Common questions about Animal Health Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Animal Health Trust a good charity? +
Animal Health Trust scores 49 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 94% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are missing. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Animal Health Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Animal Health Trust as a registered charity (charity number 209642). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=209642&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Animal Health Trust's charity number? +
Animal Health Trust's charity number is 209642. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Animal Health Trust's charity rating? +
Animal Health Trust scores 49 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Animal Health Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Animal Health Trust. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: poor filing history). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Animal Health Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 94% of Animal Health Trust's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Animal Health Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 5% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 7% of expenditure (2016–2018, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Animal Health Trust. Animal Health Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2018 reports 18 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Animal Health Trust receive? +
Animal Health Trust reported £16m total income in its 2018 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Animal Health Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: missing. CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Animal Health Trust based? +
Animal Health Trust's registered contact address is in Manchester (M1 4PB). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on animals.
How much is Animal Health Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Animal Health Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2018 reports 18 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Does Animal Health Trust receive government funding? +
Animal Health Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2018 reports no income from government contracts or government grants.
Where does Animal Health Trust's money come from? +
Animal Health Trust reported £16m total income for the year ending 31 December 2018. The largest sources were charitable activities £11m (70%), donations and legacies £4.4m (28%), trading and fundraising events £328k (2%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £2.9m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Animal Health Trust? +
The register records Animal Health Trust as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Animal Health Trust's trustees paid? +
Animal Health Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2018 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Animal Health Trust registered as a charity? +
Animal Health Trust was entered on the register on 24 April 1966. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number RC000011).
How does CharityCompare score Animal Health Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Animal Health Trust's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Animal Health Trust's most recent accounts cover 2018. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.