Strength & Learning Through Horses

Registered charity 1159326 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEARNING THROUGH HORSES

Strength & Learning Through Horses has a primary purpose to promote the mental wellbeing and education (including social and physical training) of people who are not in education or training (NEETS), those at risk of becoming NEET and people with learning difficulties.

Objects

The objects of the CIO are, for the public benefit: (a) to promote the education (including social and physical training) of children, young people and adults; particularly those who are not in education, employment or training (NEETs), those at risk of becoming NEET and people with learning difficulties; and (b) to promote the positive mental health and wellbeing of children, young people and adults; in such ways as the charity trustees think fit by the provision of equine assisted therapy, education and other equestrian related programs.

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: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves totalled £176,439, which is below the charity's stated policy target of 3.5 months of operating costs. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a 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 6 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Strength & Learning Through Horses (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Together Fund — “Equine assisted therapy centre in London uses Together Fund to encourage participation in equestrianism.” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Cooper
• Diana Chen
• HINRICH CHRISTIAN TESTORF
• Ketan Motwani
• Lucille Balcombe
• Niva Thiruchelvam
• Olivia Pay
• ROXANE CAPLAN
• Rebecca Graham
• Sue Scarf

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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 THE STABLES HORSE ACTIVITY CENTRE.

• THE STABLES HORSE ACTIVITY CENTRE income £272k
• National Horseracing College Limited income £3.9m
• NORTHERN LEARNING TRUST income £890k
• THE TRAINING AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION income £33k
• SOCIETY OF EQUESTRIAN ARTISTS income £48k
• THE HORSE TRUST income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

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