SWAN LIFELINE

Registered charity 1156995 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Rescue and treatment of sick and injured swans. Release back to the wild wherever possible.Education of the public as to pollutants and problems with litter. Training emergency services in swan handling.

Objects

1. TO RESCUE, PROVIDE SHELTER AND TREATMENT FOR AND OTHERWISE RELIEVE SICK, NEGLECTED AND INJURED SWANS OR ANY OTHER SPECIES OF BIRD THE TRUSTEES CONSIDER TO BE IN NEED OF ATTENTION;2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE INCIDENCE AND EFFECT OF POLLUTION AND POLLUTANTS ON SWANS AND OTHER WATERFOWL OF THE RIVERS AND WATERWAYS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

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: Windsor and Maidenhead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts for the year ended 30th November 2025 have been examined by an independent examiner who confirmed that the accounting records were kept in accordance with the Charities Act and that the accounts complied with applicable regulations. The examiner reported no material matters or concerns that would hinder a proper understanding of the accounts.

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 3 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.

• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media 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.

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 30/11/2021 (received 05/10/2022, 5 days after the 30/09/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Swan Lifeline (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).

• Phillips Charitable Trust — “We’re thrilled to announce that Swan Lifeline has received a generous grant of £2,500 from the Phillips Charitable Trust.” (source page)
• The Vintners' Company — “Our recent supporters: The Vintners' Company” (source page)
• Louis Bayliss Trust — “Louis Bayliss Trust ( www.whytheadvertiserisspecial.co.uk ) - donation to help fix our entrance gates” (source page)
• Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust — “Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust - http://www.jeansainsburyanimalwelfare.org.uk/ - a donation to help with increased vet bills in 2025” (source page)
• Animal Defense Trust — “Animal Defense Trust” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gemma Rhiahnon Nelson
• Julian Paul Nichols
• Tania Dawson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Buckinghamshire · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SWAN SUPPORT.

• SWAN SUPPORT income £60k
• OXFORDSHIRE WILDLIFE RESCUE income £269k
• SAVE THE SOULS income £86k
• SAFE HOUSE FOR UNWANTED ANIMALS TRUST income £87k
• ANIMAL LIFELINE income £456k
• SWAN ADVICE NETWORK income £160k

Side by side with its peers

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