A Special Thank-You Financial Statement REVENUES Donations and Legacies £ 4,476,809 The No • Our members, without whom our vital work for animals would not be possible Other Income £ 27,193 • Our Vanguard Society members, for their compassion and leadership Total Revenues £ 4,504,002 • Our Guardian members, for their commitment through regular gifts Belong to OPERATING EXPENSES • Our Augustus Club members, for giving animals a future through gifts to PETA in their wills Staff Costs £ 1,513,118 Education and Prevention of Cruelty – £ 2,064,684 Working to Protect Animalkind • Our online activists, for taking a stand against animal abuse by contacting governments, Direct Costs companies, other organisations, and individuals via our online petitions Support and Management Costs £ 694,472 © iStock.com/Capuski Total Operating Expenses £ 4,272,274 Net Income Before Gains/(Losses) £ 231,728 on Investments Animal-Friendly Businesses Net Gains/(Losses) on Investments £ 27,966 CHANGE IN NET ASSETS FOR THE YEAR £ 259,694 PETA would like to thank the following compassionate companies. These members of PETA’s Net Assets Beginning of Year £ 2,699,716 Business Friends programme are generous supporters of animal rights. To learn more about Net Assets End of Year £ 2,959,410 this programme, please visit PETABusinessFriends.co.uk. OPERATING EXPENSE ALLOCATION Adcocks Solicitors Jivamukti Yoga Sweet Freedom • • • Direct Programme Support 82.20% Baylis & Harding Kavee The Throw • • • Indirect Programme Support 1.86% B_Boheme LaBante Company Ltd • • Membership Development 15.94% • Beyond Skin • Lemon Jelly • Trevor Sorbie Salon Care • Booja-Booja • Level Marketing • Ultimate Vegan Café Bute Island Foods Ltd Lifestyle International VeganDesign.org • • • The financial information given here is a summary Cloud Twelve Materialise Interiors Vegusto • • • extracted from the PETA Foundation audited Dr Botanicals Montagne Jeunesse Verdonce • • • financial statements for the year ended 31 July 2020. Ecotricity 7th Heaven Viegan • • The auditor’s report was unqualified. A copy of the EDGE Design Studio Plamil Foods Watermans Hair Growth • • • financial statements has been submitted to the Ethical Bedding Company Plant Faced Clothing Shampoo & Conditioner Thank • • Charity Commission and Companies House. Evig Grön Property Finance (Dorset) Wilby • • • The Fry Family Food Co Quinessence Aromatherapy Will’s Vegan Shoes • • • You! The summarised financial information may not contain Jaan J Non Silk Ties & Saorsa Hotel The Wooden Chopping • • • sufficient detail to allow for a full understanding of the Bow Ties Smith Hobbs Wealth Board Company • charity’s financial affairs. For further information, the Jamm Management Limited Yes To • • full annual financial statements, the auditor’s report FOUNDATION on those financial statements, and the trustees’ report © Galyna Parsey | Dreamstime.com should be consulted. Copies of these can be obtained from the charity at PO Box 70315, London N1P 2RG or on Annual2020 Review 020 7837 6327. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Foundation – a charitable company limited by guarantee, with its registered office at Cannon Place, 78 Cannon Street, London, EC4N 6AF • Registered in England and Wales as charity number 1056453, company number 3135903 • +44 (0) 20 7837 6327 • PETA.org.uk Cover photo: © iStock.com/tracielouise Cover photo: Dear Friends, Groundbreaking Victories for Animals Educating, In 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, PETA and our international affiliates persuaded Bayer, Bristol- fleece producer – workers tied alpacas tightly to devices that Persuading, we were on the radio, TV, and the internet as well Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, and Pfizer to stop using the resemble medieval torture racks, which nearly wrenched their legs as in newspaper ads and articles forcefully and worthless forced swim test, in which terrified animals paddle out of their sockets. The animals screamed and vomited in fear as conclusively hammering home the message that frantically to keep from drowning in inescapable beakers of water. workers roughly sheared them, leaving many with bloody wounds. Liberating confining and killing animals for food is the source After hearing from PETA, King’s College London became the first As a result, PETA persuaded Marks & Spencer, Next, Valentino, of a litany of deadly diseases – including COVID-19, known academic institution to declare that it will no longer Ted Baker, New Look, and Matalan to phase out the sale of avian flu, swine flu, SARS, MERS, and even Ebola – use the cruel test. alpaca fleece. In 2020, PETA seized and that the filthy, severely crowded conditions in every opportunity to which animals used for clothing, experimentation, PETA