CANTERBURY AND DISTRICT BRANCH OF THE RSPCA

Registered charity 210743 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS CANTERBURY, DOVER AND DISTRICT BRANCH, ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS KENT-CANTERBURY AND DISTRICT BRANCH, RSPCA, RSPCA CANTERBURY AND DISTRICT BRANCH, RSPCA KENT-CANTERBURY AND DISTRICT BRANCH

Promote animal welfare.

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: DOVER, DEAL, SANDWICH, CANTERBURY AND DISTRICT.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Branch incurred a net expenditure of £261,913 in 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £1,683,596 to £1,421,683. The Trustees report that the existing level of unrestricted reserves is sufficient to meet any reduction in incoming resources during the next six to nine months, in line with their policy to maintain between six to nine months' unrestricted expenditure.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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 — RSPCA Canterbury and District Branch (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (69% 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: 35.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Wetzchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emily Robinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gemma Coleman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Justin Rigden · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Neal · trustee of 1 other charity
• Phil Browning · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vanessa Sparkes · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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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 KENT, ASHFORD, TENTERDEN AND DISTRICT BRANCH.

• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS KENT, ASHFORD, TENTERDEN AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £226k
• Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals North Wiltshire and Newbury District Branch income £0
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS GUILDFORD AND EPSOM BRANCH income £274k
• RSPCA Wyth Sir Branch income £591k
• RSPCA Llys Nini Carmarthenshire to Cardiff – Sir Gâr i Gaerdydd income £2.5m
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BURY OLDHAM AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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