PETPLAN CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1199327 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant making

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in funds of £121,489 for the 18-month period ended 31 December 2024, resulting in unrestricted free reserves of (£16,999). The deficit is attributed to accounting for multi-year grants in the year of commitment rather than cash outflow, and the trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with sufficient resources to meet liabilities for at least one year.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Petplan Charitable Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David John Simpsonchair
• Clarissa Mary Baldwin CBE
• GILES EDWARD WEBBER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gillian Hosier
• Isabella von Mesterhazy
• Jade Statt
• Jonathan Elliott
• Julian Norton
• Kathryn Willis

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRANCIS C SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST.

• FRANCIS C SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.2m
• Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Northamptonshire Branch income £999k
• FULL FACT income £2.9m
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS COTSWOLDS, GLOUCESTER & DISTRICT BRANCH income £2.2m
• DELVES CHARITABLE TRUST income £222k
• PAWPRINTS TO FREEDOM LIMITED income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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