BRENT LODGE WILDLIFE HOSPITAL

Registered charity 1199715 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides and maintains a hospital and other facilities to enable the care, treatment and rehabilitation of sick, injured or orphaned wild birds and mammals. The aim is to relieve the suffering of wild animals in need of care and attention and in particular, the successful return and release of healthy birds and mammals into their natural habitats.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN HOSPITALS AND OTHER FACILITIES TO ENABLE THE CARE, TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION OF SICK, INJURED OR ORPHANED WILD BIRDS AND MAMMALS. THE AIM OF THE CIO IS TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF WILD ANIMALS IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION AND IN PARTICULAR, THE SUCCESSFUL RETURN AND RELEASE OF HEALTHY BIRDS AND MAMMALS INTO THEIR NATURAL HABITATS.

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity ended the year with a positive financial position and a very small net surplus, despite increasing operational costs and pressures on funding streams. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £295,800 are sufficient to cover the stated reserves policy target of £248,940. The Trustees are not aware of any financial considerations that could affect the continuing ability of the Charity to operate.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• 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
• Investment
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Brent Lodge Wildlife Hospital (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 47.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sharon Turnerchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Susannah Lochhead · trustee of 2 other charities
• George Edward Sayer
• Ross Alan Kynvin

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Surrey · West Sussex

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
• MOUSEHOLE WILD BIRD HOSPITAL AND SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £97k
• PUMPKIN'S WILDLIFE HOSPITAL AND REHABILITATION CENTRE income £100k
• SOUTH ESSEX WILDLIFE HOSPITAL income £470k
• THE WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• CUAN WILDLIFE RESCUE income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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