26/04/2025
I would like to nip a rumour in the bud for the uneducated right here and now. All Animals Rescue UK is a CIC a registered Not For Profit Organisation. A Community Interest Company. By law we are not allowed to make any profit nor are we allowed to take any shares, and we are 100% volunteer run. The way a CIC differs from a Charity is a Registered CIC Rescue is owned by one person usually where a Registered Charity has trustees who can if they fall out vote one another off the board. CIC’s when they are formed have to sign a legal document nominating another CIC or Charity that any excess funds and assets must go to if not utilised by the CIC. I choose to register as a CIC as I didn’t want every Tom, Dick and Harry running things how I didn’t want them to be run. I am in control of how things are run here and I do a good job. I have been made aware that people who know nothing about Me are spouting off that I am running an unregistered Charity and accusing me of pocketing the money myself. That is absolutely not true and an insult. All funds (of which there are hardly any!) go through All Animal Rescue UK’s own bank account and the funds are spent specifically on veterinary treatment usually spays, neuters, antibiotics for cats arriving with infection and tons and tons of cat food and cat litter. There is a receipt for every single transaction! We do not have enough of any of the above and most of the costs from doing what we do comes out of my own pocket that I myself donate to the organisation. I pay into this organisation I do not take any money from it whatsoever. We are lucky if we get the odd tenner a month in monetary donations. The vast majority of our donations are towels, bedding, and cat food. We are desperate for cat food and cat litter. I am taking in unwanted, feral, abandoned, and elderly cats in the street that people don’t give a crap about, feeding them, out of my own pocket spaying and neutering them, and because most won’t find a home such as the oldies I pay for their flea, worming and ongoing feed cost out of my own pocket! I don’t have to do this, but I am trying to help bring down the population explosion of unwanted cats by neutering and spaying and stopping feral cats fighting and inbreeding. You’d think my town would be grateful sorting other people’s messes out and on the whole most people are supportive of what we do however there are jealous bitter spiteful sneering saddos who want nothing more than to see me fail. I pity those individuals who have so little going on in their lives all they have to do is gossip and tell lies in the pub to their equally sad and bitter friends about someone they don’t know and have never met to feel better about their sad little lives that clearly have nothing else better to do. There’s a big pinned post at the top of this page explaining what a CIC is you won’t spread that rumour, just the lie that I’m running an unregistered charity which I’m not. If all you have to do is lie about Me you need to get a life. - Gemma