THE SWAN SANCTUARY

Registered charity 1002582 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objectives of the charity are to care for sick, injured and distressed swans and other wildlife. It undertakes this work from its premises in Shepperton where it has buildings and equipment for this purpose and these are open to the public

Objects

TO CARE FOR SICK INJURED AND DISTRESSED SWANS WHO SHALL BE BROUGHT TO THE ATTENTION OF THE CHARITY BY WHATSOEVER MEANS AND FROM WHATSOEVER LOCATION AND SUCH CARE SHALL INCLUDE VETERINARY TREATMENT AND FURTHER TO PROVIDE A HOME FOR LIFE FOR CREATURES WHICH SHALL REQUIRE IT.

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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Registered contact address: Spelthorne, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £1,776,145 to £1,581,162, resulting in a net outgoing resource of £194,983 for the year. The trustees note that the majority of total funds (£1,583,518) are tied up in land, buildings, and equipment, and they aim to retain reserves sufficient to operate for 12 months. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and holds no material investments other than dormant subsidiary shares.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 01/02/2022, 1 day after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Swan Sanctuary (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 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 31/03/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~69.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/07/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cayley Anne Louise West
• HOWARD Keith SMITH
• MAX GRUNDY
• MELANIE GAIL NELSON
• STEPHEN PHILIP KNIGHT

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SWANN FOUNDATION LIMITED.

• THE SWANN FOUNDATION LIMITED income £5.6m
• THE SWANNERY TRUST income £49k
• OXFORDSHIRE ANIMAL SANCTUARY SOCIETY income £1.8m
• WALES APE AND MONKEY SANCTUARY LTD income £485k
• CARE FOR WILD RHINO SANCTUARY (UK) income £215k
• OTTERSPOOL ANIMAL HAVEN income £166k

Side by side with its peers

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