RACING WELFARE

Registered charity 1084042 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC048413 (OSCR)

The charity provides support for those working in or retired from the horseracing and thoroughbred industry including: provision of occupational health and mental health services; a 24 hour support line; advice and guidance; community events for working and retired staff; grants to individuals and organisations; housing; career advice and training support.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO SUCH OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING):2.1 TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND INJURY AMONG PERSONS EMPLOYED OR FORMERLY EMPLOYED OR OTHERWISE ENGAGED OR FORMERLY ENGAGED IN OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE HORSERACING AND THOROUGHBRED BREEDING INDUSTRY AND THEIR DEPENDANTS ("THE BENEFICIARIES");2.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONG ANY OF THE BENEFICIARIES WHO ARE IN NEED;2.3 THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE PRIMARILY FOR THE BENEFIT OF BENEFICIARIES HAVING NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF YOUTH OR INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT AS SPECIFIED IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF SUB• SECTION (2) OF SECTION 1 OF THE RECREATIONAL CHARITIES ACT 1958;2.4 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO, AND OF PUBLIC AWARENESS OF, METHODS OF PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF SICKNESS AMONG, AND OF INJURIES SUSTAINED BY, JOCKEYS, STABLE STAFF, APPRENTICES AND OTHERS LICENSED BY THE BRITISH HORSERACING AUTHORITY WHILE RIDING OR ATTENDING HORSES AND BY PERSONS ATTENDING HORSERACES OR THOROUGHBRED BREEDING ESTABLISHMENTS AND BY PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.2.5 TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF BENEFICIARIES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, COUNSELLING, SUPPORT AND PRACTICAL ADVICE.NOTHING IN THESE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income before investment gains of £0.8m, a significant improvement from the previous year's net expenditure. Free unrestricted reserves stand at £12.5m, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover their policy target of six months' forward expenditure. While the charity faces challenges regarding the sustainability of core funding for its workforce wellbeing programme, it maintains adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. 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
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04116279

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Racing Welfare (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Jockey Club — “The Jockey Club Official Charity” (source page)
• 4Racing — “4Racing Charity Partner” (source page)
• Arena Racing Company — “Arena Racing Company Sponsorship Partner” (source page)
• Arabian Racing Organisation — “Arabian Racing Organisation Charity Partner” (source page)
• Ascot Racecourse Supports — “Ascot Racecourse Supports Sponsorship Partner” (source page)
• Bedmax — “Bedmax Sponsorship Partner” (source page)
• Betfair — “Betfair Sponsorship Partner” (source page)
• Careers in Racing — “Careers in Racing Charity Partner” (source page)
• CNG Switch — “CNG Switch Corporate Partner” (source page)
• European Bloodstock News — “European Bloodstock News Media Partner” (source page)
• Fielding and Nicholson — “Fielding and Nicholson” (source page)
• Global Group Racing — “Global Group Racing Charity Partnership” (source page)
• Godolphin — “Godolphin Corporate Partner” (source page)
• Goffs UK — “Goffs UK Sponsorship Partner” (source page)
• The Good Racing Co — “The Good Racing Co Charity Partner” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ROBINSON, Abigail Clare — director, appointed 23/06/2026on trustee list
• MARTIN, Philip Torbet — director, appointed 09/06/2025on trustee list
• FLITCROFT, Alan Roy — director, appointed 09/06/2025on trustee list
• BOSS, Charles Henry — director, appointed 09/06/2025on trustee list
• BANNISTER, Nicholas William Ayrton — director, appointed 26/06/2024on trustee list
• BOZZA, John Paul — director, appointed 26/06/2024on trustee list
• SWAIN, Paul — director, appointed 19/06/2023on trustee list
• MCLEOD-CLARKE, Nicholas Charles Fraser — director, appointed 09/06/2022on trustee list
• BRODERICK, Olivia — director, appointed 09/06/2022on trustee list
• HOPE, Simon Richard — director, appointed 13/06/2019on trustee list
• CARTER, Celina Imogen, Lady — director, appointed 13/06/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold); recorded price paid £721k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~33.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 16.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/04/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Clare Robinson
• Alan Flitcroft
• Charles Henry Boss
• John Bozza · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lady Celina Imogen Carter
• Nicholas McLeod-Clarke
• Nicholas William Ayrton Bannister · trustee of 1 other charity
• Olivia Broderick
• Paul Swain
• Philip Martin
• Simon Hope · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RETRAINING OF RACE HORSES.

• RETRAINING OF RACE HORSES income £2.5m
• RACEHORSE TRAINERS BENEVOLENT FUND income £71k
• Racing Homes income £1.4m
• RACING INDUSTRY ACCIDENT BENEFIT SCHEME income £2.0m
• National Horseracing College Limited income £3.9m
• WORLD HORSE WELFARE income £11.1m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.