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Registered charity · Wimborne

Worldwide Veterinary Service

Worldwide Veterinary Service is a registered charity (number 1100485) based in Wimborne, governed by 5 trustees and chaired by Owen Jonathan Sharp since 2023. Latest income £9.3m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as W.V.S., WVS (Charity Commission)

The charity's objects are: (a) throughout the world to protect and relieve dogs and other animals, in the directors discretion, from maltreatment, cruelty and suffering; and(b) to advance human health and animal welfare through: (i) veterinary...

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £9.3m (2024)
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About

What it does
Education/training, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Animals
Where
Throughout England And Wales, India, Malawi, Thailand and more
Website
www.wvs.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Worldwide Veterinary Service
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£9.3m£8.9m
  • 2023£5.6m£5.0m
  • 2022£1.9m£2.1m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.6m£1.8m
  • 2020£1.5m£1.9m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The charity's objects are: (a) throughout the world to protect and relieve dogs and other animals, in the directors discretion, from maltreatment, cruelty and suffering; and(b) to advance human health and animal welfare through: (i) veterinary training and veterinary advice and support; (ii) participating in initiatives for the global elimination of rabies; (iii) assisting with education projects relating to animal health, welfare and zoonotic diseases;(iv) assisting with the design and implementation of rabies vaccination, surveillance and education programmes; and(v) providing a global resource for use by organisations involved in the elimination of rabies and other diseases.

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 trustees on the board

4.8y median 3y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 5Education/training 5Overseas Aid/famine Relief 5

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 6Health and social care 2Arts 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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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£9.3m 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.

2.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.8 in 2020

47 from 24 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
1100485
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 MAY 2003 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 20 OCTOBER 2003 as amended on 06 Apr 2023 as amended on 26 Apr 2023
Companies House
Company number 04773693 · Active
Contact on the register
01725557225 · info@wvs.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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