ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

Registered charity 219099 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as R S P C A

To prevent cruelty, promote kindness and to alleviate suffering of animals.

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a net expenditure of £9.5m for the year, resulting in a reduction in total funds to £271.7m. However, the trustees confirm that free reserves of £114.1m significantly exceed the agreed policy target range of £85m to £95m, providing a strong buffer against economic and operational risks. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 104 (FY2023) → 137 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• Renewing biodiversity through a people-in-nature approach (RENEW) —
• Vector-borne RADAR (Real-time Arbovirus Detection And Response) —
• HPI Developing resources for public involvement in animal research —

Property (HM Land Registry)

151 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (134 freehold); recorded price paid £3.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 2.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 23.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Jane Bringans
• BRENDA SHORE
• Ian Jeffrey Jacobs · trustee of 1 other charity
• Josie Woodward
• Karen Harley
• Mark Wright
• Sally Hyman
• Stuart Howells · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 BLACKPOOL AND NORTH LANCASHIRE BRANCH.

• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BLACKPOOL AND NORTH LANCASHIRE BRANCH income £852k
• 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 BURY OLDHAM AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £1.0m
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS SURREY WOKING AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £248k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS GUILDFORD AND EPSOM BRANCH income £274k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - ROCHDALE AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £699k

Side by side with its peers

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