name**|Hector's House Cat Rescue|
|---|---|
|**Charity number**|1192317|
|**Trustees**|Zara Oldfield|
||Alison Short|
||Clive Appleby|
||Edward Oldfield|
||June Eckhart|
||Kitty Oldfield|
|**Address**|51 Audley Avenue|
||Torquay|
||Devon|
||TQ2 7PB|
|**Accountant**|Vincent & Co Accountants|
||37 Shiphay Lane|
||Torquay|
||Devon|
||TQ2 7DU|
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**Accountants' Report to the Trustees on the Unaudited Accounts of**
## **Hector's House Cat Rescue**
In accordance with the engagement letter , and in order to assist you to fulfil your duties we have compiled the financial statements of the registered charity from the accounting records and information and explanations you have given to us.
This report is made to the Charity's Board of Trustees, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement. Our work has been undertaken so that we might compile the financial statements that we have been engaged to compile, report to the Charity's Board of Trustees that we have done so, and state those matters that we have agreed to state to them in this report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Charity and the Charity's Board of Trustees, as a body, for our work or for this report.
You have acknowledged on the balance sheet as 30th November 2022 your duty to ensure that the charity has kept proper accounting records and to prepare financial statements that give a true and fair view. You consider that the charity is exempt from the statutory requirement for an audit for the year.
We have not been instructed to carry out an audit of the financial statements. For this reason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the financial statements.
......................................... 37 Shiphay Lane Vincent & Co Accountants Torquay Devon TQ2 7DU
Date:
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## **Hector's House Cat Rescue**
## **Balance Sheet as at 30 November 2022**
|**Note**
**Fixed Assets**
Tangible assets
4
**Current Assets**
Debtors
5
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: Amounts falling due**
**within one year**
6
Net current assets
**Net assets**
**The funds of the charity:**
**Restricted funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
Unrestricted income funds
8
**Members' Funds**|£
£
22,472
185
38,611
38,796
(1,396)
59,872
59,872
-
59,872
59,872
2022|£
£
17,056
-
26,398
26,398
(360)
43,094
43,094
-
43,094
43,094
2021|
|---|---|---|
On behalf of the board
…………………………………………..
**Signed by: Zara Oldfield**
Date:
Page 3
**1**
## **Hector's House Cat Rescue**
## **Notes to Financial Statements for the Period Ended 30 November 2022**
## **Accounting policies**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (Charities SORP FRSSE) (effective 1 January 2015) and applicable accounting standards.
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The financial statements include all transactions, assets and liabilities for which the charity is responsible in law.
## **Fund accounting policy**
Unrestricted income funds are general funds that are available for use at the trustees' discretion in furtherance of the objectives of the charity. Restricted funds are those donated for use in a particular area or for specific purposes, the use of which is restricted to that area
## **Incoming resources**
Donations are recognised where there is entitlement, certainty of receipt and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability.
Incoming resources from tax reclaims are included in the statement of financial activities at the same time as the gift to which they relate.
## **Resources expended**
Grants and donations are accounted for when paid over, or when awarded, if that award creates a binding or constructive obligation on the charity. Expenditure is generally recognised when it is incurred and is accounted for gross.
## **Fixed assets**
Individual fixed assets costing £0 or more are initially recorded at cost.
## **Depreciation**
Depreciation is provided on tangible fixed assets so as to write off the cost or valuation, less
Plant and machineryd d l l h 20% reducing balanced f l l f f ll Fixtures and fittings 20% reducing balance Motor Vehicles 20% reducing balance
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## **Hector's House Cat Rescue**
## **Notes to Financial Statements for the Period Ended 30 November 2022**
_……….continued_
## **2 Depreciation of tangible fixed assets**
|Depreciation charge on Plant & equipment
Depreciation charge on Fixtures & fittings
Depreciation charge on Motor Vehicles|**Total Funds**
**2022**
2,224
1,508
1,886
5,618|**Total**
**Funds**
**2021**
-
-
-
-|
|---|---|---|
**3 Trustees'remuneration and expenses**
No trustees received any remuneration
**4 Tangible fixed assets**
|Disposals
As at 30 November 2021
Brought forward
Additions
As at 30 November 2022
**Depreciation**
Brought forwards
Charge for the year
As at 30 November 2022
**Net book value**
As at 30 November 2022
**Cost**|**Plant &**
**equipment**
11,122
-
-
11,122
-
2,224
2,224
8,898
11,122|**Fixtures &**
**fittings**
**Motor**
**Vehicles**
**Total**
-
5,934
17,056
7,539
3,495
11,034
-
-
-
7,539
9,429
28,090
-
-
-
1,508
1,886
5,618
1,508
1,886
5,618
6,031
7,543
22,472
-
5,934
17,056|
|---|---|---|
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**6**
**7**
## **Hector's House Cat Rescue**
## **Notes to Financial Statements for the Period Ended 30 November 2022**
_……….continued_
**5**
## **Debtors**
|Accruals and deferred income
Trade Creditors
Debtors
**Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year**|**2022**
**£**
185
185
**2022**
**£**
1,260
136
1,396|**2021**
**£**
-
-
**2021**
**£**
360
-
360|
|---|---|---|
## **General Information**
Hector's House Cat Rescue Registered number 1192317 is a limited by guarantee charity incorporated in England & Wales. The Registered Office is 51 Audley Avenue, Torquay, Devon, TQ2 7PB.
