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The Brooke Hospital for Animals

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £25m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, Animals
Where
Egypt, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India and more
Website
www.thebrooke.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Brooke Hospital for Animals
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£25m£25m
  • 2024£26m£23m
  • 2023£20m£22m
Earlier years
  • 2022£22m£21m
  • 2021£20m£21m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE AND RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF WORKING EQUINES AND OTHER ANIMALS IN AFRICA, ASIA, THE MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA, AND IN ANY OTHER AREAS OUTSIDE THE UNITED KINGDOM THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY THINK FIT, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY: THE SUPPORT, PROMOTION AND PROVISION OF VETERINARY AND OTHER ANIMAL HEALTHCARE SERVICES WHETHER IN THE CONTEXT OF VETERINARY CLINICS, ANIMAL HOSPITALS, OTHER ANIMAL HEALTHCARE FACILITIES OR OTHERWISE;THE PROVISION, PROMOTION AND SUPPORT OF EDUCATION IN THE CARE, WELFARE AND TREATMENT OF WORKING EQUINES;ADVOCACY FOR LONG TERM AND SUSTAINABLE IMPROVEMENT OF THE LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF WORKING EQUINES;AND TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF OWNERS AND USERS OF WORKING ANIMALS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES BY IMPROVING THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF SUCH ANIMALS.

Grants received

3 grants · £28,000 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

Most recent

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

5y median 5.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 8Animals 7Accommodation/housing 1Disability 1

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

Professional services 12Arts and leisure 2Agriculture 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£24.8m latest income
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.

6.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 5.7 in 2021

230 from 208 in 2021
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
1085760
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 5TH DECEMBER 2000 AS AMENDED 14TH DECEMBER 2001, NOW ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ADOPTED AND AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 11 DECEMBER 2009.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 18 APR 2016
Companies House
Company number 04119581 · Active
Contact on the register
020 3012 3456 · info@thebrooke.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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