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Animals: charities in England and Wales

Registered4,621charities
Total income£3.25bnlatest returns
Median income£41kper charity
Top-10 share37%of income

Overview

England and Wales has 4,621 registered charities working on animals on the current register extract, of which 4,073 reported income in their latest return. Together they reported £3.25bn of income. The median charity took in £41k, while the largest tenth reported £660k or more, so a typical donation goes to a far smaller organisation than the household names at the top of this list.

Income is concentrated: the ten largest charities working on animals account for 37% of the total. Across the whole group, 1,142 charities have a note from the register, such as overdue accounts or three years of spending above income, and those notes are shown on each charity's page.

2,750 of the charities with reported income (68%) took in under £100k a year. Pages for the 2,953 charities with several years of accounts include their full income history, a comparison with similar-sized peers and a breakdown of where the money comes from.

Largest by income

#CharityLocationIncome
1Royal Society for the Protection of BirdsSandy£195.0m
2Dogs TrustLondon£172.3m
3Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsWest Sussex£171.5m
4The Master Charitable TrustLondon£155.3m
5The People's Dispensary for Sick AnimalsTelford£126.2m
6Cats ProtectionHaywards Heath£105.6m
7The Zoological Society of LondonLondon£92.7m
8The North of England Zoological SocietyCaughall Road£70.5m
9Battersea Dogs' and Cats' HomeLondon£68.4m
10The Donkey SanctuarySidmouth£59.6m
11Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat InternationalLondon£55.6m
12Virunga FoundationLondon£53.8m
13Blue CrossBurford£50.3m
14Wildfowl and Wetlands TrustGloucester£46.8m
15Fauna & Flora InternationalCambridge£44.8m
16Birdlife InternationalCambridge£37.0m
17The Howletts Wild Animal TrustHythe£30.8m
18World Animal ProtectionLondon£30.1m
19Colchester Zoological SocietyColchester£27.4m
20The Soil Association LimitedBristol£24.9m
21The Brooke Hospital for AnimalsLondon£24.8m
22Twycross Zoo-East Midland Zoological Society LimitedAtherstone£23.3m
23Woodgreen Pets CharityCambridgeshire£21.1m
24Dawat-E-Hadiyah Trust (United Kingdom)Northolt£18.9m
25Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary MedicinesEdinburgh£17.7m
26The British Horse SocietyKenilworth£17.7m
27International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw)London£17.4m
28Hearing Dogs for Deaf PeoplePrinces Risborough£16.3m
29AfghanaidLondon£16.2m
30Earlham InstituteUK£14.1m
31Caribbean Biodiversity FundCheshire£14.1m
32Compassion in World Farming InternationalGodalming£14.0m
33The Pony ClubWarwick£13.8m
34Worldwide Veterinary ServiceWimborne£13.2m
35Wild Planet TrustHerefordshire£13.1m
36Blue Marine FoundationLondon£13.0m
37Holstein UKShropshire£12.9m
38Redwings Horse SanctuaryNorwich£12.9m
39Leeds Castle FoundationMaidstone£12.7m
40Ripple Effect InternationalBath£12.6m
41The Calleva FoundationLondon£12.6m
42Marwell WildlifeWinchester£12.5m
43Effective Ventures FoundationOxford£12.1m
44The Game and Wildlife Conservation TrustFordingbridge£11.9m
45World Horse WelfareNorwich£11.1m
46The Sally Ann Raven FoundationMaldon£10.9m
47South West Environmental Parks LimitedDevon£10.9m
48Blue Ventures ConservationLondon£10.4m
49Sheldrick Wildlife Trust UKWest Sussex£10.4m
50Hertfordshire ZooBroxbourne£10.1m
51Essex Wildlife Trust LimitedGreat Wigborough£10.0m
52Becht FoundationLondon£9.9m
53World Land TrustHalesworth£9.7m
54The Bristol Clifton and West of England Zoological Society LimitedBristol£9.7m
55Emih LimitedHull£9.6m
56Norfolk Wildlife TrustNorwich£9.4m
57The Cinnamon TrustHayle£8.7m
58The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire NorthamptonshireCambridge£8.7m
59Working Animals InternationalLondon£8.5m
60Bransby HorsesLincoln£8.3m