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|Trustees|A Wylie, Chair||
|---|---|---|
||EA Luff||
||G Young||
||J M Simpson||
||N Manson||
||T Robson||
||T Fife||
||TScrafton||
||W Davison||
|Charity number|220506||
|Principal address|Benton North Farm||
||Benton Lane||
||Newcastle<br>Upon Tyne||
||NE12 8EH||
|Chief executive officer|C Bray||
|Auditor|Sumer Auditco|Limited|
||The Beehive, Beehive Ring Road||
||London Gatwick|Airport|
||Gatwlck||
||United<br>Kingdom||
||RH6 OPA||
|Bankers|Barelays||
||Leicester||
||Leicestershire||
||LE872BB||





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|Trustees'<br>report|||
|Independent<br>auditor's|report|5-7|
|Statement<br>offinancial|activities|8-9|
|Balance sheet|||
|Statement<br>ofcash flows|||
|Notes to the financial|statements|12-26|





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|||||funds|funds|||
|||||2023|2023|2023|2022|
||||Notes|E|E|E|E|
|Income from:||||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||3|1,041,071||1,041,071|701,881|
|Charitable<br>activities|||4|78,039||78,039|57,185|
|Other trading<br>activities|||5|286,848||286,848|143,129|
|Investments|||6|11,491||11,491|7,729|
|Total Income||||1,417,449||1,417,449|909,924|
|Expenditure<br>on:||||||||
|Raising funds|||7|239,642||239,642|219,482|
|Charitable<br>activities|||8|1,163,407|2,927|1,166,334|1,063,002|
|Total resources|expended|||1,403,049|2,927|1,405,976|1,282,484|
|Net gains/(losses)||on investments|13|(21,297)||(21,297)|(16,842)|
|Net movement|in|funds||(6,897)|(2,927)|(9,824)|(389,402)|
|Fund balances at 1 May 2022||||1,833,768|169,588|2,003,356|2,392,758|
|Fund balances|at|30April 2023||1,826,871|166,661|1,993,532|2,003,356|





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|Prior financial year|||||
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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||funds|funds||
|||2022|2022|2022|
||Notes|6|6|6|
|Income from:|||||
|Donations<br>and legades||701,881||701,881|
|Charitable<br>activities||57,185||57,185|
|Other trading<br>activities||143,129||143,129|
|Investments||7,729||7,729|
|Total Income||909,924||909,924|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||
|Raising funds||219,482||219,482|
|Charitable<br>activities||1,059,878|3,124|1,063,002|
|Total resources expended||1,279,360|3,124|1,282,484|
|Net gains/(losses)<br>on investments|13|(16,842)||(16,842)|
|Net outgoing<br>resources before transfers||(386,278)|(3,124)|(389,402)|
|Net movement<br>In funds||(386,278)|(3,124)|(389,402)|
|Fund balances at 1 May 2021||2,220,046|172,712|2,392,758|
|Fund balances at 30April 2022||1,833,768|169,588|2,003,356|





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|||||||2023||2022||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Notes|6||E||
|Fixed assets||||||||||
|Tangible assets|||||14||1,065,785||1,108,178|
|Investment|property||||16||146,357||107,487|
|Investments|||||16||||273,058|
||||||||1,212,142||1,488,723|
|Current assets||||||||||
|Stocks|||||17|40,684||27,063||
|Debtors|||||18|267,039||262,812||
|Cash at bank||and in|hand|||549,180||311,380||
|||||||856,903||601,255||
|Creditors:|amounts||falling|due within||||||
|one year|||||19|(75,513)||(86,622)||
|Net current|assets||||||781,390||514,633|
|Total assets||less current||liabilities|||1,993,532||2,003,356|
|Income funds||||||||||
|Restricted|funds||||21||166,661||169,588|
|Unrestricted||funds|||||1,826,871||1,833,768|
||||||||1,993,532||2,003,356|





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|||||Notes|6||6||
|Cash flows from operating||activities|||||||
|Cash generated<br>from/(absorbed|||by)|25|||||
|operations||||||15,633||(270,770)|
|Investing|activities||||||||
|Purchase|oftangible<br>fixed assets||||(2,215)||(9,945)||
|Purchase|of investment<br>property||||(38,870)||(40,000)||
|Purchase|ofother investments||||(5,333)||(172,473)||
|Proceeds|from disposal ofother||investments||257,094||170,073||
|Investment|income received||||11,491||7,729||
|Net cash|generated<br>from/(used||in)||||||
|Investing|activities|||||222,167||(44,616)|
|Net cash|used<br>ln financing|activities|||||||
|Net Increase/(decrease)<br>in||cash and||cash|||||
|equivalents||||||237,800||(315,386)|
|Cash and|cash equivalents|at beginning||ofyear||311,380||626,766|
|Cash and|cash equivalents|at end of||year||549,180||311,380|





