DONATIONS

For any donations please contact the treasurer on treasurerbtw@aol.com

Or simply send your donations through PayPal.  This is done via the link below, which will take you directly to PayPal's website.

If you are a UK tax-payer and wish BTW to claim Gift Aid on your donation, please indicate this in the comment box with your donation.

 

 

                             We are now "live" on Text donations
sending the text, there is a text back acknowledgement and the opportunity
to add Gift Aid to the donation.
Use your mobile to donate to Welfare. Text BTWD12 and the amount (max £10) to
70070. There is no charge for the call and we get the full amount. After

TREASURER'S CORNER

 

Half-year
report, year 2012/2013.

 



General.



New Year 2013
is the halfway point of BTW’s financial year and end of our second quarter. There
has been an improvement on Q1 due mainly to the unwinding of the calendar
account, and some most welcome Christmas donations for which we are extremely
grateful.



The year’s
deficit has improved from 10% down at end of Q1, to 4½% at the end of Q2.
Expenditure was £19,872 and income £17,421.



There have
been no non-operational items in the 6 months, but there is interest due on our
deposit bond and some Gift Aid to come which, when received, would further reduce
the deficit to 4%.



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Specifics.



Kennelling
for 45 dogs in the 6 months has cost £7,423 for 944 dog/days.



Vet fees for
17 dogs, 25 accounts, have come to £5,815.



Moving 58
dogs 11,539 miles came to £4.126.



Total
donations received are £13,345.



We have
“lost” 2 standing order donors, but 8 thankfully remain.



We needed to
sell 150 calendars to cover the cost of purchase, before making a “profit” and
at year end 187 had gone, and very many thanks are due to Jan Gale whose
enterprise and initiative it was to mastermind the operation, and to Helen
Freeman and Margaret Curtis who expanded the sales area.



The search
engine (www.everyclick.co.uk) continues to contribute, and their Give as you
Live feature - where on-line retailers donate a small percentage of sales from “signed
up” shoppers, has modestly improved that.



Bob Bolton



20 January
2013.



 



 



    

Treasurer's Corner.

 

4th. Quarter 2011/12

 

30 June saw the end of Q4 and the end of our financial year 2011/12. The quarter continued much as the previous two, with expenditure again exceeding income. However the exceptional income of£8240received in the first quarter, turned whatwould have been a deficit of£5,954into a surplus of£2,286for the year. (These figures are subject to audit).

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The Sutton Coldfield 3rd. Borderfest camping event in May raised just over£300.Thank you Sarah, your campers and helpers.

 

Our Mid Year gathering at Woodmansterne added£275to Welfare funds. Thanks to all who attended. It was very nice to see you.

 

Standing Order contributors remain at 11, and the year's "surplus" mentioned above, would not have been a surplus without you. We truly appreciate your commitment, thank you.

 

15 Everyclick supporters have now added over£75- and that without putting their hand in their pockets, purses or wallets, just clicking a mouse! Well done, all.

 

A thank you too, to the lady whose employer, a major bank, matched her charitable donation to us. Close on£400all together. Greatly appreciated, Tracey!

 

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Where does it go? Well, for the year it goes something like this -

Kennelling,£18,010for 2,407 dog/days.

Moving 83 dogs, 22,471 miles£8,193.(London to New Zealand, return 22,780)

Vet accounts£7,413for 34 dogs.

 

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Q1 for 2012/13hasn't started too well and our "surplus" of 2011/12 has already been wiped out due to two hefty vet accounts and the overhang of some June kennelling.

 

All contributions gratefully received!

 

Bob Bolton.

19 July 2012.

 

 

 

Treasurer's Corner.



 

3rd. Quarter 2011/12.



 

Operationally this quarter has been much like the second,
with spending more than income. After 9 months, spending is 97% of last year's 12
month total, income is 94%, - about a third up on last year.

