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      SPANA Reviews

      2.6

      29% would recommend to a friend

      (9 total reviews)

      41% positive business outlook

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      9 reviews
      1.0
      25 Aug 2022

      Toxic environment

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Amazing, friendly and hard working junior staff members.

      Cons

      The CEO is a narcissist, she has no clue about the charity and what it stands for, and she doesn’t like being challenged. The CEO and directors do not take responsibility for their own actions and treat their staff badly. Staff are not trusted or valued at SPANA.

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      SPANA Response
      3y
      Thank you for sharing your thoughts – and above all, thank you for your contribution to SPANA’s vital work and for helping us support the welfare of working animals in many of the world’s most poverty-stricken countries. Under its new leadership team SPANA has embarked on an ambitious change programme, with an increased emphasis on staff performance, accountability, innovation, collaboration and workplace wellbeing. We are pleased to say that our new working culture has been positively received by our global workforce, and staff are excited about the opportunities the launch of our new five-year organisational strategy will bring to deliver a lasting transformation in the welfare of working animals. If you wish to share any of your feedback in more detail, please feel free to email our HR team (in complete confidence) at hr@spana.org
      3.0
      29 Sept 2020

      Brilliant staff led by short-sighted management

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Dutiful HR team care about staff concerns. Knowledgeable, passionate colleagues. Inspirational colleagues working with animals abroad in developing countries.

      Cons

      Chief Exec should have retired a long time ago. Ultimate Trumpian narcissist who can probably name only 10 people in the organisation. Period of intense and unnecessary head office spending (including recruitment, expensive adverts and long-haul traveling) up to 2019 added to the massive and short-sighted redundancies when COVID hit. SMT claimed 'streamlining' SPANA was the intention all along (despite hiring many new employees up until Covid). SPANA's audience reach will be significantly reduced as a result of the decreased fundraising and comms spending. Fundraising room is very silent and unsociable. The five year plan in 2015 was to double the core countries we worked in. By early 2020 we had decreased by two countries.

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      SPANA Response
      5y
      Thank you for your review. We appreciate the time around our organisational restructure was incredibly difficult for all concerned. But the process has secured the charity’s long-term future and will ensure the charity can continue to support working animals and the poverty-stricken communities that depend on them. If you wish to discuss any of your feedback further, please feel free to email our HR team (in complete confidence) at hr@spana.org
      1.0
      13 May 2026

      Interesting work and good pay but overshadowed by toxic culture

      Manager
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      Pros

      Interesting work and well paid for the sector

      Cons

      Awful working environment everything had to be agreed with the CEO and was micromanaged - none of the systems and processes worked - staff really unhappy with the toxic working environment

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