The Rose Animal Welfare Trust CIO

Analysis

The Rose Animal Welfare Trust CIO is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in York. It was registered in October 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animals, which this site groups under animals. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending October 2025, The Rose Animal Welfare Trust CIO reported income of £247k and spending of £623k, spending 252% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income fell from £2.3m to £247k (-89%), an average of -43% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2022, when income dropped by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 66% of the income it received.

Among 2,161 England and Wales charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, The Rose Animal Welfare Trust CIO sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Free the Wild (£246k), Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Surrey Woking and District Branch (£248k) and The Sheffield Retired Greyhounds (£246k).

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.