EUROPEAN GUIDE DOG FEDERATION
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
THE EUROPEAN GUIDE DOG FEDERATION (EGDF) IS A EUROPEAN LEVEL DISABILITY UMBRELLA BODY OF ORGANISATIONS REPRESENTING GUIDE DOG USERS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS. OUR VISION IS THAT GUIDE DOG USERS, WHEREVER THEY LIVE IN EUROPE, ARE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THEIR FULL HUMAN RIGHTS, ESPECIALLY THEIR RIGHT TO INDEPENDENT MOBILITY AND ACCESS TO TRANSPORT, THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 30 April 2025
People
10 Trustee(s)
2 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Disability
- Animals
- People With Disabilities
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Albania
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Cape Verde
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Northern Ireland
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Scotland
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
Governance
- 14 August 2007: Standard registration
No other names
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Conflicting interests
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
10 Trustee(s)
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| Dr Andrew Lamb | Chair | 02 February 2015 |
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| Jan Herrmann Attila Rossmann | Trustee | 13 October 2024 |
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| Camelia Vasilica Platt | Trustee | 03 October 2024 |
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| Ana Luzia Andrade Bacelo | Trustee | 03 October 2024 |
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| Serhan Kaleli | Trustee | 25 September 2022 |
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| Susanna Kovasin | Trustee | 25 September 2022 |
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| Pauline Eilers | Trustee | 25 September 2022 |
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| Karine Garnier | Trustee | 07 April 2021 |
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| Karina Gregory | Trustee | 07 April 2021 |
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| Darinka LECNIK-URBANCL | Trustee | 12 September 2014 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 30/04/2021 | 30/04/2022 | 30/04/2023 | 30/04/2024 | 30/04/2025 | ||
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Total gross income | £18.33k | £21.30k | £29.24k | £19.66k | £26.03k | |
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Total expenditure | £14.67k | £16.92k | £27.07k | £20.58k | £23.15k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 30 April 2025 | 11 January 2026 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 30 April 2025 | 11 January 2026 | On time | |
| Annual return | 30 April 2024 | 24 February 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 30 April 2024 | Not required | ||
| Annual return | 30 April 2023 | 29 February 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 30 April 2023 | 17 March 2024 | 17 days late | |
| Annual return | 30 April 2022 | 14 March 2023 | 14 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 30 April 2022 | Not required | ||
| Annual return | 30 April 2021 | 22 February 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 30 April 2021 | Not required |
Governing document
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 4 JULY 2007
Charitable objects
A. TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH, EQUALITY AND INDEPENDENCE OF ALL BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE RESIDENT IN EUROPE WHO ARE, OR WISH TO BECOME, GUIDE DOG OWNERS ('EUROPEAN GUIDE DOG OWNERS') BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE TO, AND REPRESENTATION FOR, EUROPEAN GUIDE DOG OWNERS AND SUCH ADDITIONAL SERVICES, FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES INCLUDING TRAINING FOR THE RELIEF, PREVENTION AND CURE OF VISION IMPAIRMENT AS THE FEDERATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DEEM FIT; B. TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE BENEFIT OF EUROPEAN GUIDE DOGS OWNERS AND THE PUBLIC BY ADVANCING THE NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF EUROPEAN GUIDE DOG OWNERS, WITHOUT REGARD TO NATIONALITY, RACE OR CREED; C. TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS REPRESENTING EUROPEAN GUIDE DOG OWNERS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY LIASING WITH, AND ACTING AS A FORUM FOR THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION BETWEEN CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS WORKING FOR THE BENEFIT OR EUROPEAN GUIDE DOG OWNERS IN ORDER TO MAXIMISE THE RANGE OF CHARITABLE SERVICES AVAILABLE TO EUROPEAN GUIDE DOG OWNERS; AND D. TO ADVANCE ANIMAL WELFARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF EUROPEAN GUIDE DOGS OWNERS AND THE PUBLIC IMPLEMENTING STANDARDS REGARDING THE HUMANE CARE, TRAINING AND TREATMENT OF GUIDE DOGS
Area of benefit
EUROPE
Contact information
- Address:
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Corner Cottage
Church End
Priors Hardwick
SOUTHAM
Warwickshire
CV47 7SN
- Phone:
- 01327720027
- Email:
- info@EGDFED.ORG
- Website:
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