Trustees report for the charities annual return for 1[st] April 2024 - 31[st] March 2025
The trust has had a change of trustees during this period whereby Paige Prescott and Georgia Rees have stepped down and Kaci Prescott, Tom Fraser and Chris Hines have been elected as replacements, the remainder remain the same. There has been substantial strengthening of the enclosure and perimeter fences and a vast increase of mud matt’s put down to help with the mud control during the autumn and winter months in particular!
Some of the small animals have been re-homed after successful home checks were carried out and there has been other small animals brought into the sanctuary, following on from neglect cases and unwanted pets.
There has been a substantial influx of Sheep during this period, as there has been some neglect and threat of slaughter pending over them, thereby resulting in an increase of livestock.
We have taken on several feral cats that basically didn’t have placements elsewhere and couldn’t have coped in a home setting.
The inventory for this period is as follows: 25 sheep, 8 cats, 6 pigs, 2 chickens, 6 rabbits and 2 guinea pigs. 49 inhabitants in total.
The Phil Ballard area has been further developed to provide foster care for the smaller animals, which we endeavour to find suitable homes for where possible. The enclosure named as such following his sad departure which his wife wanted to donate some funds for the good of the sanctuary, in his memory.
Veterinary bills continue to be one of our largest financial burdens of running the sanctuary. We continue to be running in deficit, which we continue to try to resolve but without much success. We continue to attempt to bridge the financial gap by way of auctions, table top sales and raising public awareness of the sanctuary but with the current economic climate it is a bit of an uphill struggle.
In looking to the future we are hoping to acquire a shelter for visitors to the sanctuary during bad weather, which would also double up as a viewing aid and when not in use for that, it could be used to store bales of straw in an effort to keep it dry. We also want to further protect the small animals from rats, with steel sheeting.
Primarily, the sanctuary remains a quiet and peaceful place for the animals to live out the remainder of their lives without stress; therefore, visitors are restricted to volunteers and limited to a small amount of visitors by invitation only!
This concludes another fairly successful year, where we have saved a number of lives that otherwise would have been lost.
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HMAT 2024/25
Title Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Total
Income
Donations 782.92 2,887.27 1,335.00 1,902.87 1,759.21 1,741.77 1,662.88 1,828.08 1,845.00 2,289.30 733.88 5,163.50 23,931.68
Fundraising (auctions 312.75 91.05 62.02 31.69 150.57 66.00 60.50 962.55 82.50 97.75 47.00 84.87 2,049.25
Stripe 239.01 83.26 83.26 166.00 156.48 123.00 97.57 107.68 116.72 122.87 204.71 520.91 2,021.47
PayPal 2,293.95 1,129.66 257.01 2,286.64 793.68 423.51 7,184.45
Go Fund Me 48.30 48.30
Torbay Lottery 0.00
Restricted Funds 0.00
Total 1,334.68 3,061.58 1,480.28 2,100.56 4,360.21 1,930.77 2,998.91 2,898.31 2,301.23 4,796.56 1,779.27 6,192.79 35,235.15
Expenditure
Animal Supplies 687.43 2,527.08 775.17 1,018.50 857.27 1,112.98 1,659.80 1,527.84 1,034.41 1,358.22 925.83 1,472.51 14,957.04
Insurance 283.20 283.20
Maintenance 172.50 120.00 390.00 412.44 55.00 1,149.94
Materials 607.62 1,881.04 103.33 802.23 183.50 601.19 953.20 1,302.37 6,434.48
Merchandise 26.00 16.00 66.00 30.00 49.00 187.00
Security 60.00 8.35 10.00 10.00 122.55 210.90
Veterinary Care 600.00 55.00 1,629.00 544.08 1,071.35 850.30 1,233.74 312.86 434.44 6,730.77
PO Box/Postage / telephone 23.69 111.05 230.70 36.44 100.00 42.10 543.98
Fuel 196.38 180.23 141.94 518.55
Transport Animals 670.00 670.00
Rent 250.00 75.00 125.00 375.00 825.00
Total 1,287.43 2,855.77 775.17 2,733.50 2,978.17 3,060.02 3,006.98 2,599.47 2,688.91 3,972.41 2,607.12 3,945.91 32,510.86
Profit / loss 47.25 205.81 705.11 -632.94 1,382.04 -1,129.25 -8.07 298.84 -387.68 824.15 -827.85 2,246.88 2,724.29
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