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SCOTTISH EXOTIC
ANIMAL RESCUE
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# Scottish Exotic Animal Rescue Trustees’ Annual Report April 6th 2024 — April 5th 2025
## Charity Contact Information
Scottish Exotic Animal Rescue
Scottish Charity Number: SCIO41507
Address: 10 Harbour Road, Nairn, Highland
Postcode: IVI2 4NU
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Website: scottishexotic.co.uk
Social Media
https://www.facebook.com/S.E.A.R.NickMartin
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https://www.instagram.com/s.e.a.r/
## Charity Trustees April 2024 - 2025
## Objectives and
## Activities
The charity’s main objective is the rescue and rehabilitation of exotic animals. We also aim to advance the knowledge of welfare issues of exotic animals through creating courses/talks and demonstrations which highlight conservation, ecological and animal welfare issues. We additionally use the above courses for aiding self-development of disadvantaged/disabled groups and individuals.
We achieve this principally from our charity headquarters in Nairn, Highlands, where we house and care for our exotic animals. We open our doors for bookings every weekend and for extra days during school holidays. During these bookings, often families, have an hour long tailored
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educational tour of our facilities, where they learn about our rescue animals and have a chance to interact with our friendlier residents!
Our facility also provides opportunities for local school students to volunteer. Often these students volunteer as part of their Duke of Edinburgh Awards or to gain some voluntary experience before applying to study for veterinary medicine, but we also take student volunteers with neurodiverse needs who gain opportunities to build some confidence through interacting with our animals and then often the public during tours and external events.
Our booked tours provide some of our income to support our charitable objectives, but the majority of our income is generated by larger public events. We bring our educational stand to events such as scouts and guides, schools, public fetes and galas. Through every interaction at these events, we help members of the public to overcome misconceptions they may have about exotic animals. We also offer visits to care homes, birthday parties, and school classes.
Chairman Jj and one of our volunteers setting up our exhibition tent for the Tain Gala
## Structure, Governance and Management
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The charity is run in line with OSCR guidelines and operates under a constitution. During this period, we have reviewed our constitution and structure with plans to transition the charity from an unincorporated association to a SCIO.
## Trustee Recruitment and Appointment
Our trustees have remained unchanged from the previous year. Christopher Evans continues as Chairperson. Christopher is manager of our rescue centre and had been a volunteer under or founder gg since 2016. ee A'so continued as Treasurer. J is a NHS Scotland physiotherapist and has been a volunteer with the rescue since March 2022. GE Continued in his role as secretary. J is a journalist and has also been a volunteer with the rescue since March 2022.
## Achievements and Performance
## Statement of the Charity’s Policy on Reserves
This year the charity was in financial deficit and has had to withdraw from our savings account. Following our transition to a SCIO, it is the intent to develop a more concrete policy on financial reserves and to also source additional funding through grant applications, which this new foundation will allow.
## Details of Any Deficit
The high costs of energy have continued to have a serious impact on our charity. Most of our resident animals are reptiles they require a lot of energy to run their heat and UV lamps, and we have experienced a significant increase in the cost of our utility bills. The backlog of owed monies from a incorrect use of payroll software by our previous treasurer has continued to have an impact, as it made up a large portion of our expenditure. A private loan was required to pay a lump sum amount; we are repaying in small increments. There has been a significant increase in animals coming in to our
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rescue centre, and a downturn in rehoming, which has also put a strain on our finances. Things are looking more optimistic looking forward; however it has a been another tough year for the charity.
## Future plans
We hope to continue our plans to improve the enclosures of our resident animals and to continue rehoming those who we can to appropriate households. We will of course be continuing our educational work and encouraging young people to volunteer. The transitioning of the charity to a SCIO will also be occurring over the next accounting period.
## Additional information
A huge thank you to our local Pets at Home branch, and the Pets Foundation for their ongoing support. The charity is a part of their community partnership and lifelines scheme, and it is a vital part of our funding, especially during the difficult winter months.
