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Dogs Trust

Dogs Trust is a registered charity (number 1167663) based in London, governed by 12 trustees. Latest income £172m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

12 trustees
Income £172m (2025)

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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: Bosnia And Herzegovina, Hungary, India, Malawi and more
Website: www.dogstrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Dogs Trust
Registered: 2016

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£172m£163m
2024£143m£151m
2023£6.9m£6.9m

Earlier years

2022£6.4m£6.4m
2021£4.3m£4.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE (AND FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT WHETHER WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD) TO PROTECT DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS IN THE DIRECTORS DISCRETION FROM MALTREATMENT, CRUELTY AND SUFFERING

Grants received

10 grants · £13,030,800 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

Postcode Animal Trust · £12,650,000 (6 grants)
Postcode Global Trust · £250,000
Postcode Community Trust · £130,000 (2 grants)
Making A Difference Locally · £800

Most recent

Postcode Community Trust £30,0002025-08-31
Postcode Animal Trust £250,0002025-04-02
Making A Difference Locally £8002025-03-24
Postcode Animal Trust £3,000,0002025-02-18
Postcode Global Trust £250,0002025-02-10

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.

12 trustees on the board

1.4y median 2y

average tenure

longest tenure

trustees past 6 years

8.8y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

Philip Giles Daubeny since 2024

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 12Animals 11Disability 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Health and social care 10Professional services 7Finance 6

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£143.1m 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.

5.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 0.6 in 2020

1943

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: 1167663
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23 DEC 2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 OCT 2023AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 14 NOV 2023AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15 MAY 2024
Companies House: Company number 09365971 · Active
Contact on the register: 02078370006 · ContactCentre@dogstrust.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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