## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/11/24 Period start date To Period end date** ## **31/10/25** **Charity name: Swansea Cats and Kittens** ## **Charity registration number: 1206862** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The care, reuniting and re-homing of**
**animals that are abandoned,**
**relinquished, mistreated or lost**
**The provision of food and shelter to**
**ferals lost or abandoned animals living**
**outdoors in the community**
**The control of feral populations by**
**neutering**| |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|**To rescue and rehome abandoned and**
**unwanted cats and kittens**
**To provide welfare and shelter for feral**
**and community cats**
**Provide foster homes for cats and**
**kittens in our care while waiting for a**
**safe, caring new home**
**Educate and assist the community with**
**neutering cats**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**All Trustees have received and read a**
**copy of the guidance from the Charity**
**Commission**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment |including program related
investment||| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Swansea cats and Kittens is a volunteer**
**led charity.**
**The volunteers :-**
**Run and maintain two charity chops**
**Transport cats to the vets for**
**vaccination, neutering and treatment**
**Foster rescue cats and kittens in a safe,**
**clean environment**
**Maintain a waiting list for vulnerable**
**cats**
**Deliver food to ferals and community**
**cats**
**Update out cats in care database**
**Match rescue cats to prospective homes**
**and perform all paperwork**
**Follow up calls to adopters to ensure**
**the cats and the owners are comfortable**
**with their cat/kitten**
**All admin functions**
**Maintain all welfare standards**
**Perform Home Visits**
**Update website and social media**
**Maintain finance records**
**Any other tasks involving in running the**
**charity**| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** SORP reference |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|**In their second year of operation**
**Swansea cats and Kittens**
**Rehomed 370 abandoned and unwanted**
**cats and kittens to safe, loving homes**
**300 feral and community cats were**
**neutered, fed provided with shelter a**
**medical issues attended**
**Our main source of income was from**
**our two volunteer run charity shops**
**Solid volunteer base**|| |---|---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**See accounts – cc16a**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity aims to hold a minimum of 6**
**months available cash in the bank to**
**ensure the welfare of any cats or kittens**
**in our care if an unforeseen emergency**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **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|
**Two successful charity shops**
**Grants**
**Events**
**Donations**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Unincorporated**| |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|| ## **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|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Swansea Cats and Kittens| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1206862| |Charity’s principal address|Tygwyn
Ddol Road
Dunvant
Swansea
SA2 7UD| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Frances Christie|Treasurer||| ||JudyJeremy|||| ||Lyn Gardner|||| ||MandyArmstrong|||| ||Ruth Norbury|||| ||Anne Christie|||| ||Lynda Miners|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets 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)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** Declarations Th• trust•e# d•clar• that they have opproved thg trustoes, roport abov•. Signèd on behalf of thè charity's trustees Slgnature(sl Full nam•lsl Position leg Secretsry, Chair, etcl ces Chnsl Treasurer Date 29108126 ||**Swansea cats and Kittens**
|**Swansea cats and Kittens**
|**Swansea cats and Kittens**
|**No (if any)**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
11/1/2024|**To**
|Period end date
10/31/2025|| ||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |**A1 Receipts**
Donations and Grants
**134,928**
ShopDonations
**97,312**
Events
**9,271**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**241,511**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 241,511**
**A3 Payments**
Shop Rent/Maintenance
**10,943**
Shop Misc
**249**
Food and Litter
**1,719**
Utilities
**5,267**
Vet
**134,300**
Boarding Fees
**10,917**
Insurance
**179**
Events
**2,151**
Assets/Storage
**1,947**
**_Sub total_ 167,672**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 167,672**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 73,839**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 73,839**
**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 £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**134,928**
**97,312**
**9,271**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**241,511**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**241,511**
**10,943**
**249**
**1,719**
**5,267**
**134,300**
**10,917**
**179**
**2,151**
**1,947**
**167,672**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**167,672**
**73,839**
**-**
**-**
**73,839**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| ||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**134,928**|**101,694**| |||||**97,312**|**41,019**| |||||**9,271**|**2,699**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**241,511**|**145,412**| ||||||| ||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**241,511**|**145,412**| ||||||| ||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**10,943**|**5,000**| |||||**249**|**900**| |||||**1,719**|**1,024**| |||||**5,267**|**94**| |||||**134,300**|**49,455**| |||||**10,917**|**5,625**| |||||**179**|**367**| |||||**2,151**|**1,761**| |||||**1,947**|**1,500**| |||||**167,672**|**65,726**| ||||||| ||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| |||||**-**|| |||||**-**|**-**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**167,672**|**65,726**| ||||||| |||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**73,839**|**79,686**| |||**-**||**-**|**-**| |||**-**||**-**|**-**| |||**-**||**73,839**|**79,686**| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**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**
Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**102,549**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**102,549**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
FRANCES CHRISTIE
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
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**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**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||FRANCES CHRISTIE|8/29/2026| ||||| CHARITY (OMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner'5 Rpport R•port to th• truBts•s Swansea Cats and Krttens On •¢counts for th• y••r ended 2025 Charlty no Ilf Iny) 1206862 S•t on pa Fomi C16A 2 page annual a¢￿UnIS I rep)rt lo the trustees on my examination ol the a¢counls ol the charity I'lhe Trust.) for the year ended 31110f2025 R•spon$iblllllo8 and ba•l• of f•POrt As the charity's Iru8tees. you are r8sponsible for the preparation of the a¢￿￿nts in accordance wrth the requirements of the Chacrties A¢t 2011 llhe Act") I rep)rt in respect of rny examinat￿n ol the Trust's a¢counts carried ¢Xrt under seclion 145 of the 2011 A¢t and In carrying out my examination, I havo followed all th8 applicable Directions gwen by the Chanty Commis$K under secti¢)n 14515llbl of Ihe Act. Ind•pendont •xarnln•rf• •tatsm•nt I have Completed my ?xaminatK)n I confirm that no material mattèrs have come to my attention in connection with the examination %thich gives me caLtse lo believe that in, any material respect.. the accounting rerLJrds V•YTe not kept in accordance vrith section 130 of the Charrt*s Aci." or the accounts not accord with the accounting records. or th8 accounts dKI not Gomply wrth the appli¢ablo requirements concerning the lorm and content of accounts set out in the Charrties {AcuyJnts and RepDrtsl Regulations 2008 other than any requirwnent that the accounts give a Irue and fair. view which is not a matter nsidered as part of an indgpendent examination. I have rK) concerns and have come across no other matters in connection wi(h the examination lo which attention should be drawn In report in order to enabl I￿0p￿r urx1erstsndiro of the aci￿nts lo be Trached. e In the brackets ff Ihey ¢10 not apply. Slgn•d: Date: N•me: Relevant prof•88lonal quallficatJonl•l or body Ilf any): Addr•M: IER nv.+ ?fj18 Section 8 Disclosuie Only complete Il the examiner needs lo highlight material rnallers ol concern l•eè CC32, Independenl éximinatlon of charrty 8ccounts. direction$ and guidance for examiners). Glvtt her• brlel detall$ of any Items that tho •xamln•r wlsh•• to dl8clo••.