TRAVEL ANIMAL RESCUE GLOBAL
UK-REGISTERED CHARITY # 1203785
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Annual Return
Last updated: 2025/02/01
Travel Animal Rescue Global Charitable Incorporated Organisation Registered Charity No. 1203785 Companies House No. CE032825
ANNUAL ACCOUNTS & TRUSTEES' REPORT For the year ended 1st April 2025
Travel Animal Rescue Global is a registered charity whose purpose is to relieve the suffering of community cats and other animals. Our work includes sterilisation/vaccination projects for free-living community cats, animal rescue sanctuary support, and recruitment projects connecting qualified and experienced animal caretakers and rescue sanctuaries. We also voluntarily advise animal-based nonprofits on administrative, operational, and logistics matters to help and support their organisations to run more smoothly.
Trustees
Founder - Adelle Louise Goodman Trustee - Anupriya Dalmia Trustee - Fabian George Blake Rivers
Banks
Clydesdale Bank PLC (trading as Virgin Money) 30 St Vincent Place, Glasgow G12HL, Scotland
Wise Bank 30 W. 26th Street, Sixth Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA
Registered Office
14 Lansdowne Road, Angmering, LITTLEHAMPTON, West Sussex, BN16 4JX
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Trustees’ Report
Travel Animal Rescue Global Charitable Incorporated Organisation For the year ended 1st April 2025
This is the second report of the Trustees for the CIO.
STRUCTURE AND GOVERNANCE
Travel Animal Rescue Global is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) not having a share capital, having its constitution and objectives set out in a document with last amended date 4th July 2023. The Trustees are empowered to exercise all the powers of the CIO subject to its constitution and charity law. During the year, there were four trustees (as above) and all now offer themselves for reappointment.
RISK MANAGEMENT AND RESERVE POLICY
There is negligible risk in the operation of Travel Animal Rescue Global. It is the policy of Travel Animal Rescue Global not to create expenditure in the form of activities unless funds are available. Additionally, the founder and chair is present in person and consents to every expenditure when it is paid, and all trustees are consulted when a new or unique expenditure activity occurs, such as the rescue of a new species. Operational/administrative/banking costs amount to 3.69% of all costs, whereas costs incurred by direct actions of the charity amount to 96.30%
OBJECTIVES AND PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES
Travel Animal Rescue Global is a registered charity whose purpose is to relieve the suffering of community cats and other animals, particularly through sterilization/vaccination projects for free-living community cats, and rescue and rehabilitation for other animals. Our primary focus is on free-living community cats, helping others where practical and possible. The work is currently predominantly done in Athens, Greece, but has also occurred in support of other nonprofits on several Greek islands.
The execution of all community cat care and population management actions is done strategically, thoughtfully, and with a focus on strategic, efficient, high-volume work, high-quality care, humane and compassionate methods, based on presently available resources and capacities to retain a sustainable and repeatable nature.
The charity does not incur expenses it cannot repay, such as veterinary costs for sterilisation or long-term care, and it does not foster or rescue animals beyond its practical capacity to prioritise
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longevity of the work, support and facilitate community-level action, and ensure the primary focus of high-volume population management is retained.
Travel Animal Rescue Global works very closely with other non-profit organisations both locally, nationally, and internationally. We have amassed a network of charitable organisations dedicated to the protection of animals in many capacities across more than 100 countries. Having worked directly with charities, groups, and volunteers in 18 cities and 9 countries, creating a diverse network across the animal protection sector is a key feature of our vision. This establishes the framework for building bridges and increasing the capacity across the sector as a whole.
We have a specialised community cat sterilisation template which collects highly-detailed data points from the field of work and catalogs every individual covered by the program.
Our principal activity is to cover the cost of expenses to veterinary professionals in Greece for sterilisation surgery, vaccination, and parasite treatment for felines, including additional medical needs they have at the time of intervention, including dental work, eye enucleations, amputations, and more. It is not our policy to return community cats to their environment unless they are in a suitable condition to thrive.
