REMUS MEMORIAL HORSE SANCTUARY

Registered charity 1134951 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE SANCTUARY AIMS TO:-PROVIDE LIFETIME HELP, CARE AND ATTENTION FOR HORSES, PONIES, DONKEYS AND OTHER LARGE ANIMALS.ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PROPER CARE AND TREATMENT OF EQUINES.ADVISE OWNERS ON THE CARE OF THEIR ANIMALS.HELP TO FIGHT THE EVER INCREASING RISE IN CRUELTY TO ANIMALS AND CONTINUE TO WORK WITH OTHER SIMILAR MINDED ORGANISATIONS.

Objects

1 THE CARE AND ATTENTION OF EQUINES AND OTHER ANIMALS MADE VULNERABLE BYREASON OF OLD AGE, SICKNESS, MALTREATMENT, NEGLECT, POOR CIRCUMSTANCES, OR OTHERSIMILAR CAUSES.2, TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PROPER CARE AND TREATMENT OFEQUINES AND OTHER ANIMALS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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

Causes: Education/training · Animals · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £302,228, which is within the trustees' stated policy target of 2 to 6 months of expenditure. The charity reported a net income surplus of £94,970 for the year, despite noting rising costs and inflationary pressures.

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 6 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07011376 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Remus Memorial Horse Sanctuary (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• JONES, Marghaid — director, appointed 05/02/2026on trustee list
• LEVENE, Zara Louvaine — director, appointed 05/02/2026on trustee list
• WALKER, Natalie Anne — director, appointed 19/03/2024on trustee list
• O'CONNOR, Robert Alan — director, appointed 30/09/2022on trustee list
• FORDHAM, Esme Joan — director, appointed 06/03/2020on trustee list
• BURTON, Sue — director, appointed 07/09/2009on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/12/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUE BURTONchair
• Esme Joan Fordham
• Marghaid Jones
• Natalie Anne Walker
• Robert O'Connor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Zara Levene

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOPTON REHAB & HOMING CENTRE.

• HOPTON REHAB & HOMING CENTRE income £327k
• THE RACEHORSE SANCTUARY LTD income £185k
• REDGATE FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY income £378k
• ROLEYSTONE HORSE AND PONY SANCTUARY income £28k
• DESTITUTE ANIMALS SHELTER income £569k
• RETRAINING OF RACE HORSES income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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