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Registered charity · Westerham

Friends of Animals League

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £2.0m (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
Kent
Website
www.foalfarm.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Friends of Animals League
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.0m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.3m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.1m£1.2m
  • 2021£1.5m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE:A. TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING AND DISTRESS OF ANIMALSTHIS OBJECT IS TO BE ACHIEVED IN ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS OR IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE DIRECTORS THINK FIT:B. BY MAINTAINING THE CENTRE FOR TREATING UNWANTED SICK OR ILL-TREATED ANIMALS AT FOAL FARM, BIGGIN HILL, WESTERHAM, KENT TN16 3AX OR TO EXPAND AND RELOCATE THE FARM AS MAY BE FOUND NECESSARY;C. BY UNDERTAKING THE SHELTERING OF ANIMALS PARTED FROM THEIR OWNERS EITHER PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY;D. BY MAKING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CARE AND/OR REHOMEING OF AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANIMALS;E. BY PURCHASING ANIMALS WHEN NECESSARY;F. BY CO-OPERATING WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS HAVING A SIMILAR CHARITABLE OBJECT;G. BY EDUCATING THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE CARE OF ANIMALS GENERALLY AND THE TREATMENT OF UNWANTED SICK OR ILL-TREATED ANIMALS SPECIFICALLY.

Grants received

1 grant · £30,000 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.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

6 trustees on the board

8.3y median 8y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 6

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 7Arts and leisure 3Agriculture 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • 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£1.3m 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.

28.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 15.0 in 2020

39 from 37 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
201654
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25/10/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/06/2011
Companies House
Company number 04311334 · Active
Contact on the register
01959572386 · info@foalfarm.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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