DURHAM DONKEY RESCUE

Registered charity 1201801 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF DONKEYS IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION AND, IN PARTICULAR, TO PROVIDE A SANCTUARY FOR THE RECEPTION, CARE AND TREATMENT OF SUCH ANIMALS.

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

Causes: Animals · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: County Durham, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £114,279, up from £50,035 in the prior year, driven by a rise in donations to £137,508. However, the charity holds net current liabilities of £25,519, primarily due to £82,699 in other creditors which include a personal loan from a trustee. The trustees report that resources are adequate to continue in operational existence.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 2 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2024 (received 01/06/2025, 116 days after the 05/02/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire McKay
• Dr John Paul Duggan
• Ian Emmerson

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

Operates in: Durham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Durham Samaritans.

• Durham Samaritans income £28k
• D L M CHARITABLE TRUST income £198k
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• NORMAN WALKER TRUST income £31k
• THE BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT NURSING CHARITABLE TRUST income £87k
• THE HARAMEAD TRUST income £4.8m

Side by side with its peers

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