THERAPY DOGS NATIONWIDE

Registered charity 1167622 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NATIONWIDE THERAPY PETS

Therapy Dogs Nationwide is a non profit making organisation, managed entirely by volunteers.Therapy Dogs have been found to have all round benefits for people in hospitals, hospices, residential homes, schools, prisons, care centres etc. Volunteers are all registered with the organisation, their dogs are all temperament assessed and are covered by the obligatory insurance for visiting.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, DISABILITY, HEALTH OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF THERAPY DOGS TO VISIT SCHOOLS, NURSING HOMES, HOSPITALS, HOSPICES AND OTHER SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Conwy, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £7,482 and total expenditure exceeded total income. Per the trustees' report, cash flow is tight and the charity faces pressure from growing demand against limited resources, though it remains a volunteer-led organization with national reach.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Therapy Dogs Nationwide UK (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Wellcome Trust — “Therapy Dogs Nationwide joined Wellcome Trust at their offices in London on October 2018 for a popular and interactive staff and volunteer e…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Karniewicz
• MARY OLIVER MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Adrian Wood

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PETS AS THERAPY.

• PETS AS THERAPY income £957k
• TERRIER SOS income £34k
• DOGS TRUST income £172.3m
• ALL DOGS MATTER income £626k
• DOGS TRUST LEGACY income £2.2m
• DOGS IN NEED income £136k

Side by side with its peers

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