THE RAPTOR FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1042085 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RAMSEY RAPTOR RESCUE

A rescue and rehabilitation centre for wild native birds of prey. Providing education, conservational talks, flying displays and close encounters with the birds of prey to public visiting and Outreach sessions to schools and clubs, bird groups about the work we do. Offering volunteer/ work experience opportunities to schools and high educational pupils.

Objects

1)THE RESCUE AND CARE FOR SICK OR INJURED BIRDS OF PREY 2)TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY RESEARCH INTO THE CARE AND REHABILITATION OF BIRDS OF PREY AND PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Huntingdonshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £63,311 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £787,829 to £724,518. Unrestricted reserves stood at £721,284, which is significantly above the stated policy target of two months' unrestricted expenditure (£20,000). The Trustees confirmed the charity is operating on a going concern basis with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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 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
• 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
• 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

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

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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 31/05/2023 (received 25/06/2024, 86 days after the 31/03/2024 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• RUSSELL MUNRO HIRST

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The Bird of Prey Project.

• The Bird of Prey Project income £123k
• LIBERTY'S OWL RAPTOR & REPTILE CENTRE income £448k
• THE HAVEN PARROT RESCUE income £31k
• BARN OWL CENTRE LTD income £100k
• CONSERVATION WITHOUT BORDERS income £29k
• AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILE CONSERVATION TRUST income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

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