FRESHFIELDS ANIMAL RESCUE

Registered charity 1160348 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRESHFIELDS ANIMAL RESCUE CENTRE

Freshfields Animal Rescue is a community focussed non-profit making charitable organisation caring for abandoned, abused and unwanted domestic and small farm animals along with sick and injured wildlife.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £375,615 for the year ended 31 December 2024, driven by rising costs in wages, utilities, and veterinary supplies. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves have fallen to £488,478, which is below the stated policy target of £600,000, due to these increasing cost pressures. Despite the deficit, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Freshfields Animal Rescue Centre (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~8.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 23.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Pamela Jane Youngchair
• Annette Armstrong
• Colette Margaret Coghill
• David Alan Cox
• William Donald Shaw

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

Operates in: Gwynedd · Liverpool City · Sefton

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FERNE ANIMAL SANCTUARY.

• THE FERNE ANIMAL SANCTUARY income £2.2m
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS LEEDS, WAKEFIELD AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £1.4m
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ISLE OF WIGHT BRANCH income £819k
• HEATHLANDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY income £153k
• FRIENDS OF ANIMALS LEAGUE income £2.0m
• ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION LIMITED income £237k

Side by side with its peers

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