TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT
For the Year Ending 31[st] March 2025
LITTLE PAWS CAT HAVEN
Registered Charity Number 1207038
Registered Address:
28 Springhill Grove Penn Wolverhampton WV4 4SU
1. Reference and Administrative Details
Trustees during the year:
Diane Hadlington Paul Hadlington Jessica Smith Sam Roden Jessica Power
Charitable Structure:
Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
Independent Examiner:
Susan Jacqueline Bradbury Chartered Accountant (Retired)
2. Objects and Activities
Our charity’s objectives, as set out in our governing document, are to:
Rescue, rehabilitate and re-home cats in need, many due to owners illness or circumstances.
Provide veterinary treatment and welfare support where required, ensuring all cats that come in to our care are fit, healthy and neutered before moving on.
Reunite lost cats where possible with original owners.
Promote responsible pet ownership through education and community outreach, which includes vaccinations, micro-chipping and neutering.
Main activities this year included:
Rescuing cats and kittens from neglect, abandonment and unsafe conditions.
Providing veterinary treatment, vaccinations, microchips and neutering before rehoming to suitable homes. Homes are matched by face to face home-checks being completed.
Operating a fostering and adoption programme, which includes some cats as ‘long term’ fosters due to age, disability or illness, where adoptions are difficult or unlikely.
3. Achievements and Performance
This year we:
Rescued 120 cats and kittens.
Re-homed 102 cats and kittens went into permanent loving homes.
Provided 18 foster placements for long term and end of life care for elderly unwell.
Funded over 100 neutering operations and emergency treatments.
We are proud that despite challenges such as the rising veterinary costs, and increased demand for rescue spaces, we believe we have continued to make a meaningful impact.
4. Public Benefit
The trustees confirm they have complied with the duty to have regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.
Our work benefits the public by:
Helping families who are unable to keep their pets, or the pets of their family members who are unwell or sadly deceased, which can be a very stressful time for all of the family. We keep in touch with a number of
families and owners who were unable to keep their pets due to many reasons including ill health.
Rescuing and neutering the stray population and unwanted cats in the community, this includes checking for chips which can mean reuniting lost cats with very happy owners, this has happened with 9 cats.
Promoting animal welfare and responsible ownership by giving advice when required.
Supporting families to adopt healthy, neutered pets by following our policies for all cats and kittens who come into our care to have all relevant vet work completed, vaccinations, chips and neuters.
5. Financial Review
Total income: £39,848 from donations, fundraising and adoption fees.
Total expenditure: £43,011 on veterinary care, flea and worm, food, litter and equipment.
Reserves: Less than £1,000 was held at year end.
Our finances remain challenging, with all funds spent directly on the cats and kittens in our care. All of our helpers are volunteers, including the Fosterers, no one is paid.
We do spend a very small amount on Calendars, bingo books and items used to fundraise, for instance we will be needing a new Gazebo next year as ours has broken.
The trustees aim to hold at least 3 months of running costs in reserve to ensure sustainability, unfortunately with the rising costs of Vets bills, this has not been possible this year, but it is our aim and goal.
6. Plans for the Future
In the coming year we aim to:
Ensure we can continue to run as a cat rescue, helping to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home as many cats and kittens that we are able to.
Strengthen fundraising through more events and supporter schemes.
Improve animal welfare through expanding neutering and vaccination initiatives.
7. Structure, Governance and Management
The charity is governed by constitution adopted on 15[th] February 2024.
Trustees are appointed by vote.
The charity is reliant on the support of volunteers. This year 18 volunteers fostered for us, 5 helped with transport and 29 helped with fundraising at events.
8. Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities
The trustees are responsible for preparing the trustees’ report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and the Charity Commission’s requirements.
Signed on behalf of the trustees:
NAME: Diane Hadlington
POSITION: Chair
DATE: 29/12/2025
| Little Paws Cat Haven Charity Name |
Little Paws Cat Haven Charity Name |
Little Paws Cat Haven Charity Name |
Little Paws Cat Haven Charity Name |
Little Paws Cat Haven Charity Name |
1207038 No (if any) |
1207038 No (if any) |
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01/04/2024 Period start date |
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| Section A Receipts and payments | ||||||||
| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ |
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Total funds to the nearest £ |
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| Donations | 25,566 | - | - - - - - - - - |
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| Fundraising | 11,908 | - | 11,908 | - | ||||
| Sales | 1,702 | - | 1,702 | - | ||||
| Agria Commission | 672 | - | 672 | - | ||||
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
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| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| Vets and Medication | 26,520 | - - - - - - - - - - |
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| Cat Food | 13,676 | 13,676 | - | |||||
| Cat Litter | 1,995 | 1,995 | - | |||||
| FundraisingItems | 531 | 531 | - | |||||
| Business Insurance | 289 | 289 | - | |||||
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| **Sub total ** | 43,011 | 43,011 | - | |||||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
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| - | 43,011 | - | ||||||
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| - 3,163 | - | - 3,163 | - |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets CCXX R2 accounts (SS) |
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Sectlon A Independont Examiner's Report Report to the trustees Lrttle Paws Cal Haven On accounts for tho yoar ended 31" March 2025 Charlty no (If any) 1207038 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the at)ove chanty ("the Trust") for the year ended 3110312025. As the charity's truslees. you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance wrth the requirements of the Charrties Act 2011 ("the Act"). Responslbllltoes and basls of report I report in respect of my examination of the Trusl's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my exarninaln, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Chanty Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent trhe charty's gross Income exceeded £25,000 and l am qualified to examlner'g Statement undertake the examinats'on. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in conneth'on wrth the examination. I have no concerns and have come across no matters in conneth.on with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ' Please delete the wonls in the brackets rf they do not apply. Slgned: Date: 2911212025 Name: Susan Jacqueline 8radbury Relevant professlonal qualificatlon(s) or body (If any): Not Applicable Address: Milk Chum Cottage, The Wyke Cottages, The Wyke, Shrfnal, Shropshire. TF119PP IER Oct 2018