
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**From: 7[th] April 2023 To: 6[th] April 2024** 

## **Charity name: Tynemouth Seal Hospital** 

## **Charity registration number: 1197677** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|To provide primarily rehabilitaton and rescue<br>services within the United Kingdom but<br>predominantly the North East of England, for<br>marine mammals that are in danger or in a<br>positon where rehabilitaton and rescue is<br>required by providing trained volunteers to<br>look afer these animals at a set site or in a<br>shore side or river environment, and also to<br>provide educaton and enrichment for the<br>wider communitythough our work.|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|Volunteers for Tynemouth Seal Hospital<br>have given, during the above period,<br>approximately 2,200 hours of voluntary<br>time seeking the rehabilitation of 13 seals,<br>both harbour (common) and grey seals). Of<br>these animals, 11 were rehabilitated to<br>release, 1 was transferred to another<br>facility, and 1 were too weak to survive.<br>To undertake this work, we received<br>donations from the general public totalling<br>£9160. During this time we spent £4793,<br>broken down thusly (all figures are rounded<br>to the nearest whole number):<br>£1200 (25%) was spent on equipment for<br>the seal hospital.<br>£1179 (24%) was spent on veterinary<br>costs.<br>£1052 (22%) was spent on consumables<br>for everyday use in the seal hospital.<br>£640 (13%) was spent on charity<br>administration costs.<br>£456 (9%) was spent on ongoing medicinal<br>treatments for the seals<br>£237 (5%) was spent on frozen fish.<br>£70 (1%) was spent on travel and transport<br>expenses<br>£37 (1%) was spent on merchandise to<br>sell.|





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|---|---|---|---|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|Trustees have had regard for the guidance<br>on public benefit.||



## **Achievements and Performance** 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|Volunteers for Tynemouth Seal Hospital<br>have given, during the above period,<br>approximately 2,200 hours of voluntary<br>time seeking the rehabilitation of 13 seals,<br>both harbour (common) and grey seals). Of<br>these animals, 11 were rehabilitated to<br>release, 1 was transferred to another<br>facility, and 1 were too weak to survive.<br>Our work has contributed to the<br>strengthening of the local populations of<br>both species of seal, particularly that of<br>harbour seals which are particularly<br>vulnerable.|



## **Financial Review** 

|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|At the end of the reporting period the<br>charity held £9200 in the bank.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|It is felt by the trustees that our reserves<br>should not be less than £1000 at any given<br>time.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£9200|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|N/A|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|We foresee no financial reasons why we<br>would cease our operations at anytime in<br>the near future.|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|<br>The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including|<br>Para 1.47|<br>Primarily donations from the general public,<br>though we may begin exploring applying for<br>grants in the next financial period.|
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any fundraising)

## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution|
|---|---|---|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Charitable incorporated organisaton.|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|With 8 trustees at the end of the reporting<br>period, with a wide range of skills and<br>experience, we are not looking to appoint<br>any additional trustees in the near future.<br>All trustee matters are subject to a<br>democratic vote. All trustees are asked to<br>declare any conflict of interests.|



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|Tynemouth Seal Hospital|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|TSH, but only on social media.|
|Registered charity number|1197677|
|Charity’s principal address|23 Richmond Terrace<br>Whitley Bay<br>NE26 1SG|



## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**<br>**whole year**|**Name of**<br>**person (or**<br>**body) entitled**<br>**to appoint**<br>**trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Richard Nicholas<br>Ilderton|Chair|||
||Alan Peter Harrison|Treasurer|||
||Hazel Leona Masson||||
||Sarah Jane Harrison||||
||Roxanne<br>Cunningham||||
||Mark Wilhelm<br>Husmann||||
||Jamie Robert Dines||||
||John Anderson||||





## **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 



## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

R Ilderton **Signature(s)** A P Harrison Richard Nicholas Ilderton **Full name(s)** Alan Peter Harrison **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 3.2.25 



|Income 2023-24|**Date**|**Detail**|**Cash**|**Justgiving**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**14.4.23**|T shirt sale<br>|||
||**14.4.23**|~~Aquarium counter~~<br>~~small change~~|**£14.81**||
||**15.4.23**|Val Seal (Egg winner)<br> <br>|**£20.00**||
||**18.4.23**|~~Rafe proceeds~~<br>~~(Eden~~'~~s cafe)~~|**£1195.50**||
||**19.4.23**|Justgiving<br>||**£4.75**|
||**21.4.23**|Sum Up|||
||**24.4.23**|Amazon payout|||
||**25.4.23**|Sum Up|||
||**2.5.23**|Justgiving||**£19.42**|
||**6.5.23**|St Mary's Island stall|**£21.50**||
||**17.5.23**|Justgiving||**£4.75**|
||**19.5.23**|Amazon payout|||
||**22.5.23**|Justgiving||**£77.27**|
||**24.5.23**|Justgiving||**£3.56**|
||**24.5.23**|Facebook payout|||
||**30.5.23**|SM Event (via RI)|||
||**30.5.23**|Sum Up|||
||**30.5.23**|Paypal GivingFund|||
||**30.5.23**|TeeMill Payout|||
||**6.6.23**|JustGiving||**£4.75**|
||**12.6.23**|JustGiving||**£183.74**|
||**21.6.23**|JustGiving||**£35.60**|
||**22.6.23**|Facebookpayout|||
||**26.6.23**|Cash paid in from<br>Sebastian's walk<br>(via APH)|**£34.00**||
||**3.7.23**|Justgiving||**£24.12**|
||**5.7.23**|Justgiving||**£5.94**|
||**18.7.23**|Tee-Mill sales|||
||**18.7.23**|PayPal giving fund|||
||**19.7.23**|Justgiving||**£4.75**|
||**24.7.23**|Facebook payout|||
||**1.8.23**|Justgiving||**£1.19**|
||**2.8.23**|Justgiving||**£24.12**|
||**7.8.23**|T Shirt Sale (at TA<br>stall)|||
||**9.8.23**|Facebook payout|||
||**14.8.23**|Paypal Giving Fund|||
||**16.8.23**|Justgiving||**£4.75**|
||**22.8.23**|Justgiving||**£0.71**|





|**23.8.23**|Facebook payout|||
|---|---|---|---|
|**29.8.23**|Justgiving||**£1.19**|
|**4.9.23**|Justgiving||**£38.29**|
|**7.9.23**|Facebook payout|||
|**18.9.23**|Woman's Institute<br>gift|||
|**19.9.23**|Justgiving||**£4.75**|
|**25.9.23**|Cash Donations|**£58.00**||
|**2.10.23**|Paypal|||
|**2.10.23**|JustGiving||**£24.12**|
|**4.10.23**|Justgiving||**£1.19**|
|**18.10.23**|Justgiving||**£4.75**|
|**21.10.23**|Sale of T Shirts|||
|**23.10.23**|Justgiving||**£62.03**|
|**23.10. 23**|Facebook payout|||
|**23.10.23**|Shiela Grifn gift|||
|**25.10.23**|Justgiving||**£2.37**|
|**30.10.23**|Sale of T Shirts|||
|**30.10.23**|Paypal Giving Fund|||
|**30.10.23**|Justgiving||**£4.70**|
|**1.11.23**|Justgivng||**£1.19**|
|**21.11.23**|JustGiving||**£18.85**|
|**30.11.23**|TeeMill Payout|||
|**30.11.23**|Paypal Giving Fund|||
|**4.12.23**|Justgiving||**£106.85**|
|**13.12.23**|Justgiving||**£17.80**|
|**20.12.23**|JustGiving||**£4.75**|
|**27.12.23**|Justgiving||**£28.82**|
|**1.1.24**|TeeMill Payout|||





