THE RETREAT ANIMAL RESCUE

Registered charity 1105654 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Retreat takes in unwanted, neglected, abused and sick animals and provides vet care, facilities for their rehabilitation, food, and a safe haven. We aim, where possible, to rehome animals (subject to home checks). The Retreat has volunteers who carry out the day to day care of the animals and fundraising.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF UNWANTED, ABANDONED AND NEGLECTED ANIMALS THAT ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND TREATMENT, BY THE PROVISION OF A RESCUE AND RE-HOMING SERVICE AND THE ACCOMMODATION OF SUCH ANIMALS, AND TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN MATTERS CONCERNING ANIMAL WELFARE.

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.

Causes: Animals · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Ashford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £364,218 to £243,985, resulting in a net expenditure deficit of £123,273 for the year. The trustees report that free reserves (excluding designated lease funds) stood at £225,009, which the charity considers sufficient to cover future running costs. The charity is unincorporated and relies on an independent examiner rather than an independent audit.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2023 (received 21/06/2024, 21 days after the 31/05/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Retreat Animal Rescue (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Chloe Ann Jennings
• Christine Fosbury
• Dr Susan Bauer
• Ian Henry Thompson · trustee of 1 other charity
• LISA YVONNE THOMPSON
• Mandy Pierce

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

Operates in: Essex · Kent · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REN'S RESCUE.

• REN'S RESCUE income £56k
• THE RETREAT ASSOCIATION income £143k
• SAWPIT RETIREMENT HOME income £55k
• TAG PET RESCUE income £386k
• DESTITUTE ANIMALS SHELTER income £569k
• LEICESTER ANIMAL RESCUE income £239k

Side by side with its peers

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