ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS SOUTH WEST SOMERSET BRANCH CIO

Registered charity 1209359 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RSPCA SOUTH WEST SOMERSET BRANCH

The RSPCA South West Somerset Branch CIO is a charitable incorporated organisation and a separately registered branch of the RSPCA carrying out its direct animal welfare work in the area of South West Somerset. The objects of the Branch are to promote kindness and to prevent or suppress cruelty to animals by all lawful means.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE BRANCH ARE TO PROMOTE THE WORK AND OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, IN THE AREA, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE POLICIES OF THE SOCIETY.(THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY (AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME) ARE "TO PROMOTE KINDNESS AND TO PREVENT OR SUPPRESS CRUELTY TO ANIMALS".)

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 reported a net surplus of £47,686 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by increased non-retail income including legacies. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £804,801, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover ongoing operational costs and maintain going concern status despite challenges in retail profitability.

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 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALEXANDRA CHANDLERchair
• JENNY CHRISTOPHER
• KAREN JANE GIGG
• Michelle Claire Johnston
• Richard Remington

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WEST DORSET BRANCH.

• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WEST DORSET BRANCH income £900k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE SOUTH BRANCH income £362k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS SOLENT BRANCH income £0
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS SOUTH LONDON BRANCH income £333k
• CANTERBURY AND DISTRICT BRANCH OF THE RSPCA income £742k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BRISTOL AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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