PREVENT UNWANTED PETS

Registered charity 702569 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PUP, PUPS

We help people on low income towards the cost of their dogs, cats, rabbits and other smaller animals to be spayed or neutered, to reduce the great number of animals being "put to sleep", going to bad homes, etc. We also rescue, rehabilitate and rehome small animals. We are a contact for caring animal welfare groups. We are known as 'PUP' in UK.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF DOGS OR CATS WHICH ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION .

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.

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Registered contact address: Wigan, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operates on a receipts and payments basis and has no trustees receiving remuneration. Per the trustees' report, reserves are held in bank accounts with specific targets set for equipment and branch debts, though the actual reserve balance is not explicitly stated in the provided text. The charity notes that income remains heavily reliant on donations and grants, with continued pressure on volunteer supply.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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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 31/03/2023 (received 21/02/2024, 21 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALISON GUEST MSc Eng
• Elaine Jones
• SUSAN Gupwell

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

Operates in: Blackpool · Bolton · Cheshire East · Lancashire · Nottinghamshire · Salford City · St Helens · Trafford · Warrington · Wigan

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PEPPER'S PET RESCUE.

• PEPPER'S PET RESCUE income £87k
• PAWS RESCUE UK income £94k
• PETS IN NEED (P I N ) income £40k
• THE PETS AT HOME FOUNDATION income £6.6m
• LUNA ANIMAL RESCUE income £84k
• THE LITTLEST LIVES RESCUE income £54k

Side by side with its peers

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