## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From Period start date To Period end date**
## **Charity name:**
## **Charity registration number:**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**For the benefit of the public to relieve the**
**suffering of domestic pets and animals**
**which are at risk in situations of domestic**
**abuse and relationship breakdown by**
**working with statutory and domestic**
**abuse service providers in making**
**arrangements for the reception, care and**
**short-term accommodation and fostering**
**of such animals**|
|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|**The charity has arranged the reception**
**and foster care in multiple cases, and as**
**part of that support, the food costs have**
**been covered, along with all veterinary**
**expenses involved with the care of those**
**animals, so the owners do not need to.**
**Often this is by the foster carers who**
**have wanted to fund the care themselves.**
**This has reduced the costs of the charity.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have all had regard to the**
**guidance on public benefit, and are able**
**to explain how the charity fulfils the**
**public benefit.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference **Not applicable.** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **Not applicable.** Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment **Extensive support has been received by our foster carers and the administrative**
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**support of a core team of volunteers.**
**There are no paid members of staff at the**
**charity so all the work to run the charity**
**has been performed by volunteers. Aside**
**from the three trustees, there are 3**
**central volunteers and many foster carers**
**located across the UK. Although not**
**requested to do so, foster carers this**
**year have financially contributed to the**
**care of animals.**|
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|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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|**The charity has supported many families**
**this year, by arranging the foster care of**
**their pets and advising on which**
**organisations can help them where**
**fostering was not a viable option (the**
**latter being the more frequent outcome).**
**In all cases of fostering those animals are**
**reunited with their owners once they**
**have secured their own safety, or are**
**waiting to do so. On occasion, the charity**
**has supported those who cannot be**
**separated from their pets by offering**
**advice, support and signposting, or by**
**assisting them to reach safety, and this is**
**more frequent this year because of**
**constraints concerning funding and**
**available foster carers whilst the UK**
**experiences a rehoming crisis. By doing**
**this work, those survivors of domestic**
**abuse have been able to seek safety and**
**escape their abuse. Had we not**
**supported them, those people may have**
**stayed with or returned to their situations**
**of abuse. We have provided certainty to**
**our service users, and reassurance that**
**their pets are safe, such that they have**
**not had their situations worsened by the**
**stress of their animals being unsafe.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Our objectives included an aim to spread**
**awareness of the existence of the charity.**
**We have managed to do this with a social**
**media campaign, as well as a poster and**
**leaflet campaign, and attendance at**
**animal exhibitions/conferences, as well**
**as hosting pet first aid at a sixth form**
**college in Oxford.**|
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|||**We have partaken in multiple public**|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**events to raise awareness and funds,**
**have developed a range of items to assist**
**in fundraising. We have also received**
**large donations from companies.**|
|---|---|---|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**Not applicable.**|
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity closes with very similar**
**funding levels to it’s opening balance. All**
**animals in care at the time could be**
**funded indefinitely given our protocol**
**and funding strategy.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity maintains reserves for live**
**cases to ensure that standard costs can**
**be covered for a maximum case length of**
**six months. Charity administration costs**
**are covered by an external source of**
**funding where necessary. Some**
**veterinary treatment is included in the**
**reserve funds, but an insurance policy is**
**held, and an agreement with owners that**
**veterinary care may have to be covered**
**by the owner in certain circumstances.**
**This allows the charity to operate with**
**very strict financial constraints.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£934**|
|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|**There are no concerns. All live cases**
**have sufficient funding. As a small**
**charity we have been able to keep costs**
**at a minimum. Fostering decisions are**
**made in light of funding capacity at the**
**time of decision making. Free alternatives**
**to fostering (signposting) are employed if**
**need be.**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:|
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Corporate donation. Whilst we do make**
**some merchandise and similar sales,**
**these are not significant.**|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/a**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The most significant risk is a lack of**
**further funding in the future. The trustees**
**have compiled a fundraising strategy**
**document listing sources of funding, with**
**an extensive list of potential funding**
**sources all of which will be contacted**
**during the next financial period as with**
**our usual practice each year. We aim to**
**employ a manager for the charity who will**
**have funding as their main priority.**|
Other
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|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|**As per our constitution: Apart from the**
**first charity trustees, every trustee must**
**be appointed for a term of three years by**
**a resolution passed at a properly**
**convened meeting of the charity trustees.**
**In selecting individuals for appointment**
**as charity trustees, the charity trustees**
**must have regard to the skills, knowledge**
**and experience needed for the effective**
**administration of the CIO.**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:|
|---|---|---|
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**We are members of the local charity**
**network, which offers an extensive list of**
**training opportunities including those for**
**trustees. All existing and new trustees**
**are offered, and encouraged to attend,**
**this training.**|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The charity is operated entirely by the**
**work of the board of trustees and the**
**Chief Executive Officer (who is a trustee).**
**The charity is a member of Community**
**Action Network.**|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**N/a**|
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|The Abused Pet Refuge Project|
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|Other name the charity uses|The Pet Refuge Project|
|Registered charity number|1198228|
|Charity’s principal address|Unit 9, Innovation Close, Horizon Business Park, Poole,
BH12 4FP|
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**year**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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|||Gavin Ridley|CEO||||N/a|
|||Hannah Bazeley|Chair of Trustees||||N/a|
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets N/a held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Mr Gavin Ridley
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
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**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|**e charitys trustees**|**e charitys trustees**|
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Chief Executive Officer|Chair of Trustees|
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|**Charity Name**|||**No (if any)**||
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|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|Period start date|**To**|Period end date||
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
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|**A1 Receipts**
Traceable donations
**8,294**
Non-traceable donations
**90**
Merchandise sales
**186**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,570**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 8,570**
**A3 Payments**
Volunteer costs
**-**
Website and IT
**600**
PPS
**5**
Animal food
**-**
Veterinaryfees
**67**
Merchandise
**773**
Fuel
**-**
Bank fees
**125**
Sundryequipment
PR and outreach costs
**20**
Phone costs
**448**
Beddingmaterials
Enrichment toys
Behaviourists and training
**-**
Sundryfoster
**1,674**
Rent
**4,662**
Insurance and legal
**383**
**_Sub total_ 8,754**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 8,754**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 184**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**1,089**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 905**
**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)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29**
**29**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**8,294**
**90**
**186**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,570**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,570**
**-**
**600**
**5**
**-**
**67**
**773**
**-**
**125**
**-**
**20**
**448**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,674**
**4,662**
**383**
**8,754**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,754**
**- 184**
**-**
**1,118**
**934**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**8,294**|**7,930**|
||||**90**|**152**|
||||**186**|**986**|
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**-**|**-**|**86**|
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**-**|**- 184**|**- 2,766**|
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||**29**||**934**|**- 2,766**|
## **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**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Agreement Error
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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Print Name
**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**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
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