The Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust

Analysis

The Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in May 1983, 43 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animals, which this site groups under animals. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust reported income of £423k and spending of £979k, spending 231% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £418k to £423k (+1.3%), an average of +0.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 189% of the income it received.

Among 2,161 England and Wales charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, The Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Free the Bears UK (£422k), Rescue Me Animal Sanctuary (£430k) and Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Northumberland West Branch (£421k).

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.