PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS (PETA) FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1056453 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION

PETA works through public education, research, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement and protest campaigns.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £7,651,535, resulting in a net movement in funds of £316,847. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £2,232,400, which is below the stated policy target of six to twelve months of unrestricted expenditure, though the trustees confirm the charity can meet its obligations as they fall due.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2024) to £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 3 (FY2024) → 6 (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: PETA EUROPE LIMITED Companies House 02886928
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03135903

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (Peta) Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• CHAPPELL, Leslie James — director, appointed 06/12/2010on trustee list
• NEWKIRK, Ingrid — director, appointed 08/12/1995on trustee list
• LOVICH, Lene — director, appointed 08/12/1995on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• INGRID NEWKIRK
• LENE LOVICH
• Leslie Chappell

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PEOPLE'S DISPENSARY FOR SICK ANIMALS.

• THE PEOPLE'S DISPENSARY FOR SICK ANIMALS income £126.2m
• PETA LIMITED income £4.4m
• THE PETS AT HOME FOUNDATION income £6.6m
• PAWZ FOR THOUGHT income £276k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS income £152.5m
• THE PIKE STAR FOUNDATION income £150k

Side by side with its peers

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