Registered charity · Haywards Heath
Cats Protection
Cats Protection is a registered charity (number 203644) based in Haywards Heath, governed by 1 trustee. Latest income £106m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.
- 1 trustee
- Income £106m (2025)
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Who leads it
No individual trustees are listed on the register.
Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Cats Protection Trustee Limited.
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, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.cats.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Cats Protection Trustee Limited
- Registered
- 1962
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£106m£97m
- 2024£97m£99m
- 2023£89m£104m
Earlier years
- 2022£86m£87m
- 2021£78m£71m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PREVENT AND RELIEVE THE SUFFERING AND DISTRESS OF CATS AND TO ADVANCE THE WELFARE OF CATS
Grants received
17 grants · £10,245,725 total360Giving 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 · £10,100,000 (4 grants)
- Postcode Society Trust · £50,000 (2 grants)
- SHAREGIFT · £48,000 (6 grants)
- Postcode Community Trust · £45,000 (2 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £2,350
Most recent
- Postcode Community Trust
- Postcode Community Trust
- Postcode Animal Trust
Board analysis
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4.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 7.7 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 203644
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- RULES ADOPTED 08/11/1997AS AMENDED ON 06/11/2004AS AMENDED ON 15/10/2005AS AMENDED ON 11/10/2008AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 08/01/2009AS AMENDED ON 20/07/2013AS AMENDED ON 12/07/2014 as amended on 03 Oct 2020
- Companies House
- Company number 06772997 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 03000 121212 · John.May@cats.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
- Labels
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