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Annual Report 2025

RSPCA NSW works to protect and care for animals across New South Wales through rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming, cruelty investigation, and community support programmes. The organisation provides crisis shelter for pets, subsidised veterinary care for owners facing hardship, and runs education and advocacy programmes to advance animal welfare legislation and practice across the state.

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Animal rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming; cruelty investigation and prosecution; crisis support programs providing temporary shelter for pets; subsidised veterinary care for owners in hardship; education and community outreach

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 10,324 nights of safety provided for pets through Crisis Support Programs
Key Metric 2 3,506 people provided with $1,288,000 worth of subsidised veterinary care
Key Metric 3 4,517 animals supported whose caregivers were facing crisis and hardship

Key Outcomes

  • Crisis Support Programs kept pets with families by providing temporary shelter, reducing preventable surrenders
  • Subsidised veterinary care enabled 4,517 animals in hardship households to receive treatment they would otherwise have been unable to access
  • Advocacy efforts contributed to legislative reforms advancing animal welfare protections in New South Wales

Geography

International

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Total income £18,180,000 and total expenditure £18,560,000 (year ended 31 December 2024, charity no. 1084958 England/Wales and SC039654 Scotland); in 2024 spent £3.8m on...
Key Metric 2
700+ members supported through in-person visits and support calls in 2025; 697 support grants allocated in 2025 for essential items including specialist clothing, cooling...
Key Metric 3
Largest global investment in EB research to date: multi-million-pound drug repurposing trial provisionally agreed with LifeArc partner at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation...
£34,000 raised in 2025 winter appeal supporting families like Darcie's with specialist items, emotional support and research; 697 support grants delivered in 2025; first Members Connect event in Northern Ireland; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed providing global research roadmap
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 2
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 3
733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
Impact Snapshot
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3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 3
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to...
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
Key Metric 2
£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
Key Metric 3
32% of people completing NHS England's Path to Remission programme — which Diabetes UK campaigned for — put their type 2 diabetes into remission
Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge invested over £23 million in 19 projects across 161 experts from 47 institutions in 8 countries since 2022