STRAY DOGS SANCTUARY

Registered charity 1079542 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Assisting the care of stray and unwanted dogs.

Objects

1) THE CARE AND PROTECTION OF ANIMALS IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION BY REASON OF BEING STRAY, NEGLECTED OR UN-WANTED, AND TO PREVENT CRUELTY AND SUFFERING TO ANIMALS.2) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE PROPER CARE OF ANIMALS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE HAMPSHIRE AND DORSET

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: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's balance sheet has reduced to a target level of £6,000-£10,000 after distributing funds in excess of annual net income. The charity's reserves policy is to maintain sufficient reserves, with a specific figure of £6,787 noted as at 30th September 2024. The charity expects to donate in excess of £30,000 per year to deserving dog rescue and rehoming charities going forward.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Diana Fairhurst
• Jennifer Anne Clifford
• Richard Fryett
• Samantha Ann St Clair Townsend

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

Operates in: Devon · Dorset · Hampshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STOKENCHURCH DOG RESCUE.

• STOKENCHURCH DOG RESCUE income £584k
• ST FRANCIS DOGS HOME income £129k
• SAINTS SLED DOG RESCUE income £258k
• HEATHLANDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY income £153k
• DESTITUTE ANIMALS SHELTER income £569k
• OXFORDSHIRE ANIMAL SANCTUARY SOCIETY income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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