CRUELTY FREE INTERNATIONAL TRUST

Registered charity 1081183 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ANIMAL INSIGHT, BUAV CHARITABLE TRUST

The Trust promotes animal welfare and the prevention of unnecessary suffering arising from animal experiments. It strives to educate the public in the moral and scientific arguments, for and against animal experiments; undertakes research into new techniques and alternatives to the use of animals in medical and other research; and regulatory compliance with the law in this field.

Causes: Education/training · Animals · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a significant increase in total income to £928,373, driven largely by a surge in legacy receipts, resulting in an unplanned surplus of £491,884. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,635,623, which substantially exceed its stated minimum reserve policy target of £100,000. The trustees confirm that adequate resources are in place to continue operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03685911

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cruelty Free International Trust (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.

• BROOKS, Nicola Roberta — director, appointed 03/07/2024on trustee list
• THOMAS, Eleanor Susan Clare — director, appointed 23/07/2010on trustee list
• BARRETT, Siobhan Mary — director, appointed 06/04/2009on trustee list
• DEACON, Christopher — director, appointed 20/03/1999not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~45.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER DEACON ACIIchair
• ELEANOR THOMAS
• Nicola Brooks
• ROBERT GARNER
• SIOBHAN BARRETT

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE MARCHIG ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST income £556k
• Animal Free Research UK income £1.0m
• WHITLEY ANIMAL PROTECTION TRUST income £385k
• LABORATORY ANIMALS LIMITED income £250k
• THE BERYL EVETTS AND ROBERT LUFF ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST LIMITED income £160k
• Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals North Wiltshire and Newbury District Branch income £0

Side by side with its peers

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