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 the last two financial years shown, 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.

The tables below give a summary of income and expenditure for the financial years 2015/2016 to 2019/2020.

Income & Expenditure by year (April - March)
Year	2019/2020	2018/2019	2017/2018	2016/2017	2015/2016
Income
Donations & Legacies	£607000	£402991	£187387	£189455	£449403
Charitable Activities	£67105	£63959	£89866	£88732	£228189
Other Trading Activities	£29835	£25930	£12749	£14412	£21618
Investments	£1177	£607	£576	£770	£716
Other	£1464
Total Income	£706581	£493487	£290578	£293369	£699926

Year	2019/2020	2018/2019	2017/2018	2016/2017	2015/2016
Expenditure
Raising Funds	£122726	£93631	£5633	£2851	£7376
Charitable Activities	£451388	£336170	£347995	£307240	£261606
Total Expenditure	£574114	£429801	£353628	£310091	£430944
Net Profit / (Loss)	£132467	£63686	(£63050)	(£16722)	£430944

Cat Stats

The charity aims to rescue 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.  The table below shows the number of cats rescued since 2016.

The charity has a no-kill policy; all deceased cats were neo-natal kittens or cats who were euthanised on veterinary advice.

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.

Year (January - December)	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Total
Number of cats rescued	993	1028	877	922	577	4397

Analysed by
Adopted	894	891	844	812	557	3998
Re-united	20	9	8	19	10	66
Euthanasia	10	16	9	16	16	67
Deceased	22	24	19	35	18	118
Lost / TNR	1	1	1	0	0	3
Waiting for Homes	107	89	41	89	59
Transfered	22	116	56	4	7	205

The future

When not operating in lockdown, Yorkshire Cat Rescue regularly has between 50 and 70 cats on-site.  These are cared for by exceptional volunteers with support from paid staff.  On some days the staff:cat ratio can be 1:50.  We need more staff!!

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.

Yorkshire Cat Rescue is situated at the home of its founder, and operates partly from her premises. The charity would like to have a separate office block built to accommodate not only offices, reception and rest-rooms, but to include a veterinary area, quarantine area and a safe area for kittens.  The estimated cost of this is in excess of £250,000.

Offices are currently in old farm buildings - they are isolated, draughty and cold and do not create a feeling of teamwork.  There is nowhere for staff and volunteers to rest and very little private space for meetings or gatherings.

The founder will be looking to retire between (probably!) 2023 and 2029.  It is crucial that the charity becomes sustainable in this period, in order that her successors can continue and expand the work the charity undertakes.

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