GREYHOUND RESCUE WALES

Registered charity 1152650 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GRW

The rescue and re-homing of greyhounds and greyhound cross breeds.

Objects

1) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN WALES AND IT'S ENVIRONS (HEREAFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT) TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE AND RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF GREYHOUNDS AND GREYHOUND CROSS BREEDS (LURCHERS) IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION, AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN RESCUE HOMES OR OTHER FACILITIES FOR THE RECEPTION, CARE AND TREATMENT OF SUCH ANIMALS.2) TO PROMOTE HUMANE BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS ANIMALS BY PROVIDING APPROPRIATE CARE, PROTECTION, TREATMENT AND SECURITY FOR GREYHOUNDS AND GREYHOUND CROSS BREEDS WHICH ARE RETIRED, UNWANTED OR IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION BY REASON OF SICKNESS, POOR CIRCUMSTANCES OR ILL USAGE, AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS PERTAINING TO ANIMAL WELFARE IN GENERAL AND THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY AND SUFFERING AMONG ANIMALS.

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: Carmarthenshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £90,525 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £731,064 to £640,539. The trustees note that while the year was financially challenging due to rising costs, the charity's reserves were sufficient to avoid an existential threat. The charity maintains a reserves policy target of at least three months' expenditure, and unrestricted reserves of £635,478 are significantly above this threshold.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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 expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — GREYHOUND RESCUE WALES (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £231k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/02/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 63.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/02/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Debra Claire Allenchair
• Alain David Thomas
• Alicia Nicole Stark
• Amanda Simisker
• Claire Gardner
• Jennifer Alys Newbury
• Prof. Malcolm Eames
• Tina Dunstan

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GREYHOUND GAP.

• GREYHOUND GAP income £348k
• GREYHOUND RESCUE income £70k
• FEN BANK GREYHOUND SANCTUARY income £233k
• HARLEY'S HOUNDS ANIMAL RESCUE income £61k
• MISS MOLLIES RESCUE income £41k
• GREYHOUND RESCUE NORTH EAST income £61k

Side by side with its peers

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