ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

Registered charity 219099 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q584819 · Wikipedia · also known as R S P C A

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

Objects

TO PROMOTE KINDNESS AND TO PREVENT OR SUPPRESS CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

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: Horsham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group's free reserves stood at £120.4m, which is above the trustees' stated policy target range of £85m to £95m. The group reported a net expenditure of £3.2m for the year, which was partially offset by significant gains on investments and actuarial gains on the defined benefit pension scheme. The trustees concluded that the going-concern basis of accounting remains appropriate through to 30 June 2027, citing proactive cost controls and robust free reserves as providing confidence in the charity's ability to continue delivering services.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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: 137 (FY2024) → 151 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

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)

153 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (136 freehold); recorded price paid £3.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: RSPCA (England and Wales) scores 2.6/5 from 1,914 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 19.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (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
• MICHAEL ALAN BIRD
• 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).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

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 PRESTON AND DISTRICT BRANCH.

• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS PRESTON AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £657k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS DURHAM AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £315k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS EAST LONDON AND HAVERING BRANCH CIO income £130k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS CORNWALL BRANCH income £1.3m
• 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 - HANTS AND SURREY BORDER BRANCH income £318k

Side by side with its peers

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