# GUINEA PIG WELFARE UK

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1217559
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** CIO
- **Registered:** April 10, 2026
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1217559


## Contact

- **Address:** 61A BRIDGE STREET, KINGTON
- **Postcode:** HR5 3DJ
- **Phone:** 01919339000
- **Email:** john@guineapigwelfare-uk.com



## Activities

**Objects:** • TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CARE AND CLINICAL TREATMENT OF GUINEA PIGS INCLUDING THROUGH PROMOTING RESEARCH AND PUBLICLY DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH • TO PREVENT UNNECESSARY SUFFERING TO GUINEA PIGS AND TO PROMOTE THEIR HUMANE TREATMENT BY DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING WELFARE STANDARDS AND PROMOTING COMPLIANCE WITH LEGAL WELFARE STANDARDS IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER TO ENGAGE IN POLITICAL ACTIVITY AND CAMPAIGNING PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES ARE SATIS?ED THAT THE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WILL FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY TO AN EXTENT JUSTI?ED BY THE RESOURCES COMMITTED AND THE ACTIVITY IS NOT THE DOMINANT MEANS BY WHICH THE CHARITY CARRIES OUT ITS OBJECTS.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research, Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- **What:** Education/training, Animals
- **Who:** The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Throughout England And Wales




## Trustees

- **Dr John Rogers Chitty** (Chair) — appointed April 10, 2026
- Ellie Jade Parkes
- Mary Ann Coles
- RACHEL JANE Scrafton — appointed April 10, 2026