LIVESTOCK EMERGENCY GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS - LEGS

Registered charity 1179420 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEGS

LEGS provides technical support to practitioners and policy makers involved in livestock emergency response largely in developing countries, through the provision of the LEGS Handbook and other resources, the LEGS training programme, research and learning.

Objects

THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF WAR OR NATURAL DISASTER, TROUBLE, CATASTROPHE OR EMERGENCY IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO COORDINATING THE GLOBAL LIVESTOCK EMERGENCY STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES PROGRAMME (WHICH INCLUDES THE PROVISION OR SUPPORT OF TRAINERS WHO DELIVER TRAINING IN LIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT (ANIMAL HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY, LIVESTOCK SHELTER, FEEDING AND WATERING) EITHER AS A PREVENTATIVE MEASURE (EG. IN A PRE-DROUGHT SITUATION) OR AS A RESPONSE TO AN ACTUAL EMERGENCY OR SITUATION INCLUDING SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS (DROUGHT, FLOODS, MAJOR STORMS, EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS ETC.).

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in funds of £4,100 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by the termination of a major USAID/BHA project. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds have been utilized to cover administrative costs and support fundraising activities following this funding loss. The charity maintains total net assets of £91,492, with unrestricted reserves of £56,723.

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 5 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
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bashair Salaheldin Elobaid Ahmed
• Cedric Ralston Hesse
• Irfan Hayat Khan
• Katherine Hope Sadler

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

Operates in: Benin · Costa Rica · France · Germany · Hungary · India · Jersey · Kenya · Nepal · Pakistan · Senegal · Spain

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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