2025-01-31-accounts - Mansfield Cat Rescue

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Mansfield Cat Rescue (Registered charity, number 1193319) Financial statements for the year ended 31 January 2025

Page	Contents
2 - 3	Trustees’ annual report
4	Independent examiner’s report
5	Receipts & payments account
6	Statement of assets & liabilities
7	Notes to the accounts

Mansfield Cat Rescue Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31 January 2025

Full name Mansfield Cat Rescue

Other names by which the charity is known Mansfield Cat Watch

Organisation type Charitable incorporated organisation

Registered charity number 1193319

Principal address 78 Roman Bank, Mansfield Woodhouse, Mansfield, NG19 9DF

Trustees

Suzanne Hallam, Chair Victoria Curtis Cecilia Bennett

Independent examiner

Eva Stevens, employee of Community Accounting Plus, Units 1 & 2 North West, 41 Talbot Street, Nottingham, NG1 5GL

Governance and management

The charity is operated under the rules of its constitution adopted 29[th] January 2021.

Members of the admin team are approached when they show a particular invested interest in the charity's development and ongoing growth. They are then voted in at a trustee meeting by the standing trustees.

Objectives and activities

The object of the CIO is: for the public benefit within the area of Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County up to and including Broxtowe, Gedling, Ashfield, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood, Bassetlaw, and Rushcliffe, to promote humane behaviour towards cats by providing appropriate care, protection, treatment and security for cats which are in need of care and attention by reason of sickness, maltreatment, poor circumstances or ill usage, rehoming such cats where possible.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit

Trap, neuter and rehabilitate stray and feral cats;
Provide stray and feral cats with veterinary treatment;
Rehome cats to new families after a thorough home checking process.

Local residents and businesses across the region are benefitted as feral and stray cats are not a burden on them.

Public benefit statement

The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit, 'Charities and Public Benefit'.

Mansfield Cat Rescue

Summary of the main achievements during the period

During this period, we welcomed 278 cats into our care, helping to prevent overpopulation and the spread of disease. Each cat received the veterinary treatment they needed – from routine flea and worm prevention, neutering, and microchipping to more complex procedures such as dentals and amputations – ensuring every animal had the best possible chance for a healthy future.
Liaised with other rescues to ensure that we provide the best provision for the cats in our care (e.g. specialist rescues for specific breeds) 8 cats were transferred to other rescues so that we could help more cats in need.
Continued to support 28 convalescent cats in our care. Providing veterinary care, specialised diets etc. so these cats who are unable to be rehomed can live out their lives in a comfortable foster home.
Rehomed 230 cats to new families with a promise to rehome them in the future if they are unable to continue to care for them.
Euthanised 36 cats on medical grounds to prevent further and unnecessary suffering.
Arranged food-drive type advertisements to encourage our supporters to donate. Helping us to ensure all of our cats are fed and that this doesn't come at a cost to our volunteers.
Fundraised to cover the ongoing veterinary bills through activities such as raffles and merchandise.

Support in kind

Our supporters are very dedicated to the rescue with some contributing or paying off vets bills in addition to regular donations. We heavily rely on these donations to carry out work.

Financial review

At the end of the reporting period we had a small surplus however this was already allocated to vet bills.

The charity’s policy on reserves

The Chair and Treasurer have instigated a reserves policy of £1-3k due for monthly vets bills. The reserves policy is reviewed monthly as our cash flow is unpredictable with adoptions and donations.

Financial risks

Ongoing veterinary treatment for cats with an increasing level of illnesses and diseases;
Veterinary costs increasing in line with inflation;
Fundraising being challenging due to the financial economy meaning our supporters are unable to donate as much as they would previously.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:

Signed ______ Date _ Suzanne Hallam, Trustee

Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Mansfield Cat Rescue for the year ended 31 January 2025

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Mansfield Cat Rescue (the charity) for the year ended 31 January 2025.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). I report in respect of my examination of the charity’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 examiner’s statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
the accounts do not accord with those records.

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.

Signed ____ Date _______ Eva Stevens BSc, CPFA Employee of Community Accounting Plus

Mansfield Cat Rescue Receipts & payments account for the year ended 31 January 2025

2024 £ Note Receipts 21532 Adoption fees 1848 Commission & sales 9628 Fundraising 55696 Grants & donations 2 506 Lottery income 23 Sundry receipts 89233 Total receipts Payments 1239 Activities & materials 317 Bank charges 2860 Cat food & medicine - Cleaning - Equipment, repairs & renewals 716 Fundraising & publicity 480 Independent examination 459 Insurance 37 Office costs, printing & stationery 313 Publications & subscriptions 15 Sundry payments 78383 Vet fees 345 Volunteer expenses 322 Website & IT 85486 Total payments 3747 Net receipts/(payments) 1649 Cash funds at start of this period 5396 Cash funds at end of this period	*2025* £ 30601 980 5086 86837 478 -
	123982
	1787 55 5151 1070 1013 616 528 513 361 288 - 102696 - 564
	114642
	9340 5396
	14736

Mansfield Cat Rescue Statement of assets and liabilities at 31 January 2025

2024 £ Cash assets Note 4856 Bank account 540 PayPal 5396 Other monetary assets 388 Prepayments 3 388 Assets retained for the charity’s own use General equipment. Liabilities (528) Creditor - Independent examination (528)	*2025* £ 14331 405
	14736
	427
	427
	(552)
	(552)

These financial statements are accepted on behalf of the charity by:

Signed _____ Date _____ Victoria Curtis, Trustee

Mansfield Cat Rescue Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 January 2025

1. Receipts & payments accounts

Receipts and payments accounts contain a summary of money received and money spent during the period and a list of assets and liabilities at the end of the period. Usually, cash received and cash spent will include transactions through bank accounts and cash in hand.

2. Grants & donations

Animal Friends Legacy Sundry donations	£ 5000 53581 28256
	86837

3. Prepayments

Insurance Publications & subscriptions	£ 379 48
	427

4. Trustees’ remuneration

Trustees received no expenses, remuneration or benefits in this period.

5. Related party transactions

There were no related party transactions during the period.

6. Glossary of terms

Creditors: These are amounts owed by the charity, but not paid during the accounting period.

Prepayments: These are services that the charity has paid for in advance, but not used during the accounting period.