## **8**
|**Reconcilliation of funds**
Funds Brought forward
Surplus during the year
Funds Carried forward|Unrestricted
Funds
43,094
16,778
59,872|
|---|---|
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## **Hector's House Cat Rescue**
## **Income and Expenditure Account for the Period Ended 30 November 2022**
|**INCOME**
Card and Calender Sales
Adoption Fees
Fundraising
Donations
Grants and subsidies received
Other trading income
**COST OF SALES**
Specialist Cat Food/Litter/ Medication and other
pet expenses
Vet Fees
GROSS SURPLUS
**Administrative Expenses**
Travel and subsistence expenses
Light and heat
Cleaning & Laundry
Vehicle running costs
Computer software, consumables and
maintenance
Repairs, renewals and maintenance
Insurance
Printing, postage and stationery
Advertising and marketing costs
Telecommunications and data costs
Accountancy fees
Bookkeeping fees
Bank charges
Depreciation of plant and machinery
Depreciation of motor vehicles
Depreciation of fixtures and fittings
Sundry expenses
SURPLUS FOR THE FINANCIAL PERIOD|**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
614
1,119
41,257
16,263
22,489
5,683
108,922
57,499
2,532
16,000
614
9,383
176,428
105,947
18,286
10,355
112,370
43,955
(130,656)
(54,310)
45,772
51,637
653
3,674
581
-
1,144
-
7,399
-
573
-
5,040
-
432
308
1,286
299
1,004
1,728
252
-
1,162
360
1,260
-
1,257
45
2,224
-
1,886
-
1,508
-
1,333
2,129
(28,994)
(8,543)
16,778
43,094
**30-Nov-22**
**30-Nov-21**|
|---|---|
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees** Charity Name HECTOR’S HOUSE CAT RESCUE **On accounts for the year** 30 NOVEMBER 2022 **Charity no** 1192317 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **30 / 11 / 2022** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** 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 all 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 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 records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report 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:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**|**Date:**|05 September 2023|
|---|---|---|
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||Hollie Saxton||
||||
||MAAT||
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||37 Shiphay Lane||
||Torquay||
1
**Oct 2018**
**IER**
TQ2 7DU
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material 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** .
2
**Oct 2018**
**IER**
## **Trustee’s Report**
## Introduction:
The trustees are pleased to present their report and the financial statements of the charity for the 12-month period ended November 30, 2022. This was the second full period of operation, in which Hector’s House Cat Rescue was registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. The trustees confirm that their report and financial statements meet statutory requirements.
## Objectives and Activities:
Hector’s House Cat Rescue was established for the public benefit, to promote humane behaviour towards cats in the Borough of Torbay and elsewhere by providing care, protection, treatment and security for cats in need of care and attention due to sickness, maltreatment, poor circumstances or ill usage, rehoming such cats where necessary. We do this by providing a rescue, fostering and rehoming service, and veterinary care, for domestic and feral cats and kittens. Our guiding principle is that if a cat has a chance of a life without suffering, we will do everything in our power to enable that.
## Principal Activity:
Hector’s House is staffed entirely by volunteers and works predominantly to rescue and rehome stray and abandoned male cats, which are the most difficult to rehabilitate. We work to reunite lost cats with their owners, respond to calls for assistance from the public, and work with veterinary practices, local authorities, and other charities and cat welfare organisations. More information is available on our website at https://www.hectorshousecatrescue.co.uk/
## Lost cats:
We work hard to return lost cats to their owners, if they can be traced or come forward, primarily using information from an animal’s microchip if available, and using social media and other local inquiries. We have an outreach service, with a team of volunteers across South and East Devon, who will carry out an initial visit to scan a cat of concern if possible, or scan an injured or deceased cat so its owner can be informed. The cat may be paper-collared if no microchip is detected, or if not approachable, a trap will be set to secure the cat so it can be scanned, and returned to its owner. Unclaimed and surrendered cats will be brought to a pen at HQ for assessment. If a cat is surrendered to the care of charity, or no owner is found after an appropriate period of advertising, it will be given a health check and receive any required veterinary treatment. Its behaviour will be assessed, before moving to a feral placement if appropriate, or into foster care before rehoming.
## Feral cats:
We respond to calls about feral cats. These are cats that have been born in the wild and cannot be domesticated. If left, a colony can quickly grow in size to cause problems, so we will neuter feral cats and provide health care, then either return them to their original location, or find a suitable feral placement where food and shelter is available. This is known as TNR, or Trap, Neuter and Return, which is an established welfare practice.
