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Registered charity · London

World Animal Protection

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £31m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout London, Australia, Belgium, Brazil and more
Website
www.worldanimalprotection.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
World Animal Protection
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£31m£34m
  • 2023£30m£36m
  • 2022£38m£32m
Earlier years
  • 2021£33m£28m
  • 2020£31m£31m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

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

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE SOCIETY SHALL BE TO PREVENT OR SUPPRESS CRUELTY AND TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF ANIMALS AND TO DO ALL SUCH LAWFUL ACTS AS THE SOCIETY MAY CONSIDER TO BE CONDUCIVE OR INCIDENTAL TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THOSE OBJECTS.

Grants received

3 grants · £99,898 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £99,898 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £60,0982022-07-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £18,7402022-07-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £21,0602022-07-01
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.

8 trustees on the board

5.2y median 4.5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

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 8Overseas Aid/famine Relief 8

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

Business services 9Agriculture 1Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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
2023
2024
incomespending£30.9m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

4.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 3.4 in 2020

137 from 249 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
1081849
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07/07/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/05/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/06/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/11/2014AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 25/11/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09 MAR 2016 as amended on 13 Jun 2024
Companies House
Company number 04029540 · Active
Contact on the register
02072390525 · info@worldanimalprotection.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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