The balance sheet is slightly weaker than 3 months ago, but
still a little ahead of the 2010/11 year end.

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The 6 months Gift Aid claim mentioned in the Q2 update
produced £2028, unusually high for us - due, in the main, to the handsome £2k
donation received in Q1.

MissionFish, eBay's charity arm, continues to contribute - some
sellers donate a percentage of their receipts to BTW. Thank you all.

Everyclick, we now has 15 supporters signed up for BTW,
continues its trickle of revenue - total to date, £63. (That's 6 days in
commercial kennels, nevertheless).

We have "lost" 2 of our Standing Order donors - reflecting
no doubt the difficult economic times. Nevertheless 11 remain. We would welcome
more!

Fortunately all BTW are volunteers and receive no payment
other than expenses. Often these are returned to us (some with Gift Aid, where
the volunteer is a UK tax-payer), and in other cases, no claim is ever made. Thank
you folks, without you BTW wouldn't, couldn't, work.

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Veterinary fees, for 17 dogs in this quarter, have been
unusually high. Dental treatment has been prominent. We have had abandoned, and
neglected borders needing treatment. Some were involved in road traffic
accidents. These account for the majority of £3,414 spent in this period - as
much as Q1 and Q2 together. (The previously mentioned Gift Aid repayment came
at the right time)!

Kennelling, (76 dogs), remains our highest expense - £14,573
to date for the 2,021 'dog days' since 1st. July last year. It wouldhave cost even more had not two kennels, one in Somerset and the other in Cornwall,not heavily discounted for us. Thanks, Helen and Trudi, for your negotiations -
they are greatly appreciated.

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 The recent budget
charity donations proposals do seem to not affect BTW. The upper levels
proposed are much above our league. In our 30 years, no one year's total would approach
the proposed limit of £50k for an individual donation. Would that it did!

We leave the begging bowl in place!

Bob Bolton.

15 April 2012.------------------------------------------- 

2nd. Quarter 2011/12.

 

The New Year sees us halfway through BTW's financial year. Operationally, our costs continue to exceed our operational income - this has been the case for several years now. The shortfall is, as it has been for the last six years, made good by additional non operational income - bequests, memorial donations and charitable grants. Our present spending is 14% ahead of that of a year ago, with income 11% ahead.

On the bright side, we are halfway through our annual deposit bond interest (paid on the 30th. June) and there is 6 month Gift Aid repayment imminent.

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We are saddened to lose a very good Welfare supporter and activist, with the death last month of Jan Rabin. In her earlier years she bred and exhibited under the Kamajan affix. Jan operated her Kama kennels at Walmley near Sutton Coldfield, almost exclusively for BTW, sheltering, retraining when needed, and then re-homing her charges to their specific needs.

Looking through the past border year books I see that Jan was on BTW's original list of 31 border enthusiasts willing to assist enquirers with welfare concerns. In the most recent year book she was the only original remaining so listed. We will certainly miss her and her massive contribution.

RIP Jan, and thank you very much for all you did for the border terrier.

 

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Cards, calendars, and anniversary T shirts, have been the collective enterprises of Helen Freeman, Jan Gale, Sarah Newsom and their helpers. Together they have produced a net £502 for Welfare's funds. An awful lot of effort, not to say trial and tribulation, went into this and we are indebted to you for that. BTW thank you ladies, helpers, and of course, purchasers.

 

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The 4 neglected borders, mentioned in the Q1 report, have received the veterinary care they needed and, with the tender ministrations given to them in County Durham, have made good recoveries. The "oldie", for whom the prognosis was less than rosy, has also made it and is now in foster care. One of the others has now been re-homed, always a difficulty at Christmas time. Well done Lesley and Harry for that and to Joyce and Colin too - who discovered the case and initiated the rescue.

 

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Finally, dear reader (keep taking the pills), and I do hope you have the 2012 that you seek!

 

Bob Bolton.

15 January 2012