## Rehoming:
All our cats offered for rehoming receive a health check and any necessary veterinary treatment. Life as a long-term stray can cause serious health problems,
which we will ensure are treated. Although cats may appear well from a distance, they are good at hiding pain and distress. Strays often develop dental problems, matted coats, injuries from fighting, abscesses, parasite infections, and are prone to catching serious life-limiting diseases. Cats for rehoming will be neutered and given all the treatment they need, and are rehomed with five weeks’ free pet insurance with Agria, which gives a donation to Hector’s House for each policy subsequently taken out.
## Kittens:
Kittens born in our care or brought in young enough to be domesticated, are cared for by fosterers. Before they are rehomed, all kittens are neutered, health checked, given flea and worming treatment and vaccinations, and they will be covered by five weeks’ free pet insurance from Agria Insurance.
## Public benefit:
We promote cat welfare and good practice on our website and social media platforms. We provide advice to owners whose cats have gone missing, including a guide on what to do which is published on our website. We provide advice and information and advocate neutering and microchipping of all cats, and also publish advice on our website on what people should do if they are concerned about a cat.
## **Chair’s Report**
This is our second full period of operation, following the successful registration of Hector’s House Cat Rescue with the Charity Commission, on November 13, 2020. The charity is named after my own cat Hector, who went missing in July 2018. The charity was established primarily to rescue, care for, rehabilitate and rehome stray and abandoned unneutered male cats. The closure of the Blue Cross centre in Torquay in 2021 has also increased demand for our services.
During the period the number of purpose-built pens at our HQ has remained at nine, providing initial accommodation for most of the cats that come into our care. This is particularly important for stray and abandoned unneutered tomcats, which are smelly and spray due to their hormones, making them unpopular guests with many other welfare organisations. The pens also provide a secure half-way house for feral cats. They are used as a holding space for assessment and opportunity for a health check and any treatment before a move into foster or feral placement. Kittens, and cats which are ill or have other special health needs, will usually be placed indoors, either at HQ or with a fosterer, rather than in a pen. Two of the pens are in a standalone unit and can be used for isolation, or to accommodate a family or group of cats.
During this period, one notable development was the purchase funded by donations of two incubators, which allowed us to provide lifesaving care to kittens being hand-reared just days after birth, which having been abandoned by their mothers would otherwise not survive. Your Cat magazine donated a third incubator, which enabled us to increase the number of fosterers able to care for early-stage kittens.
One example of our care for early-stage kittens involved Dot who was born to a mother in care, but was half the weight of the other kittens at just 61 grams. The
mother showed no interest in feeding her, so Dot was removed and hand-reared and survived to thrive against the odds. She was eventually adopted and is now doing well in her new home.
Among the notable episodes during the year was the arrival at Hector’s House of Rory, who had been a long-term stray in a dreadful condition in Swansea. He came into our care on New Year’s Eve 2021, and is an example of our commitment to offer space to long-term abandoned male cats that other organisations find it difficult to deal with. After extensive veterinary care and TLC from his fosterer, he was successfully adopted.
During the period we maintained a strong working relationship with our main veterinary practice, Animal Health Centre in Watcombe, Torquay, and would like to thank all the staff there for their ongoing support and understanding of the often complex and demanding needs of our cats. Additionally we have built further strong relationships with Selworthy Vets at Kingsbridge, who are now our primary out-of-hours practice, and Jonathan Woods veterinary practice in Crediton for our neutering activity.
Our team of volunteers grew to more than 100. They included 21 fosterers, who look after cats in their homes, five home-checkers to support rehoming, a driver, and more than 30 others in roles including admin, fundraising, pen maintenance and outreach. Our team of pen organisers who take care of all the needs of the cats at HQ twice a day grew to 30. I would like to thank all our volunteers for their work, we simply would not be able to exist without them. Everyone involved with the charity gives their time free. No one is paid, but some expenses such as travel are reimbursed in some cases, and all equipment and supplies for cats in the pens and in foster is provided by the charity. Most of our expenditure goes on vet costs.
In March 2022, our first van was involved in a collision in Torquay and was written off. Thankfully no one was injured, and as the other driver was at fault, we were successful in an insurance claim. A supporter decided to donate a Vauxhall Vivaro van for our use, and we eventually purchased a replacement smaller van with the help and support of Teign Valley Cars. We are grateful for the support with our vehicles of Teign Valley Cars, Fiveways Garage at Torquay and Coverdale II at Newton Abbot.
We are grateful for financial support during the period with grants from Hobhouse Animal Trust (£3,000 towards vet bills); Lush Charity Pot (construction of pen roofing); Animal Rescue Foundation Ltd (electrical installation in pens); and Kevin Foster MP. Our reputation in the community is growing and we have developed fundraising relationships with Pets at Home and Dunelm Mill in Torquay. We are also grateful to the many individuals and companies who have donated money, food and equipment, and have supported our fundraising events.
Cats rehomed
During this period we took in 475 cats and kittens. 10 died while in our care, 21 were put to sleep due to insurmountable health reasons, 10 were returned to owners, 12 were allocated to alternative (feral) placements, one was transferred to another cat rescue charity, and all the others were adopted. There were 4 cats in long-term foster care during this period.
I would like to thank the trustees for their continued support of the charity.
Zara Oldfield