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Registered charity · Carlisle

OAK Tree Animals' Charity

OAK Tree Animals' Charity is a registered charity (number 1169511) based in Carlisle, governed by 4 trustees and chaired by Rachel Griffiths since 2025. Latest income £2.6m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as Animals' Refuge, The National Equine (and Smaller Animals) Defence League (Charity Commission)

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £2.6m (2024)
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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
Cumbria, Northumberland, Scotland
Website
www.oaktreeanimals.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
OAK Tree Animals' Charity
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£2.6m£3.0m
  • 2023£2.4m£2.4m
  • 2022£2.3m£2.0m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.4m£1.2m
  • 2020£714k£1000k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

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

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE HUMANE BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS ANIMALS BY PROVIDING APPROPRIATE CARE, PROTECTION, TREATMENT AND SECURITY FOR ANIMALS WHICH ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION BY REASON OF SICKNESS, MALTREATMENT, POOR CIRCUMSTANCES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY ASSESSING, REHABILITATING AND REHOMING SUCH ANIMALS AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS PERTAINING TO ANIMAL WELFARE IN GENERAL AND THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY AND SUFFERING AMONG ANIMALS.

Grants received

8 grants · £70,773 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £39,537 (3 grants)
  • Postcode Neighbourhood Trust · £21,991
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £6,499 (2 grants)
  • Crisis UK · £2,246
  • Cumbria Community Foundation · £500

Most recent

  • Postcode Neighbourhood Trust £21,9912022-07-27
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,6602021-08-06
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,8852020-05-11
  • Cumbria Community Foundation £5002020-04-09
  • Crisis UK £2,2462020-04-09
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.

4 trustees on the board

3.2y median 1.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

4
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 4Education/training 4

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

Agriculture 4Professional services 1Retail and trade 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£2.6m 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.

9.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.3 in 2020

83 from 40 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.
50 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1169511
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01 OCT 2016 as amended on 20 Apr 2018
Companies House
Company number 10404912 · Active
Contact on the register
01228560082 · info@oaktreeanimals.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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