THE BROOKE HOSPITAL FOR ANIMALS

Registered charity 1085760 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE BROOKE · also registered in Scotland as SC050582 (OSCR)

Since it was founded in 1934, the Brooke has helped to relieve the suffering of millions of working horses, donkeys and mules and improved the livelihoods of the countless people who depend upon them. The Brooke provides veterinary services in some of the world's poorest communities, treating animals and training animal-owners in countries including Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Kenya and Pakistan.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £24.8m, with total expenditure of £25.1m, resulting in a net increase in funds. The charity holds unrestricted general reserves of £10.1m, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover minimum reserves of five months' operating costs and other obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Brooke (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Chris Wainwright — Chief Executive (source)
• Kirsty Hayes — Chair (source)
• Jasvir Kaur — Director (source)
• Nicola Chevis — Director (source)
• Aragie Yimer — Director (source)
• Bo Ruan — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 29.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/07/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Isobel Hayeschair
• Amy Jankiewicz
• Christopher John Tattersall
• Dr Linda Belton
• Eric Munene Kimani
• Heather Jane Killen
• Mark Hugh McLaughlin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Patrick Lawrence Mulford

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

Operates in: Burkina Faso · Egypt · Ethiopia · Guatemala · India · Kenya · Nepal · Nicaragua · Pakistan · Senegal · Somalia · Sudan

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 DONKEY SANCTUARY.

• THE DONKEY SANCTUARY income £59.6m
• THE GAMBIA HORSE AND DONKEY TRUST income £371k
• HORSEWORLD TRUST income £1.2m
• JARJEER MULE AND DONKEY TRUST income £234k
• THE FLICKA FOUNDATION income £1.8m
• BLEAKHOLT ANIMAL SANCTUARY income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.