BEDFORD DISABLED HORSE RIDING ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1068678 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEDFORD & DISTRICT HANDICAPPED RIDERS' ASSOCIATION

The Association provides horse riding as a therapy for all age groups suffering from physical or mental disabilities. On 2 days per week at their purpose built facilities at Willington, Bedfordshire.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DISABILITIES BY THE PROVISION OF HORSE RIDING FACILITIES.

Area of benefit: BEDFORDSHIRE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND HERTFORDSHIRE

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

Causes: Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Huntingdonshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £21,948 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £93,361 to £71,413. Despite this loss, the charity holds £89,568 in current assets against £89,208 in current liabilities, maintaining a positive net asset position. The independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention regarding the accounting records or compliance with the Charities Act 2011.

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 4 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 13/03/2024, 42 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• AMANDA VARLEY
• Alasdair Tebbutt
• IVAN ROBERT TWIGDEN · trustee of 1 other charity
• JEAN MARY BEDFORD · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Godber
• Kate Sylvester-Kilroy
• NICHOLAS HECTOR KIER
• REBECCA TWIGDEN

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

Operates in: Bedford · Cambridgeshire · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ARROW RIDING CENTRE FOR DISABLED.

• ARROW RIDING CENTRE FOR DISABLED income £207k
• ANDOVER RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION income £28k
• NEWBURY RIDING FOR THE DISABLED LIMITED income £88k
• ERME VALLEY RIDING FOR THE DISABLED LTD income £139k
• WAKEFIELD RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION income £93k
• CRANLEIGH RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION GROUP income £65k

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