RIDE HIGH LIMITED

Registered charity 1138260 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Ride High has been set up to help disadvantaged and troubled children from Milton Keynes and the surrounding neighbourhood by giving them the opportunity to ride and look after horses. The aim is to give them a new focus in their lives and to provide them with long term support and new skills that will help them participate positively in society in the future.

Objects

To act as a resource for young people aged between four and twenty-five who are experiencing difficulties in their daily lives by organising programmes of physical, educational and other activities as a means of:1. Advancing in life and helping children and young people by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals;2. Advancing education;3. Providing recreational and leisure time activity in the interest of social welfare for people living in the area of benefit who have need by reason of poverty or social and economic circumstances and/or mental health problems arising from medical conditions with a view to improving the conditions of life for such young persons.

Area of benefit: MILTON KEYNES.

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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Registered contact address: Milton Keynes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £16,385 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £1,313,953. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of holding £100,000 in liquid resources, against which the actual unrestricted funds stood at £201,978. The auditors confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cox & Co. (Accountancy) Limited. 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ride High (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rachel Medill — Founder (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)

2 registered titles 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 ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (63% 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: 37.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/02/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Philip Douglas Burgoyne Zeidlerchair
• ALAN JAMES ODDIE MA
• Gavin John Sandmann
• Haley Emma Nagle
• Ian Edwin Hillman
• James Harry Geary · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard HARPER
• Samuel James Piper

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

Operates in: Bedford · Buckinghamshire · Central Bedfordshire · Milton Keynes · Northamptonshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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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 ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH RIDING SCHOOLS.

• ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH RIDING SCHOOLS income £153k
• RIDE ON - CYCLING FOR ALL income £231k
• 20 STORIES HIGH income £627k
• RETRAINING OF RACE HORSES income £2.5m
• NEWHAM RIDING SCHOOL AND ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £538k
• THE HORSE RANGERS ASSOCIATION (HAMPTON COURT)LIMITED income £708k

Side by side with its peers

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