HOUNDS FOR HEROES

Registered charity 1134359 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC043751 (OSCR)

Providing specially trained assistance dogs to injured and disabled men and women of the UK Armed Forces and Civilian Emergency Services.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO PERSONS WHO ARE DISABLED (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND/OR MENTALLY) AND ARE MEMBERS OR EX MEMBERS OF THE UK ARMED FORCES OR CIVILIAN EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION OF SUITABLY TRAINED ASSISTANCE DOGS AND THE PROVISION OF PRACTICAL INFORMATION, SERVICES AND SUPPORT.

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with an operating deficit of £76,600, which was a significant improvement on the prior year's deficit of £259,871. Per the trustees' report, the charity has ample reserves to sustain its objectives, with total unrestricted funds of £1,094,537 (comprising £65,817 in general funds and £1,028,720 in designated reserves). The trustees remain confident in the charity’s ability to continue as a viable and ongoing concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore (South) LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hounds for Heroes (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~17.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 38.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALLEN PARTON
• Alan Smith
• Amanda Ferguson
• Audrey Howie
• Catherine Brook
• Damian Malone
• Hannah Ruth Collyer
• Harriet Slater
• Julian Forth
• Michael Jonathan Perkins
• Peter Ketley
• Sarah Elizabeth Cole

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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.

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 HELP FOR HEROES.

• HELP FOR HEROES income £22.8m
• HELPING HOUNDS HAMPSHIRE income £60k
• FOREVER HOUNDS TRUST income £1.5m
• HARLEY'S HOUNDS ANIMAL RESCUE income £61k
• HOMES FOR HOUNDS income £32k
• SUPPORT DOGS LIMITED income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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