NATIONAL ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST

Registered charity 1090499 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q16998445 · Wikipedia · also known as HEAVEN'S GATE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE CENTRE, MOLLY WYATT'S DOG RESCUE, NATIONAL ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST LIMITED, NAWT, TRINDLEDOWN FARM, TRINDLEDOWN RETIREMENT CENTRE FOR ELDERLY ANIMALS

The National Animal Welfare Trust's primary purpose is to rescue and re-home animals, primarily cats and dogs, but also farm animals and small domestic pets too.

Objects

THE PROVISION OF CARE AND SHELTER FOR STRAY, NEGLECTED AND UNWANTED ANIMALS OF ALL KINDS AND THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS OF ALL KINDS FROM ILLUSAGE, CRUELTY AND SUFFERING AND IN PARTICULAR TO RESCUE AND PROVIDE CARE AND SHELTER FOR STRAY, NEGLECTED AND UNWANTED ANIMALS OF ALL KINDS AND FIND SUITABLE HOMES FOR ANY SUCH ANIMALS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, THE UNITED KINGDOM

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: Hertsmere, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £1,401,039 for the year, primarily driven by a one-off depreciation write-off of £1,091,002 and rising staff costs. While total funds stand at £8.3 million, 55% is tied up in fixed assets and restricted funds, leaving free unrestricted reserves of £3,524,100, which the trustees state are sufficient to cover seven months of running costs against a policy target of three months. The trustees and auditors confirm the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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 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
• 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

• Trading subsidiary: AWT TRADING LIMITED Companies House 02363778
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04251503

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — National Animal Welfare 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.

• O'DWYER, Marianthi — director, appointed 21/05/2025on trustee list
• BAYLISS, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 21/05/2025on trustee list
• DEMPSEY, Anthony Patrick — director, appointed 21/05/2025on trustee list
• STANKISTE, Amie — director, appointed 21/05/2025on trustee list
• HIGGINS, Katherine Marie Therese — director, appointed 21/05/2025on trustee list
• BROWN, Kate — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• GARRATT, John Kenneth — director, appointed 27/07/2022on trustee list
• WEBSTER, Dawn Elizabeth — secretary, appointed 01/04/2013

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (10 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 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~9.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 24.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/12/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Marianthi O'Dwyerchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amie Stankiste
• Anthony Patrick Dempsey
• John Kenneth Garratt
• Kate Brown
• Katherine Marie Therese Higgins
• Sarah Elizabeth Bayliss

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BATH AND DISTRICT BRANCH.

• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BATH AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £2.9m
• NEWCASTLE DOG AND CAT SHELTER income £2.4m
• THE BELFORTE TRUST income £348k
• TY-NANT CAT SANCTUARY income £99k
• NORTH CLWYD ANIMAL RESCUE income £1.8m
• WHITLEY ANIMAL PROTECTION TRUST income £385k

Side by side with its peers

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