PETS AS THERAPY

Registered charity 1112194 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC038910 (OSCR)

Pets As Therapy facilitates visits by registered volunteers with their temperament assessed dogs and cats to establishments including hospitals, hospices, residential and nursing homes, and day care centres, bringing comfort, companionship and therapy into the lives of thousands of patients and residents. Registered PAT dogs and cats also work with phobic children and stroke patients.

Objects

1) TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING AND DISTRESS OF DOGS IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE HEALTH, CARE, MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING OF DOGS AND BY ALL OTHER MEANS;2) TO PRESERVE PUBLIC HEALTH AND TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC FROM NUISANCE BY PROMOTING HIGH STANDARDS OF RESPONSIBLE DOG OWNERSHIP; AND3) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AND TO PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY AMONGST CHILDREN AND ELDERLY PEOPLE, THROUGH THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PEOPLE AND COMPANION ANIMALS.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £505,129, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of a minimum of £295,000 (three months of operating expenditure). Although the charity reported a net expenditure for the year, the trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Ross Brooke. Discloses 6 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05311186

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Pets As Therapy (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).

• Nationwide — “PAT Volunteer secures £10,000 Nationwide grant” (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.

• HOTCHKISS, Jenny — director, appointed 11/09/2026on trustee list
• JACKSON, Sara Louise — director, appointed 27/03/2026on trustee list
• LEWIS, Helen Elizabeth, Professor — director, appointed 27/03/2026on trustee list
• COLLINS, Alan Stanley, Sir — director, appointed 27/03/2026on trustee list
• FAIRCLOUGH, Joanne — director, appointed 27/03/2026on trustee list
• BARTH, Louise — director, appointed 01/06/2023on trustee list
• EDGAR, Jannine Rosanne — director, appointed 01/06/2023on trustee list
• MORRELL, Helen Christine — director, appointed 01/06/2023on trustee list
• MORTON, Alexandra Claire — director, appointed 01/06/2023on trustee list
• WINDSOR, Ian — director, appointed 04/11/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 18.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Collins
• Alexandra Morton
• Helen Lewis Professor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Morrell
• Ian Windsor
• Jannine Edgar
• Jenny Hotchkiss
• Joanne Fairclough
• Louise Barth
• Sara Jackson

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 PET CHARITY.

• THE PET CHARITY income £27k
• PET RESPECT LIMITED income £46k
• FELINE CARE income £335k
• THE PETS AT HOME FOUNDATION income £6.6m
• THERAPY DOGS NATIONWIDE income £107k
• PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS (PETA) FOUNDATION income £7.7m

Side by side with its peers

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