2021-12-31-accounts - Welsh Corgi Rescue Service

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Welsh Corgi Rescue Service

Secretary’s AGM Report for 2022

2021 was a very mixed bag of rehoming’s. It began in January with two very young bitches that had been bought by the family for an elderly lady during lockdown 2020, these young dogs were now teenagers and were proving very difficult for her to cope with, they went as a pair to a family in Newton Abbot, Devon that were very easily able to cope with their exuberance, they settled in straight away.

In February, we had another rescue from a shed, where the dog was kept and just fed there, he was rescued by a neighbour and collected by a WCL member who got in touch with me. He was in a very poor condition, full of fleas and coat very matted. She looked after him for around six weeks and brought him back to a reasonable condition. At the time he could hardly walk and she wondered whether he was partially sighted as he didn’t walk very far and bumped into things. Vets seemed to think it was because he was kept in the dark for so long. I then found him a lovely home in Cornwall. It was at the time of lockdown and the new owners were anxious about the journey, but it all went very smoothly and after a visit to the vets, a dental and a weight reducing diet, Archie is now fairly fit and moving around well.

Between March and September we had nine more rehoming’s, 4 from the death of the owners, 2 where the owners went into a nursing home and 3 from bad behaviour – mainly not getting along with another dog in the home.

In September I was contacted by a Breeder asking if I had anyone on my list who would be prepared to take a 10 week old puppy. This pup had picked up a virus at 4 weeks, she had managed to survive but had been diagnosed with impaired vision. She could see shapes and shades but not detail. This little girl went to a lovely sympathetic lady who had given a home to a Romanian corgi several years earlier, he had severe cardiac problems and on medication and had died very recently she was thrilled to take on the challenge and I receive updates of how this young corgi is progressing.

Managing the expectations of the waiting list has been very tricky, I received so many applications but you can not just take the oldest one first, so many of

these dogs come with their own criteria, perhaps they need a ‘one to one’ home, have behaviour problems, don’t like children (whatever the age) or hate cats, but interestingly I have people that only want a corgi under two, or it must be a boy or a girl. We have had phone calls from people only wanting a 6 year old bitch or a 2 year old dog and nothing else will do! So when a corgi becomes available, from that vast list of applicates I really only end up with around half a dozen that are suitable.

I received a lovely phone call from Miss Harpwood from Justice for Dogs. We had increased our donation to her last year as I had spoken to her a couple of times for her help in a couple of rehoming situations. She was so full of thanks for the donation or £1000 as her charity was being run on a shoestring.

We also received a card of thanks from Battersea dogs home for the donation of £4000.

We have seen the death of four corgis that we have been supporting over the last few years with their vet fees, most tragically was one that was rehomed in late 2020 and featured on the Christmas card of 2021. She died of stomach cancer in late August after a lot of care and trialled drugs she was very brave and incredibly strong but, in the end, the cancer got the better of her. She had a good support team that ferried to the Veterinary Referral Hospital which was several miles away.

The 2021 Christmas card proved very popular and we made a profit of £…….., the ‘drop and go’ facility from the Post Office once again worked well for us. The sale from the insert of the corgi items was well received, I could have sold dozens of cushions and jigsaws! We were left with about 3 corgi items.

In the meantime, I have been given vast amounts of corgi paraphernalia some of which I hope to sell with the next newsletter insert.

We welcomed 15 new members to the Rescue service for 2021.

Lynne Creech

Secretary 11.7.22

WELSH CORGI RESCUE SERVICE

FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER 2021

£ £ 276 37,998 7,340 2,435 365 - - 48,414 1,147 - 211 1,358 1 2 2 30,966 1,541 - 32,512 82,284 2021	£ £ 276 37,998 7,340 2,435 365 - - 48,414 1,147 - 211 1,358 1 2 2 30,966 1,541 - 32,512 82,284 2021	£ £ 222 1,001 3,420 3,826 100 - 264 8,833 1,123 10 - 1,133 33 17 142 29,583 1,276 11 31,062 41,028 2020	£ £ 222 1,001 3,420 3,826 100 - 264 8,833 1,123 10 - 1,133 33 17 142 29,583 1,276 11 31,062 41,028 2020
1,147 - 211		1,123 10 -
1 2 2 30,966 1,541 -		33 17 142 29,583 1,276 11

	82,284		41,028

INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS REPORT TO THE WELSH CORGI RESCUE SERVICE

This report on the financial statements of the Welsh Corgi Rescue Service for the year ended 31[st] December 2021, which is set out on pages 1-4, is in respect of an examination carried out under S 43 of the Charities Act 1993.

The examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by The Welsh Corgi Rescue Service, and a comparison of the accounts with those records. It also includes considering any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations concerning such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the position shown by the accounts.

In connection with my examination no matter has come to my attention ;

(a) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirement to keep accounting records in accordance with S 41 of the act has not been met.
(b) to which in my opinion attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

L Biss

2022