COVENTRY CAT GROUP

Registered charity 1065043 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COV-CAT

We help, care for the welfare and improve the quality of life of abandoned or feral cats in and around Coventry. We respond to calls for help when we are told cats and/or kittens are apparently abandoned living in gardens or on the highway, or surviving rough as ferals and endeavour to improve their quality of life.Volunteers and helpers are always welcome to join us.

Objects

1) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF CARE AND ACCOMMODATION FOR ABANDONED MAINLY FERAL CATS WHICH ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND PROTECTION BY REASON OF HOMELESSNESS, SICKNESS, MALTREATMENT, POOR CIRCUMSTANCES OR ILL USAGE AND THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO THE SUFFERING AMONG SUCH CATS IN COVENTRY AND THE IMMEDIATE SURROUNDING AREA AND 2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CARE OF FERAL CATS

Area of benefit: COVENTRY AND THE IMMEDIATE SURROUNDING AREA

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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Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned a small surplus of £18,353 for the year ended 31st March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £302,431. The Treasurer reports that the charity remains in a healthy financial position despite unexpected maintenance costs. The trustees declare that the charity has no substantial reserves policy.

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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Coventry Cat Group (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin David Childs
• Deborah Brassington
• Judith Anne Stanley
• Linda Rosemary McManus

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

Operates in: Coventry City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CAT WELFARE GROUP LTD.

• THE CAT WELFARE GROUP LTD income £209k
• HERONBANK CAT RESCUE income £113k
• CAT'S GUIDANCE income £99k
• FERAL CAT AND ELDERLY CAT CARE AND SANCTUARY income £28k
• THE STRAY CAT CLUB income £88k
• OLDHAM CATS income £173k

Side by side with its peers

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