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Registered charity · Cheltenham

Gloucestershire Animal Welfare Association and Cheltenham Animal Shelter

Gloucestershire Animal Welfare Association and Cheltenham Animal Shelter is a registered charity (number 1081019) based in Cheltenham, governed by 8 trustees and chaired by Jane Stewart. Latest income £1.8m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Cheltenham Animal Shelter, Gloucestershire Animal Welfare Association (Charity Commission)

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.8m (2025)
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About

What it does
Education/training, Animals
Where
Gloucestershire, Merthyr Tydfil, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and more
Website
www.gawa.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Gloucestershire Animal Welfare Association and Cheltenham Animal Shelter
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.8m£1.7m
  • 2024£2.0m£1.7m
  • 2022£868k£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2021£741k£949k
  • 2020£925k£901k

Income trend, 2020 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government contracts under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO PROVIDE CARE AND SHELTER FOR ANIMALS IN NEED OF CARE AND PROTECTION BY REASON OF THEIR SICKNESS, NEGLECT OR MALNUTRITION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING A HOME FOR STRAY ANIMALS IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND FINDING PERMANENT HOMES FOR UNWANTED DOMESTIC ANIMALS.2) TO ENCOURAGE GOOD PRACTICE IN THE CARE OF ANIMALS IN THE COMMUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

5.2y median 5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

8
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Animals 8Education/training 8General Charitable Purposes 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Agriculture 8Retail and trade 6Arts and leisure 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2024
2025
incomespending£1.8m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

19.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 37.1 in 2020

44 from 37 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1081019
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29 OCTOBER 1999 AS AMENDED 19 JULY 2005 AND 4 JANUARY 2006 null
Companies House
Company number 03868428 · Active
Contact on the register
01242548776 · gm@gawa.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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