BORDER COLLIE TRUST GREAT BRITAIN

Registered charity 1053585 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Rescuing and rehoming Border Collies and collie crosses throughout the UK

Objects

TO RESCUE AND PROVIDE CARE AND SHELTER TO LOST,ABANDONED,NEGLECTED AND ILL TREATED DOGS, WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO DOGS OF THE BORDER COLLIE BREED

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained a positive financial position with total funds increasing to £4,670,983, despite a significant drop in legacy income. Free reserves stood at £4,065,866, which the trustees consider adequate to cover two years of expenditure and potential relocation costs. The auditors confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• 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 — Border Collie Trust GB (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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~103.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• KENNETH ALAN HOLDENchair
• BENNETT WILKES
• Dr Sarah Louise Rowell
• Margaret Helen Gosling
• RACHEL FRANCES CORDEN
• Rebecca Jane Coles
• Ronald James Huggett
• SUSAN ANN WILKES

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BORDER COLLIE RESCUE AND REHAB CENTRE.

• BORDER COLLIE RESCUE AND REHAB CENTRE income £209k
• VALGRAY'S BORDER COLLIE AND ANIMAL RESCUE income £112k
• BASSET RESCUE NETWORK GB LTD income £111k
• GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG WELFARE FUND income £156k
• CLARKS FARM GREYHOUND RESCUE income £284k
• UK BOSTON TERRIER RESCUE income £158k

Side by side with its peers

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