NOWZAD

Registered charity 1119185 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NOWZAD DOGS

To relieve the suffering of animals; including companion animals, working equines, stray and abandoned dogs and cats and all other animals in need of care and attention, and to provide and maintain (where possible) rescue, rehabilitation and education facilities for the care and treatment of such animals with no voice but ours.

Objects

I) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF ANIMALS IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION AND IN PARTICULAR, TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN RESCUE HOMES OR OTHER FACILITIES FOR THE RECEPTION, CARE AND TREATMENT OF SUCH ANIMALS. II) TO PROMOTE HUMANE BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS ANIMAS BY PROVIDING APPROPRIATE CARE, PROTECTION, TREATMENT AND SECURITY FOR ANIMALS WHICH ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION BY REASON OF SICKNESS, MALTREATMENT, POOR CIRCUMSTANCES, WAR OR ILL USAGE AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS PERTAINING TO ANIMAL WELFARE IN GENERAL AND THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY AND SUFFERING AMONG 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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Mid Devon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £232,445 for the 18-month period, increasing unrestricted funds to £2,324,773. Cash balances at the period end totalled £2,033,404, providing sufficient liquidity to meet short-term obligations. The trustees consider the reserves level prudent given the operational and geopolitical risks in Afghanistan and Ukraine.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Streets Audit LLP. 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
• Conflicting interests
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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

• Trading subsidiary: THE NOWZAD STORE LTD Companies House 09758477

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Nowzad (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Liuba — Nowzad Lviv Country Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~16.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Morag Harrischair
• Anthony Borrell
• Daniel Tatsch
• Jean Paul Bonnelly
• Mark Horwood-James
• Patricia Murchison

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Ukraine

Income and spending

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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.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEWCASTLE DOG AND CAT SHELTER.

• NEWCASTLE DOG AND CAT SHELTER income £2.4m
• NORTH CLWYD ANIMAL RESCUE income £1.8m
• FELINE CARE income £335k
• OAKWOOD ANIMAL SANCTUARY income £45k
• INTERNATIONAL AID FOR THE PROTECTION AND WELFARE OF ANIMALS income £340k
• USK NEW START CAT RESCUE income £87k

Side by side with its peers

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