## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 9 Jan 2025 Period start date To 31 Dec 2025 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Croydon Petfood Samaritans** ## **Charity registration number: 1211643 Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO**
**RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF ANIMALS**
**IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION BY**
**ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF**
**FACILITIES FOR THE RECEPTION,**
**CARE AND TREATMENT OF SUCH**
**ANIMALS IN PARTICULAR BY**
**PROVIDING PET FOOD TO ANIMAL**
**RESCUE ORGANISATIONS.**| |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|**CPS has networked with other pet**
**rescue organisations to increase their**
**own gift in kind resources and carried a**
**watching brief on the petfood gifts in**
**kind market.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Yes the Trustees have regard to**
**guidance issues by 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 Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers 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|**The Charity’s first year has been seen**
**by networking/marketing (at Trustees’**
**own expense) with other pet rescue**
**organisations to increase their Gift In**
**Kind resources through awareness of**
**the various opportunities around (Pets**
**at Home Charity Partnerships, bins in**
**supermarkets, ZooPlus charity of the**
**month etc). the Charity has also kept a**
**watching brief on supermarket bins -**
**we’ve seen an increase in Tesco stores**
**allowing bins. Sainsburys is handing**
**over its Food Programme to**
**FareShare/Olio on 1 july 2026 so it**
**remains to be seen how this plays out**
**with animal charities that have bins in**
**Sainsburys stores. Waitrose, Aldi, Lidl,**
**M&S continue to have a no bins policy.**| ## **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|**No income and no expenses**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Zero reserves**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Zero reserves**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**No income or expenses yet**| |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|| |---|---|---| |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|**CIO Foundation model constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |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|**New Trustees invited to apply as**
**required**| ## **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|Croydon Petfood Samaritans| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|CPS| |Registered charity number|1211643| |Charity’s principal address|115 St Peter’s St, South Croydon, CR2 7DJ| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Nina Quistorff|||| ||Janice Warden|||| ||Claire Flory|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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 n/a held in this capacity Name and objects of the n/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for n/a 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** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Nina Quistorff **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** June 16 2026