ASSISTANCE DOGS (UK)

Registered charity 1119538 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

ADUK seeks to advance the education of the public and service providers about assistance dogs, and the rights of people who rely on them. The charity does this by bringing internationally accredited assistance dog organisations together so that they might share their knowledge and expertise to create information, guidance and best practice.

Objects

A. the relief of disabled people through seeking to improve access for people who depend on assistance dogs in public places such as, but without limitation, supermarkets restaurants and on public transport and which might not otherwise be accessible to them; B. to advance the education of the public regarding the needs and rights of disabled people who depend on assistance dogs in public places; andC. to promote and organise co-operation in the furtherance of such purposes between accredited assistance dog organisations

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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

Causes: Disability · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is severely corrupted with extensive OCR errors, making it impossible to extract specific financial figures, governance details, or operational narratives. The text appears to be a garbled representation of charity accounts for the year ending 2025-12-31, but no explicit financial health indicators can be verified from the raw data.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 2 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
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Patrcia Stafford MBEchair
• CLAIRE MARIE GUEST
• Edward Bracher
• GARRY BOTTERILL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Liam John Flynn
• Lucy Eldred
• Rita Howson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 HEARING DOGS FOR DEAF PEOPLE.

• HEARING DOGS FOR DEAF PEOPLE income £16.3m
• RECOVERY ASSISTANCE DOGS income £35k
• LUCAS HELPS DOGS income £26k
• DOG ASSISTANCE IN DISABILITY income £192k
• ANIMAL RESCUE income £576k
• DOGS TRUST income £172.3m

Side by side with its peers

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