MAYFLOWER SANCTUARY LIMITED

Registered charity 1147324 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing public benefit in relation to animal welfare within the community.

Objects

(1) TO RELIEVE SUFFERING AND DISTRESS OF ANIMALS WHO ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION BY REASON OF SICKNESS OR BECAUSE THEY ARE STRAYS, HAVE BEEN ABANDONED, NEGLECTED OR MALTREATED, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF A RESCUE SERVICE AND RE-HOMING SERVICE AND FOSTER HOMES FOR TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION OF SUCH ANIMALS(2) TO EDUCATE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ON MATTERS CONCERNING ANIMAL WELFARE(3) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OF PET OWNERS WHO ARE IN NEED AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF NEUTERING SERVICE

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £195,702 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income increasing to £816,181. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £723,096, which the trustees consider adequate for future needs and unforeseen contingencies.

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 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• 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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~16.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/07/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ELIZABETH ANNE WIGHAM
• JENNIE FOXALL-LORD
• KELVIN WIGHAM
• KENNETH GODLEY
• MARGARET GODLEY
• PAUL WILKINSON
• SIMON LORD

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

Operates in: Barnsley · City Of York · Derbyshire · Doncaster · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Lincolnshire · North Yorkshire · Nottinghamshire · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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