WECARE WORLDWIDE

Registered charity 1162386 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

WECare Worldwide is a veterinary-run charity, currently operating in Sri Lanka and providing healthcare to the large number of street dogs on the island. We focus heavily on neutering and vaccination programmes in the communities, as well as providing treatments to sick and injured animals at our clinic. In order to provide sustainable change, education programmes are also provided in schools.

Objects

TO PROMOTE HUMANE BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS ANIMALS BY PROVIDING APPROPRIATE CARE, PROTECTION, TREATMENT AND SECURITY FOR ANIMALS WHICH ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION BY REASON OF SICKNESS, MALTREATMENT, POOR CIRCUMSTANCES OR ILL USAGE AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS PERTAINING TO ANIMAL WELFARE IN GENERAL AND THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY AND SUFFERING AMONG ANIMALS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BYA) PROVIDING VETERINARY CARE TO ANIMALS IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION DUE TO SICKNESS, POOR CIRCUMSTANCES, NEGLECT OR THREAT OF DISEASE. B) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT RESPONSIBLE ANIMAL OWNERSHIP, DISEASE AWARENESS AND PREVENTATIVE HEALTHCARE. C) PROVIDING A HUMANE METHOD OF FERAL ANIMAL CONTROL VIA NEUTERING PROGRAMS.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Enfield, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£1.1m
Latest spending
£1.1m
Registered
2015
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income grew to £1,106,366, with unrestricted free reserves standing at £425,357. However, the Trustees report that these reserves sit below their stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure, a situation they attribute primarily to cash-flow pressures from large purchases and urgent repairs rather than long-term income issues.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy
“The Trustees would like to flag that the Charity Reserves sit below the desired threshold of three months outgoings and remain so at the time of composing and submitting the year end accounts.” — page 10
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Payments to trustees: Miss R L Carruthers received remuneration of £40,000, pension contributions of £1,069, and employer's NI of £4,675 for her role as Head of Finance.
“Remuneration totalling £40.000 (2024: £33,333), pension contributions of £1,069 (2024: £813) and Employer's National Insurance of £4,675 (2024: £3,345) were paid during the year for this role.” — page 26
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Saint & Co.. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2025

  • Volunteers: 61
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
  • Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2024

  • Volunteers: 8
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
  • Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2023

  • Volunteers: 8
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
  • Has a trading subsidiary

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2025 (received 28/07/2026, 28 days after the 30/06/2026 due date); year ending 31/08/2021 (received 01/08/2022, 32 days after the 30/06/2022 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.

Corporate structure

WECARE PET FOOD LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts

    Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — WECare Worldwide (matched by registered charity number).

    Leadership, per the charity’s website

    Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

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

    Total income
    £1.1m
    Total spending
    £1.1m
    Cost of raising funds
    £83k
    Reserves (reported)
    £622k
    Employees
    61

    Reported reserves equal ~7.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

    Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

    Trustees · trustee networks

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

    Operates in: Sri Lanka

    Income and spending

    Financial year endIncomeSpending
    31/08/2025£1.1m£1.1m
    31/08/2024£997k£645k
    31/08/2023£335k£483k
    31/08/2022£486k£361k
    31/08/2021£361k£281k

    Common questions

    Is WECARE WORLDWIDE financially healthy?

    Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income grew to £1,106,366, with unrestricted free reserves standing at £425,357. However, the Trustees report that these reserves sit below their stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure, a situation they attribute primarily to cash-flow pressures from large purchases and urgent repairs rather than long-term income issues. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Saint & Co..

    Who funds WECARE WORLDWIDE?

    Funders whose own accounts filings name WECARE WORLDWIDE as a grant recipient include HAPPY DOGGO, THE JEAN SAINSBURY ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST, THE ANTHONY V MARTIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

    Known funders

    Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

    FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
    HAPPY DOGGOFY2024£271kCNVR programme
    THE JEAN SAINSBURY ANIMAL WELFARE TRUSTFY2023£25k40th Anniversary Awards
    THE JEAN SAINSBURY ANIMAL WELFARE TRUSTFY2023£11k40th Anniversary Awards
    THE JEAN SAINSBURY ANIMAL WELFARE TRUSTFY2024£10k
    THE JEAN SAINSBURY ANIMAL WELFARE TRUSTFY2023£5kAnimal welfare
    THE ANTHONY V MARTIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2025amount not stated

    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 SOUTHWARK DIOCESAN WELCARE.

    Side by side with its peers

    CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
    WECARE WORLDWIDE£1.1m—0below—no doubt
    SOUTHWARK DIOCESAN WELCARE FY2026£981k£70,001 - £80,0001unclear—no doubt
    WORLDWIDE VETERINARY SERVICE FY2025£13.2m——above—no doubt
    WHOLECARE CIO FY2025£60k—0below—no doubt
    WORLDSHARE FY2025£572k—0below—no doubt
    CARE INTERNATIONAL UK FY2025£64.1m——unclear—no doubt

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