WHITBY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

Registered charity 1185213 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To rescue, treat, rehabilitate and release wildlife, in response to calls from the public, veterinary practices and other wildlife rescue centres. To provide sanctuary space for animals that can still live a good quality of life, ensuring our facilities meet the five freedoms. To educate the public and raise awareness in wildlife welfare issues.

Objects

1. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF WILDLIFE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION AND, IN PARTICULAR, TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN RESCUE HOMES OR OTHER FACILITIES FOR THE RECEPTION, CARE AND TREATMENT OF SUCH WILDLIFE TO ENABLE REHABILITATION AND RELEASE BACK INTO THE WILD.2. TO PROMOTE HUMANE BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS WILDLIFE BY PROVIDING APPROPRIATE CARE, PROTECTION, TREATMENT AND SECURITY FOR WILDLIFE WHICH IS IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION BY REASON OF INJURY, SICKNESS, POOR CIRCUMSTANCES OR ILL USAGE AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS PERTAINING TO WILDLIFE WELFARE IN GENERAL AND THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY AND SUFFERING OF WILDLIFE.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated well in 2024, with total incoming resources of £229,138.40 and total outgoing resources of £226,253.94, resulting in a net surplus. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £55,371, which is above the stated policy target of three months of essential running costs.

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 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 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carole Hardwick
• Courtney Wright
• James Burnelli
• Mark Smith
• Sam Taylor
• Siobhan Taylor

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WILDLIFE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION.

• THE WILDLIFE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• PUMPKIN'S WILDLIFE HOSPITAL AND REHABILITATION CENTRE income £100k
• MABLETHORPE WILDLIFE RESCUE income £700k
• EAST SUSSEX WRAS LTD income £565k
• THE LORD WHISKY SANCTUARY FUND income £1.3m
• SOUTH ESSEX WILDLIFE HOSPITAL income £470k

Side by side with its peers

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