INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE

Registered charity 1118277 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

International Animal Rescue saves animals from suffering, rehabilitates and releases them back into the wild and protects their precious natural habitats. We rescue captive bears in India and Armenia, rehabilitate orangutans and other primates in Indonesia and rear orphaned howler monkeys in Costa Rica. IAR has been registered since 1989, former reg no 802132.

Causes: Education/training · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£3.8m

Latest spending

£4.2m

Registered

2007

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £545,938 and a net movement in funds of £450,605 for the year ended 31 December 2024, primarily due to increased charitable expenditure and capital construction costs. Despite the deficit, the trustees confirm that free reserves of £3.6 million remain within the agreed policy range of £3.5 million to £4 million, ensuring long-term sustainability. The independent auditors have concluded that the use of the going concern basis is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £3.5m to £4m (held: £3.6m)

“Taking the above into consideration, the Trustees have agreed an appropriate reserves range for [AR as £3.5m to £4m” — page 16

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Grants and expenses totalling £Nil (2023: £234,922) were paid to Catastrophes Cat Rescue. An interest free loan of £50,000 was provided to Catastrophes Cat Rescue during the year, of which £35,000 was outstanding at the year end, and has been fully repaid in 2025. Accounting services are provided free of charge to Catastrophes Cat Rescue. The partner of Alan Knight, President of IAR, is the founder and trustee of Catastrophes Cat Rescue.

“Grants and expenses totalling £Nil (2023: £234,922) were paid to Catastrophes Cat Rescue. An interest free loan of £50,000 was provided to Catastrophes Cat Rescue during the year, of which £35,000 was outstanding at the year end, and has been fully repaid in 2025. Accounting services are provided free of charge to Catastrophes Cat Rescue. The partner of Alan Knight, President of IAR, is the founder and trustee of Catastrophes Cat Rescue.” — page 38

“Accounting services fees of £8,050 (2023: £4,600) were charged to British Divers Marine Life Rescue, and office space is provided free of charge. Alan Knight, President of IAR, is a trustee of British Divers Marine Life Rescue.” — page 38

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Accounting services fees of £8,050 (2023: £4,600) were charged to British Divers Marine Life Rescue, and office space is provided free of charge. Alan Knight, President of IAR, is a trustee of British Divers Marine Life Rescue.

“Grants and expenses totalling £Nil (2023: £234,922) were paid to Catastrophes Cat Rescue. An interest free loan of £50,000 was provided to Catastrophes Cat Rescue during the year, of which £35,000 was outstanding at the year end, and has been fully repaid in 2025. Accounting services are provided free of charge to Catastrophes Cat Rescue. The partner of Alan Knight, President of IAR, is the founder and trustee of Catastrophes Cat Rescue.” — page 38

“Accounting services fees of £8,050 (2023: £4,600) were charged to British Divers Marine Life Rescue, and office space is provided free of charge. Alan Knight, President of IAR, is a trustee of British Divers Marine Life Rescue.” — page 38

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: The fair market value of the vehicle at the time of transfer was £6,500 and this amount has been disclosed as a related party transaction in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) requirements.

“Grants and expenses totalling £Nil (2023: £234,922) were paid to Catastrophes Cat Rescue. An interest free loan of £50,000 was provided to Catastrophes Cat Rescue during the year, of which £35,000 was outstanding at the year end, and has been fully repaid in 2025. Accounting services are provided free of charge to Catastrophes Cat Rescue. The partner of Alan Knight, President of IAR, is the founder and trustee of Catastrophes Cat Rescue.” — page 38

“Accounting services fees of £8,050 (2023: £4,600) were charged to British Divers Marine Life Rescue, and office space is provided free of charge. Alan Knight, President of IAR, is a trustee of British Divers Marine Life Rescue.” — page 38

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: International Animal Rescue Trading Limited

“The Charity holds 100% of the issued share capital of International Animal Rescue Trading Limited (2 ordinary £1 shares). The company was dormant throughout the year.” — page 36

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sumer Audit. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £215k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Total income

£3.8m

Total spending

£4.2m

Cost of raising funds

£599k

Reserves (reported)

£3.6m

Employees

19

Reported reserves equal ~10.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 15.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Amanda Bruce
Aurora Mateo Roman
PAUL CASSAR
PETER GEORGE BENNETT

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

Operates in: Armenia · Costa Rica · India · Indonesia

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£3.8m	£4.2m
31/12/2023	£3.1m	£4.0m
31/12/2022	£3.5m	£3.8m
31/12/2021	£4.0m	£3.9m
31/12/2020	£3.9m	£3.8m

Common questions

Is INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £545,938 and a net movement in funds of £450,605 for the year ended 31 December 2024, primarily due to increased charitable expenditure and capital construction costs. Despite the deficit, the trustees confirm that free reserves of £3.6 million remain within the agreed policy range of £3.5 million to £4 million, ensuring long-term sustainability. The independent auditors have concluded that the use of the going concern basis is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Sumer Audit.

Who funds INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE as a grant recipient include THE MICHAEL UREN FOUNDATION, MOONDANCE FOUNDATION, THE ANNANDALE CHARITABLE TRUST, RUTH SMART FOUNDATION, THE CATHERINE AND ANGUS WOOD CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE MICHAEL UREN FOUNDATION	FY2025	£1.5m	Animal Welfare
THE MICHAEL UREN FOUNDATION	FY2022	£500k	Animal Welfare
THE MICHAEL UREN FOUNDATION	FY2023	£480k	Animal Welfare
MOONDANCE FOUNDATION	FY2022	£100k	Environment
MOONDANCE FOUNDATION	FY2023	£93k
THE ANNANDALE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£5k
RUTH SMART FOUNDATION	FY2022	£4k
THE CATHERINE AND ANGUS WOOD CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2026	£2k
R G HILLS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£2k
R G HILLS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£2k
RUTH SMART FOUNDATION	FY2023	£2k
R G HILLS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£2k
RUTH SMART FOUNDATION	FY2024	£2k
MARJORIE COOTE ANIMAL CHARITY TRUST	FY2025	£2k
THE A AND R WOOLF CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£1k
MARJORIE COOTE ANIMAL CHARITY TRUST	FY2024	£1k

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE ANTHONY V MARTIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	2	£198k
THE ROSE ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST CIO	2	£50k
THE BERYL EVETTS AND ROBERT LUFF ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST LIMITED	2	£10k
MRS D M FRANCE-HAYHURST FOUNDATION	2	£10k
MICHAEL AND SHIRLEY HUNT CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£3k
THE MILLENNIUM OAK TRUST	1	—
The Brindle Foundation	1	£452k
PRISM THE GIFT FUND	1	£100k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE (IFAW).

INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE (IFAW) income £17.4m
BORNEO ORANGUTAN SURVIVAL UK income £1.1m
INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE COALITION TRUST income £253k
THE WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION income £2.0m
CUAN WILDLIFE RESCUE income £1.0m
FARPLACE ANIMAL RESCUE income £7.0m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE	£3.8m	—	—	within	—	no doubt
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE (IFAW) FY2025	£17.4m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BORNEO ORANGUTAN SURVIVAL UK FY2025	£1.1m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE COALITION TRUST FY2025	£253k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION FY2024	£2.0m	£60,000 - £69,999	1	unclear	3.1%	no doubt
CUAN WILDLIFE RESCUE FY2025	£1.0m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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