MARJORIE COOTE ANIMAL CHARITY TRUST

Registered charity 208493 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity Fund is to be applied by the trustees for the benefit of all or any of five named registered charities and of any other chqritiable organisation which has as its main purpose the care and protection of horses, dogs or other animals or birds.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF:- P.D.S.A. GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND ASSOCIATION. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR THE PROTECTION OF HORSES. ADA COLE MEMORIAL STABLES. THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS IN NORTH AFRICA AND ALL CHARITIES BEING CHARITIES IN THE LEGAL SENSE, WHOSE MAIN PURPOSE IS CARE AND PRETECTION OF HORSES, DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS OR BIRDS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Animals · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds carried forward were £3,995,010, comprising £3,767,554 in endowment funds and £227,456 in unrestricted funds. The Trustees consider the overall finances to be sound and note that the charity has sufficient reserves to continue for the foreseeable future. Unrestricted reserves of £227,456 are held to sustain grant levels and enable substantial grants without prejudicing normal patterns.

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 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.

• Complaints 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
• 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)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• JILL PHILIPPA HOLAH · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Michael Gerard Neill ACA · trustee of 3 other charities
• LADY NEILL DL · trustee of 4 other charities
• NICOLA CATHERINE BAGULEY
• SARAH DOROTHY NEILL · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sally Louise Williams BSc MRICS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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