Felines who were rescued under the charity’s work also received vaccinations, microchips, and regular parasite treatment as needed. Currently, Travel Animal Rescue Global has a good relationship with a few core veterinary clinics in Athens, Greece, all of whom were chosen based on their quality of care being at a high-level, utilising fear-free methods where possible, and ensuring appropriate drug protocols for both anesthesia and analgesia are used.
The Trustees confirm that the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit has been considered in relation to the objectives of the Charity. The report sets out those objectives and describes how they have been met in the current year.
REVIEW OF ACTIVITIES IN THE YEAR 2024/2025
Our focus remained on the capture and sterilisation of free-roaming community cats, primarily in Athens, Greece. In Athens, we supported local groups such as SCARS and Adespotologio who have been supporting community cats with sterilisation programs, fostering, and rescue for many years. For all of 2024 and into 2025, we supported one of the largest, high-quality, high-volume, spay/neuter programs in Athens as a volunteer for Nine Lives Greece. This involved managing their program five days a week for a year, which resulted in the sterilisation, vaccination, parasite treatment, and return of over 1,300+ community cats.
Throughout this period in Athens, our own TNR interventions occurred alongside volunteers and neighbours from all over Athens, while focusing on sterilising cats colony-by-colony in each area, and liaising on the improvement of procedures at the vet around anesthesia, analgesia,
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and stress management. Multiple efforts were made online to advise on the interventions of other volunteers, providing advice and network connections to improve outcomes and access to resources. We served as a resource for TNR groups from all over the world to receive advice and guidance on sourcing high-quality traps, achieving good quality vet care for their rescues, and conducting strategic TNR activities. We continued lending our high-quality humane cat catching equipment to people locally.
A large percentage of these sterilisations were achieved in collaboration with fellow animal charity groups and individual volunteers. This is a core feature of our organisation - to facilitate and support the work of others to exponentially amplify it by providing advice, physical skill, and peer-learning.
We also travelled to cities outside of Athens, including Lagonissi and Porto Rafti, where we helped other animal welfare groups catch cats for sterilisation and veterinary care. We supported groups like Sea Shepherd and Saaving Lives with these activities.
We also travelled to the islands of Paros and Antiparos, where a fellow animal welfare organisation who also runs an HQHVSN program. We worked alongside their team on-the-ground to catch cats, transport them to vet clinics, and skillshare. We hosted discussions around welfare policies and procedures, such as euthanasia and infectious disease protocols.
Throughout 2024 and 2025, 3 cats were fostered, socialised, and placed in their final destination. Multiple cats from multiple organisations in Greece and France were provided a safe place to overnight with our founder while transiting to their forever homes abroad. We continued caring for our rescued fish. Pigeons continued to be rescued and taken to a speciality wildlife rehabilitation centre for recovery. We also continued volunteering weekly at this centre to have a clearer idea of the level of care avians are receiving when rescued and surrendered.
We practiced TNRM (Trap-Neuter-Return-Monitor) where we retained detailed records and photographs of each feline who was Trapped and Neutered through our program before being Returned. We regularly returned to the colonies we acted in to Monitor their status and ensure any newcomers were also sterilized. We returned to colonies with kittens to sterilize the kittens when old enough. We provided additional treatments as needed such as parasite treatment. We intend to introduce vaccinations n the coming year. We established veterinary care and general intervention protocols with the help of our experienced trustees and registered veterinary professionals. We have protocols around Euthanasia Decision-Making and Infectious Disease Management, Considerate Trapping and Transportation Methods, Appropriate Anesthesia and Analgesia, Safeguarding, Fieldwork, Surveying Mapping and Counting, and Disinfection and Sanitation protocols.
