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Registered charity (CIO) · East Sussex

The Humane League UK

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Animals
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ireland, Scotland
Website
thehumaneleague.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.7m
  • 2024£1.6m£1.5m
  • 2023£2.2m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.1m
  • 2021£799k£681k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(1) THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY AND SUFFERING AMONG FARM ANIMALS THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF UNDERSTANDING IN RELATION TO MORE COMPASSIONATE AND HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECTS OF:(A) THE REARING, HUSBANDRY AND GENERAL FARMING PRACTICES RELATING TO THE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS AND(B) THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING OF ANIMALS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FARM ANIMALS(3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECTS OF VEGETARIANISM AND VEGANISM IN THE CONTEXT OF IMPROVING PUBLIC HEALTH

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 4y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 4

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.7m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

9.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.7 in 2021

26 from 14 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
1177926
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 12 Apr 2018 as amended on 27 Nov 2023 as amended on 11 Aug 2025
Contact on the register
0800 0148081 · info@thehumaneleague.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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