Humane World for Animals United Kingdom

Registered charity 1098925 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (UK)

Animal welfare services. Grants to animal welfare charities. Research and education into animal welfare.

Causes: Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased to £1.86m from £2.29m in the prior year, driven by a net expenditure of £431k against income of £3.91m. The charity maintains a strong liquidity position with £1.25m in cash at bank and unrestricted reserves of £1.39m, which significantly exceed the stated policy target of £615k. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern with support from affiliated US entities.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04610194

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Humane World for Animals UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kitty Block — President and CEO (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.

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.

• WALLACE, Arnedia Kajuannette — director, appointed 02/10/2025on trustee list
• HALL III, William Henry — director, appointed 01/02/2023not on trustee list
• BLOCK, Cristobel — director, appointed 05/02/2018on trustee list
• FREIDBERG, Alexandra Gabrielle — director, appointed 05/02/2018on trustee list
• WALLACE, Arnedia — secretary, appointed 25/10/2024

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 38.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALEXANDRA FREIDBERG
• Arnedia Wallace
• Cristobel Block
• William Henry Hall III

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LABORATORY ANIMALS LIMITED.

• LABORATORY ANIMALS LIMITED income £250k
• THE MARCHIG ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST income £556k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS LEEDS, WAKEFIELD AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £1.4m
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BURY OLDHAM AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £1.0m
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION AND CHELTENHAM ANIMAL SHELTER income £1.8m
• THE ROSE ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST CIO income £247k

Side by side with its peers

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