WILDLIFE VETS INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1109670 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WVI

Wildlife Vets International exists to apply specialist veterinary expertise to animal conservation projects, worldwide. This is achieved by training local vets and field biologists, undertaking research, investigating disease, assisting with project planning, and working in conjunction with NGOs and local communities to promote the conservation of rare and endangered species and their habitats.

Objects

THE PROMOTION, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, OF THE CONSERVATION OF RARE AND ENDANGERED SPECIES AND THEIR HABITATS WORLDWIDE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF VETERINARY SERVICES.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net expenditure of £63,567 against total income of £102,690, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £189,459 to £125,892. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were £68,404, which is above the stated policy target of £32,900 (equating to six months of core operating expenditure). The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Risk 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

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05186286

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wildlife Vets International (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Metamorphosis Foundation — “We have £15,000 of match-funding available. That means that every £1 you can give will be doubled , thanks to the generosity of the Metamorp…” (source page)
• The Gibbings Family Charitable Trust — “We have £15,000 of match-funding available. That means that every £1 you can give will be doubled , thanks to the generosity of the Metamorp…” (source page)
• The Reed Foundation — “We have £15,000 of match-funding available. That means that every £1 you can give will be doubled , thanks to the generosity of the Metamorp…” (source page)
• ALTA (Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance) — “ALTA is a fundrasing body to which members, such as WVI, are able to apply for funding. Funds raised through ALTA have supported WVI's Amur …” (source page)
• Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) — “CEPF, through BirdLife Int (Africa) provided emergency funding for WVI to survey all the Seychelles mapgie robin populations for disease.” (source page)
• Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust — “The JSAWT enables WVI to send expert avian surgeon, Johanna Storm, to help the Jivdaya Charitable Trust deal with the 100s of birds of prey …” (source page)
• Twycross Zoo — “Twycross Zoo's Conservation and Wildlife Fund has contributed to our work on the Amur leopard re-introduction programme in far east Russia.” (source page)
• Wildlife Heritage Foundation — “WHF has been long supporters of our Amur leopard project and all our tiger projects (Russia, Sumatra and Bangladesh).” (source page)
• Big Give — “The Big Give Christmas Challenge is our main fundraising event of the year, and recently enabled us to raise £30k to protect wild tiger heal…” (source page)
• Millpledge Vet Ltd — “In 2023, Millpledge marked a new charity partnership with WVI through the launch of their new Natural World Rapz veterinary bandages and an …” (source page)
• Kynetic — “Kynetec employees chose WVI as one of their annual charitable beneficiaries in 2021, and funded the essential Disease Risk Assessment for th…” (source page)
• Yorkshire Wildlilfe Park — “YWP has three painted dogs and has also donated £3,000 and raised a further £1800 towards the African Painted Dog health project in Zimbabwe” (source page)

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.

• BOWERS, Fiona Margaret — director, appointed 29/09/2025on trustee list
• BRANDWOOD, Chantelle — director, appointed 23/07/2024on trustee list
• MEREDITH, Anna Louise, Professor — director, appointed 24/06/2024not on trustee list
• MORROW, Andrew Thomas — director, appointed 14/08/2023on trustee list
• KETTLEWELL, Peter Wildman, Dr — director, appointed 12/05/2022on trustee list
• COE, Peter Charles — director, appointed 01/01/2012on trustee list
• GREENWOOD, Andrew George — secretary, appointed 21/07/2004

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Prof Anna Louise Meredith OBEchair
• Chantelle Brandwood
• Fiona Bowers
• Peter Wildman Kettlewell

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

Operates in: Greece · India · Mauritius · Nepal · Spain

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

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 WILD WELFARE.

• WILD WELFARE income £283k
• WILDLIFE RESCUE income £48k
• WILD THINGS RESCUE income £51k
• THE VINCENT WILDLIFE TRUST income £1.5m
• WILD TEAM CONSERVATION income £210k
• WILDLIFE AND WELFARE income £119k

Side by side with its peers

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