CANINE PARTNERS FOR INDEPENDENCE

Registered charity 803680 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CANINE PARTNERS · also registered in Scotland as SC039050 (OSCR)

Training of assistance dogs to support and help people with severe disabilities enjoy greater independence and a better quality of life and, where possible, help them into education and employment. Also to support the partnership once graduated throughout the working life of the dog always being mindful of its wellbeing.

Objects

TO PURCHASE BREED OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRE TO TRAIN AND EDUCATE DOGS TO ACT AND BE PROVDED TO GIVE EFFICIENT AND SAFE ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS WHO ARE DISABLED PHYSICALLY, TO TRAIN AND EDUCATE FOR THEIR OWN BENEFIT DISABLED PERSONS IN THE PROPER AND SAFE USE OF SUCH DOGS AND TO PROVIDE SUCH ADDITIONAL SERVICES AND FACILITIES FOR THE RELIEF OF DISABLED PERSONS AS THE ASSOCIATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DEEM FIT AND ALSO TO WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS OR IN INSTITUTIONS AS PART OF PET FACILITATED THERAPY PROGRAMMES.

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: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported its highest-ever annual income of £5,366,277, driven by significant legacy gifts and strong fundraising performance, resulting in a net surplus of £1,246,925. Unrestricted reserves stood at £7,201,911, which the trustees confirmed exceeded their stated policy target of 6 to 8 months of operating costs. The auditor confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore (South) LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Canine Partners (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~17.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 25.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/07/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brendan Gerard Butler
• Dr Agnes Juliette Nadine Delauche
• Dr Katharine Joanne Nelson
• Georgina Ann Elizabeth Carr
• Hayley Louise Belmore
• James Charles William Harkness
• Miriam Bentley-Rose
• Nicholas James Sydenham
• Rachel Elizabeth Hucknall
• Richard John Russell Brooke
• Rita Chohan
• Rosalyn Emily Golds
• Tomas David Shore
• Victoria Josephine Cloney

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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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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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 DOG ASSISTANCE IN DISABILITY.

• DOG ASSISTANCE IN DISABILITY income £192k
• DOGS FOR AUTISM income £866k
• ABILITY DOGS 4 YOUNG PEOPLE IOW income £481k
• SUPPORT DOGS LIMITED income £2.2m
• THE AUTISM ASSISTANCE DOGS CHARITY income £905k
• THE SEEING DOGS ALLIANCE income £234k

Side by side with its peers

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