## **Old, Disabled, Damaged and Black Animals Rescue**
## **Trustees’ Annual Report**
## Period From
1[st] August 2024 to 31[st] July 2025
**Trustees’ Annual Report** 1[st] August 2024 to 31[st] July 2025
**Old, Disabled, Damaged and Black Animals Rescue**
Scottish Charity Number: SC050444
Address: 42 Albert Street, Kirkwall, United Kingdom
Postcode: KW151HQ
Telephone number: 07842769497
Email address: oddanimalsrescue@gmail.com
Facebook: ODD Animals Rescue
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## **1. Charity Trustees**
1.1 Charity Trustee: Emilia Gheorghe
1.2 Charity Trustee: Tudor Bogdan
- 1.3 Charity Trustee: Annette Atherton
## **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 2025, 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 2025 the shelter accommodated 52 dogs from which 34 are non rehomable (permanent residents) due to either behaviour issues either terminal illness.
This financial year we continued to improve the living conditions in the shelter and we managed to:
- pour new concrete floor on the third block of kennels
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Photo 1 and 2. Before and after: flooring Block of Kennels 4
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Photo 3 and 4 : New flooring Block of Kennels 3
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- build an outdoor space for one of the kennels from Block of Kennels 2
Photo 4 and 5: Before and after – new private courtyard for a kennel
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- change the roof for the staff room
Photo 6,7 and 8,: new roof - work in progress
Photo 9 - 13: 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, 24 female dogs and 23 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 311 female dogs and 687f emale cats.
5.3. Beresti Project
Our biggest achievement this financial year was the collaboration with the newly founded Romanina registered charity ‘Visul lui Lucian’, a Romanianregistered charity, registration number 49714460. ‘Visul lui Lucia’ has similar charitable objectives and provides support and assistance for animals in need. The charity operates in he village of Beresti.
Beresti has no vets, no animal escues, no spaying campaigns. What Beresti has is ignorance and a lot of stray dogs packs. The population hates them and leaves in fear for their children.
Thanks to a major fundraising effort we managed to raise the funds for ‘Visul lui Lucian’ to buy 10 acres of land outside Beresti, where they will build the first dog shelter in the area.
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Photo 14 -17 = stray dogs from Beresti
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## 5.4. A new volunteering project
To further improve the welfare of or Brasov Shelter residents we implemented an international volunteering project. We provided food accommodation for 2 pair of volunteers that each spent 3 weeks at the shelter helping with the daily tasks but mostly focusing on socialising, grooming and playing with the dogs.
Photo 18-21 : volunteers and some of our residents
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## 5.5. 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.
This financial year we rehomed from Romania 3 dogs and 1 cat in the the UK.
## 5.6. 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.
This year we were delighted to be able to start an educational program in collaboration with Montessori School Brasov.
Photo 22: one of our ambassador dogs during their visits at Montessori
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## 5.7. 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 Jackie Fitzpatrick 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**
This financial year we managed to increase our income and extend our activity with new projects.
Our main sources of funding this year of activity were income generated by the charity shop and one off donations. The income from the virtual decreased (monthly recurring donations) due to economical international situation. The decrease in recurring donations it is a worry for us but we are pleased that the charity shop still generates a steady income.
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During the year ended 31 July 2025, the charity made a grant of £5,885 to Visul lui Lucian, a Romanian-registered charity, registration number 49714460. The grant represented a significant increase from the £10 donated to another animal welfare charity in the previous year and was made to further the charity’s animal welfare purposes. This substantial donation contributed directly to the charity reporting a deficit of £4,075 for the year.
## **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.
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## **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 in association with ‘Visul lui Lucian’ charity we will be able to extend this vital publicservice to Beresti.
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:
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Print name Emilia Gheorghe
Designation Founder and chairperson
Date 24.07.2026
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