WILDLIFE RESCUE AND AMBULANCE SERVICE (ENFIELD)

Registered charity 1060452 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Rescue & rehabilitation of wild animals and birds. Gives work experience to youngsters & offers voluntary work to all.

Objects

TO RELIEVE ANIMALS THAT ARE IN NEED DUE TO BEING INJURED, TRAPPED, SICK, ORPHANED OR ABANDONED, IN PARTICULAR BY: (1) THE PROVISION OF A RESCUE SERVICE. (2) TREATING INJURED WILDLIFE WHERE POSSIBLE AND TRANSPORTING TO A WILDLIFE HOSPITAL WHERE NECESSARY (3) RETURNING (WHERE POSSIBLE) ALL TREATED ANIMALS TO THE WILD OR ARRANGING PERMANENT ACCOMMODATION WHERE RELEASE IS NOT POSSIBLE.

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: Education/training · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated with a net operating deficit for the year ending 31 December 2024. Free reserves, represented by the building society balance, decreased from £60,007.94 to £83,731.89, though the text notes finances were managed in a well-controlled manner despite cost pressures.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — w. r. a. s. enfield (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARRY KEITH SMITHERMAN MBEchair
• Barry Smitherman MBE
• DEBORAH ANNE CLARKE
• June Dorothy Smitherman mbe

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

Operates in: Essex · Hertfordshire · Throughout London

Income and spending

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