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Registered charity · Telford

The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £126m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Animals
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.pdsa.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£126m£126m
  • 2024£129m£122m
  • 2023£114m£115m
Earlier years
  • 2022£107m£105m
  • 2021£105m£92m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY ARE: A) THE PROVISION OF FREE MEDICAL OR SURGICAL TREATMENT, OR SUCH TREATMENT AT REDUCED CHARGES, TO ANIMALS BELONGING TO PERSONS WHO ARE UNABLE TO AFFORD THE SERVICES OF A VETERINARY SURGEON;B) THE PREVENTION OF SUFFERING OF ANIMALS BY THE PROVISION OF PREVENTATIVE TREATMENT, CARE AND ADVICE (WHETHER FREE, AT A REDUCED CHARGE OR AT FULL CHARGE); C) THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS CONCERNING ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELFARE IN GENERAL; D) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ANIMAL WELFARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY OTHER MEANS.

Grants received

11 grants · £13,251,933 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

  • Postcode Animal Trust · £12,115,000 (5 grants)
  • Postcode Innovation Trust · £1,000,000
  • Postcode Local Trust · £50,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £49,933
  • SHAREGIFT · £37,000 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • SHAREGIFT £30,0002025-08-18
  • Postcode Animal Trust £3,000,0002025-02-18
  • Postcode Animal Trust £15,0002025-02-18
  • SHAREGIFT £5,0002025-01-16
  • Postcode Animal Trust £3,000,0002023-12-01
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.

5.9y median 8y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (4)

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 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10Education/training 3General Charitable Purposes 1Overseas Aid/famine Relief 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.

Other services 4Professional services 2Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£128.9m 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.

7.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 11.3 in 2020

1760 from 1662 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
208217
Status
Registered
Governing document
ACT OF PARLIAMENT DATED 14 JULY 1949 AS AMENDED 5 JULY 1956STATUTORY INSTRUMENT AS AMENDED BY SCHEME BOUGHT INTO EFFECT BY THE CHARITIES (PEOPLE'S DISPENSARY FOR SICK ANIMALS) ORDER 2015 DATED 10/03/2015
Contact on the register
01952290999 · MACKINNON.LIZ@PDSA.ORG.UK
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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