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|Donations||and legacies|||||
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||||||E|E|
|Donations|and gifts||||461,101|319,358|
|Legacies receivable|||||558,975|351,287|
|Grants|||||20,995|31,236|
||||||1,041,071|701,881|
|Grants receivable for core||||activities|||
||||||2023|2022|
||||||E|E|
|Coronavirus||Job Retention|Scheme|||236|
|Charitable||Trusts|||20,995|31,000|
||||||20,995|31,236|
|Charitable||activities|||||
||||||2023|2022|
||||||E|E|
|Re-homing||contributions|||59,359|41,905|
|Council and police contract||||income|18,680|15,280|
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||||2023|2022|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||E|
||Fundraising<br>Events||80,682|51,427|
||Shop income||136,768|91,702|
||Social lotteries||69,398||
||Other trading<br>activities||286,848|143,129|
|6|Investments||||
||||2023|2022|
||||E|E|
||Rental income||8,314|2,511|
||Income from listed|investments|2,419|5,164|
||Interest receivable||758||
||||11,491|7,729|
|7|Raising funds||||
||||2023|2022|
||||E|E|
||Fundraising<br>and publicity||||
||Social lotteries||44,032||
||Staging fundraising|events|42,481|36,419|
||Advertising||23,488|28,835|
||Fundraising<br>costs||3,912|13,811|
||Staff costs||115,720|130,754|
||Fundraising<br>and publicity||229,633|209,819|
||Trading costs||||
||Operating<br>charity shops||9,063|7,360|
||Investment<br>management||946|2,303|
||||239,642|219,482|





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||||2023|2022|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||8|8|
|Stat costs|||591,072|527,892|
|Depreciation|and impairment||44,608|46,083|
|Property<br>repairs and||improvements|81,894|65,679|
|Veterinary fees and vaccinations|||117,860|115,032|
|Animal<br>hygiene<br>and welfare|||83,438|88,766|
|Motor running|expenses||9,584|8,355|
|Rent, rates and insurance|||14,300|33,524|
|Lighting<br>and|heating||50,673|52,869|
|Equipment<br>I|skip hire||4,623|4,858|
|Sundries|||23,425|14,368|
||||1,021,477|957,426|
|Share ofsupport costs (see note 9)|||109,854|72,768|
|Share of governance||costs (see note 9)|35,003|32,808|
||||1,166,334|1,063,002|
|Analysis<br>by|fund||||
|Unrestricted|funds||1,163,407|1,059,878|
|Restricted funds|||2,927|3,124|
||||1,166,334|1,063,002|





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||||Support|Governance|2023|Support|Governance|2022|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||costs|costs||costs|costs||
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|Staff costs|||62,677||62,677|37,498||37,498|
|Printing,<br>stationery||and|||||||
|office supplies|||27,828||27,828|18,112||18,112|
|Telephone|and postage||16,669||16,669|13,579||13,579|
|Training costs|||2,680||2,680|3,579||3,579|
|Audit fees||||7,500|7,500||7,500|7,500|
|Legal and|professional|||27,503|27,503||25,308|25,308|
||||109,854|35,003|144,857|72,768|32,808|105,576|
|Analysed|between||||||||
|Charitable|activities||109,854|35,003|144,857|72,768|32,808|105,576|



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|The a|verage<br>|monthly<br>number<br>of employees<br>during the yea|r was:||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2023|2022|
||||Number|Number|
|Animal|welfare||27|28|
|Management<br>and administration|||8|7|
|Total|||35|35|
|Employment||costs|2023|2022|
||||6|6|
|Wages|and salaries||697,378,|635,076|
|Social|security|costs|56,358|43,995|
|Other|pension|costs|15,733|17,073|
||||769,469|696,144|





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|Net gains/(|losses)<br>on Inve|stments|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2023|2022|
||||E|E|
|Gain/(loss)|after revaluation|of investments||(16,224)|
|Gain/(loss)|on sale of investments||(21,297)|(618)|
||||(21,297)|(16,842)|



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|||Freehold|LeaseholdFlxtures||and|Motor|Total|
|||land and|land and|fittings||vehicles||
|||buildings|buildings|||||
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|Cost or valuation||||||||
|At 1 May 2022||67,744|1,560,132|210,394||40,752|1,879,022|
|Additions|||||2,215||2,215|
|At 30April 2023||67,744|1,560,132|212,609||40,752|1,881,237|
|Depreciation<br>and Impairment||||||||
|At 1 May 2022||3,610|564,086|171,829||31,319|770,844|
|Depreciation<br>charged|in the year|679|35,453||6,117|2,359|44,608|
|At 30April 2023||4,289|599,539|177,946||33,678|815,452|
|Carrying<br>amount||||||||
|At 30April 2023||63,455|960,593||34,663|7,074|1,065,785|
|At 30April 2022||64,134|996,046||38,565|9,433|1,108,178|





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|14|Tangible|fixed|assets|assets||(Continued)|
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||The cost|or valuation||figure for Land and Buildings|includes:||
|||||||Leasehold|
|||||||Land and|
|||||||Buildings|
|||||||E|
||At historical cost|||||1,350,132|
||Valuation|made|in 1997|||210,000|
||Total|||||1,350,132|



||historical c|ost ofthe revalued<br>Land and Buildings.||
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||Fair value|||
||At 1 May 2022||107,487|
||Additions||38,870|
||At 30April|2023|146,357|



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||2023|2022|
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|Freehold|67,487|67,487|
|Long leasehold|78,870|40,000|
||146,357|107,487|





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|||||Listed|Cash In|Total|
|||||Investments|portfolio||
|||||6|||
||Cost or valuation||||||
||At 1 May 2022|||250,539|22,519|273,058|
||Additions|||5,333||5,333|
||Disposals|||(255,872)|(22,519)|(278,391)|
||At 30April 2023||||||
||Carrying<br>amount||||||
||At 30April 2023||||||
||At 30April 2022|||250,539|22,519|273,058|
|17|Stocks||||||
||||||2023|2022|
||||||6|6|
||Finished goods and goods for||resale||40,684|27,063|
|18|Debtors||||||
||||||2023|2022|
||Amounts<br>falling due within||one year:||6|6|
||Trade debtors||||13,483|7,336|
||Other debtors||||36,403|35,213|
||Prepayments|and accrued income|||217,153|220,263|
||||||267,039|262,812|





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|---|---|---|---|---|
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||||6|8|
|Other taxation|and social security||11,166|6,482|
|Trade creditors|||17,162|29,680|
|Other creditors|||306|3,790|
|Accruals and deferred||income|46,879|46,670|
||||75,513|86,622|



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||||1 May 2022|expended|30April 2023|
|All funds|||150,852|(2,876)|147,976|
|Pedigree|Brighter Futures|Fund|14,366||14,366|
|Pedigree-|Indoor Play Barn Fund||4,370|(51)|4,319|
||||169,588|(2,927)|166,661|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||1 INay 2021|expended|30April|
||||||||||2022|
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||All funds||||||153,925|(3,073)|150,852|
||Pedigree|Brighter Futures||Fund|||14,366||14,366|
||Pedigree|-|Indoor Play Barn Fund||||4,421|(51)|4,370|
||||||||172,712|(3,124)|169,588|
|22|Analysis|of net assets between|||funds|||||
||Current|financia year||||||||
||||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
||||||||funds|funds||
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||Fund balances at 30April|||2023 are represented||by:||||
||Tangible|assets|||||899,399|166,386|1,065,785|
||Investment||properties||||146,357||146,357|
||Current|assets/(liabilities)|||||781,115|275|781,390|
||||||||1,826,871|166,661|1,993,532|
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||Fund balances at 30April|||2022 are represented||by:||||
||Tangible|assets|||||938,865|169,313|1,108,178|
||Investment||properties||||107,487||107,487|
||Investments||||||273,058||273,058|
||Current|assets/(liabilities)|||||514,358|275|514,633|
||||||||1,833,768|169,588|2,003,356|





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||f.|E|
|Within one year|2,552|2,882|
|Between two and five years|10,208|10,208|
|In over five years|20,416|22,968|
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|Nlithin|one|year|1,650||



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|Aggregate|compensation||54,732|59,482|
|During the|year the charity used a firm of property|agents to manage|the rental properties,<br>ofwhich a trustee||
|is a controlling<br>party.|||||





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|26|Cash generated<br>from operations|Cash generated<br>from operations|||||2023|2022|
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||Deficit for the year||||||(9,824)|(389,402)|
||Adjustments<br>for:||||||||
||Investment<br>income recognised|in|statement||offinancial|activities|(11,491)|(7,729)|
||Loss on disposal ofinvestments||||||21,297|618|
||Fair value gains and losses on|investments||||||16,224|
||Depreciation<br>and impairment<br>oftangible|||fixed assets|||44,608|46,083|
||Movements<br>in working<br>capital;||||||||
||(Increase)/decrease<br>in stocks||||||(13,621)|6,033|
||(Increase)/decrease<br>in debtors||||||(4,227)|70,924|
||(Decrease) in creditors||||||(11,109)|(13,521)|
||Cash generated<br>from/(absorbed||by)|operations|||15,633|(270,770)|