The charity continued to grow it’s social media platform, which is predominantly used as an educational platform on 1) the benefits and necessity of sterilization and care of community cats, 2) the importance of community care and local solidarity action in general as a key feature of this animal protection work, 3) the reality of the lives of community animals in Greece and
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worldwide, 4) the crucial work other Cat Population Management organizations are doing globally, 5) acknowledging capacity limits and strategic and thoughtful action to ensure volunteers and colleagues well-being acknowledging burnout and compassion fatigue as real threats to sustainability, 6) the vitality of CPM work being done strategically to ensure efficiency, 7) improving access to modern science around niche yet crucial topics such as pediatric sterilization and pregnant spays, 8) improving methods and approaches of humane, considerate, and fear-free trapping and catching techniques during TNVRM interventions, 9) normalizing the presence of FAS (Fear-Anxiety-Stress) in community cats and fear/stress/pain-scoring techniques, and 10) platforming important learning opportunities from feline-focused educational and training programs like TNR certifications and workshops/courses, amongst other topics. The core goal of all the charity’s public content is to professionalize the sector and improve access to good quality interventions.
In 2024 and 2025, the charity’s founder presented CPM- and TNVRM-focused topics at various online and in-person conferences, including the Copenhagen Animal Liberation Conference, a panel discussion for iCatConnect hosted by International Cat Care, a presentation at the Athens Cat Festival, a podcast episode with Little Green Pigeon and Duckingham Palace, and a Whisker Report podcast. We also attended the ICAM conference, United Spay Alliance Conference, and the Community Cats Podcast conference as well as continued our team’s education and online learning through webinars and events.
We attended courses from Battersea Dogs and Cats Home Foundations of Shelter Management course, with a feline specialisation, and completed International Cat Care’s Cat Friendly Solutions for Unowned Cats online course. We volunteered at the Vegan Life Festival in Athens, as well as organised animal activism alongside the Animal Save Movement.
During a period of deadly attacks against cats and kittens in our local area of Athens where we support community cats and caregivers, we co-organised a campaign to make the community aware of the attacks, as well as collect vital information for the progression of the case.
The charity’s founder continued in their role as a trustee of SNIPi - a UK-registered charity focused on improving access to high-quality live-catch humane TNVR equipment globally by donating UK-manufactured trapping equipment that is typically inaccessible to the Global South and small grassroots groups. They became a member of the PFPO, a Hellenic Federation of Animal Welfare in Greece.
FINANCIAL RESULTS AND ACCOUNTS
As shown in the Receipts and Payments below, the financial year ended with a surplus of 4.20 EUR. The accounts are prepared on a ‘receipts and payments’ basis as prescribed by the Charity Commission and the CIO governing document. The charity holds two business/nonprofit accounts, one with Virgin Money to receive GBP donations and grants in the UK and elsewhere, and one with Wise Bank to conduct EUR transactions locally in Greece.
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CURRENT AND FUTURE OPERATIONS
Our priority for 2025 and beyond is to continue promoting high-quality, high-volume sterilisation and vaccination interventions as the key solution to the free-roaming animal situation in Greece and worldwide. We aim to continue growing a network of local, national, and global animal protectors who are well-informed, enthusiastic about doing better and aiming higher for what we can accomplish well for the animals we work to protect. Progress has already been made in this respect.
We would like to continue travelling and assisting in training and peer-learning in the CPM space, amplifying the local TNR efforts of organisations across the world.
Our community-focused intervention approach will help increase awareness about what we do and how it can be implemented can help more communities in Montenegro. Our core goal has always been and will continue to be improving access to the resources communities need to facilitate, amplify, and improve their interventions for cat population management while encouraging collaboration across the sector and neighbourhoods.
FUTURE POLICY AND DONATIONS
To create a greater impact, we will review our fundraising/marketing strategies to increase income where possible thereby increasing our ability to sterilise more animals. Our focus has generally been on applying for grants which can fund a huge chunk of sterilisation work.
We will continue to support the education and training of colleagues, volunteers, and neighbours in Greece and beyond while engaging in TNVR interventions with them, which has proven fruitful in obtaining donations for future TNVR.
