GLOUCESTERSHIRE ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION AND CHELTENHAM ANIMAL SHELTER

Registered charity 1081019 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHELTENHAM ANIMAL SHELTER, GLOUCESTERSHIRE ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION

Animal welfare and humane education

Objects

1) TO PROVIDE CARE AND SHELTER FOR ANIMALS IN NEED OF CARE AND PROTECTION BY REASON OF THEIR SICKNESS, NEGLECT OR MALNUTRITION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING A HOME FOR STRAY ANIMALS IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND FINDING PERMANENT HOMES FOR UNWANTED DOMESTIC ANIMALS.2) TO ENCOURAGE GOOD PRACTICE IN THE CARE OF ANIMALS IN THE COMMUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheltenham, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £155,805 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by strong legacy receipts and improved trading performance. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,669,752 and maintains a reserves policy target of sufficient funds to operate for at least two years without donations or legacies. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, owns its site mortgage-free, and has no other debts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hazlewoods. 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: CHELTENHAM ANIMAL SHELTER LIMITED Companies House 03804561
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03868428 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cheltenham Animal Shelter (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.

• ABBOTT, Michelle Lesley — director, appointed 10/10/2025on trustee list
• KAPUSTYNSKA, Aleksandra — director, appointed 20/09/2024on trustee list
• BARNES, Claire Tekla — director, appointed 20/09/2024on trustee list
• WHITEMAN, Stephen Leonard — director, appointed 20/09/2024on trustee list
• HOWARD, Claire — director, appointed 03/11/2016on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Ann — director, appointed 25/11/2008on trustee list
• BARNES, Garth Wallington, Councillor — director, appointed 07/10/2003on trustee list
• STEWART, Jane Ann — director, appointed 07/12/1999on trustee list
• NEWCOMBE, Peter Andrew — secretary, appointed 22/06/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~19.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JANE STEWARTchair
• ANN WILLIAMS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Aleksandra Kapustynska
• COUNCILLOR GARTH WALLINGTON BARNES
• Claire Howard
• Claire Tekla Barnes
• Michelle Lesley Abbott
• Stephen Leonard Whiteman

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

Operates in: Bristol City · Gloucestershire · Merthyr Tydfil · Oxfordshire · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WARRINGTON ANIMAL WELFARE.

• WARRINGTON ANIMAL WELFARE income £380k
• WORCESTERSHIRE ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER income £994k
• THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOCIETY income £160k
• LEICESTER ANIMAL RESCUE income £239k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £6.1m
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BURY OLDHAM AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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