Carla Lane Animals In Need

Registered charity 1031342 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ANIMALINE LIMITED, CARLA LANE ANIMALS IN NEED LIMITED

Animal Rescue and Welfare

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £122,588 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,195,573 against expenditure of £1,072,985. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £937,433, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover approximately 10.7 months of running costs against their policy target of 12 months. The auditor confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Champion Accountants LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02314427 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SMYTH, Helen Elizabeth — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
• BRADY, Margaret Irene — director, appointed 19/04/2012on trustee list
• ELLIS, Frances Ann — director, appointed 19/04/2012not on trustee list
• ELLIS, Frances Ann — secretary, appointed 01/04/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £370k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (77% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/07/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• FRAN ELLIS
• Helen Elizabeth Smyth
• MARGARET IRENE BRADY

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 LABORATORY ANIMALS LIMITED.

• LABORATORY ANIMALS LIMITED income £205k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BURY OLDHAM AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £1.0m
• ALSAGER ANIMALS IN NEED income £180k
• FRIENDS OF ANIMALS LEAGUE income £2.0m
• PAWZ FOR THOUGHT income £276k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS COVENTRY AND DISTRICT BRANCH CIO income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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