## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1[st] Jan 2024 Period start date To Period end date 31[st] December 2024**
## **Charity name: A Helping Paw – Pet Food Bank**
## **Charity registration number: 1201480**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**We aim to ensure that no pet in**
**Northumberland goes to sleep hungry.**
**We provide pet food parcels for**
**struggling households**|
|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|**We complete raise donations both**
**financial and physical pet food to**
**provide as much pet food support as we**
**can. This is typically 1 week’s worth of**
**food for each pet in the household up to**
**a maximum of once per month**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The board of trustees have had**
**consultation regarding this guidance.**
**This was supported by a one day visit to**
**Glasgow for free consultancy on how to**
**manage inline with this guidance and**
**general advice on managing the charity.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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SORP reference||
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/A – The charity currently doesn’t have**
**the size or funds available to consider**
**grant making.**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A – The charity currently doesn’t have**
**the size or funds available to consider**
**social investment**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Volunteers primarily support organising**
**& distributing the pet food parcels at**
**our locations supported by the board**
**trustees. All other activities are**
**managed by the board**|
|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 achieved the below**
**Had a significant increase in the**
**number of pets we managed to**
**feed and in the process**
**supporting struggling**
**households**
**Opened & managed 2 new Hubs**
**in Blyth and Cramlington**
**Obtained more national and local**
**press to raise awareness of pet**
**poverty**
**Developed our social media**
**awareness and grew our**
**Facebook following by 1000+**
**Held successful fundraising**
**events & raffles**
**Grew our reserves significantly**
**securing more safety for the**
**charity**
**Set up 4 drop off points in**
**Northumberland for pet food**
**donations**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|
**Delivered and grew the charity**
**services to more locations**
**Built up a greater reserve base**
**Significantly increased the**
**number of pets helped within the**
**year**|
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|
**Above expectations with the**
**raffles & events delivering above**
**expectations. Our Christmas**
**event especially was very**
**successful and supported us well**
**heading into 2025**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Ending the year with over £3,000 in our**
**account means that we can afford rent**
**for 12 months or operate the charity in**
**full for a minimum of 5 months without**
**any additional donations based on**
**current expenditure. We are delighted**
**by this as it means we can run more**
**hubs than previous years and sustain**
**them each for longer**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Our policy for reserves is to work**
**towards having a total of 6 months total**
**expenditure cover or rent for 12 months**
**to enable the charity to continue**
**operating without risk. This is sustained**
**from 2023 but for a larger number of**
**hubs/bigger service**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£3,419**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A – we hold a good amount of**
**reserves**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A – no funds held in deficit**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Our biggest concern would be if the**
**price of rent for our hubs increases**
**significantly however we have reserves**
**to support & can look at alternatives in a**
**worst case scenario.**|
## **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|**All funds raised for 2024 are through**
**direct donations or events. Majority of**
**fundraising has been done digitally via**
**social media. We still aren’t looking at**
**grants yet while the charity donations**
**alone are supporting our strategy.**|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A – we are too small for social**
**investment at this stage**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Continued reliance on our storage unit**
**& free/low cost hubs has enabled us to**
**avoid high rent costs and keep**
**overheads low, if this changes we would**
**be significantly impacted however we**
**still feel this risk is not great at this time.**|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed**|
|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|**The board appoints trustees based on**
**an electoral system where 50% of the**
**board must agree to the appointment.**
**Criteria will vary subject to the needs**
**and strategy of the charity however**
**professional background, availability,**
**commitment and familiarity to the board**
**will all be considered. This is**
**unchanged from 2023**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|
**Trustee training will be provided by the**
**chair of the board directly in order to**
**maintain a consistent onboarding**
**process. We may review this if the**
**charity grows but for now this is our**
**best practice**|
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|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The charity structure is contained of the**
**chair, the treasurer/co-chair and 2 other**
**trustees.**|
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**N/A – we are supported by various local**
**businesses but have no formalised**
**agreements with them.**|
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|A Helping Paw–Pet Food Bank|
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|Other name the charity uses|A Helping Paw|
|Registered charity number|1201480|
|Charity’s principal address|21-31 Park View
Whitely Bay
Tyne & Wear
NE26 2TP|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Tyesha Muncaster||3/1/2023 – Present||
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||Sophie Mason||3/1/2023 - 2025||
||Nicole Redpath||27/7/2024 - 2025||
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A**
## Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets N/A – none held held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A – none held charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A – none held 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)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**N/A**
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
T Muncaster **Signature(s)** M Brannighan Tyesha Muncaster **Full name(s)** Michael Brannighan **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer & Vice Chair Chair of the board **Chair, etc) Date** 20/10/2025
**Charity Name A Helping Paw - Pet Food Bank**
# **Receipts and pay**
1/1/2024
**For the period from**
1/1/2024
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
## **Unrestricted funds Restricted funds**
|**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Donantion - Towards rental for 1year
**-**
Donations - Facebook campaign forpet food
**-**
Donations - General unrestricted donations
**10,403**
Expense Error Corrections
**84**
**-**
**-**
**10,487**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Donantion - Towards rental for 1year
**-**
Donations - Facebook campaign forpet food
**-**
Donations - General unrestricted donations
**10,403**
Expense Error Corrections
**84**
**-**
**-**
**10,487**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|
|Donantion - Towards rental for 1year|**-**|**-**|
|Donations - Facebook campaign forpet food|**-**|**-**|
|Donations - General unrestricted donations|**10,403**|**-**|
|Expense Error Corrections|**84**|**-**|
|||**-**|
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||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**10,487**|**-**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**||||||||
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|**N/A**||**-**||||**-**||
|||**-**||||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**||**-**||||**-**||
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|**_Total receipts_ **||**10,487**||||**-**||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||
|Pet Food & Service Packages||**4,114**||||||
|Fuel Payments||**-**||||||
|Rent||**1,854**||||**200**||
|Glasgow Consulancy Trip Expenses||**-**||||||
|Set up operational costs||**570**||||||
|Marketing materials & Costco membership||||||||
|||**762**||||||
|Expenses - Animal Food & Fuel||**540**||||||
|Expenses - Error||**84**||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **||**7,924**||||**200**||
|**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see**|||||||||
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|**table)**|||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**||**-**|||||**-**||
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|**_Total payments_ **||**7,924**|||||**200**||
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**2,563**||||**-**|**200**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**|||||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**-**|||||**-**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**2,563**||||**-**|**200**||
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the p**
**Categories**
## **Details**
## **B1 Cash funds**
Unrestricted for operational costs e.g Food Rent reserves Cash float for events
## _**Total cash funds**_
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
## **Details**
## **B2 Other monetary assets**
Cash reserves held from prior year
## **Details**
## **B3 Investment assets**
N/A - sought no investment
## **Details**
## **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
Tablet Card Reader
## **Details**
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
N/A
Signature M Brannighan T Muncaster
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|||**1201480**||
|**ments accounts**|||**CC16a**|
|||12/31/2024||
||**To**|12/31/2024||
## **Endowment funds**
## **Total funds**
## **Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
## **to the nearest £**
## **to the nearest £**
|**-**||**-**||**1,200**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**-**||**-**||**702**|
|**-**||**10,403**||**3,970**|
|**-**||**84**||**154**|
|||**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**10,487**||**6,026**|
||**-**||||**-**||||||
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||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
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||**-**||||**10,487**||||**6,026**||
|||**4,114**||**1,898**|
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|||**-**||**705**|
|||**2,054**||**1,200**|
|||**-**||**247**|
|||**570**||**401**|
|||**762**||**131**|
|||**540**||**111**|
|||**84**||**77**|
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|**-**||**8,124**||**4,770**|
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|||**-**||||**8,124**||||**4,770**||
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||**-**|||||**2,363**||||**1,256**||
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## **period**
## **Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Endowment funds**
|**to nearest £**
**1,563**
**1,000**
**-**
**2,563**
OK|**to nearest £**
**- 200**
**-**
**-**
**- 200**
OK|**to nearest £**|
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|||**-**|
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|||OK|
## **Unrestricted funds Restricted funds**
## **Endowment funds**
|**to nearest £**
**1,056**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|
|**1,056**|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|
||**-**|**-**|
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||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|
|Unrestricted
Unrestricted
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**132**
**95**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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|Unrestricted|**132**|**>132**|
|Unrestricted|**95**|**>95**|
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|**-**||**-**|
|---|---|---|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**Amount due (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Michael Brannighan
Tyesha Muncaster
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**relates**|**When due (optional)**|
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||Date of approval|
|Michael Brannighan|10/23/2025|
|Tyesha Muncaster|10/23/2025|