The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into Four Paws Animal Rescue, based in South Wales, after it failed to file accounts.
The regulator had been looking at the charity as part of a ‘double defaulter’ class inquiry, wherein it engaged with charities which have failed to file the necessary financial information with the Commission for two or more years in the last five years.
According to the regulator, the charity’s financial reporting requirements remain outstanding, despite its attempts to engage over the past year. This has included the regulator issuing an order to the trustees to submit the last two financial years’ accounts.
The Commission’s website states the charity’s reporting is is overdue by 734 days, and shows its last available data is for the financial year ending 31 December 2018.
This shows the total income for the animal charity was £113,984, while total expenditure was £121,608.
The regulator’s inquiry into the charity will examine any failure to comply with statutory reporting duties including the timely submission of the charity’s annual reports and accounts to the Commission.
Four Paws Animal Rescue did not respond to a request for comment by Civil Society News.
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