## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** German Shepherd Dog Welfare Fund
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 274076 **Charity's principal address** 334 Smeeth Road Marshland St. James Wisbech, Cambs. **Postcode PE14 8EP**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Debbie Hill Chair
2 Tony Wiltshire Treasurer
3 Norma Saggers Secretary
4 Catherine Renew
5 Christine Hart
6 Mary Osborne
Anita
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Nottingham
8 Michael Brookes
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document Written Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is Unincorporated association constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Trustees must demonstrate a minimum of two years membership & show a positive ongoing interest in our work. Officers (Chair, Secretary, Treasurer), are elected at AGM by Members. If a member demonstrates interest but does not meet the time criteria but has skills that the committee consider beneficial they may be co-opted.
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
**Section C Objectives and activities**
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## **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The objects of the fund shall be the care and protection of German Shepherd Dogs that are in need of such by reason of sickness, maltreatment or poor circumstances, and the prevention of cruelty to and suffering amongst such animals.
The committee strives to help any German Shepherd in need that is brought to our attention. We often collect these dogs from homes, kennels, veterinary practices or bad situations and take them to a pre-arranged boarding kennel, for which we pay their boarding fee for the entire time they are in our care. If these dogs prove unsuitable for homing through health or temperament, we pay their boarding fees for the rest of their life. We fund raise to pay for their kennelling and veterinary fees. If a dog comes to us sick, or suffers ailments whilst in our care, we ensure they receive prompt veterinary treatment **Summary of the main** irrelevant of the cost. We do our best to rehabilitate dogs that **activities undertaken for** are brought to us with temperament issues. We will only rehome **the public benefit in** a dog once we know it is safe to do so. Sometimes rehabilitation **relation to these objects** can take months, but we do not let the length of time with us **(include within this** and the cost of kennelling cloud our judgement as to their **section the statutory** suitability for rehoming. **declaration that trustees have had regard to the** The Trustees’ are aware of the guidance of the Charity **guidance issued by the** Commission on public benefit and respond accordingly. **Charity Commission on public benefit)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Since GSD Welfare became a registered charity, we have homed in excess of 9,000 German Shepherd Dogs. We also have an increasing number of dogs in our care that are not fit for rehoming due to temperament & health. These dogs will remain in our care for the rest of their days being cared for and living a happy existence. For many of the dogs that have come into our care, there is no doubt that we were their last hope Without us, these dogs would have been euthanised. We have taken dogs into our care when owners could no longer afford veterinary fees for their ailments. Their only alternative would have been euthanasia. We have collected dogs from veterinarians, where their owners have taken them for euthanasia through health or temperament or sometimes just because they are no longer wanted. We do not discriminate. If a German Shepherd needs our help, we strive to provide that help, for as long as it is needed.
## **Section E Financial review**
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**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
In order to continue carrying out our work and to protect the dogs in our care, it is essential that funds are held in reserve. .e.g. to cover periods where fundraising may be minimal for whatever reason
## **Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** D. Hill **Full name(s)** Deborah **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 02/10/22
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## **Unaudited Financial Statements**
**for the Year Ended 31 December 2021**
## **for**
**German Shepherd Dogs Welfare Fund**
**German Shepherd Dogs Welfare Fund**
## **Contents of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2021**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|**Accountants' Report and Client Approval**||
|**Certificate**|1|
|**Trading and Profit and Loss Account**|2|
|**Balance Sheet**|3|
|**Notes to the Financial Statements**|4|
**Financial Statements**
## **for the year ended 31 December 2021**
## **Accountants' Report to**
## **German Shepherd Dogs Welfare Fund**
In accordance with instructions given to us we have prepared without carrying out an audit the annexed financial statements from the accounting records of German Shepherd Dogs Welfare Fund and from information and explanations supplied to us.
Vortex Accountants Limited Top Floor Claridon House London Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0JU
Date: .............................................
## **Client Approval Certificate**
I approve the financial statements and confirm that I have made available all relevant records and information for their preparation.
................................................................. Mr T Wilt
Date: .............................................
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## **German Shepherd Dogs Welfare Fund**
## **Trading and Profit and Loss Account for the year ended 31 December 2021**
|**Income**
Sales
Donations
Memberships
Other Income
**Cost of sales**
Purchases
Kennel Bills
Vetinary Costs
**GROSS PROFIT/(LOSS)**
**Expenditure**
Printing, postage & stationery
Sundry expenses
Accountancy
**NET PROFIT/(LOSS)**|2021
£
102,101
183,326
2,368
5,540
67,074
108,185
24,517
-
1
240|£
293,335
199,776
93,559
241
93,318|2020
£
24,921
26,173
1,868
1,451
2,520
58,469
41,056
808
183
240|£
54,413
102,045
(47,632)
1,231
(48,863)|
|---|---|---|---|---|
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**German Shepherd Dogs Welfare Fund**
## **Balance Sheet 31 December 2021**
2021 2020 Notes £ £ £ £
Page 3
**German Shepherd Dogs Welfare Fund**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2021**
## 1. **CAPITAL ACCOUNT**
|Net profit
Less
Drawings
Net loss|2021
£
93,318
93,318
-
93,318|£
-
-|2020
£
-
(48,863)
48,863
-|£
-
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|
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## **Unaudited Financial Statements**
**for the Year Ended 31 December 2021**
## **for**
**German Shepherd Dogs Welfare Fund**
**German Shepherd Dogs Welfare Fund**
## **Contents of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2021**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|**Accountants' Report and Client Approval**||
|**Certificate**|1|
|**Trading and Profit and Loss Account**|2|
|**Balance Sheet**|3|
|**Notes to the Financial Statements**|4|
**Financial Statements**
## **for the year ended 31 December 2021**
## **Accountants' Report to**
## **German Shepherd Dogs Welfare Fund**
In accordance with instructions given to us we have prepared without carrying out an audit the annexed financial statements from the accounting records of German Shepherd Dogs Welfare Fund and from information and explanations supplied to us.
Vortex Accountants Limited Top Floor Claridon House London Road Stanford Le Hope Essex SS17 0JU
Date: .............................................
## **Client Approval Certificate**
I approve the financial statements and confirm that I have made available all relevant records and information for their preparation.
................................................................. Mr T Wilt
Date: .............................................
Page 1
## **German Shepherd Dogs Welfare Fund**
## **Trading and Profit and Loss Account for the year ended 31 December 2021**
|**Income**
Sales
Donations
Memberships
Other Income
**Cost of sales**
Purchases
Kennel Bills
Vetinary Costs
**GROSS PROFIT/(LOSS)**
**Expenditure**
Printing, postage & stationery
Sundry expenses
Accountancy
**NET PROFIT/(LOSS)**|2021
£
102,101
183,326
2,368
5,540
67,074
108,185
24,517
-
1
240|£
293,335
199,776
93,559
241
93,318|2020
£
24,921
26,173
1,868
1,451
2,520
58,469
41,056
808
183
240|£
54,413
102,045
(47,632)
1,231
(48,863)|
|---|---|---|---|---|
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**German Shepherd Dogs Welfare Fund**
## **Balance Sheet 31 December 2021**
2021 2020 Notes £ £ £ £
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**German Shepherd Dogs Welfare Fund**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2021**
## 1. **CAPITAL ACCOUNT**
|Net profit
Less
Drawings
Net loss|2021
£
93,318
93,318
-
93,318|£
-
-|2020
£
-
(48,863)
48,863
-|£
-
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|
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