BARROW FARM RIDING FOR THE DISABLED LIMITED

Registered charity 1139280 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BARROW FARM RIDING FOR THE DISABLED

To make equestrian sport accessible to people in the Essex area with disabilities for the benefit of their health and well being.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE OBJECTS OF THE RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION INCORPORATING CARRIAGE DRIVING A CHARITY REGISTERED UNDER CHARITY NUMBER 244108 ("RDA") BY PROVIDING DISABLED PEOPLE WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO RIDE AND/OR TO CARRIAGE DRIVE TO BENEFIT THEIR HEALTH AND WELL BEING IN THE ESSEX AREA.

Area of benefit: ESSEX

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £50,361 for the year, resulting in total reserves of £451,067. The trustees confirm that these reserves are sufficient to cover running costs for more than six months, meeting their stated policy target. The charity is considered a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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.

• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07413930

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Barrow Farm Riding for the Disabled (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.

• DOGHAN, Janet Yvonne — director, appointed 01/05/2024on trustee list
• WILLCOX, Joanne — director, appointed 21/10/2022on trustee list
• MAWBY, Kathryn — director, appointed 22/07/2022on trustee list
• BURCHETT, Martin John — director, appointed 22/07/2022on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Anne Elizabeth — director, appointed 26/10/2018on trustee list
• WOOD, Martin Brian — director, appointed 24/11/2017on trustee list
• FAIRHEAD, Graham Paul — director, appointed 24/11/2017on trustee list
• GOWERS, Isobel, Dr — director, appointed 19/07/2013on trustee list
• MOSS ROWE, Josephine — director, appointed 20/10/2010not on trustee list
• MOSS ROWE, Josephine — secretary, appointed 20/10/2010

Official officers record.

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr ISOBEL RACHEL GOWERSchair
• Anne Elizabeth Mitchell
• Graham Paul Fairhead
• Janet Yvonne Doghan
• Joanne Willcox
• Kathryn Mawby
• MARTIN BURCHETT · trustee of 1 other charity
• MRS JO MOSS ROWE
• Martin Brian Wood · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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