|**1.1.24**|Paypal giving fund|||
|---|---|---|---|
|**9.1.24**|Justgiving||**£1.19**|
|**15.1.24**|Justgiving||**£87.49**|
|**22.1.24**|Spares2repair<br>refund|||
|**23.1.24**|Justgiving||**£21.36**|
|**24.1.23**|TeeMill Payout|||
|**29.1.24**|Justgiving||**£4.70**|
|**30.1.24**|Justgiving<br>||**£1.19**|
|**12.2.24**|~~Edna Smylie~~<br>Memorial Fund<br>~~Grant~~|||
|**12.2.24**|Justgiving<br>||**£53.35**|
|**12.2.24**|Cash from releases|**£20.00**||
|**14.2.24**|Justgiving||**£3.56**|
|**20.2.24**|Justgiving||**£4.75**|
|**4.3.24**|Justgiving||**£4.70**|
|**6.3.24**|Justgiving||**£1.19**|
|**20.3.24**|Justgiving||**£4.75**|
|**25.3.24**|Paypal Giving fund|||
|**25.3.24**|TeeMill Payout|||
|**2.4.24**|Justgiving||**£1.19**|
|**2.4.24**|Helz HiViz sale|||
|**3.4.24**|Justgiving||**£24.12**|
|**3.4.24**|Release donation<br>(via RI)|**£5.00**||
|**3.4.24**|Jess HiViz sale|||
|**5.4.24**|Donations at<br>Aquarium(via RI)|**£104.00**||
|||**£1472.81**|**£934.61**|
||**Total Expenditure**|||





||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Cheques**|~~**Sale of**~~<br>~~**Merchandise**~~|**BACS**|**Gift Aid**|**Sum Up**|**Amazon**|**Paypal**|
||**£15.00**<br>||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
|||||**£0.98**|||
||||||**£12.57**||
|||||**£0.98**|||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||**£23.95**||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
|||**£8.00**|||||
|||||**£0.98**|||
|||||||**£564.56**|
||**£34.73**||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||**£27.24**||||||
|||||||**£146.35**|
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||**£30.00**||||||
||||||||
|||||||**£123.36**|
||||||||
||||||||





**£35.00 £17.94 £30.00 £1000.00 £2.92 £906.54 £11.84 £518.74 £28.42** 



|||||||**£181.77**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||
||||||||
|||**£11.96**|||||
||||||||
||**£17.29**||||||
||||||||
||||||||
|**£1000.00**|||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
|||||||**£315.25**|
||**£5.30**||||||
||||||||
||**£9.50**||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||**£9.50**||||||
||||||||
|**£2035.00**|**£221.74**|**£19.96**|**£0.00**|**£2.94**|**£36.52**|**###**|
||||||||





Gift Aid Claimed 

|||
|---|---|
|~~**Faceboo**~~<br>~~**k**~~|**Total**|
||£15.00|
||£14.81|
||£20.00|
||£1195.50|
||£4.75|
||£0.98|
||£12.57|
||£0.98|
||£19.42|
||£21.50|
||£4.75|
||£23.95|
||£77.27|
||£3.56|
|**£190.00**|£190.00|
||£8.00|
||£0.98|
||£564.56|
||£34.73|
||£4.75|
||£183.74|
||£35.60|
|**£149.06**|£149.06|
||£34.00|
||£24.12|
||£5.94|
||£27.24|
||£146.35|
||£4.75|
|**£155.73**|£155.73|
||£1.19|
||£24.12|
||£30.00|
|**£110.00**|£110.00|
||£123.36|
||£4.75|
||£0.71|



