ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH RIDING SCHOOLS

Registered charity 1158748 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ABRS

The promotion of participation by persons in the United Kingdom (both able-bodied and with any form of disability and of all ages) in healthy recreation in horse riding through education and in providing advice to riding schools and livery yards in respect of regulation, welfare and safety issues.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF PARTICIPATION BY PERSONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (BOTH ABLE-BODIED AND WITH ANY FORM OF DISABILITY AND OF ALL AGES) IN HEALTHY RECREATION IN HORSE RIDING THROUGH EDUCATION AND IN PROVIDING ADVICE TO RIDING SCHOOLS IN RESPECT OF REGULATION, WELFARE AND SAFETY ISSUES BY ANY OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:(A) WORKING TO RAISE THE STANDARD OF (I) INSTRUCTION; (II) HORSEMANSHIP; AND (III) THE WELFARE OF HORSES AND PONIES, ALL TO FOSTER BETTER ENJOYMENT BY PARTICIPANTS IN EQUESTRIAN RIDING, AND THE SAFETY OF BOTH PARTICIPANTS AND HORSES;(B) ACTING GENERALLY AS AN ADVISORY BODY TO PROPRIETORS AND MANAGERS OF RIDING ESTABLISHMENTS, TO FOSTER ENHANCED LEVELS OF GOVERNANCE AND INCREASED UNDERSTANDING OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES THAT BENEFIT PARTICIPANTS (BOTH ABLE-BODIED AND WITH ANY FORM OF DISABILITY) IN EQUESTRIAN RIDING;(C) PROVIDING ADVICE, EDUCATION AND GUIDANCE TO PARTICIPANTS IN EQUESTRIAN RIDING (WHETHER OWNERS OF HORSES, RIDERS OR COACHES) AND, IN PARTICULAR, ENCOURAGING AND FACILITATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG AND DISABLED PERSONS AS PARTICIPANTS IN SUCH WAYS SO AS TO IMPROVE THEIR SELF-CONFIDENCE AND SELF-ESTEEM (INCLUDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF APPRENTICESHIP SCHEMES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE);(D) WORKING WITH THE NATIONAL GOVERNING BODY FOR EQUESTRIAN RIDING (BRITISH EQUESTRIAN FEDERATION) TO IMPLEMENT THEIR STRATEGIC PLANS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EQUESTRIANISM; AND(E) DOING ANYTHING WHICH IS CALCULATED TO FURTHER ANY OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS OR IS CONDUCIVE OR INCIDENTAL TO DOING SO, PROVIDED THAT NOTHING IN THE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £12,633 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds increasing to £123,807. The trustees note that capital reserves increased by 11% despite a challenging economic environment and increased staff costs. The charity operates an unrestricted fund and aims to maintain sufficient funds to meet operating costs in case of short-term income loss.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Benjamin Mayes
• CAROL ANN BOULTON
• Carolyn Fiddes
• Debbie Parker
• George Albert Baber
• JULIE PEDLEY
• Jane Lesley Williams
• PAULA LEVERTON
• Rudina Suti

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

Operates in: Australia · France · Guernsey · Northern Ireland · Portugal · Scotland · Spain · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRITISH HORSE SOCIETY.

• THE BRITISH HORSE SOCIETY income £16.0m
• BRITISH DRESSAGE income £5.0m
• EPSOM RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION INCORPORATING CARRIAGE DRIVING income £119k
• NEWHAM RIDING SCHOOL AND ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £538k
• THE HORSE RANGERS ASSOCIATION (HAMPTON COURT)LIMITED income £681k
• MARGARET HAES RIDING CENTRE LTD income £232k

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