ANIMAL WELFARE (FURNESS)

Registered charity 1189973 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A local Community animal charity that provides sanctuary for distressed animals in the Furness and South Lakes area. We help families struggling financially hardship with cost of living crisis. Founded in 1987. Then transitioned to a CIO status on 1 Jan 2023.AWF supports people getting back into work and education for our young people in primary schools.

Objects

THE CARE AND PROTECTION OF ANIMALS IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION BY REASON OF SICKNESS, MALTREATMENT, POOR CIRCUMSTANCES, ILL-USAGE OR OTHER SIMILAR CAUSES AND THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO 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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a deficit of £41,623 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £701,610. The trustees report that core costs have spiraled due to supplies and vet fees, leading to increased adoption costs. Despite the deficit, the trustees confirm that reserves met their policy requirement of covering six months of expenditure.

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 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 policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Animal Welfare ( Furness ) (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Pets At Home Foundation — “Thanks to the Pets At Home Foundation for their grant of £11,000 to help with our feral cat project and our vets fees” (source page)
• The Pets Foundation — “The Pets Foundation has supported our Outdoor Cat Project and the costs of veterinary treatment for many cats in our rescue cattery.” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~43.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

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

• Daniel Adam Thompson
• Georgina Emily Scanlon
• John Christopher Sandham
• Reginald Ian Bird

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FERNE ANIMAL SANCTUARY.

• THE FERNE ANIMAL SANCTUARY income £2.2m
• BRITISH VETERINARY ASSOCIATION ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION income £139k
• Science for Animal Welfare income £401k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS LEEDS, WAKEFIELD AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £1.4m
• ANIMAL RESCUE CUMBRIA (THE WAINWRIGHT SHELTER) CIO income £825k
• PROTECTED PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE income £416k

Side by side with its peers

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