## **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**
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||**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)**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**||01/04/2024
Period start date||**To**|31/03/2025
Period end date|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**25,566**||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**25,566**||**-**|
|Fundraising|**11,908**||**-**|||**11,908**||**-**|
|Sales|**1,702**||**-**|||**1,702**||**-**|
|Agria Commission|**672**||**-**|||**672**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**39,848**||**-**||**-**|**39,848**||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||
||**-**||||**-**
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**-**|**-**|||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||
||||||**-**|**39,848**||**-**|
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|Vets and Medication|**26,520**||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**26,520**||**-**|
|Cat Food|**13,676**|||||**13,676**||**-**|
|Cat Litter|**1,995**|||||**1,995**||**-**|
|FundraisingItems|**531**|||||**531**||**-**|
|Business Insurance|**289**|||||**289**||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**43,011**|||||**43,011**||**-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||
||**-**||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|||||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||
||||||**-**|**43,011**||**-**|
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||**- 3,163**||||**-**|
**- 3,163**||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**
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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**
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**charity’s own use**
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**B3 Investment assets**
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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