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Registered charity · Hatfield

The Royal Veterinary College Animal Care Trust

The Royal Veterinary College Animal Care Trust is a registered charity (number 281571) based in Hatfield, governed by 1 trustee. Latest income £1.3m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as ACT, Animal Care Trust (Charity Commission)

  • 1 trustee
  • Income £1.3m (2025)
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No individual trustees are listed on the register.

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: The Council.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.rvc.ac.uk/act (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1980

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.3m£1.3m
  • 2024£1.1m£1.0m
  • 2023£1.6m£932k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.2m
  • 2021£1.4m£904k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND OF VETERINARY SCIENCE MEDICINE AND SURGERY THE UNDERTAKING OF RESEARCH AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS THEREOF AND SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING AMONG ANIMALS AS THE TRUSTEE SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Grants received

1 grant · £100,000 total

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.3m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

22.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 21.2 in 2021

6 from 5 in 2021
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
281571
Status
Registered
Governing document
CHARITABLE TRUST DEED DATED 21ST NOVEMBER 1980 AND SUPPLEMENTAL DEED DATED 12TH OCTOBER 1982
Contact on the register
01707666237 · act@rvc.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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