WHITLEY ANIMAL PROTECTION TRUST

Registered charity 236746 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To give financial support to any charitable purpose or purposes organisation or organisations (whether corporate or unincorporated) concerned with the prevention of cruelty to animals or the promotion of the welfare of animals.

Objects

(I) TO GIVE FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES ORGANISATION OR ORGANISATIONS CONCERNED WITH THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OR THE PROMOTION OF THE WELFARE OF ANIMALS (II) TO ESTABLISH OR ENDOW ANY NEW CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS OR INSTITUTIONS HAVING ANY ONE OR MORE OF THE LIFE OBJECTS.

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) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Shropshire, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves amounted to £377,337, which the trustees retain to cover next year's estimated net income in case of unforeseen events. The charity is reliant on investment income, which generated £384,648 in the year, exceeding the target return. The trustees consider the charity well-positioned with no impact on the going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WR Partners. Discloses 4 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 26/06/2024, 239 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• EDWARD JOHN WHITLEY OBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• JEREMY WHITLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vivien Thompson · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: 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 DESTITUTE ANIMALS SHELTER.

• DESTITUTE ANIMALS SHELTER income £569k
• THE BERYL EVETTS AND ROBERT LUFF ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST LIMITED income £160k
• HULL ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST income £837k
• WHITBY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY income £245k
• MARJORIE COOTE ANIMAL CHARITY TRUST income £190k
• WILLOW TREE SANCTUARY FOR ANIMAL WELFARE income £50k

Side by side with its peers

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