MARGARET GREEN ANIMAL RESCUE

Registered charity 1167990 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN RESCUE CENTRES WHERE STRAY AND UNWANTED ANIMALS MAY BE HOUSED AND CARED FOR AND PROVIDED WITH ANY NECESSARY VETERINARY TREATMENT DURING THE TERM OF THEIR NATURAL LIVES OR UNTIL GOOD HOMES CAN BE FOUND FOR THEM ELSEWHERE.THIS CHARITY WAS PREVIOUSLY MARGARET GREEN ANIMAL RESCUE REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER 252594

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.

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

Causes: Animals · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a financial surplus of £626,526 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £9,499,555. The trustees consider the charity to be financially strong and sustainable, noting that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. The charity maintains a designated Financial Risk Reserve of £1,200,000 to mitigate identified financial risks.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Edwards and Keeping Limited. Discloses 3 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~41.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/10/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Richards · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amanda Mitchell · trustee of 1 other charity
• LORRAINE SUCHANEK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Copling · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tracy Amanda Sheldon
• philip james Richardson

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

Operates in: Devon · Dorset

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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