THE VEGETARIAN SOCIETY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED

Registered charity 259358 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VEGSOC (ON INTERNET)

The Vegetarian Society exists to educate the public about vegetarianism, to promote the vegetarian diet because of the benefits it brings to people, animals and the environment. We provide services to support and represent vegetarians. Our mission is to inspire, educate and enable people to be vegetarian.

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £107,446 for the year, primarily due to planned development expenditures and restructuring costs, despite receiving a significant £1 million legacy. Free reserves stood at £851,528, which is £84,528 in excess of the trustees' stated policy requirement to hold £767,000, and the trustees confirmed sufficient resources to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Slade & Cooper. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00959115

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Vegetarian Society (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Conn O'Neill — Chair (source)
• Richard McIlwain — Chief Executive (source)
• Sophie Randles-Dunkley — Deputy Chair (source)
• Deirdra Barr — Director of Marketing & Communications (source)
• Antony Byatt — Director of Finance and Operations (source)
• Ben Worth — Director of Development (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• FAIRBAIRN, Rebecca Yvette — director, appointed 03/02/2026on trustee list
• KRAUSE, Michael Gerard — director, appointed 23/03/2024on trustee list
• RAMKALOWON, Sima — director, appointed 03/01/2023on trustee list
• RANDLES-DUNKLEY, Sophie Elizabeth — director, appointed 17/02/2021on trustee list
• O'NEILL, Conn — director, appointed 03/10/2018on trustee list
• BYATT, Antony Michael — secretary, appointed 19/09/2009

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Conn O'Neill
• Michael Krause · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rebecca Fairbairn
• Sima Ramkalowon
• Sophie Randles-Dunkley

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE VEGAN SOCIETY.

• THE VEGAN SOCIETY income £4.9m
• VEG TRUST INCORPORATING THE MATTHEW EYTON ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST income £850k
• THE JEWISH VEGETARIAN AND ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £152k
• VEGANUARY income £2.5m
• ESSEX AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £100k
• VIVA! income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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