ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS TRUST

Registered charity 230886 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RCVS CHARITABLE TRUST, RCVS KNOWLEDGE, RCVS TRUST, ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS TRUST FUND

The ambition of RCVS Knowledge is to become a global intermediary for evidence based veterinary knowledge by providing access to information that is of immediate value to practising veterinary professionals and directly contributes to evidence-based clinical decision-making.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net operating deficit of £683,036 for the year, driven by a 16.6% reduction in income to £1,313,664 against total expenditure of £1,996,700. However, per the trustees' report, unrestricted general reserves stood at £2,078,031, which is within the stated policy target of approximately 12 months of operational expenditure (£2.0–£2.2m). The charity remains dependent on donations from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons but maintains adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Julie Gibson — Clinical Lead for Quality Improvement (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~12.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Alexandra Sarah Kearsley-Fleet
• Dr David John Christopher Charles
• Dr Neil Christopher Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Timothy Daniel Heler Parkin
• Ian Battersby · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lucie Victoria Goodwin MRCVS
• Mary Louise Bawn · trustee of 1 other charity
• Racheal Mary Marshall · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sara Purdy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Sim
• Susan Paterson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Terence Mark Knight · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE STUDENTS' UNION.

• THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE STUDENTS' UNION income £1.1m
• THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE ANIMAL CARE TRUST income £1.3m
• THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE income £13.7m
• BRITISH VETERINARY ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION income £270k
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS HILLINGDON, SLOUGH, WINDSOR , KINGSTON AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £1.6m
• BRITISH SMALL ANIMAL VETERINARY ASSOCIATION income £6.2m

Side by side with its peers

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