TREWEN MEADOWS

Registered charity 1100675 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEREFORDSHIRE RIDING FOR THE DISABLED

TREWEN MEADOWS PROVIDES THERAPUTIC RIDING, EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPY AND HIPPOTHERAPY TO DISABLED, THOSE WITH ADDITIONAL NEEDS AND DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE IN HEREFORDSHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING BORDERS

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.4m
Latest spending
£122k
Registered
2003
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £1,228,945 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted and restricted funds of £1,900,622. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors. The organization successfully raised funds to complete a new riding centre, enhancing its long-term sustainability and capacity.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Aspen Waite Chartered Certified Accountants and Statutory Auditor. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

Official officers record.

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

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

Total income
£1.4m
Total spending
£122k
Cost of raising funds
£8k
Reserves (reported)
£88k
Employees
3

Reported reserves equal ~8.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Herefordshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.4m£122k
31/03/2024£128k£108k
31/03/2023£122k£98k
31/03/2022£592k£86k
31/03/2021£120k£86k

Common questions

Is TREWEN MEADOWS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £1,228,945 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted and restricted funds of £1,900,622. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors. The organization successfully raised funds to complete a new riding centre, enhancing its long-term sustainability and capacity. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Aspen Waite Chartered Certified Accountants and Statutory Auditor.

Who funds TREWEN MEADOWS?

Funders whose own accounts filings name TREWEN MEADOWS as a grant recipient include E F BULMER TRUST, THE TRUE COLOURS TRUST, HEREFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
E F BULMER TRUSTFY2023£8k
THE TRUE COLOURS TRUSTFY2025£8kBereavement support
E F BULMER TRUSTFY2025£8k
E F BULMER TRUSTFY2024£6k
E F BULMER TRUSTFY2022£4k
HEREFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2025£250

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund26/05/2026£18kSupported volunteering programme for disabled people
Sport England21/10/2024£15kLlangrove Therapy Centre
UK government15/07/2020£9kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
Sport England12/06/2020£7kCOVID-19 CEF
The National Lottery Community Fund15/03/2019£10kRiding Activity Weeks

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 Reach Equine and Outdoor Therapy.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
TREWEN MEADOWS£1.4m—0unclear—no doubt
Reach Equine and Outdoor Therapy FY2025£245k—0within—no doubt
LEYBOURNE GRANGE RIDING CENTRE FOR THE DISABLED FY2025£288k—0above—no doubt
DIGSWELL PLACE GROUP RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION FY2025£155k—0below—no doubt
MIDDLETON PARK EQUESTRIAN CENTRE RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION FY2025£368k—0unclear—noted
NEWHAM RIDING SCHOOL AND ASSOCIATION LIMITED FY2025£538k—0unclear—no doubt

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