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Registered charity · Worcestershire

Worcestershire Animal Rescue Shelter

Worcestershire Animal Rescue Shelter is a registered charity (number 514872) based in Worcestershire, governed by 8 trustees and chaired by Elisabeth Janet Arpad. Latest income £994k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as Wars (Charity Commission)

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £994k (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
Animals
Where
Worcestershire
Website
www.wars.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£994k£326k
  • 2024£253k£294k
  • 2023£346k£261k
Earlier years
  • 2022£220k£193k
  • 2021£158k£213k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE SUFFEING AMONG ANIMALS OF ALL KINDS AND TO PREVENT CRUELTY THERETO BY THE PROVISION OF AN ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER IN THE WORCESTERSHIRE AREA. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CONSTITUTION).

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.

8 trustees on the board

2.3y median 0y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 8

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 3Other services 2Business services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£994k 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.

39.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

7
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
514872
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 06/02/1984AS AMENDED ON 12/09/2012
Contact on the register
01905831651 · secretary@wars.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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