PAWS AND CLAWS ANIMAL RESCUE SERVICE

Registered charity 281075 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

we rescue cats and rehome them

Objects

PREVENTION OF SUFFERING AND CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, PARTICULARLY CATS AND DOGS.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Mid Sussex, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £146,761 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by a decrease in legacies and an increase in expenses. Despite the deficit, the charity holds unrestricted funds of £1,615,845, representing a significant cash reserve relative to its annual income. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters were identified during the examination of the accounts.

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 3 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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

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 20/11/2023, 20 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 28.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.1%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• LYN BASSETchair
• IRENE MARGARET HOLMAN
• JACKIE TIDEY
• MARILYN STONE
• VALERIE DU-VAL

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CATS PAWS SANCTUARY.

• CATS PAWS SANCTUARY income £179k
• HAMPSHIRE PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE income £44k
• PAWS HELP income £213k
• CATS IN CRISIS income £102k
• LYMINGTON CAT AND KITTEN RESCUE income £225k
• TAG PET RESCUE income £386k

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