ANNIE'S TRUST

Registered charity 1186172 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Annie's Trust is a registered animal welfare charity set up to help ease the suffering of dogs that are living in captivity in some of the poorest Romanian dog shelters.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF DOGS IN ROMANIA IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION, AND IN PARTICULAR TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF STRAY DOGS OR DOGS IN PUBLIC DOG SHELTERS WHICH ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION BY REASON OF SICKNESS, NEGLECT OR MALTREATMENT, BY PROVIDING APPROPRIATE CARE AND TREATMENT (INCLUDING VETERINARY TREATMENT) OVER AND ABOVE THAT WHICH IS AVAILABLE AT THOSE SHELTERS, AND TO EDUCATE OR INFORM THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS PERTAINING TO DOG WELFARE IN GENERAL AND THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY AND SUFFERING AMONG DOGS.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£161k
Latest spending
£165k
Registered
2019
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Annie's Trust reported total income of £160,649 and total expenditure of £164,794 for the period ending 31 March 2025, resulting in a net deficit of £4,145. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £44,879, which the trustees note is an increase from two to four months of average expenditure to protect against rising costs. The filing confirms the charity has no debts and pays all bills as received.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: General Donations
“The charities principal source of funds are general donations from supporters. This is driven primarily by online fundraising via Facebook” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: four months average expenditure (held: £45k)
“Due to the impact on the costs increasing, we have increased our reserve from two to four months average expenditure.” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Annie's Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Romania · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£161k£165k
31/03/2024£171k£147k
31/03/2023£148k£147k
31/03/2022£141k£147k
10/03/2021£233k£202k

Common questions

Is ANNIE'S TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that Annie's Trust reported total income of £160,649 and total expenditure of £164,794 for the period ending 31 March 2025, resulting in a net deficit of £4,145. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £44,879, which the trustees note is an increase from two to four months of average expenditure to protect against rising costs. The filing confirms the charity has no debts and pays all bills as received.

Who funds ANNIE'S TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ANNIE'S TRUST as a grant recipient include THE JEAN SAINSBURY ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE JEAN SAINSBURY ANIMAL WELFARE TRUSTFY2023£5kAnimal welfare
THE JEAN SAINSBURY ANIMAL WELFARE TRUSTFY2022£5k

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROSE ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST CIO.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
ANNIE'S TRUST£161k—0above—no doubt
THE ROSE ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST CIO FY2025£247k—0unclear—no doubt
THE JOSEPH AND ANNIE CATTLE TRUST FY2025£370k—0above—no doubt
DOGS TRUST FY2024£143.1m——unclear—no doubt
ANIMAL AID CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£200k—0unclear—no doubt
OLSEN ANIMAL TRUST FY2025£904k—0above—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.