The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Vetlife

Registered charity 224776 Registered since 1963

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland

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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.

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

10
company-linked trustees

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 12Accommodation/housing 11Education/training 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.

Professional services 20Other services 5Arts and leisure 2

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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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£1.0m 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.

113.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 120.0 in 2020

6 from 4 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.vetlife.org.uk
Emailinfo@vetlife.org.uk
Phone02079086385
AddressVetlife, 7 Mansfield Street, London, W1G9NQ

Finances

£1,035,915 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£531,153£690,530
2021£776,941£724,992
2022£914,534£927,037
2023£1,168,665£977,053
2024£1,035,915£1,039,928

What it does

What

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyAccommodation/housing

Who

Other Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/information

Charitable objects

4. The object for which the Fund is established is the relief of the charitable needs of veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses and their relatives or dependants in particular by:(a) providing financial and other assistance to deserving veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses resident in the UK, Channel Islands or Isle of Man who are in need and are or have been included on the Register of Veterinary Surgeons, or the Register of Veterinary Nurses held by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons;(b) providing financial and other assistance to the deserving relatives and dependants of deceased and retired veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses. In this sub-clause “relatives or dependants” will include such persons as the Directors shall from time to time determine;(c) providing a helpline for veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses and their relatives or dependants, and for undergraduate veterinary surgeons and student veterinary nurses enrolled on a UK veterinary degree programme, who seek help on health or other social problems;(d) providing for the relief of mental and physical illness, associated with compulsive behaviour or stress or depression, which may or may not result from alcohol or drug addiction or other forms of dependence, in order to allow veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses to continue with their professional duties and safeguard the public interest; (e) raising awareness of the problems in the veterinary professions associated with mental and depressive disease, drug and alcohol abuse and other forms of compulsive behaviour; and(f) carrying out or funding research in furtherance of the Fund’s charitable objects.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 6 FEBRUARY 1919 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS OF 10 APRIL 1919, 1 JUNE 1949, 11 JUNE 1958, 26 JULY 1978, 31 JULY 1985, 24 NOVEMBER 1999, 14 JULY 2005 AND 17 JULY 2008. as amended on 18 Jul 2022 as amended on 13 Jul 2022 as amended on 18 Jul 2022

Trustees (12)

12trustees
48median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Vetlife · 00153010 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 06/02/1919

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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