Underdog International

Registered charity 1182314 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE UNDERDOG INTERNATIONAL

We provide grants to international projects that educate children to become more compassionate to animals, through animal-assisted therapy and education workshops. In the UK, we run a UK-wide schools programme, to educate children learning life skills, such as kindness, compassion, resilience and positivity, and in addition, we run a dog adoption programme.

Objects

THE PURPOSE/OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARETO MAKE GRANTS TO FURTHER THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(1) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WHO MAY BENEFIT FROM ANIMAL-ASSISTED THERAPY, INVOLVING HANDLING ANDINTERACTION WITH ANIMALS, IN PARTICULAR TO ASSIST CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS TO HELP THEM BENEFITPHYSICALLY, INTELLECTUALLY AND EMOTIONALLY;(2) TO PROMOTE HUMANE BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS ANIMALS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO DOGS, BY PROVIDINGAPPROPRIATE CARE, PROTECTION, TREATMENT AND SECURITY FOR SUCH ANIMALS, WHICH ARE IN NEED OF CARE ANDATTENTION BY REASON OF SICKNESS, MALTREATMENT, POOR CIRCUMSTANCES OR ILL USAGE BY SUPPORTING RESCUE ANDADOPTION PROJECTS; AND(3) TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOPTHEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLEINDIVIDUALS, USING ANIMALS TO TEACH THEM KINDNESS, COMPANIONSHIP, COMPASSION AND CONFIDENCE, WHILEHELPING THEM TO LEARN BEST-PRACTICE ANIMAL-WELFARE.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARENOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 2011 CHARITIES ACT OF ENGLAND.

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

Causes: Animals · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wandsworth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £222,182 to £184,202, resulting in a net movement in funds of a deficit of £37,980 for the year. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Reserves are maintained at a prudent level to ensure operational continuity, though no specific policy target is disclosed.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Underdog International (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alicia Wiltshire
• Melanie Browne
• NADINE KAYSER

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

Operates in: China · Cyprus · Greece · India · Italy · Malaysia · Romania · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LOVE UNDERDOGS.

• LOVE UNDERDOGS income £390k
• ANIMAL AID CHARITABLE TRUST income £200k
• THE PET CHARITY income £27k
• DOGS ON THE STREETS LTD income £482k
• THE BULLDOG TRUST LIMITED income £1.0m
• WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION income £30.1m

Side by side with its peers

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