EAST SUSSEX WRAS LTD

Registered charity 1108880 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST SUSSEX WILDLIFE RESCUE, EAST SUSSEX WILDLIFE RESCUE AND AMBULANCE SERVICE, EAST SUSSEX WRAS

Rescue and rehabilitation of all forms of wildlife throughout East Sussex, and education in relation to wildlife.

Objects

TO PROMOTE HUMANE BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS WILDLIFE PRIMARILY IN EAST SUSSEX AND BRIGHTON & HOVE UNITARY AUTHORITY AREAS BY PROVIDING A 24 HOUR RESCUE SERVICE, APPROPRIATE CARE, PROTECTION, TREATMENT AND SECURITY FOR WILDLIFE WHICH IS IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION BY REASON OF SICKNESS, MALTREATMENT, POOR CIRCUMSTANCES OR ILL USAGE AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS PERTAINING TO WILDLIFE WELFARE IN GENERAL AND THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY AND SUFFERING AMONG WILDLIFE.

Area of benefit: EAST SUSSEX AND BRIGHTON & HOVE UNITARY AUTHORITY AREAS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £130,587 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by increased staffing costs and charitable activity expenditure outweighing a decrease in income. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains unrestricted funds of £962,380, which exceeds its stated reserves policy target of approximately £400,000. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate assets to meet its obligations.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — East Sussex WRAS (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 18.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Ware
• Eanna McKnight
• Eloise Zoe May Clemmans
• Gayle Adam
• Linda Dunn
• MURRAE VINCENT HUME
• Mark Adam Rummins
• Sue-Lin Lord

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUSSEX WILDLIFE TRUST.

• SUSSEX WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.2m
• THE WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• THE WILDLIFE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals North Wiltshire and Newbury District Branch income £0
• SOUTH ESSEX WILDLIFE HOSPITAL income £470k
• THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED income £5.3m

Side by side with its peers

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