The Retreat Animal Rescue

Analysis

The Retreat Animal Rescue is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ashford. It was registered in August 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animals, which this site groups under animals. It says it provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending July 2025, The Retreat Animal Rescue reported income of £350k and spending of £399k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income grew from £299k to £350k (+17%), an average of +4.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2022, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 2,161 England and Wales charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, The Retreat Animal Rescue sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Flori's Friends Rescue (£349k), Hope Pastures Horse & Donkey Rescue and Welfare (£353k) and Greyhound Gap (£348k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.