Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Northamptonshire Branch

Registered charity 205377 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, RSPCA - NORTHAMPTON, RSPCA - NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AND BOROUGH BRANCH, RSPCA - NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, RSPCA NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

Running a large fostering scheme with private boarding facilities for dogs.Helping people on means tested benefits with neutering and veterinary bills. Fundraising in order to support the above activities.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE BRANCH ARE TO PROMOTE THE WORK AND OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY [ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (219099)], WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE AREA OF THE BRANCH, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE POLICIES OF THE SOCIETY.

Area of benefit: NORTHAMPTON.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £112,517 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £427,528 to £315,011. The trustees note that the charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £314,222, which is below the stated policy target of keeping at least three months of running costs in reserves to cover leased premises. Despite the deficit, the trustees consider liquidity risk to be low as the charity holds no active overdrafts or loans.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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 handling
• 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
• 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 — Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Northamptonshire Branch (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 (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (85% 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: 72.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carol Lentchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catharine Dugmore · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christine Ingram
• Mathew Topp
• Sandi Morton Mrs

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

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 ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS NORFOLK WEST BRANCH CIO.

• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS NORFOLK WEST BRANCH CIO income £381k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS HILLINGDON, SLOUGH, WINDSOR , KINGSTON AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £1.6m
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS NORTH SOMERSET BRANCH income £591k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS COTSWOLDS, GLOUCESTER & DISTRICT BRANCH income £2.2m
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WESTMORLAND BRANCH CIO income £474k
• Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals North Wiltshire and Newbury District Branch income £0

Side by side with its peers

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