Thank you card sent 



**£726.98** £726.98 £1.19 £38.29 **£266.37** £266.37 £35.00 £4.75 £58.00 £17.94 £24.12 £1.19 £4.75 £30.00 £62.03 **£63.83** £63.83 £1000.00 £2.37 £2.92 £906.54 £4.70 £1.19 £18.85 £11.84 £518.74 £106.85 £17.80 £4.75 £28.82 £28.42 



||£181.77|
|---|---|
||£1.19|
||£87.49|
||£11.96|
||£21.36|
||£17.29|
||£4.70|
||£1.19|
||£1000.00|
||£53.35|
||£20.00|
||£3.56|
||£4.75|
||£4.70|
||£1.19|
||£4.75|
||£315.25|
||£5.30|
||£1.19|
||£9.50|
||£24.12|
||£5.00|
||£9.50|
||£104.00|
|**£1661.97**|**###**|
|||





|**Cash**|**Justgiving**|**Cheques**|~~**Sale of**~~<br>~~**Merchandise**~~|**BACS**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|£1472.81|£934.61|£2035.00|£221.74<br>|£19.96|






|**Gift Aid**|**Sum Up**|~~**Amazon**~~<br>~~**Smile**~~|**Paypal**|**Facebook**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|£0.00|£2.94|£36.52<br>|`£2774.51`|`£1661.97`|






|Donatons|£8938.32|
|---|---|
|Charitable actvites||
|trading|£221.74|
|investments||
|other||
|Total|9160.06|





|Expenditure 2023-24|<br>**Date of**|<br>**Date of**|<br>**Date of**|<br>**Date of**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||~~**Date of**~~<br>~~**ament**~~|**Detail**<br>|**transaction**<br>|**Vet Costs**|
||**6.4.23**<br>~~**py**~~|~~Hose Nozzel (AH~~<br>~~reimbursement)~~|**(if diferent)**||
||**6.4.23**|Pigboards for releases<br><br>|||
||**7.4.23**|~~Emergency fsh stock,~~<br>~~Kiezebrink~~|||
||**26.4.23**|Liter picker, Amazon<br>|||
||**26.4.23**|Laundry detergent, Amazon|||
||**9.5.23**|Hose Nozzel, amazon|||
||**9.5.23**|S4 order, 2 x 25ltr<br>|||
||**6.6.23**|~~VariKennel x 2 (RI~~<br>~~reimbursement)~~<br>~~' ~~|||
||**4.7.23**|~~Sherifs Highway Vets, Jafa ~~<br>~~bill~~||£332.95|
||**28.7.23**|Blue roll, amazon<br><br>|||
||**7.8.23**|~~Clavaseptn (RI~~<br>~~reimbursement)~~|||
||**7.8.23**|Signs etc (RI reimbursement)<br>|||
||**7.8.23**|Shampoo (NK reimbursement)|||
||**7.8.23**|Boxes (RI reimbursement)|||
||**7.8.23**|Shampoo<br>|||
||**11.8.23**|~~Training booklets (Dave Dent~~<br>~~Printers)~~|||
||**29.8.23**|???, (Amazon)<br>|||
||**30.8.23**|First Aid Kit (amazon)|||
||**7.9.23**|Storage boxes (tesco)|||
||**7.9.23**|Storage boxes, (dunelm)<br>|||
||**18.9.23**|~~Roker Park Vets,~~<br>~~Passionfruit~~||**£464.38**|
||**20.9.23**|Saline drops (amazon)<br><br>|||
||**4.10.23**|~~New Tumble Drier (RI~~<br>~~reimbursement)~~|||
||**4.10.23**|Blue roll, amazon<br>|||
||**10.10.23**|Safe4 Disinfectant|||
||**10.10.23**|Postage (Shiela Grifn)|||
||**23.10.23**|Vets4Pets (Protein Paste)|||
||**30.10.23**|Purchase of Merchandise<br>for S Grifn (RI repayment)|||
||**13.10.23**|Zurich Insurance|||
||**15.11.23**|Postage (Shiela Grifn)|||
||**27.11.23**|Pomegranite Vets||**£112.50**|
||**30.11.23**|Pomegranite Meds|||
||**4.12.23**|Christmas Volunteer Drink|||
||**4.12.23**|Christmas Volunteer Drink|||
||**4.12.23**|Christmas Volunteer Drink|||
||**5.12.23**|Hose Nozzle (amazon)|||
||**2.1.24**|Vits & Iron (IZVG)|||
||**8.1.24**|BinBags (amazon)|||





