DESTITUTE ANIMALS SHELTER

Registered charity 222935 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOLTON ANIMAL SHELTER

To maintain a shelter for the care, treatment and re-homing where possible of unwanted, homeless, ill treated, stray, injured and sick animals.

Objects

FOR THE UPKEEP AND MAINTENANCE OF THE "SHELTER", AND THE COLLECTION AND NON - DESTRUCTION OF STRAY AND UNWANTED ANIMALS OF BOLTON AND DISTRICT.

Area of benefit: BOLTON AND DISTRICT

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net increase in unrestricted funds of £10,009 for the year, driven significantly by legacies of £319,232 and investment gains. However, the trustees report that free reserves of £64,724 are well below their stated policy target of approximately £300,000, noting that the unpredictable nature of income necessitates maintaining a healthy reserves level.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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 — Destitute Animal Shelter (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~20.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN DURHAMchair
• ALAN SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• D MICHAEL MORGAN
• ELEANOR SMITH
• Fiona Farnworth
• JAMES BANCROFT
• Nicholas Jeremy Horsfall

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

Operates in: Bolton

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HULL ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST.

• HULL ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST income £837k
• NEWCASTLE DOG AND CAT SHELTER income £2.4m
• THE RSPCA DANAHER ANIMAL HOME income £1.6m
• THE FERNE ANIMAL SANCTUARY income £2.2m
• ANIMALS AT RISK SHELTER income £142k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WESTMORLAND BRANCH CIO income £474k

Side by side with its peers

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