HUMANE EDUCATION SOCIETY

Registered charity 1159571 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ANIMAL SANCTUARY, WILMSLOW

Provides sanctuary for unwanted animals and aims to educate people in their care for animals

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS IN THE HUMANE PRINCIPLES AND RIGHT TREATMENT OF ALL LIVING CREATURES; AND2. TO PROMOTE HUMANE BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS ANIMALS BY TAKING INTO ITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY ANIMALS THAT NEED CARE AND ATTENTION DUE TO SICKNESS, MALTREATMENT OR POOR CIRCUMSTANCES, AND TREATING AND CARING FOR THEM UNTIL THEY CAN BE FOUND HOMES.

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

Causes: Education/training · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire East, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £50,743 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £1,117,734. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties about the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern. The charity holds £233,207 in cash and cash equivalents at the end of the reporting period.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

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 31/12/2022 (received 24/01/2024, 85 days after the 31/10/2023 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 — Humane Education Society......Animal Sanctuary Wilmslow (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.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/03/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin Leonard Bartonchair
• Carole Brown
• Dr Celia Joanna Reed
• Elaine van der Zeil
• Karen Vaughan Aarons
• Maureen Anne Stynes

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Manchester City · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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