LUNA ANIMAL RESCUE

Registered charity 1163839 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LAR

Our main activity related to rehoming and rehabilitating a variety of animals, including primarily dogs, cats & small animals. We also actively promote and run local neutering campaigns, liaise with and talk to local groups regarding education around responsible animal ownership and welfare, and support local families at times of hardship with both veterinary care and feeding of pets if required.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS (MOSTLY DOGS AND CATS), IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION AND, IN PARTICULAR, BY PLACING SUCH DOGS INTO FOSTER HOMES WHILST PERMANENT HOMES ARE FOUND FOR THEM OR OTHER FACILITIES FOR THE RECEPTION, CARE AND TREATMENT OF SUCH ANIMALS.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Hertfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's principal sources of funds include donations, standing orders, and income from appeals and auctions. The trustees have set a reserves policy target of £10,000 to cover unpredictable veterinary costs, though specific unrestricted reserves figures are not disclosed in the provided text. The charity reports that specific high-cost veterinary bills have been covered by targeted fundraising, indicating operational stability.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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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 31/03/2023 (received 06/02/2024, 6 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 06/03/2022, 34 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NATALIE DIANE HOWEchair
• Jean Wendy Mainstone
• Julia Purton

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 ANIMAL HELPLINE.

• ANIMAL HELPLINE income £80k
• LINBEE DOG REHOMING income £64k
• LOVE UNDERDOGS income £390k
• SUFFOLK ANIMAL RESCUE income £332k
• NEUTERING ANIMALS IN MERSEYSIDE (NAIM) income £31k
• HOUNSLOW ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY income £72k

Side by side with its peers

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