Old, Disabled, Damaged and Black Animals Rescue
Trustees’ Annual Report
Period From
1[st] August 2023 to 31[st] July 2024
Trustees’ Annual Report 1[st] August 2023 to 31[st] July 2024
Old, Disabled, Damaged and Black Animals Rescue
Scottish Charity Number: SC050444
Facebook: ODD Animals Rescue
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2. Objectives and activities
To promote the advancement of animal welfare and education of the general public in the subject of animal welfare by engaging in the following activities:
2.1. actively support the control of the dog and cat population by advocating neutering dogs and cats whenever practicable or desirable to do so, and to make funds available whenever possible to provide financial assistance to members of the public for this purpose (and for the avoidance of doubt whether within the United Kingdom or elsewhere throughout the World).
2.2. maintain a continuous campaign via the media and other methods to educate members of the general public to have a responsible attitude towards dogs and cats and their welfare with emphasis on:
2.2.1.the control of dogs and cats population by advocating the neutering of dogs and cats;
2.2.2.combating of the superstitions surrounding black dogs and cats, the ill-treatment and high rate of abandonment of black dogs and cats;
2.2.3. the re-homing of old and/or disabled dogs and cats.
In particular, for this purpose books, pamphlets, posters, letters, websites, social media and advertisements shall be printed and published and distributed as necessary.
2.3. establish and maintain rescue/re-homing centres for the care, treatment and re-homing, where possible, of unwanted, homeless, stray, illtreated, injured and sick dogs and cats and to provide a permanent home for life for all those that cannot be re-homed, in particular old, disabled and black dogs and cats.
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3. Structure, governance and management
Current Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
4. Trustees’ reports
The Trustees are pleased to report that during the period ended 31st July 2024, our Charity has successfully accomplished all commitments to provide for animals desperately in distress by providing food, shelter, and loving care, with the availability of veterinary treatment where necessary and with the aim of encompassing them into our re-homing or rehabilitation programme.
5. Achievements and performance
ODD Animals Rescue was established in 2020 by a group of volunteers who shared a common vision: to help the most vulnerable and overlooked animals.
5.1. Why are we different?
Because we acknowledge that not every dog or cat is a pet, but we also believe that every dog and cat deserve a chance no matter the age, health state or if they are a pet or not. For this goal to be achieved in an environmentally sustainable way we must act locally .
Therefore, we took over a rundown and overcrowded shelter in Brasov, Romania, in autumn 2020 and 35 of its permanent residents, our ‘forgotten dogs’. We continued our rescue work in the community and in July 2023 the shelter accommodated 55 dogs from which 38 are non rehomable (permanent residents) due to either behaviour issues either terminal illness.
Although this financial year was a very challenging year for us due to the unexpected passing to one of our key Romanian team members, we continued to improve the living conditions in the shelter and we managed to:
- poor new concrete floor and repair the roofs on a second block of kennels (the right block)
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Photo 1 and 2. Before and after: flooring from the Block of Kennels 2
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Photo 3 and 4 : Roof repairing works and electrical network extension at the Block of Kennels 2
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- extend the electrical network and install heat lamps in in Block of Kennels 2
Photo 4 and 5: Kennels from the Block of Kennels 2 with the heat lamps installed
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- our biggest achievement in this financial year was the finalisation of sewerage system and surface waters collection in the shelter
Photo 6,7,8, and 9: sewerage system work in progress
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Photo 9, 10 and 11: some of our sanctuary residents enjoying life
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5.2 We also believe that one cannot treat the symptoms instead of the cause. And our most valuable project is the Free Neutering Campaign in the local community.
The only way to stop the stray population is to neuter, neuter and neuter some more in the rural areas. In our forth year of activity, we managed to neuter through our program, together with our partners BetoVet veterinary clinic, 60 female dogs and 84 female cats with or without owners. It might be a drop in the ocean, but it is a start and in four years of activity we spayed 287 female dogs and 664 female cats.
