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Where your money goes

As with all charities, Yorkshire Cat Rescue submits annual reports to the Charity Commission.  Yorkshire Cat Rescue's entry on the Charity Commission website can be found here.

Income and Expenditure

Generally speaking approximately 50% of all expenses are incurred on direct costs, such as vet bills, food etc. The balance is spent on overheads, such as salaries, heating, insurance, vehicle costs etc.  In previous financial years, large legacies were received.  This enabled the charity to operate at a profit, not a loss, but this is not guaranteed income.  Fundraising staff were taken on board shortly before the pandemic struck in March 2020 to grow the charity's income from guaranteed sources.

In 2015 the charity changed legal structure to become a CIO, and in so doing closed the previous charity (registration number 1058218).  All assets of the old charity were transferred to the new charity and this appears in the accounts for the period ending 31 March 2016.  This gives an inflated image of the charity's income for that period.

Cat Stats

The charity aims to rescue 700 -1000 cats per year.  The number has increased year on year since the charity was started in 1992, and the target of 1000 is attainable, although kitten litter sizes can play a large part in determining how many cats do actually come to the rescue.  

Since 2016 the charity has been working with Battersea Dogs & Cats Home to transfer cats to London. This is to reduce the number of unwanted cats in the north and improve the chances of the cats finding homes in the south, an area which experiences shortages at certain times of the year.  The pandemic in 2020 had a significant impact on the number of cats Yorkshire Cat Rescue was able to rescue and rehome. We are not currently transferring cats but this may need to change in the future as numbers increase.


The future

Yorkshire Cat Rescue will be looking to open more charity shops through its trading arm, Yorkshire Cat Rescue (Trading Enterprises) Ltd, with a view to taking on more Cat Care Assistants and other support staff as we grow.

Yorkshire Cat Rescue is situated at the home of its founder, and operates from her premises which. Sara our founder has retired and moved off site with her husband Colin. Over the coming year the team will move their offices inside the house to give the staff a much better working environment.

Our vision is to include a veterinary area on site, quarantine area and a safe area for kittens. The estimated cost of this is in excess of £250,000.

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You can find out more about the vets we use and why here

Published: 2nd August, 2016

Updated: 21st June, 2023

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