Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 0
  • No PartB
  • All female board: -3
  • Large volunteers +3
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

SHROPSHIRE CAT RESCUE 

To provide shelter, food, veterinary care for homeless, stray, abandoned and unwanted cats and kittens. To re-home said animals where possible. To benefit the community by trapping & neutering feral cats thus limiting their numbers to avoid health hazards and nuisance. To educate the public on health and care of cats and kittens in order to alleviate and obviate distress and cruelty.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely female

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22£298£223£75n/an/an/an/an/a90
31/12/21£349£121£228n/an/an/an/an/a95
31/12/20£176£115£61n/an/an/an/an/a100
31/12/19£233£102£131n/an/an/an/an/a140
31/12/18£139£151£-12£0£0£0n/a090
31/12/17£212£116£97£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£295£130£165£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£289£118£170£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£145£132£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£136£135£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£133£116£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£123£95£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£98£101£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£96£88£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£64£73£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£60£46£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£50£45£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£43£37£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£35£33£1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 26 years

www.shropshirecatrescue.org.uk

finance@shropshirecatrescue.org.uk

01743872857

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Animals
GiG Classification
  • Animal welfare
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Shropshire,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 90 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
HM Revenue & Customs - SME Brexit Support Fund
£1,500 22/04/2021
Training Grant provided for Customs training purposes

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/10/1998, number: 1071884
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

WINDYRIDGE
LYTH HILL ROAD
BAYSTON HILL
SHREWSBURY
SY3 0AU

Objectives

1. For the benefit of the public to relieve the suffering of cats and kittens in need of care and attention and, in particular, to provide and maintain a rescue centre for the reception, care, treatment and to seek new homes for such animals. Where appropriate, to facilitate attempts to reunite owners with their pets and to provide lifelong care for animals that cannot be rehomed. 2. To promote humane behaviour towards cats and kittens by providing appropriate care, protection, treatment and security for cats and kittens which are in need of care and attention by reason of sickness, maltreatment, poor circumstances or ill usage, and by trapping, neutering and re-releasing feral cats.3. To advance the education of the public in matters pertaining to animal welfare in general, the prevention of cruelty and suffering among animals and to demonstrate nurturing and compassion for nature, the environment and life. 4. For the advancement of animal welfare by the provision of financial assistance towards neutering and, where appropriate and in exceptional circumstances, veterinary care to individuals who are suffering from financial hardship and would be otherwise unable to afford treatment for their cat. 5. To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded, assisting them to integrate into society and promoting their physical, social and emotional wellbeing, in particular by providing social and recreational facilities and events involving the local community. For the purpose of this clause ?socially excluded? means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one or more of the following factors: unemployment, financial hardship, youth or old age, ill health (physical and mental), discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, ethnic origin, religion, belief, sexual orientation or gender reassignment, Armed Forces communities, refugee or asylum seeker status.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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