Finally, we wish to thank all our Donors and Community Contacts. Their support has been invaluable in helping us to meet our aims of strategic interventions that help the most community animals possible, and we are keen to encourage others throughout our local communities to join us in fulfilling this mission together.
Adelle Louise Goodman – Chair
Date 1st February 2026
STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES’ RESPONSIBILITIES
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Charity Law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year giving details of Income and Expenditure in the year together with assets and liabilities.
The Trustees also acknowledge their responsibility to keep proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the CIO.
They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities
Annual Accounts
Travel Animal Rescue Global Charitable Incorporated Organisation For the year ended 1st April 2025
Income
| Individual Donations / Online Donation Platforms €1,373.92 |
Individual Donations / Online Donation Platforms €1,373.92 |
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| Cash Donations €270.00 |
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| Admin & Bank Refunds €6.70 |
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| Grants €0 |
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| Gift Aid €0 |
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| Cash brought forward from 01/04/2024 €0 |
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| Bank balance brought forward from 01/04/2024 €0 |
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| TOTAL INCOME €1,650.62 |
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| TOTAL IN GBP £1,429.16 |
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| (rounded 1429) |
1.00 EUR = 0.86584891 GBP
Mid-market rate at 18:53 UTC 01/02/2026
Payments and Receipts
| Payments for Veterinary Services €80.00 |
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| Donations to Nonprofits TNR/Veterinary Services €112.61 |
| Transportation to Veterinary Clinics €172.80 |
| Equipment & Supplies €1,269.30 |
| Training €0 |
| Administration €8.76 |
| Bank Charges €0 |
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TOTAL RECEIPTS €1,643.47 TOTAL IN GBP £1,422.93 (rounded 1423)
1.00 EUR = 0.86580980 GBP
Mid-market rate at 18:57 UTC 01/02/2026
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
The above statement shows the receipts and payments for the financial year. The organisations’ financial activities are comparable to previous years, however, it succeeded in sterilising and helping more animals, as it increased it’s collaboration and volunteerism with other groups who covered the costs of the cats who were taken for care. This strategy maximised it’s work while keeping operating costs low.
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES AS AT 1st April 2025
The accounts have been prepared under the receipts and payments basis of accounting as prescribed by the Charity Commission and the charity’s governing documents.
For the year, ending 1st April 2025, the CIO was entitled to exemption from audit and independent examination as its income was below the required threshold.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibility for complying with the requirements of the Charity Commission with respect to accounting records and for the preparation of accounts.
Approved by the Board of Trustees Date: 01/02/2025 Adelle Louise Goodman, Chair
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 1st April 2024
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1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The financial statements have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis in accordance with the prescribed format of the Charity Commission.
Voluntary income is received in the form of donations from individuals, grants from charitable funds and online donation platforms such as PayPal, Stripe, Patreon, Donorbox, and Ko-Fi. Certain administrative, publicity and all travel costs are borne by the Trustees and not reimbursed.
i) Grants from charitable funds are included in the Statement of Financial Activities when payment has been received.
ii) Where significant income arises from occasional promotional events, such income is shown separately before deduction of expenses and the related expenditure, if material, is also shown separately.
Expenditure is included in the Statement of Financial Activities when paid and noted separately are any outstanding liabilities when incurred including constructive obligations, if any have arisen.
2. VOLUNTARY SERVICES
Travel Animal Rescue Global has no employees. All its activities are carried out voluntarily.
The Trustees are prohibited from receiving any remuneration for their services under the terms of the constitution unless such services are provided in a professional capacity. There were no such professional charges in the year.
3. TAXATION
No liability to or refund of UK tax arises as a result of these accounts.
4. UNRESTRICTED FUND
This represents the cumulative surplus of income over expenditure and is generally available to meet expenditures incurred by the company as detailed above.
5. CONSTITUTION
Travel Animal Rescue Global was incorporated as a CIO on the 28th June 2023 and the liability of each member is limited to £0.
Independent Examiner’s Report not needed.
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