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Registered charity · Godalming

The League Against Cruel Sports

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £3.7m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.league.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The League Against Cruel Sports
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£3.7m£3.1m
  • 2023£2.9m£2.5m
  • 2022£2.9m£3.5m
Earlier years
  • 2021£3.1m£3.1m
  • 2020£3.3m£3.0m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

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

Charitable objects

1.1 THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“THE OBJECTS”) ARE: 1.1.1 THE PREVENTION OF ALL FORMS OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS; 1.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION GENERALLY WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE CARE AND PROTECTION OF ANIMALS, ECOLOGY, NATURAL HISTORY, CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; 1.1.3 THE CONSERVATION, PRESERVATION, PROTECTION AND RESTORATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES, NATURAL BEAUTY AND ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE OF THE WORLD AND LANDS AND BUILDINGS OF BEAUTY, HISTORIC INTEREST OR OF ECOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE AND, AS REGARDS LANDS, FOR THE PRESERVATION, AS FAR AS PRACTICABLE, OF THEIR NATURAL ASPECT, FEATURES AND ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE.

Grants received

1 grant · £10,000 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.

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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.

7 trustees on the board

0.4y median 0y
average tenure
1y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 7Education/training 7General Charitable Purposes 7

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

Other services 13Education 6Business services 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
2023
2024
incomespending£3.7m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

12.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.8 in 2020

41 from 54 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
1095234
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/07/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/11/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/04/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/04/2008AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 13/05/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/07/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 29 APR 2019
Companies House
Company number 04037610 · Active
Contact on the register
01483524250 · admin@league.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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