Registered charity · Solihull
The Birmingham Dogs Home
- 10 trustees
- Income £3.7m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Andrew Michael WhelanTrustee · since 2022
- Claire PowellTrustee · since 2017
- Janice Patricia LarrawayTrustee · since 2018
- Loretta Chivonne FraserTrustee · since 2025
- Michael LampardTrustee · since 2023
- MRS C H TaylorTrustee · since 2012
- Nurun Nessa AhmedTrustee · since 2021
- Peter BarnettTrustee · since 2011
- Richard John VennerTrustee · since 2015
- Wolfie Premsyl Robert PapirnikTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Animals
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.birminghamdogshome.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Birmingham Dogs Home
- Registered
- 1964
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£3.7m£4.4m
- 2024£3.4m£4.2m
- 2023£5.7m£3.6m
Earlier years
- 2022£3.1m£3.1m
- 2021£2.1m£2.7m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 8%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN PREMISES TO BE USED PRIMARILY FOR THE RESCUE, RE-HOMING AND, IF NECESSARY, PAINLESS DESTRUCTION OF LOST, UNWANTED, SUFFERING AND OWNERLESS DOGS, CATS AND OTHER SMALL DOMESTIC ANIMALS
Grants received
1 grant · £10,000 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
- SHAREGIFT · £10,000
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Andrew Michael Whelan since 2022
- Claire Powell since 2017
- Janice Patricia Larraway since 2018
- Loretta Chivonne Fraser since 2025
- MRS C H Taylor since 2012
- Michael Lampard since 2023
- Nurun Nessa Ahmed since 2021
- Peter Barnett since 2011
- Richard John Venner since 2015
- Wolfie Premsyl Robert Papirnik since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Claire Powell since 2017
- Janice Patricia Larraway since 2018
- MRS C H Taylor since 2012
- Peter Barnett since 2011
- Richard John Venner since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Andrew Michael Whelan since 2022
- Claire Powell since 2017
- Janice Patricia Larraway since 2018
- Loretta Chivonne Fraser since 2025
- MRS C H Taylor since 2012
- Michael Lampard since 2023
- Nurun Nessa Ahmed since 2021
- Peter Barnett since 2011
- Wolfie Premsyl Robert Papirnik since 2025
Portfolio (1)
- Richard John Venner since 2015
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
11.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 77.1 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 222436
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 22 JUNE 1960 AND AMENDED 29 APRIL1964, 12 JULY 1978, 2 JULY 1998 AND 13 JULY 2006.
- Companies House
- Company number 00662947 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 0121 643 5211 · info@birminghamdogshome.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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