STRATFORD-UPON-AVON RDA

Registered charity 1142590 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Working with people with a range of disabilities and reasons for taking part. Providing specialist tuition training and support for people with disabilities to ride, carriage drive or take part in equestrian vaulting.Without this support most of our participants would be unable to take part in these activities.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE OBJECTS OF THE RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION INCORPORATING CARRIAGE DRIVING A CHARITY REGISTERED UNDER CHARITY NUMBER 244108 ("THE ASSOCIATION") BY PROVIDING DISABLED PEOPLE WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO RIDE AND/OR TO CARRIAGE DRIVE T0001O BENEFIT THEIR HEALTH AND WELL BEING IN THE S.WARWICKSHIRE/N.OXFORDSHIRE/BUCKS AREA

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

Causes: Disability · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Warwick, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a financial surplus of £21,451 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £78,614 and expenditure of £57,163. The unrestricted revenue reserve stood at £197,864, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet three years of normal expenditure, ensuring the charity remains a going concern. Although a potential shortfall of approximately £20,000 is forecast for the next year, the current reserves provide a secure financial position.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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 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
• Investment
• 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 07623057

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.

• SHONE, Valerie Ann — director, appointed 11/12/2024on trustee list
• ARNOLD, Angela Helen — director, appointed 11/12/2024on trustee list
• BLAKE, Fiona Jane — director, appointed 31/08/2018on trustee list
• IRVING, David — director, appointed 31/08/2018on trustee list
• STAINTON, Martha — director, appointed 05/05/2011on trustee list
• ARNOLD, Karen Margaret — director, appointed 05/05/2011on trustee list
• JENKINS, Donna Elizabeth — director, appointed 05/05/2011on trustee list
• NELHAMS, Jill — director, appointed 05/05/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DONNA ELIZABETH JENKINSchair
• ANGELA HELEN ARNOLD
• DAVID IRVING
• FIONA JANE BLAKE
• JILL NELHAMS
• KAREN MARGARET ARNOLD
• MARTHA STAINTON
• VALERIE SHONE

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SCROPTON RIDING FOR THE DISABLED CENTRE.

• SCROPTON RIDING FOR THE DISABLED CENTRE income £340k
• SNYDALE RDA income £30k
• ANDOVER RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION income £28k
• STRATFORD UPON AVON BAPTIST CHURCH income £141k
• ARROW RIDING CENTRE FOR DISABLED income £207k
• RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION INCORPORATING CARRIAGE DRIVING income £3.9m

Side by side with its peers

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