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Causeway Coast Dog Rescue Limited

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £33.6K

  • Spending

    £79.2K

Charity no. 102935 Date registered. 05/10/2015

Public benefits

The purpose of the Causeway Coast Dog Rescue Limited is to ensure the advancement of animal welfare, focusing on dogs, within Northern Ireland, primarily within the Causeway Coast area. The organisation raises funds to provide rehoming services, supporting residents of all ages, with all backgrounds. This ensures the organisation is

self-sufficient as the organisation has unpaid volunteers. By fundraising and hosted by volunteers, it benefits all communities as it ensures dogs are not left roaming the streets, ensuring a cleaner and healthier environment and that animals are being cared for appropriately and in a timely manner. A suitable home is sourced to provide care and attention to an animal that is unwanted or has been potentially suffering. The organisation ensures a fit for purpose home when rehoming a dog, to ensure advancement of animal welfare. Supports residents to understand their responsibilities within legislation to reduce animal homelessness in Northern Ireland while aiming to stop animal cruelty. Public Benefits include: helping those who can no longer care for their animal and they have a point of contact to source information and a possible solution; sourcing advice on a suitable and appropriate animal for their home. The organisation funds social media sites to ensure residents of all ages and backgrounds are kept up to date with timely information. This benefits to animals and to the public include promoting and communicating essential information such as identifying animals needing a new home, cruelty cases which require veterinary care, issues relating to potential cruelty to animals where members of the public can help provide information and support, opportunities to fund raise, providing information and sourcing lost animals by signposting distraught owners information they would not otherwise find. Evidence has shown this service cuts down time to reunite owners and animals, as well as securing new homes for unwanted animals. Supporting schools in their education of children to raise awareness on the importance of advancing animal welfare and the level of responsibility needed when providing a home for a dog. Support is provided to residents providing advice on suitable animals, appropriate for their lifestyle, to secure an appropriate home for the animal, and an appropriate animal for the family. Public Benefits include creating a legacy of understanding of the responsibilities required as children use this information as a building block and evidence has shown this is taken to their homes to discuss with other family members. It also installs an understanding for their future decision making on animal welfare. Additional information support is provided to local and central government departments clarifying statistics on rehoming dogs, cruelty cases and action taken against those committing cruelty, animal welfare organisations and consultation with residents in Northern Ireland on ways to make advancement on animal welfare. The organisation raises awareness on animal welfare advancement through media interviews, publications and promotion. An important role for the organisation is to build relationships and secure partnerships to deliver the advancement of animal welfare in Northern Ireland, by gaining training on legislative requirements, gaining understanding from other agencies on how they work and what they achieve, reporting and investigating cruelty cases in partnership with other agencies, promoting the importance of the health and well-being of animals, ensuring medical and veterinary advice to animals when required. Benefits from fundraising supports timely veterinary care to animals which require medical help through cruelty or other deformities from birth, preparing them for a new home, improving the advancement of animal welfare. There is no harm and no private benefit.

What your organisation does

The purpose of the Causeway Coast Dog Rescue Limited is to ensure the advancement of animal welfare, focusing on dogs, within Northern Ireland, primarily within the Causeway Coast area. The organisation raises funds to provide rehoming services, supporting residents of all ages, with all backgrounds. A suitable home is sourced to provide care to

an animal that is unwanted or has been potentially suffering. The organisation ensures a fit for purpose home when rehoming a dog, to ensure advancement of animal welfare. Supports residents to understand their responsibilities within legislation to reduce animal homelessness in Northern Ireland while aiming to stop animal cruelty. Supports schools in their education of children to raise awareness on the importance of advancing animal welfare and the level of responsibility needed when providing a home for a dog. Support is provided to residents providing advice on suitable animals, appropriate for their lifestyle, to secure an appropriate home for the animal, and an appropriate animal for the family. Additional information support is provided to local and central government departments clarifying statistics on rehoming dogs, cruelty cases and action taken against those committing cruelty, animal welfare organisations and consultation with residents in Northern Ireland on ways to make advancement on animal welfare. The organisation raises awareness on animal welfare advancement through media interviews, publications and promotion. An important role for the organisation is to build relationships and secure partnerships to deliver the advancement of animal welfare in Northern Ireland, by gaining training on legislative requirements, gaining understanding from other agencies on how they work and what they achieve, reporting and investigating cruelty cases in partnership with other agencies, promoting the importance of the health and well-being of animals, ensuring medical and veterinary advice to animals when required.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of animal welfare

Who the charity helps

  • General public
  • Older people
  • Unemployed/low income

How the charity works

  • Animal welfare

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 October 2023

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 October 2022

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 October 2021

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charitable purposes

The charity's objects are specifically restricted to the following: To advance the welfare of dogs within Northern Ireland by rescuing and rehoming dogs that have been ill treated, abandoned or where owners can no longer for whatever reason provide care for their dogs and by way of providing shelter, veterinary treatment, assistance care and a rehoming service.

Governing document

Other

Other name

CCDR
  • 4 Trustees
  • 2 Employees
  • 5 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Tara Cunningham, C/O 29 Maybrook Park, Mountsandel, Coleraine, Co. L'derry, BT52 1SN

Trustee board

Trustee
Mrs Dimsdale Bobby
Dr Carol Mcclenahan
Gwyneth Mcquiston
Amy Archibald

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland