THE ALKHAM VALLEY COMMUNITY PROJECT AND THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTRE

Registered charity 1154316 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AVCP

Providing therapeutic horse riding, carriage driving and educational activities for disabled and disadvantaged adults and children. Promoting community participation in healthy recreation by the provision of facilities to learn skills relating to horse riding, carriage driving.Promoting the objects of the Riding for the Disabled Association including carriage driving (charity number 244108)

Objects

A) TO PROVIDE THERAPEUTIC HORSE RIDING, CARRIAGE DRIVING, HORTICULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR DISABLED AND DISADVANTAGED ADULTS AND CHILDREN TO PROMOTE THEIR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING.B) TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES TO LEARN SKILLS RELATING TO HORSE RIDING, CARRIAGE DRIVING AND HORTICULTURE FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS AND VOLUNTEERS.

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: Dover, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a deficit of £28,271 for the year, leading to a decrease in total funds to £38,337. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £35,337 are currently above the stated policy target of £30,000. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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 4 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/05/2025 (received 21/04/2026, 21 days after the 31/03/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Access Foundation — “Funded with kind support from The Access Foundation, the AVCP will be offering a series of horse riding projects providing subsidised riding…” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/01/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOSIANE MARIA MURRELLchair
• Amanda Charmian Glasspole
• Kim Finch
• Paul Brisley

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ERME VALLEY RIDING FOR THE DISABLED LTD.

• ERME VALLEY RIDING FOR THE DISABLED LTD income £139k
• ANDOVER RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION income £28k
• NORTH CORNWALL RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION INCORPORATING CARRIAGE DRIVING income £29k
• NEWHAM RIDING SCHOOL AND ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £538k
• SOUTH BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION income £246k
• CALON RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION INCORPORATING CARRIAGE DRIVING income £62k

Side by side with its peers

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