MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT HOME FOR LOST DOGS LIMITED

Registered charity 1001346 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MANCHESTER DOGS HOME

The care and collection of stray and unwanted dogs, including provision of high-quality kennelling and veterinary treatment and re-homing facilities.

Objects

4.1 TO TAKE OVER ALL, OR SUCH PART AS CAN BE LEGALLY VESTED IN THE CHARITY OF THE ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF THE UNINCORPORATED CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION KNOWN AS MANCHESTER & DISTRICT HOME FOR LOST DOGS;4.2 THE CARE OF AND COLLECTION OF STRAY AND UNWANTED DOGS INCLUDING THE CARE OF INJURED DOGS AND HUMANE DESTRUCTION;4.3 TO ENCOURAGE, FACILITATE AND PROMOTE THE BENEFITS OF RESPONSIBLE DOG OWNERSHIP AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES ANCILLARY THERETO AND TO CARRY OUT THE SAID CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £921,729 for the year, driven by increased wages costs and decreased legacy income. Despite this deficit, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £7,984,246, which the trustees consider sufficient to ensure uninterrupted services and buffer against financial shortfalls. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Clarke Nicklin LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — MANCHESTER & CHESHIRE DOGS HOMES (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Anna Stansfield — Manager (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~14.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOSEPHINE JACKSONchair
• DIANNE KEAN
• Maureen Fletcher
• NICOLA JANE JACKSON
• PETER CHARLES SWANN
• SIMON STANSFIELD

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Lancashire · Manchester City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BATTERSEA DOGS' AND CATS' HOME.

• BATTERSEA DOGS' AND CATS' HOME income £68.4m
• ALMOST HOME DOG RESCUE income £172k
• Pro Dogs Direct income £162k
• GOOD LIFE DOG RESCUE income £121k
• GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG WELFARE FUND income £156k
• NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK ANIMAL TRUST income £69k

Side by side with its peers

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