THE FELL PONY SOCIETY

Registered charity 1104945 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity is a Breed Society maintaining a Stud Book, is a recognised Equine Passport Issuing Organisation and seeks to foster and keep pure the Fell pony breed, and to circulate knowledge and general information about the breed. The Fell pony is recognised as a rare breed by the RBST.

Objects

THE OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") OF THE SOCIETY ARE:-3.1 TO FOSTER AND KEEP PURE THE OLD BREED OF NATIVE PONY WHICH HAS ROAMED THE NORTHERN FELLS FOR CENTURIES3.2 TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE BREEDING OF REGISTERED FELL PONIES3.3 TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO THE FELL PONY BREED AND ITS ENVIRONMENT AND TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE ACQUISITION AND DISTRIBUTION OF KNOWLEDGE OF ALL MATTERS CONCERNING THE FELL PONY BREED.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED - IN PRACTICE THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE ISLE OF MAN, THE NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity held unrestricted reserves of £199,614 and free reserves of £186,439 at the end of the financial year, which the trustees state exceeds their policy target of maintaining a reserve equivalent to approximately 75% or 9 months of fund expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the trustees or the independent examiner.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER BOUSTEADchair
• ANDREW THORPE
• Alison Wales Bell · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHRISTINE HEATHER ROBINSON
• CHRISTINE SUSAN MILLARD
• CLAIRE EVELYN SIMPSON
• DAVID WILKINSON
• Deborah Jane Chadwick
• Dr Elizabeth Jane Whitley
• GEORGE HENRY BARRY MALLINSON
• Heather Gilmour Mawrey
• Jennifer Blanche Grealish
• Kevin Turner
• Paul Metcalfe
• Rachael Jane Brunskill
• Thomas Evan George Lloyd
• WILLIAM SYDNEY POTTER

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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