ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR TRAINING COUNCIL

Registered charity 1164009 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ABTC, ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR TRAINING COUNCIL LTD · also registered in Scotland as SC047256 (OSCR)

Setting and maintaining standards of knowledge and skills needed to be an animal trainer, training instructor or behaviour therapist, and it maintains the national registers of appropriately qualified animal trainers and animal behaviourists.Promoting the welfare of animals in their interactions with humans, lobbying for humane methods in training and behaviour modification.

Objects

TO PROMOTE HUMANE PRACTICE IN THE TRAINING AND BEHAVIOUR THERAPY OF ANIMALS TO LOBBY FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN ANIMAL WELFARE RELATED TO BEHAVIOUR AND TRAINING OF SAID ANIMALS.

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £9,041 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total funds decreasing from £24,065 to £15,024. Per the trustees' report, while there is no formal reserves policy, the charity maintains an operating reserve and the trustees are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate major risks. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability 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 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Fiona Rachel Cooke BSc MS PhDchair
• David John Montgomery
• Jane Williams BSc · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lauren Elizabeth Johnson
• Nicola Jane McLeod BSc RVN
• Parnita Senjit
• Poonam Arora
• Sally Willis BA Hons
• Sian Jones BSc
• Tom Candy

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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