WYTHALL ANIMAL SANCTUARY

Registered charity 1137681 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Wythall Animal Sanctuary's aims and ideals have never wavered: striving to help, rehabilitate and safely re-home as many animals as we can. Whilst recognising in some cases re-homing is not possible, the sanctuary becomes their forever home. We continue to move forward embracing new policies, procedures and technology whilst ever trying to think of financial innovations to help our work continue.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF ANIMAL WELFARE BY PROMOTING THE CARE AND PROTECTION OF ANIMALS OF ALL KINDS IN NEED BY REASON OF SICKNESS, MALTREATMENT, ABANDONMENT, HOMELESSNESS OR OTHER SIMILAR CAUSES IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT IN ANY WAY LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING)1 BY PROVIDING VETERINARY TREATMENT FOR SICK AND INJURED ANIMALS AND ACCOMMODATION WHILST UNDERGOING TREATMENT, AND2 BY PROVIDING ACCOMMODATION FOR UNWANTED OR HOMELESS ANIMALS UNTIL SUCH TIME AS PERMANENT HOMES CAN BE FOUND

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED.

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

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Registered contact address: Bromsgrove, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £85,173 for the year ended 28 February 2025, with unrestricted funds totaling £1,591,873. The trustees state that unrestricted reserves exceed their three-year running cost target by approximately £91,873, indicating adequate financial reserves to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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)

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 28/02/2023 (received 04/01/2024, 7 days after the 28/12/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £44k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 29/02/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~39.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/05/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Curtis George Parker
• DAVID SCOTT
• Imogen M R Gatehouse
• Jacqueline Anne Kent
• Jodie Bristow
• Mark Shrimpton
• Michael Burt
• Stefan Edward Julian Maxwell

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Solihull · Warwickshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WIRRAL ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION.

• THE WIRRAL ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION income £293k
• DESTITUTE ANIMALS SHELTER income £569k
• WORCESTERSHIRE ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER income £994k
• OXFORDSHIRE ANIMAL SANCTUARY SOCIETY income £1.8m
• A.W.L.N. FOALS AND HORSES SANCTUARY income £274k
• FARM ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY income £216k

Side by side with its peers

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