5.3. Rehoming activities
Although our main focus is to improve the life of the non-adoptable dogs (either because of behavioural issues either because of their health) who have no future without our sanctuary and dedicated volunteers team, we also have a rehabilitation and rehoming program.
In our fourth year of activity we rehomed from Romania 7 dogs and 3 cats in the the UK and 1 dog in Romania. We also rehomed 1 dog and 1 cat that we already had in foster in the UK.
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Photo 12 and 13: Degetica in our shelter in the day she was rescued as a stray pup and Degetica in the UKr
Photo 14 and 15: Stela rescued after being attacked by other dogs
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Photo 15 and 16 : Stela with her family in the UK
Photo 17: Rica: rescued from his owner in 2022
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Photo 18: Rica and his ODD sister Phoenix in the UK
We fulfilled our rescue back up commitment by rehoming one of our dogs adopted in 2022 whose adopter passed away.
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5.4. Animal welfare campaign
We actively campaigned through our social media page
ODD Animals Rescue , the group associated and posters at our partner vet
clinic in Romania for the importance of neutering the dogs and the cats.
We promoted and encouraged our followers to sign petitions aimed to improve the animal welfare in the UK, most notable being Tuk’s Law.
We constantly promote materials from reputable sources regarding training, responsible ownership and general health and care of a pet.
5.5. ODD Animals Rescue in the UK community
In June 2022 we opened a charity shop in Kirkwall. The charity shop was very well received in the community and it continued its activity.
However the biggest impact in the community had the creation of a Pet Foodbank. The project was the initiative of our charity shop manager in 2022 and it provides now constant support for pet owners who are struggling financially and can’t afford to feed their pets.
6. Financial review
Our slightly reduced activity during this financial year reflected in the reduced amount of fundraising activities also and, consequently in the income generated.
Our main source of funding shifted again in this year of activity from income generated by the charity shop to an almost equal distribution between charity shop, one off donations and virtual adoptions (which are monthly recurring donations).
While we are a little concerned in the income decrease from the charity shop we are very pleased to have secured one third of our income in monthly donations. This offers us more financial stability and the ability to plan for the future.
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Chart 1: Funding distribution after expenses
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16000
14000
12000
| Charity Shop
| Donations
10000
Virtual Adoptions
8000 | Other Fundraising Activit-
ies
6000 a Fundraising
platforms(PayPal
giving/Easy fundraising
4000
etc. )
2000
0
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Like in the previous years of activity our main expense remains the daily operations of the sanctuary in Romania.
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30000
25000
a Brasov Sanctuary Daily Op-
erations
20000 a Charity Shop Daily Operations
Brasov Sanctuary Im-
provement Works
15000 a Veterinary expenses and The
Neutering Campaign
a Administrative expenses
10000 Rehoming
a Transaction fees
a Fundraising expenses
5000
0
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7. Reserves policy
The trustees’ policy is to retain 1 month worth of normal running costs to meet commitments and to cover any unexpected expenditure.
8. Plans for future period
The trustees intend to continue to develop the services that we provided in our first years of activity and we are looking for ways to extend our impact in the local Orkney community.
We will continue our efforts for neutering animals through our Free Neutering Programme with the hope that we will be able to extend this vital public service to other locations.
Our second goal for the next financial year is to continue our work of improving the shelter and to create a high standards sanctuary for animals in need by adding floor tiles and heated dog houses in all the blocks of kennels.
9. Declaration
Signed on behalf of the charity trustees:
Designation Founder and chairperson Date 23.04.2025
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APPENDIX 2
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APPENDIX 2
Old, Disabled, Damaged and Black Animals Rescue
SC050444
Section C Notes to the Accounts
C1 Nature and purpose of
funds (may be stated on analysis of funds worksheets)
Unrestricted funds only.
Individual / Number of grants £ Type of activity or project supported institution made C2 Grants Total ~~=——===~~ C3a Trustee remuneration 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) x £ Authority under which paid C3b Trustee remuneration - details C4a Trustee expenses If no expenses were paid to any charity trustee during the period then cross this box (otherwise complete section 4b) x ~~———e~~ 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
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