THE DEREK WILTON DOGS TRUST

Registered charity 1120692 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The focus is on making donations to provide assistance dogs, to support research and training in the use of dogs for the public benefit and to relieve the suffering of dogs in need.

Objects

(1) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE SICK, DISABLED OR OTHERWISE INFIRM BY PROMOTING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF APPROPRIATELY TRAINED DOGS;(2) TO PROMOTE OR SUPPORT ACADEMIC AND MEDICAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING PROJECTS INVOLVING DOGS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, WHERE THAT RESEARCH AND TRAINING DOES NOT BRING ANY HARM TO THE DOGS INVOLVED, AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF; AND(3) TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF DOGS WHO ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION, AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROVIDE OR MAINTAIN OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OR MAINTENANCE OR SUPPORT OF KENNELS, RESCUE HOMES OR OTHER FACILITIES FOR THE RECEPTION AND CARE OF DOGS AND THE TREATMENT OF SICK, INJURED, NEGLECTED OR ILL TREATED DOGS.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS. EUROPE AND ASIA

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Animals · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £8,290,669, which exceeds the previous year's figure of £7,652,618. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue operating for at least twelve months and can fund all committed grants. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £638,051, driven largely by investment gains.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Carr Briggs
• Hayley Jones
• Nicola Martin
• Peter Gorbing · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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