THE FLICKA FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1153858 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE RESCUE & REHABILITATION OF DONKEYS, HORSES & OTHER ANIMALS FROM CRUELTY, NEGLECT OR ABANDONMENT OR ELDERLY ANIMALS THAT REQUIRE VETERINARY CARE AND ATTENTION. FACILITATING UNDER PRIVILEGED, DISABLED & SICK CHILDREN TO INTERACT WITH RESCUE DONKEYS & HORSES, FACILITATING MANY GROUPS INCLUDING THE ELDERLY, HOMES, CLUBS & SCHOOLS, HEART, STROKE, CANCER VICTIMS FOR REHABILITATION THERAPY.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE HUMANE BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS ANIMALS, IN PARTICULAR HORSES AND DONKEYS, BY PROVIDING APPROPRIATE CARE, PROTECTION, TREATMENT AND SECURITY FOR ANIMALS WHICH ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION BY REASON OF SICKNESS, MAL TREATMENT OR POOR CIRCUMSTANCES OR ILL USAGE AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS PERTAINING TO ANIMAL WELFARE IN GENERAL.(2) THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY AND SUFFERING AMONG ANIMALS.(3) TO PROVIDE THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITIES FOR UNDER PRIVILEGED, HANDICAPPED AND DISABLED CHILDREN AND ADULTS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE BY ARRANGING INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES WITH RESCUED DONKEYS AND PONIES.

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: Animals · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £937,906 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £1,804,578. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £4,420,209, which is significantly above the stated policy target of £1,200,000. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MC Audit Limited. 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
• 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
• 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 — The Flicka Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Donkey Breed Society — “We were delighted to receive a generous donation of £1000 from them in November 2020 and remain extremely grateful for all the work they do …” (source page)
• Gina Canine for Donkeys — “provided a wonderful grant of $10,000 for the donkeys and towards our work in June 2020, which we were extremely grateful for” (source page)
• Support Adoption For Pets — “have generously awarded us a number of amazing grants over the past 5 years, allowing us to complete various capital projects around our san…” (source page)
• Petplan Charitable Trust — “are providing a generous grant to fund the installation of an automatic watering system in our new Donkey Activities Barn.” (source page)
• Wetnose Animal Aid — “have very kindly donated funds to help us cover the costs of our ongoing and expensive vets bills.” (source page)
• The Michael and Shirley Hunt Charitable Trust — “has kindly awarded us grants over the past few years, most recently in 2019 awarding us £1,000 towards the enormous veterinary costs” (source page)
• The Norman Family Charitable Trust — “has supported us with grants, including a donation of £1,500 in 2019 towards our veterinary care costs.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £260k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~61.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/11/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/03/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MS L STEPHENSONchair
• Dr Roger Wood
• LINDA PAGET
• Lynn Brown
• MS J GILES
• Wendy Draper

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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.

Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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