# UNIVERSITIES FEDERATION FOR ANIMAL WELFARE

## Details

- **Country:** England &amp; Wales
- **Charity number:** 207996
- **Other names:** THE UNIVERSITIES FEDERATION FOR ANIMAL WELFARE, U F A W
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Company number:** [00579991](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00579991)
- **Registered:** Sept. 22, 1962
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=207996


## Contact

- **Address:** Universities Federation for Animal, WELFARE, The Old School, Brewhouse Hill, Wheathampstead
- **Postcode:** ST. ALBA
- **Phone:** 01582 831818
- **Email:** ufaw@ufaw.org.uk
- **Website:** http://www.ufaw.org.uk



## Activities

**Objects:** (1). TO PREVENT CRUELTY AND PROMOTE HUMANE BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS ALL ANIMALS WHETHER DOMESTIC OR WILD, IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ABROAD, SO AS TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE PAIN, FEAR, SUFFERING, DISTRESS OR LASTING HARM INFLICTED UPON THEM BY HUMANS, AND IN PURSUANCE OF THIS AIM TO ENLIST THE ENERGIES OF MEMBERS OF UNIVERSITIES, PROFESSIONAL MEN AND WOMEN AND ALL OTHERS WHO WORK WITH, ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR, OR THE CARE OF ANIMALS.(2).  TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE, THROUGH THE PROCESS OF EDUCATION, GOOD MANAGEMENT AND HUSBANDRY PRACTICES WHEREBY THE NEEDS OF ANIMALS ARE PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD AND MET, AND, IN ADVANCEMENT THEREOF, TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE STORE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE BY FUNDING AND ENGAGING IN ANIMAL WELFARE RESEARCH AND BY PUBLISHING THE RESULTS THEREOF.

**Activities:** UFAW IS AN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED, INDEPENDENT, SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL ANIMAL WELFARE CHARITY. THE ORGANISATION IS CONCERNED WITH PROMOTING HIGH STANDARDS OF WELFARE FOR FARM, COMPANION, LABORATORY AND CAPTIVE WILD ANIMALS, AND FOR THOSE ANIMALS WITH WHICH WE INTERACT IN THE WILD.




## Classification

- **How:** Makes Grants To Individuals, Makes Grants To Organisations, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- **What:** Education/training, Animals
- **Who:** Other Defined Groups



## Geography

- **Area of benefit:** NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- India
- Israel
- Italy
- Kenya
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Portugal
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Uganda
- United States
- Throughout England And Wales





## Trustees

| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| CORRIE LYNDIS MCCANN |  | Oct. 27, 2011 |
| DAVID GEORGE PRITCHARD |  |  |
| DR DAVID RICHARD SARGAN MA |  | Dec. 20, 2012 |
| Dr Dorothy Elizabeth Fairlie McKeegan |  | Nov. 16, 2022 |
| Dr Emily Craven |  | Nov. 16, 2022 |
| Emma-Louise Singh |  | Nov. 16, 2022 |
| Jane Downes |  | Nov. 7, 2022 |
| MICHAEL JOHN RADFORD OBE LLB |  |  |
| PROFESSOR RICHARD MARK BENNETT |  |  |
| Paula Junqueira |  | Nov. 16, 2022 |



## Linked charities

- PENNIE BETTS TRUST FUND (207996-1)
- INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ANIMAL WELFARE SCIENCE (207996-2)
- LEIGH BROWNE ENDOWMENT (207996-3)
- LORNA GASCOIGNE (207996-4)
- TOMLIN TAYLOR TRUST (207996-5)



