2025-12-31-accounts - Pet and Companion (PEACE) (SCIO)

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APPENDIX 1 OSC r

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	Period start date				Period end date
	Day	Month	Year		Day	Month	Year
From	01	01	2025	To	31	12	2025

Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator

Reference and administration details

Charity name Pet and Companion Other names charity is known PEACE by Registered charity number SC046851 Charity’s principal address The Eric Liddell Community 15 Morningside Road Edinburgh

Postcode EH10 4DP

Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report

	Trustee name	Office (if any)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Sarah Jeffrey	Chair
	Allister Crompton	Deputy Chair
	Fiona Corsar	Secretary, Treasurer 2
	Elizabeth Macfarlane	Treasurer 1

APPENDIX 1

Reference and administration details

Names of all other charity trustees during the period, if any, (for example, those who resigned part way through the financial period)

Name	Name	Dates acted if not for whole year




Structure, governance and management

Type of governing document Trustee recruitment and appointment
	Constitution
	The initial Trustees were the individuals who signed the charity trustee declaration forms that accompanied the application for incorporation of Pet and Companion (PEACE). They are therefore deemed to have been appointed by the members as charity trustees with effect from the date of PEACE’s incorporation (20.09.2016). The board may at any time appoint any person to be a charity trustee by way of a resolution passed by majority vote at a board meeting. Allister Crompton was appointed as such on 1st June 2018.

Objectives and activities
Charitable purposes Summary of the main activities in relation to these objects
	The charity’s purposes are: Primarily: the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantages. Secondary purpose: the advancement of health. Secondary purpose: to provide spiritual support, if requested.
	PEACE provides Canine Therapy along with Pastoral Care to people in need of support and companionship, particularly: the elderly; patients receiving palliative care; students during stressful periods; and adults affected by homelessness and abuse. The therapy dog provides a comforting presence and helps create a relaxed environment and a positive distraction. The Pastoral Carer is there to offer support and companionship to the person being visited, and is happy to talk through any difficulties the individual may be going through.

APPENDIX 1 Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of
the charity during the financial period

During its ninth year as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation,
PEACE has:
•
expanded its support groups to include men affected by
homelessness and abuse;
•
delivered nearly 2,000 PEACE sessions to vulnerable individuals
in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders;
•
recruited and trained additional PEACE Teams, including the first
male PEACE Team;
•
made school and nursery visits to talk to the children about
‘people who help us’.

Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any deficit Donated facilities and services (if any)	The charity’s funds are used to finance: •Capital equipment, such as: office computer, computer software, uniforms for Pastoral Carers and therapy dogs. •Overhead costs, such as: salaries and pensions, insurance, training, website updates and security, marketing, office costs. PEACE’s reserves’ policy states that the charity will endeavour to retain between 3-6 months’ worth of running costs at all times.
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Brief statement of the charity’s policy
on reserves
Details of any deficit
Donated facilities and services (if any)

The charity’s funds are used to finance:
•Capital equipment, such as: office computer, computer software,
uniforms for Pastoral Carers and therapy dogs.
•Overhead costs, such as: salaries and pensions, insurance,
training, website updates and security, marketing, office costs.
PEACE’s reserves’ policy states that the charity will endeavour to retain
between 3-6 months’ worth of running costs at all times.

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APPENDIX 1 Other optional information

Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s) Full name(s) Mrs Sarah Jeffrey Position (e.g. Chair) Chair Date 14/05/2026