## Declaration
Signed on behalf of the charity trustees:
## Print name
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Date 04/01/2026
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**SC041507**
## **Scottish Exotic Animal Rescue**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
||||||Period start date|Period start date|Period start date|Period start date|Period start date||||Period end date|Period end date|Period end date|Period end date|Period end date||||
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||**For the period**
**from**||06
Day||04
Month||||2024
Year|**to**|Day
05||Month
04||||Year
**2025**||||
|**Section A Statement of receipts and payments**|||||||||||||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**||||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||||**Total funds**
**current period**|||||**Total funds last**
**period**|
||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||||||||||
|Donations|**12,282**||||||||||||||**12**|**12**|**12,282**|||**18,738**|
|Legacies|**-**||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|Grants|**4,315**||||||||||||||**4**|**4**|**4**|**4,315**||**2,785**|
|Receipts from fundraisingactivities|**-**||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|Gross tradingreceipts|**-**||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**22,070**|
|Income from investments other than|||||||||||||||||||||
|land and buildings|**19**||||||||||||||**19**|**19**|**19**|**19**||**72**|
|Rents from land & buildings|**-**||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|Gross receipts from other charitable|||||||||||||||||||||
|activities|**28,063**||||||||||||||**28**|**28**|**28,063**|||**-**|
||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|**_A1 Sub total_**|**_A1 Sub total_ 44,679**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**44,679**|**44,679**|**44,679**|||**43,665**|
|**A2 Receipts from asset &**|||||||||||||||||||||
|**investment sales**|||||||||||||||||||||
|Proceeds from sale of fixed assets
Proceeds from sale of investments
**_A2 Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 44,679**
**-**
**-**
~~—~~|||||||||||**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**44,679**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**44,679**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**44,679**|||**-**
**43,665**|
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||||||||||
|Expenses for fundraising activities|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|Gross trading payments|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|Investment management costs|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|Payments relating directly to charitable|Payments relating directly to charitable||||||||||||||||||||
|activities|**47,679**||||||||||||||**47**|**47**|**47,679**||||
|Grants and donations|||||||||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|Governance costs:|||||||||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|Audit / independent examination|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|Preparation of annual accounts|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|Legal costs|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|Other|Other||||||||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||
||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|**_A3 Sub total_ **|**47,679**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**47,679**|**47,679**|**47,679**|||**-**|
|**A4 Payments relating to asset and**|||||||||||||||||||||
|**investment movements**|||||||||||||||||||||
|Purchases of fixed assets
**-**
Purchase of investments
**-**
**_A4 Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 47,679**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**47,679**
**-**
~~——————~~|||||||||||||||||||||
|**_Net receipts / (payments)_**
**A5 Transfers to / (from) funds**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**3,000)**
**(**
**-**
**-**
**3,000)**
**(**
**-**
**-**
~~———~~||||||||||||**-**
**-**||||**(**
**(**|**3,000)**
**(**
**-**
**3,000)**
**(**||**43,665**
**43,665**|
APPENDIX 2
**Scottish Exotic Animal Rescue**
**SC041507**
## **Section B Statement of balances**
|**Categories**
**Signed by one or two trustees**
**on behalf of all the trustees**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Investments**
**B3 Other assets**
**B5 Contingent liabilities**
**B4 Liabilities**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**5,356**
**3,000)**
**(**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Cash and bank balances at start of year||||||**5,356**|**11,047**|
||Surplus / (deficit) shown on receipts and
payments account||||||**3,000)**
**(**|**5,691)**
**(**|
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||**Cash and bank balances at end of year**
(Agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**2,356**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,356**|**5,356**|
|||-|
-|
-
**Fund to which**|
-
**asset belongs**||
-
**Market valuation**
**to nearest £**|- 49,356|
|||||||||**Last year**
**to nearest £**|
||||||||||
||||||||||
||||||||||
||||||||||
||||||||||
||**Details**||**Fund to which**|**asset belongs**|**Total**
**Cost (if available)**
**to nearest £**||**-**|
**-**|
||||||||**Current value (if**
**available)**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**|
||Vehicle||||||**10,000**|**10,000**|
||Building Occupied by Charity||||||**107,675**|**107,675**|
||||||||||
||||||||||
||||||||||
||||||||||
||||||||||
||||||||||
||||||||||
||**Details**|||**Total**
**-**
**Fund to which liability relates**|**-**||
**117,675**|**117,675**|
||||||||**Amount due**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**|
||HMRC PAYE April 2020-April 2024||||||**-**|**5,701**|
||Loan Repayments April 2024-April 2026||||||**4,000**||
||||||||||
||||||||||
||||||||||
||**Details**|||**Total**
**Fund to which liability relates**|||**4,000**|**5,701**|
||||||||**Amount due**
**(estimate)**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**|
||||||||||
||||||||||
||||||||||
||**Signature***|||**Total**
**Print Name**|||**-**|
**-**|
|||||||||**Date of**
**approval**|
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/ Statement of balances
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APPENDIX 2
**Scottish Exotic Animal Rescue**
**SC041507**
## **Section C Notes to the Accounts**
**C1 Nature and purpose of funds** _(may be stated on analysis of funds worksheets)_
All funds currently held by charity are unrestricted and are held between a Current Account and and Instant Access Savings Account with Bank of Scotland. Funds are transferred from the Savings Account to the Current Account when there is a deficit and deposited into the Savings Account when in surplus. All funds are used for the purpose of meeting the Charity's consitiutional objectives.
