STEPNEY BANK STABLES LTD

Registered charity 1084687 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

STEPNEY BANK STABLES (SBS) IS AN INNER - CITY RIDING SCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT LOCATED IN NEWCASTLE. OUR MISSION IS TO ENHANCE THE LIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE, AGED 8 -18, THROUGH INTERACTIONS WITH HORSES. SBS PROVIDES RIDING, ACTIVITIES AND SPECIFICALLY CHOSEN WORKSHOPS WHICH ENABLE YOUNG PEOPLE TO LEARN AND DEVELOP THE NECESSARY LIFE SKILLS TO BECOME THE VERY BEST THEY CAN BE.

Objects

TO PROVIDE FACILITIES, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, FOR HORSERIDING AND OTHER EQUESTRIAN ACTIVITIES, TO CHILDREN, AND PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR INFIRMITY, DISABILITY, AGE OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCE

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Amateur Sport · Animals · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an operating surplus of £29,133 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a deficit from the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £137,555, though the available reserves for assessment against the policy target were approximately £95,000. The trustees acknowledge that this available reserve level was below their stated target of three months of expenditure.

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 5 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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Stepney Bank Stables (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Graeme Fletcherchair
• Alison Louise Walton
• Amanda Beckham
• Jayne Routledge
• Lewis Turnbull
• Trevor James Lewin Mr

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

Operates in: Gateshead · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · South Tyneside

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STEP BY STEP LONDON.

• STEP BY STEP LONDON income £1.6m
• 1ST STAINES SCOUT GROUP income £83k
• STEPPING STONES PRE-SCHOOL, LITTLEPORT income £221k
• THE STABLES HORSE ACTIVITY CENTRE income £272k
• STEPPING STONES LEARNING AND LEISURE income £80k
• SPARKS OF SUCCESS LTD income £66k

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