|**8.1.24**|Wordpress|||
|---|---|---|---|
|**18.1.24**|Spares2Repair (fridge<br>Thermostat)|||
|**24.1.24**|Milage for Pomegranete's<br>release(Alison)|||
|**24.1.24**|Milage for Pom release(Darren)|||
|**30.1.24**|Moorview Vets (Hermes<br>Meds)|||
|**2.2.24**|New Scales (Marsdens)|||
|**12.2.24**|Brushes, swabs, etc<br>(amazon)|||
|**21.2.24**|Safe4 Disinfectant|||
|**29.2.24**|Moorview vets|||
|**7.3.24**|Roxy fowers|||
|**15.3.24**|Rokerpark vets (dave<br>bloods)||**£269.54**|
|**15.3.24**|Amazon|||
||||**£1179.37**|
||**Total Expenditure**|**£4793.46**||





||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Fish**|**Treatments**|**Unit Hardware**|~~**Unit**~~<br>~~**Software**~~|**Merchandise**|~~**Misc**~~<br>~~**unit**~~|~~**Misc**~~<br>~~**Charit**~~|
||||£16.99<br>|||~~**y**~~|
|||£141.89|||||
|£236.56|||||||
|||£29.99|||||
||||£19.04||||
||||£4.99||||
||||£330.00||||
|||£286.56|||||
||||||||
||||£21.50||||
||£39.63||||||
|||||||£35.06|
||£10.46||||||
|||||||£8.98|
||£13.57||||||
|||||||£45.00|
||||||£24.32||
||||£31.30||||
|||£34.50|||||
|||£14.75|||||
||||||||
||**£29.11**||||||
|||**£484.95**|||||
||||**£9.25**||||
||||**£264.00**||||
|||||||**£0.75**|
||**£26.47**||||||
|||||**£37.44**|||
|||||||**£353.94**|
|||||||**£3.49**|
||||||||
||**£32.14**||||||
|||||||**£23.65**|
|||||||**£14.60**|
|||||||**£5.00**|
|||**£28.48**|||||
||**£221.82**||||||
||||**£5.99**||||





|||||||**£100.80**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**£34.92**|||||
||||||||
||||||||
||**£27.59**||||||
|||**£144.00**|||||
||||**£67.94**||||
||||**£264.00**||||
||**£55.23**||||||
|||||||**£49.50**|
||||||||
||||**£17.88**||||
|**£236.56**|**£456.02**|**£1200.04**|**£1052.88**|**£37.44**|**£0.00 **|**£640.77**|
||||||||





~~**Travel &**~~ **Total** ~~**Transport**~~ £16.99 £141.89 £236.56 

£29.99 £19.04 £4.99 

£330.00 £286.56 £332.95 

£21.50 £39.63 £0.00 £10.46 £8.98 £13.57 £0.00 £0.00 £31.30 £34.50 £14.75 £464.38 £29.11 £484.95 £9.25 £264.00 £0.75 £26.47 £37.44 £353.94 £3.49 £112.50 £32.14 £23.65 £14.60 £5.00 £28.48 £221.82 £5.99 



||£100.80|
|---|---|
||£34.92|
|**£50.44**|£50.44|
|**£20.00**|£20.00|
||£27.59|
||£144.00|
||£67.94|
||£264.00|
||£55.23|
||£49.50|
||£269.54|
||£17.88|
|**£70.44**|**###**|
|||





|**Vet Costs**|**Fish**|**Treatments**|~~**Unit**~~<br>~~**Hardware**~~|**Unit Software**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|£1179.37|£236.56|£456.02|£1200.04<br>|£1052.88|






|**Merchandise**|**Misc unit**|**Misc Charity**|**Travel & Transport**|
|---|---|---|---|
|£37.44|£0.00|£640.77|£70.44|




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|||**Brought**|**Income**|**Expenses**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Total**|£4,833.43<br>|£9,160.06|£4,793.46<br>|
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