WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION

1. WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION 2014-11-25 → present
2. WORLD SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS 2000-07-07 → 2014-11-25

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Crowe UK LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The trustees believe that World Animal Protection has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Consequently, it can continue to adopt the 'going concern' basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION · parent
   1. World Animal Protection Trading Company Limited 1% · UK · ancillary trading activities
   2. World Animal Protection USA 1% · USA
   3. World Animal Protection Australia 1% · Australia

Significant events

• “Revealed that around 5.5 billion wild animals live in cruel conditions on commercial wildlife farms through our shocking report 'Bred for profit: The truth about global wildlife farming'. It grabbed worldwide attention by featuring in more than 300 media articles.”
• “Media coverage of our work at COP29, where we urgently pressed for system change, featured in more than 50 media articles and reached more than 181 million people worldwide.”
• “Our New Era Conversationist film made with Kenya's GreenTalkArt, telling the powerful story of a baby elephant and his poet rescuer, was seen more than 1.8 million times.”
• “More than 350,000 people signed our petition urging TUI Group, one of the world's largest travel organisations, to stop closing cruel cetacean entertainments.”
• “We galvanised more than 172,000 supporters from 26 countries to call for an end to captive elephant breeding in Thailand.”
• “When we exposed the 'greenwashing' done by Rabobank – the Netherlands' second biggest bank – more than 25,000 people joined us in asking them to divest from factory farming.”
• “We placed more than 1,000 slower growing chicks on 10 high-welfare farms in Thailand through our Farm Champion Project.”
• “By the end of 2024, 191 bears were getting the best of care at sanctuaries that we support in Pakistan and Romania.”
• “We convinced 20 Nigerian civil society organisations to oppose a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Nigerian government and factory farming giant JBS.”
• “Our generous supporters helped fund the expert care, treatment and rehabilitation of 2 tapirs – Melancia and Valente – who were severely burned in horrific wildfires in Brazil in August.”
• “Delayed JBS's New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) listing by at least 18 months through sustained advocacy and strategic lobbying of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).”
• “Secured a $50,000 test grant (an initial small grant with potential for larger funding) from a communications foundation.”
• “Convincing the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) to remove JBS's 'commitment' to net-zero status on its website's dashboard.”
• “Highlighting systemic risks of factory farming at the UN's June climate meeting (SB60) negotiations.”
• “Celebrated the Australian government's live sheep export ban and its defined implementation date of 1 May 2028.”
• “Pressed for agroecology and policy reform at the Africa Protein Summit that we hosted in Nairobi in November.”
• “Signed an MOU with AFSA which marks a pivotal milestone for food systems advocacy in October 2024.”
• “Spotlighted animal-friendly climate crisis solutions with plant-based foods, innovative events, and games during NYC Climate Week in September.”
• “Convinced 10 out of 15 Danish elected Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to endorse stronger animal welfare measures.”
• “Developed the Animals for Climate Tool with the World Federation for Animals – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) working group.”
• “Launched food systems awareness campaigns aimed at the public in India, Kenya and Thailand.”
• “Campaigned to give animals a stronger voice in Europe through our support of the EU for Animals campaign.”
• “Responsibility for animal welfare was under the remit of the Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, but this changed on September 17, 2024, with the title change to European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare.”
• “Led the development of the 'Just transition white paper and roadmap' with the Center for Biological Diversity and launched it at the Bonn Climate Conference in June.”
• “Secured a major investment policy shift at ABP, one of the world's largest pension funds, in early 2024 it agreed to steer its portfolio away from big meat companies like JBS.”
• “Exposed the misuse of public funds with our report 'Your taxes, their farms; funding factory farming abroad' that we launched in October.”
• “Celebrated the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) integration of animal welfare into their standards and their recognition of our work as driving this change.”
• “Made sure animals had a voice at Canada's leading responsible investment conferences, presenting at the Responsible Investor Conference in Toronto.”
• “Launched a campaign in May, urging supporters to send postcards to Rababank asking them to stop investments.”
• “Inspired wildlife-friendly medicine commitments from 46,802 consumers, 3 pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, and 1,597 doctors.”
• “Introduced the 'Wildlife-friendly Medicine Network' to the 2024 Health China Healthcare Industry Conference in Shenyang, China, in August.”
• “Advanced policy reforms in China to end wildlife use in traditional medicine by successfully submitting a proposal to the National People's Congress.”
• “Gained commitment from several more Fashion Weeks, by working with our partner Collective Fashion Justice, to ban wild animal body parts from the fashions featured in their shows.”
• “Reached more than 450,000 viewers with our compelling song and music video 'Delaunação'.”
• “Won two awards and widespread recognition for our documentary 'BR-123'.”
• “Released our 'Fauna legal framework' with Brazil's Ministry of Environment.”
• “Celebrated the end of koala cuddle experiences at Lone Pine Sanctuary, a major Australian venue in Queensland.”
• “Welcomed the end of human-tiger interactions at Dreamworld, also in Queensland.”
• “A bear farmed for its bile and forced to live alone in a tiny 1.5m x 1.5m steel cage for 20 years in Vietnam was finally released to safety in May after his owner was persuaded to surrender him.”
• “Released 'Bred for profit: The truth about global wildlife farming' in March.”
• “Halted government approval of a US$2.6m captive lion breeding project in Uganda.”
• “Welcomed South Africa's Cabinet approved of the 'Policy position on the conservation and sustainable use of elephant, lion, leopard, and rhinoceros' to end captive keeping of lions for commercial purposes.”
• “Celebrated our role in ethical tourism, when Following Giants, an elephant camp in Koh Lanta Thailand, received a prestigious Tripadvisor 2024 Travelers' Choice Award.”
• “Signed a 10-year technical cooperation agreement with IBAMA to renovate the Wild Animal Screening Centre (CETAS) in Pará.”
• “Thanks to National Postcode Lottery players in the Netherlands, we received a wonderful contribution of €750,000 for our work for animals in 2024.”
• “Supported Romanian NGO Asociația Milioane de Prieteni (AMP) since 2012 for bears, 36,991 people visited the sanctuary in 2024.”
• “Continued to support the Balkasar Sanctuary in Punjab Province, Pakistan for bears.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  —

  Not reported

• Cash

  -17.9%

  £13,911,000 → £11,416,000

• Net assets

  -13.6%

  £19,657,000 → £16,978,000

• Employees

  +0.9%

  226 → 228

• Wages

  +5%

  £12,074,000 → £12,676,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers