GREYHOUND TRUST

Registered charity 269668 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRITISH GREYHOUND WELFARE TRUST, N G R C RETIRED GREYHOUND TRUST, RETIRED GREYHOUND TRUST, THE GREYHOUND TRUST · also registered in Scotland as SC044047 (OSCR)

Vision: A day when all racing greyhounds retire to loving homes and are treated with compassion and kindness.The Greyhound Trust works in partnership with the public, legislators and the racing community to give every greyhound a safe, loving home after a good life as an athlete. We are devoted to the welfare of all greyhounds throughout their working life and in retirement.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income rose to £4.85 million and total funds increased to £12.16 million, with unrestricted reserves standing at £11.46 million. The charity reports a strong financial position with cash balances increasing to £6.61 million, supported by a reserves policy targeting six months of planned expenditure. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MC Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: GREYHOUND EVENTS LTD Companies House 03825899 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Greyhound Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Steve Dean — Chair of the Board of Trustees (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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~49.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GREYHOUND TRUST TRUSTEE LIMITED

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRIGHTON GREYHOUND OWNERS ASSOCIATION TRUST FOR RETIRED RACING GREYHOUNDS.

• BRIGHTON GREYHOUND OWNERS ASSOCIATION TRUST FOR RETIRED RACING GREYHOUNDS income £136k
• CLARKS FARM GREYHOUND RESCUE income £284k
• FOREVER HOUNDS TRUST income £1.5m
• MAKANTS GREYHOUND RESCUE NW income £124k
• LINCOLNSHIRE GREYHOUND TRUST income £392k
• GREYHOUND GAP income £348k

Side by side with its peers

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