BRITISH SMALL ANIMAL VETERINARY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1024811 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q30270956 · also known as PETSAVERS · also registered in Scotland as SC052192 (OSCR)

The BSAVA is a professional body for veterinary surgeons and nurses who treat companion animals. It drives/promotes excellence in small animal veterinary practice through focusing on education, science and the community to develop the knowledge and skills of its members. PetSavers, its research arm, funds veterinary clinical studies into diseases of pets and the treatment thereof

Objects

THE PROMOTION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF HIGH STANDARDS OF EDUCATION AND PRACTICE IN THE VETERINARY CARE AND TREATMENT OF SMALL ANIMALS AND THE DISSEMINATION OF RELATED INFORMATION TO BOTH VETERINARY PRACTITIONERS AND THE PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: Education/training · Animals · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Gloucester, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £1.018m for the year, driven by strategic investments in planning and digitisation. However, the trustees confirm that free reserves of £7.17m exceed the policy target and provide adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WR Partners. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £654,639 (FY2024) to £110,947 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Investment
• 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 31/12/2021 (received 10/11/2022, 10 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• BSAVA British Small Animal Veterinary Association premierconstructionnews.com · 31/08/2018

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — BSAVA PetSavers (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~19.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Murphy
• Dr Adam George Gow
• Dr Julian Hoad
• Dr Matthew Campbell Erskine
• Dr Niall Thomas Connell
• Dr Peter Christopher Higgins
• Jo-Anne Megarity
• Nicholas Stephen Williams
• Susan Little

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.