THE WILDLIFE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1200460 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TIGGYWINKLES

The main activities of the trust are the rescue, medical treatment, rehabilitation of wild birds and other animals in need of care and attention, and the education of the public in methods of treatment, nursing and conservation.

Objects

(1) TO PREVENT CRUELTY AND RELIEVE THE SUFFERING AND DISTRESS OF ANIMALS OF ALL KINDS, IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION. (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE STUDY OF WILDLIFE AND IN ANIMAL OWNERSHIP, CARE, METHODS OF TREATMENT AND NURSING, CONSERVATION AND THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

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

Causes: Education/training · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated total incoming resources of £2,927,059 against total expenditure of £2,337,198, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The charity holds substantial unrestricted free reserves of £17,856,155, which significantly exceeds its stated policy target of maintaining funds at least three times the level of unrestricted expenditure. The Trustees confirm that unrestricted funds are sufficient to permit the Foundation to continue in operation for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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 expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: WILDLIFE HOSPITAL TRADING LIMITED Companies House 02673000 · Financial health read from its filings

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £1.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~98.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL GROTHchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Glenn Sean Gavin
• LOUISE MELANIE SECKER · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL JOSEPH BROWN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Roger Andrew Laishley · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• THE WILDLIFE AID FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• WILDLIFE RESCUE income £48k
• MOUSEHOLE WILD BIRD HOSPITAL AND SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £97k
• THE SOUTHERN WILDLIFE CARE AND ADVISORY TRUST income £578k
• BRENT LODGE WILDLIFE HOSPITAL income £848k
• WORCESTERSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £2.8m

Side by side with its peers

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