The Weyburn Humane Society is expecting another busy year, especially with ongoing renovations and repairs required at their current animal shelter.
“We had a lot of repairs that needed to be done such as plumbing, wiring, painting, drywall, kennel renovations,” said Pam Arndt-Schick, president of the Humane Society. “This list could go on and on.”
One of the goals for the Humane Society is to raise enough funds for a new animal shelter.
“One of our biggest and future dreams is that of a new shelter,” said Arndt-Schick. “We had blueprints drawn up as to what we would like our new facility to look like, so that it would accommodate all the needs for proper care of the animals.”
“We have done major fundraising to try to get money together to purchase land. Currently we have a couple of possibilities that we are looking into, but nothing set in stone yet,” she added.
During her president’s report at the Humane Society’s annual general meeting, Arndt-Schick noted that they had many successful fundraisers in 2014.
“We had great success with all the fundraisers we put on this past year.” Some of the fundraising events during 2015 included two garage sales, bake sales, hot chili lunches, Kilometres for Kennel, a Thanks for Giving donation from Pet Valu Weyburn and their Raise the Woof fundraising event.
“These events take a lot of planning, setting up and taking down. The garage sale as well as Raise the Woof are two of our biggest fundraisers, which bring in the most amount of money,” said Arndt-Schick. She noted that success of their fundraisers is due to their board members and volunteers who support the fundraising events.
This was also the first year that the Humane Society had a shelter director, which was a huge asset to the shelter. “This has been a very positive move for us as it enabled some of the board members to not be at the shelter filling in as much,” said Arndt-Schick.
In the financial statements released by the Weyburn Humane Society, the organization had revenue of $186,201 in 2015. This was an increase over the $149,888 that was reported during 2014.
Their expenditures of $158,133 was also increased from the reported $134,688 during 2014. Overall, their income from operations for 2015 was $28,068, nearly double of the income over operations reported in 2014.