## **C2 Grants**
## **C3a Trustee remuneration**
## **C3b Trustee remuneration - details**
**Individual / Number of grants £ Type of activity or project supported institution made Total -** If no remuneration was paid during the period to any charity trustee or person connected to a trustee cross this box (otherwise complete section 3b) **£ Authority under which paid 16,710** - Salary
## **C4a Trustee expenses**
If no expenses were paid to any charity trustee during the period then cross this box (otherwise complete section 4b)
|**Number of**|**£**|
|---|---|
|**trustees**||
## **C4b Trustee expenses - details**
**Transaction Balance amount (£) outstanding at Nature of relationship Nature of transaction period end (£)**
## **C5 Transactions with trustees and connected persons**
## **C6 Other information**
/ Notes
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/ Notes
December 2007
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APPENDIX 2
**Scottish Exotic Animal Rescue**
**SC041507**
## **Additional analysis (1)**
## **Analysis of receipts and payments**
## **1 Donations**
|**1 Donations**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**|
|MunlochyAnimal Aid|||||**-**|**2,000**|
|Arnold Clark|||||**-**|**800**|
|Facebook Donate|||||**-**|**340**|
|Individual Donations|**12,282**||||**12,282**|**15,598**|
|**Total**
**2 Grants**|**12,282**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**12,282**|**18,738**|
||**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**-**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**-**|**-**|**-**
**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**-**
**Total last period**
**to nearest £**|
|Pets Foundation (Pets at Home)|**4,315**||||**4,315**|**2,785**|
||||||**-**||
||||||**-**||
||||||**-**||
|**Total**|**4,315**|**-**|||**4,315**|**2,785**|
||**-**|**-**|||**-**|**reference**|
## **3 Gross receipts from other charitable activities**
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Appointments|**13,608**||||**13,608**|**13,260**|
|Event Bookings|**24,063**||||**24,063**|**8,810**|
|Bank Account Interest|**19**||||**19**|**72**|
|Personal loan|**4,000**||||**4,000**|**-**|
||||||**-**|**-**|
||||||**-**|**-**|
||||||**-**|**-**|
||||||**-**|**-**|
|**Total**|**41,690**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**41,690**|**22,142**|
||reference error|-|-|-|reference error|reference error|
## **4 Payments relating directly to charitable activities**
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Wages|**16,710**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**16,710**|**16,900**|
|Mobile, Landline & Broadband|**452**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**452**|**582**|
|Utilities - Gas, Water, Waste & Electricity|**8,633**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**8,633**|**7,915**|
|Vehicle - Tax, Fuel, Breakdown Cover, Maintenance|**1,731**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**1,731**|**4,527**|
|VeterinaryAppointments & Medications|**2,159**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**2,159**|**3,637**|
|Animal Supplies - Food, Enclosures|**2,753**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**2,753**|**6,573**|
|Event Supplies|**183**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**183**|**125**|
|Office & CleaningSupplies|**144**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**144**|**392**|
|Uniforms & Signage|**79**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**79**|**429**|
|Storage|**1,020**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**1,020**|**1,020**|
|Insurance - Building, Liability& Vehicle|**3,314**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**3,314**|**1,338**|
|Software Subscriptions - Website, Microsoft, Cloud|**462**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**462**|**281**|
|Legal & AccountingExpenses|**259**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**259**|**1,283**|
|Electrician Expenses|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**901**|
|Local Business License Fee|**325**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**325**|**325**|
|HMRC|**7,474**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**7,474**|**1,478**|
|Refunds|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**430**|
|SkipHire|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**1,222**|
|Advertisingand Branding|**49**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**49**|**-**|
|Loan Repayments|**1,843**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**1,843**||
|Licensing|**89**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**89**|**-**|
|**Total**|**47,679**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**47,679**|**49,356**|
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Additional notes (1)
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APPENDIX 2
**SC041507**
## **Additional analysis (2)**
|**Receipts**
**5 Breakdown of unrestricted funds**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 1 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 1 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 2 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 3 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 4 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**|**Total**
**unrestricted**
**funds**|**Total**
**unrestricted**
**funds last**
**period**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Donations
Legacies
Grants
Receipts from fundraisingactivities
Gross tradingreceipts
Income from investments other than land and buildings
Rents from land & buildings
Gross receipts from other charitable activities|**12,617**|||||**12,617**|**18,738**|
||**-**|||||**-**|**-**|
||**4,315**|||||**4,315**|**2,785**|
||**23,747**|||||**23,747**|**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|**22,070**|
||**-**|||||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|**-**|
||**19**|||||**19**|**72**|
|**_Sub total_**
**Receipts from asset & investment sales**|**40,698**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**40,698**|**43,665**|
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|Proceeds from sale of fixed assets
Proceeds from sale of investments||||||**-**||
|||||||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_**
**Payments**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**40,698**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**40,698**|**43,665**|
|||||||cross ref error||
|Expenses for fundraisingactivities
Gross trading payments
Investment management costs
Payments relatingdirectlyto charitable activities||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
||**47,679**|||||**47,679**|**48,074**|
|Grants and donations||||||**-**|**-**|
|Governance costs:
Audit / independent examination
Preparation of annual accounts
Legal costs||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**1,283**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**47,679**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**47,679**|**49,357**|
|**Payments relating to asset and investment**
**movements**||||||-||
|Purchases of fixed assets
Purchase of investments||||||**-**||
|||||||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**
**_Total payments_**
**_Net receipts / (payments)_**
**Transfers to / (from) funds**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||||-||
||**47,679**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**47,679**|**49,357**|
|||||||-||
||**6,981)**
**(**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**6,981)**
**(**|**5,692)**
**(**|
|||||||||
|||||||**-**||
|||||||||
||**6,981)**
**(**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**6,981)**
**(**|**5,692)**
**(**|
|||||||cross ref error||
|**Nature andpurpose of funds**||||||||
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Additional notes (2)
December 2007