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Registered charity · Norwich

World Horse Welfare

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £11m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training, Animals
Where
Cambodia, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba and more
Website
www.worldhorsewelfare.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1979

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£11m£12m
  • 2024£9.9m£12m
  • 2023£16m£11m
Earlier years
  • 2022£8.3m£9.5m
  • 2021£8.5m£8.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE PROTECTION AND REHABILITATION OF EQUINES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS.

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.

3.6y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (3)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 14Education/training 14Arts/culture/heritage/science 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Education 1Manufacturing 1Other services 1

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£9.9m 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.

13.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 20.0 in 2020

131 from 123 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
206658
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED 3 DECEMBER 1993 AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL DEEDS DATED 27 APRIL 1999, 5 MARCH 2008 AND 16 JULY 2008AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 07 DEC 2021
Contact on the register
01953497218 · info@worldhorsewelfare.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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