scientists wrote a detailed strategy – The Research A Scottish sheep farmer pleaded guilty to cruelty to animals after make people aware and entertainment are kept are also fertile breeding Modernisation Deal – explaining how and why to make the a PETA Asia investigator filmed him viciously punching and kicking that raising and Perou © Photo: grounds for zoonotic pathogens. Our incisive transition from useless animal experimentation to humane sheep in the face. It’s the first time ever that a Scottish court has killing animals for exposés of live-animal markets and our demands research methods that hold real promise and distributed it to convicted a farmer of causing animals unnecessary suffering food can cause that they be shut down resounded in international the UK government and relevant agencies. during the shearing process, and it would never have happened pandemics such headlines. without PETA’s exposé. as COVID-19. We A petition by PETA and our affiliates calling for a moratorium released exposés of We’ve set out to change the future of on animal experiments in the EU and a systematic review of A PETA Asia investigation revealed that in Thailand, monkeys – wet markets in six experimentation by publishing our Research all research areas in which animals are used was accepted many of whom are illegally abducted from their natural habitats – countries, each a Modernisation Deal, which provides precise as admissible by the European Parliament Committee on are forced to scale trees and pick as many as 1,000 coconuts a day. Petri dish for viruses guidance on sparing thousands of animals painful Petitions – clearing a difficult hurdle on the path to ending They’re also kept chained and isolated and driven insane by captivity and other pathogens, and deadly tests. We exposed the cruelty of the experiments on animals. and deprivation. PETA and our affiliates have since persuaded the where frightened international alpaca-fleece trade and sent its major parent company of Boots to ban coconut products of Thai origin; monkeys, birds, dogs, buyers fleeing, persuaded brush companies to stop PETA is a member of the PETA International Science Consortium Sainsbury’s, Tesco, and Asda to stop selling products from pigs, cats, and other using hair from slaughtered badgers, imploded the Ltd., which funded research resulting in the creation of human Chaokoh (a brand that uses coconuts picked by monkeys); and animals cowered in market for products made from coconuts picked by recombinant antibodies, produced without using animals, Ocado, Waitrose, and Co-op never to sell any products knowingly faeces-caked cages abused monkeys, helped captive birds “check out” that could be commercially developed to treat diphtheria. that involve monkey labour. Liverpool Football Club also and floors were slick Rose Ruth © Photo: of cages at the Rosewood London hotel, and held The Science Consortium also helped fund the development of decided not to renew its partnership with Chaokoh. with blood, guts, and the Queen publicly accountable for sending pigeons EpiAlveolar – a first-of-its-kind human cell–based model of fetid water. As part to a notorious “slaughter race” in which thousands the deepest part of the lungs – and led the development of Among the many companies and institutions that PETA persuaded of our campaigns demanding that the World Health Organization of birds die each year. an international guidance document on using non-animal to add vegan options are Nando’s, Rollover Hotdogs, KFC, call for a ban on live-animal markets, PETA and our affiliates methods to study the effects of chemicals without forcing animals Subway, Greggs, and Fray Bentos, which launched a vegan gathered more than 500,000 petition signatures and demonstrated We thank our more than 1.2 million members and to inhale them. version of its iconic tinned pies. These changes will decrease the outside the agency’s Copenhagen office. And our other actions supporters for being part of all our victories and number of animals subjected to disbudding (burning off calves’ urging consumers to keep animal-derived foods off their plates helping us challenge the supremacist view that After obtaining a whistle-blower statement alleging that rats horn buds), debeaking, castration without pain relief, lifelong grabbed international headlines. humans are somehow superior to other animals in a had been crushed to death, given excess doses of chemicals intensive confinement, and other horrors of the meat, egg, and way that justifies disrespecting, – leading them to self-mutilate – and subjected to other dairy industries. We released an exposé revealing that the South African Million in Scotland, we abusing, exploiting, and | Dreamstime.com Troiani © Fabrizio atrocious acts at Charles River Laboratories