THE LEAGUE AGAINST CRUEL SPORTS

Registered charity 1095234 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE LEAGUE TRUST, THE LEAGUE TRUST WORKING FOR WILDLIFE, WORKING FOR WILDLIFE · also registered in Scotland as SC045533 (OSCR)

The League Against Cruel Sports works to expose and bring to an end the cruelty inflicted on animals in the name of sport by raising awareness, lobbying & campaigning.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £671k for the year, resulting in total net assets of £4.8m. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves of £3.1m provide eleven months of operational expenditure cover, which the trustees consider sufficient to manage identified risks and ensure long-term financial stability.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Haysmacintyre LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The League Against Cruel Sports (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Fielding — Chair (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)

28 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (28 freehold); recorded price paid £625k. 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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~12.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 19.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Fieldingchair
• David Osborne
• Firat Caleb Cicek
• Hannah Carter
• Marcia Hagon
• Neil Moulding · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Charles Kinkead Allen · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 HUMANE LEAGUE UK.

• THE HUMANE LEAGUE UK income £1.7m
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS income £152.5m
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BLACKPOOL AND NORTH LANCASHIRE BRANCH income £852k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS SURREY WOKING AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £248k
• Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals North Wiltshire and Newbury District Branch income £0
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BURY OLDHAM AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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