THE THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1134293 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To encourage by means of the provision of educational or research facilities or otherwise, the science of producing and improving the Thoroughbred horse in Great Britain

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £42,928 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total income of £1,776,439 against total expenditure of £1,819,367. Per the trustees' report, available free reserves were £1,633,589, which is in line with the stated reserves policy of maintaining a minimum level to cover twelve months of running costs. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £170,001 - £180,000 (FY2023) to £160,001 - £170,000 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Philip Newton — Chairman (source)
• Kate Sigsworth — Deputy Chair (source)

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.

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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (83% 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: 3.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/07/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colm Donlon
• James Crowhurst · trustee of 2 other charities
• Janine Paula Hopper
• Jessica Westwood
• Joe Callan
• Kate Elizabeth Sigsworth
• Kelly Thomas
• Matthew David Prior
• Michael Saunders
• PHILIP NEWTON
• Thomas Blain

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SPORT HORSE BREEDING OF GREAT BRITAIN.

• SPORT HORSE BREEDING OF GREAT BRITAIN income £292k
• RETRAINING OF RACE HORSES income £1.3m
• HORSES AND PONIES PROTECTION ASSOCIATION income £1.1m
• GODOLPHIN INTERNATIONAL THOROUGHBRED LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME LIMITED income £1.3m
• TIA GREYHOUND & LURCHER RESCUE income £482k
• GREATWOOD CHARITY LIMITED income £851k

Side by side with its peers

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