The Charity Fee has launched a statutory inquiry into the administration of an animal welfare charity, after it didn’t file its accounts for greater than two years.
4 Paws Animal Rescue (South Wales) charity has didn’t file accounts with the regulator for the final two monetary years. The charity’s monetary information at the moment are overdue by 733 days.
Its final accessible accounts for the 12 months ending 31 December 2018 confirmed it had a complete revenue of £113,984 however spent £121,608.
In line with newest information the charity has simply two trustees, chair Kirsty Thomas and trustee Colin Thomas, in addition to 87 volunteers.
We’ve opened an inquiry into 4 Paws Animal Rescue (South Wales) over considerations in regards to the charity’s repeated failure to submit its accounting data.
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The transfer has been taken by the regulator as a part of its doubler defaulter class inquiry into charities which have didn’t file their accounts for 2 or extra of the final 5 years.
It additionally follows the Fee’s “makes an attempt to interact over the previous 12 months” with the charity, that included issuing an order to trustees to file late accounts.
The inquiry will examine whether or not the trustees have met their authorized duties, failing or weaknesses in its administration in addition to attainable failure to adjust to its statutory reporting duties.
