THE LABRADOR RESCUE TRUST

Registered charity 1088198 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE LABRADOR RESCUE TRUST CO

To alleviate suffering and distress caused to dogs and in particular Labradors which may be ill-treated, abandoned, rejected or neglected. The area covered by the trust is mainly in South West England. The trust has over one hundred helpers who are all unpaid volunteers.

Objects

2.1 The Charity's objects are:2.1.1. to alleviate suffering and distress cause to dogs which may be ill treated, abandoned, rejected or neglected; and2.1.2 to promote the welfare of dogs and responsible dog ownership.2.2 In article 2.1, "dogs" shall mean in particular but without limitation, the breed known as "Labrador Retriever".

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £184,674 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total income of £479,126 and expenditure of £299,568. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £936,022 significantly exceed the stated policy target of approximately £125,000, which is intended to cover six months of operations in the absence of income.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Trustee expenses 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

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04145991
• Trading subsidiary: LABRADOR RESCUE (TRADING) LIMITED Companies House 04146447

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Labrador Rescue 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.

• BRISTOL, Isobelle Ruby — director, appointed 23/09/2024on trustee list
• HIXON, Fiona Diane — director, appointed 02/03/2013on trustee list
• WEBSTER, Denzil Keith — director, appointed 18/11/2005on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/07/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/02/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• FIONA HIXONchair
• Hilary McNeill
• Isobelle Ruby Bristol
• KEITH DENZIL WEBSTER

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LABRADOR RESCUE SOUTH EAST AND CENTRAL.

• LABRADOR RESCUE SOUTH EAST AND CENTRAL income £153k
• LABRADOR UK ACTION GROUP income £61k
• LABRADOR WELFARE income £80k
• LABRADOR LIFELINE TRUST income £102k
• LOVE UNDERDOGS income £390k
• LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE SOUTHERN ENGLAND income £55k

Side by side with its peers

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