CORNWALL ANIMAL HOSPITAL CHARITY

Registered charity 1153992 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides veterinary services for members of the public

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure deficit of £60,031 for the year ended 30 September 2025, driven by rising costs including government NIC increases and high locum fees. Despite this loss, the charity held unrestricted reserves of £661,743, significantly exceeding its stated policy target of £249,838 required to cover two months of average expenditure. The trustees confirmed adequate resources to continue as a going concern, with plans to utilize reserves for ongoing redevelopment phases.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CORNWALL ANIMAL HOSPITAL CHARITY (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (56% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 39.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• William Chalkerchair
• Graham Victor Barral
• John Cosgrove · trustee of 1 other charity
• Roger John Cock

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

Operates in: Cornwall

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 ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BURY OLDHAM AND DISTRICT BRANCH.

• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BURY OLDHAM AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £1.0m
• CROYDON ANIMAL SAMARITANS income £443k
• LABORATORY ANIMALS LIMITED income £205k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BOURNEMOUTH, NEW FOREST AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £273k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS STORT VALLEY BRANCH income £260k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS CORNWALL BRANCH income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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