THE EXMOOR PONY SOCIETY

Registered charity 1043036 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity's objects are to promote Registered Exmoor Ponies and to encourage and maintain the standards of ponies used for breeding and to form and publish a stud book for the registration of Exmoor ponies. The Charity seeks to educate the public on the attributes of this rare native breed and act in an advisory capacity in reported cases of ill treatment of Registered Exmoor Ponies.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE BREEDING OF REGISTERED EXMOOR PONIES

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £19,332 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in free unrestricted reserves of £101,147. The trustees acknowledge the deficit and are reviewing expenditure to improve long-term financial stability, while confirming that the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources for at least 12 months.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• David Lycett Wallace
• Dr Christian Peter Scharch
• Dr Deborah Davy
• Dr Michael Dewhurst MRCVS
• Dr SUSAN ELIZABETH BAKER · trustee of 1 other charity
• JANET MARY JAMES
• Lloyd Bernard Parry
• Mark John Drummond
• Megan Gillon
• Robert Taylor
• Sheralee May Matravers
• Stephanie Diana Melville Poulter

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Canada · Czech Republic · France · Germany · Netherlands · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Sweden · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NATIONAL PONY SOCIETY.

• THE NATIONAL PONY SOCIETY income £669k
• THE DEXTER CATTLE SOCIETY income £90k
• FRIENDS OF THE DARTMOOR HILL PONY income £39k
• THE DALES PONY SOCIETY income £55k
• THE MOORLAND MOUSIE TRUST income £151k
• THE PONY CLUB income £13.8m

Side by side with its peers

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