PETA LIMITED

Registered charity 296065 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PETA LTD

The Charity provides a comprehensive range of training, advisory and consultancy services. The Charity is also engaged in the delivery of skills training for young people, namely apprenticeships and Work Study programmes.

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£4.4m

Latest spending

£4.3m

Registered

1987

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an operational surplus of £70,662 for the year, driven by a 16% increase in commercial income that offset a decline in apprenticeship revenue. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a stable financial position with total unrestricted reserves of £5,300,110, which significantly exceed the stated policy target of covering six months of expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Trading subsidiary: PETA Business Solutions Limited

“PETA Business Solutions Limited ("subsidiary") is incorporated as a company limited by shares and registered in England and Wales (company number: 14982254).” — page 18

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by MC Audit Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 01653178
Trading subsidiary: PETA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS LIMITED Companies House 14982254 · Financial health read from its filings

PETA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts

Donated/gift-aided to the charity: £981k
Creditors balance with parent charity: £268,437

“Donation made by the entity to the PETA Limited parent charity 981,158”

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Fiona Stilwell — CEO (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.

BOXALL, Ian Stuart — director, appointed 22/11/2024on trustee list
BLANDFORD, Alexander Jon — director, appointed 11/12/2023on trustee list
STILWELL, Fiona Anne — director, appointed 16/12/2022not on trustee list
HAWKES, Michael John — director, appointed 16/04/2022on trustee list
ROBERTS, Christopher John — director, appointed 23/07/2021on trustee list
SEYMOUR, Elliot John David — director, appointed 27/01/2016on trustee list
ESCOTT, Simon Peter — director, appointed 05/12/2013on trustee list
WARING, Adrian Mark — director, appointed 22/08/2011on trustee list
KALFAS, Nicholas Ronald — secretary, appointed 31/08/2022

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Total income

£4.4m

Total spending

£4.3m

Reserves (reported)

£5.3m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~14.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (54% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

ADRIAN MARK WARING
Alexander Jon Blandford
Christopher John Roberts
Elliot John David SEYMOUR
Ian Stuart Boxall
Michael John Hawkes
SIMON PETER ESCOTT

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

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire · Portsmouth City · West Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/07/2025	£4.4m	£4.3m
31/07/2024	£4.4m	£4.4m
31/07/2023	£4.2m	£4.2m
31/07/2022	£4.0m	£4.1m
31/07/2021	£3.7m	£3.8m

Common questions

Is PETA LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved an operational surplus of £70,662 for the year, driven by a 16% increase in commercial income that offset a decline in apprenticeship revenue. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a stable financial position with total unrestricted reserves of £5,300,110, which significantly exceed the stated policy target of covering six months of expenditure. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by MC Audit Limited.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with APPRIS CHARITY LIMITED.

APPRIS CHARITY LIMITED income £3.7m
SOUTHAMPTON ENGINEERING TRAINING ASSOCIATION LTD income £3.1m
TRAINING 2000 LIMITED income £6.4m
COMMUNITIES AND HOUSING INVESTMENT IN PEOPLE income £207k
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE ENGINEERING GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.1m
PETANS LIMITED income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
PETA LIMITED	£4.4m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
APPRIS CHARITY LIMITED FY2025	£3.7m	£90,001 - £100,000	—	above	—	no doubt
SOUTHAMPTON ENGINEERING TRAINING ASSOCIATION LTD FY2025	£3.1m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
TRAINING 2000 LIMITED FY2025	£6.4m	—	—	within	—	no doubt
COMMUNITIES AND HOUSING INVESTMENT IN PEOPLE FY2024	£207k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE ENGINEERING GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED FY2025	£1.1m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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